Egypt category: 1199 books
No God but God
Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Shrouded in mystery, the Islamic presence in the Middle East evokes longstanding Western fears of terrorism and holy war. Our media have consistently focused on these extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive religious movement that is now transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds...
Ancient Perspectives
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as...
Serpent in the Sky
The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egypt. In this pioneering study West documents that: Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the Sacred Science of the...
by Alan F. Alford
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The Astonishing New Theory That Rewrites Egyptology...
According to modern scholars, the sun-god reigned supreme in ancient Egypt, and it was the rising and setting sun that provided the model for the death and rebirth of the pharaohs.
But the mighty pyramids and temples suggest a more...
by David Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
This photo tour is selected from photos I took on a trip to Egypt in November 2010. I have tried to show a different perspective with my 40+ photographs of the places that I visited. See such things as how the pyramids of Giza really look close-up, a "stepped" pyramid older than those at...
Workers and Thieves
Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In...
Copts in Context
Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Though the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence. In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, this community was caught up in regional violence, and its predicament became a cause...
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense...
Recording Village Life
A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Recording Village Life presents a close study of over 140 Coptic texts written between 724–756 CE by a single scribe, Aristophanes son of Johannes, of the village Djeme in western Thebes. These texts, which focus primarily on taxation and property concerns, yield a wealth of knowledge about social...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Rudolf Steiner emphasizes the astonishing and special relationship between our own time and that of ancient Egypt—how, in the natural rhythm of the ages, the so-called third Post-Atlantian (Egyptian) epoch is mirrored by the fifth (present) epoch. In this sense, today it is especially relevant to...
Egypt in the Twenty First Century
Challenges for Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
The book focuses on three main themes:*overpopulation associated with low productivity, unemployment, persistent poverty and weak savings and investment capacity*the post-1950 development strategies and their outcomes*the institutional structures that are constraining economic and political progress. Egypt in the Twenty First Century is a much need
Revolutionary Justice
Special Courts and the Formation of Republican Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Revolutionary Justice narrates the power struggle between the Free Officers and their adversaries in the aftermath of Egypt's July Revolution of 1952 by studying trials held at the Revolution's Court and the People's Court. The establishment of these tribunals coincided with the most serious political...
Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
Theban Tomb Paintings from the Early Eighteenth Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In ancient Egypt, one of the primary roles of the king was to maintain order and destroy chaos. Since the beginning of Egyptian history, images of foreigners were used as symbols of chaos and thus shown as captives being bound and trampled under the king's feet. The early 18th dynasty (1550-1372 BCE)...
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt
NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines A unique concise guide to the Pharaohs and Queens of the 18th Dynasty, which includes the Royal family members, the princes and...