Egypt category: 1199 books
Live and Die Like a Man
Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender...
by M. A. MURRAY
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book I have retold the legends of the Gods of ancient Egypt, legends, which were current in the "morning of the world," preserved to the present day engraved on stone and written on papyri. I have told them in my own way, adhering strictly to the story, but arranging the words and...
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom, inventor of the art of writing; Osiris, the dead god who arose and set the pattern for death-and-resurrection gods ever since; Isis, the great mother, wandering through the reed swamps; Anubis, conductor of the dead, with jackal head; Bast, the cat goddess; Set,...
Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?
Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's...
by Rory Liam Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Enter a time and place in history and the ancient past - full of love, intrigue, passion, betrayal, desire, adventure and cruelty. Follow a young woman as she becomes the first female mummy maker in all of Egypt. Author Rory Liam Elliott will take you on a journey deep into the lives of Ancient Egyptians,...
Egypt's Thousand Days of Revolution
A Parade of Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In Egypt's Thousand Days of Revolution, author Alexander Murray provides a vivid and fascinating eyewitness account of Egyptian life in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. A Scotsman and confirmed Egyptophile, Murray first arrived in Cairo just weeks before the assassination of President Anwar Sadat...
The Sword and the Rose
A Swiss-American Dervish in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
An unplanned adventure finds Tara Sufiana amidst the Sufis of Egypt for five years. Immersed in their mystical practices, she discovers the dervish within, expressing herself through sacred dance and music at religious festivals throughout Egypt. Within the Sufi enclave, an unusual love story with...
Generation Revolution
On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
*****NAMED NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2017"**
“Generation Revolution is an excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” – New York Times Book Review
Generation...
by Rory Liam Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Enter a time and place in history and the ancient past - full of intrigue, passion, betrayal and adventure. Follow a young woman as she becomes the first female mummy maker in all of Egypt.Author Rory Liam Elliott will take you on a journey deep into the lives of Ancient Egyptians, and the journey will be one that cannot soon be forgotten.
Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai.
With Extracts from His Chronology of the Egyptians, with Reference to the Exodus of the Israelites. Revised by the Author.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1853 edition by Henry G. Bohn, London. This is an illustrated edition. Oversize maps are available as a free download.
This is the account of expeditions to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiophia and the Sinai to explore and record the remains of the ancient Egyptian...
The Red Land
The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
For thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial-though until now little understood-role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were reluctant...
Egypt
Rosicrucian Digest
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of mystical Ancient Egypt.
by Robert G. Morkot
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is divided into three main sections. An introductory section includes a chronology of Egypt, with all known military actions, and...
From Akhenaten to Moses
Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus,...