The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books

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Mortal Designs

A Novel

by Reem Bassiouney
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

Captain Murad is busy planning for the Afterlife. He dreams of a grand, sunlit mausoleum on the banks of the Nile. To realize his pharaonic folly, the retired captain kindles an unlikely romance between Hazem, a feckless architect longing for immortality, and Asma, an impoverished single mother who...
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The Changing Middle East

A New Look at Regional Dynamics

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

In the era of globalization, change is the order of the day, but the conventional view of the Arab Middle East is that of a rigid and even stagnant region. This book counters the static perception and focuses instead on regional dynamics. After first discussing types of change, identifying catalysts,...
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by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008

Being plucked from a Baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot as if he were a guest visiting his own life and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed...
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by Salim Matar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005

The Woman of the Flask is a most original novel a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland, having escaped from Saddam's Iraq. One of them, Adam, has brought with him an old flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq....
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Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians

An Annotated Bibliography 1995–2016 Updated Edition

by Lisa Sabbahy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018

This updated and expanded annotated bibliography presents and describes over 1,200 books, dissertations, excavation reports, and articles relevant to the paleopathology of the ancient Egyptians from the fields of Egyptology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, making it possible for...
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by Mona Prince
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Passion, unconventional romance, and the determination of a strong female character to live her life freely. This audacious novel opens with Ayn as she reflects on the act of writing and wonders if love alone is sufficient subject for a narrative. Haltingly at first, she weaves the tale of her love...
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Neslishah

The Last Ottoman Princess

by Murat Bardakçi
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she...
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by Ahmad Hamid
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era...
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All the Pasha's Men

Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt

by Khaled Fahmy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002

While scholarship has traditionally viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, firmly locating him within the Ottoman context as an ambitious, if problematic, Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on...
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Butterfly Wings

An Egyptian Novel

by Mohamed Salmawy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an academic and leading dissident. The story of their relationship and Doha's self-discovery runs alongside a young Egyptian's search for the mother he never...
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Nasser

My Husband

by Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt's 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private. In 1973, three years after his early passing...
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The Cotton Plantation Remembered

An Egyptian Family Story

by Mona Abaza
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo...
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The Essential Yusuf Idris

Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Yusuf Idris (1927 91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist struggle,...
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