Egypt category: 1199 books
by Felix Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
**In c.1341 BCE, a baby boy was born in a city on the banks of the Nile River, roughly 250 miles north of Luxor. His name was Tutankhamun, or 'King Tut', the boy king. **
He was not destined to become pharaoh, yet, at the age of nine, Tutankhamun was made king. Alas, his reign and his life...
by G. Maspero
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: Sennacherib, The Power of Assyria at its Zenith, Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal, and The Medes and the Secod Chaldean Empire. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 June 30, 1916) was a French...
The Foreign Policies of Arab States
The Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The first edition of this book was praised as "a milestone for present and future research on Arab and Third World foreign policies" (American Political Science Review), and "an indispensable aid for those studying or teaching the foreign policies of the contemporary Middle East"...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River valley. The predictable flooding and controlled irrigation of the fertile valley produced surplus crops, which supported a more dense population, and social development and culture....
Too Late For Gordon And Khartoum;
The Testimony Of An Independent Eye-Witness Of The Heroic Efforts For Their Rescue And Relief [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 6 detailed plans and maps
Sudan was afire with flame and revolt in 1883 as the Islamic revolution headed by the self-proclaimed Mahdi gained followers and captured districts. The British government not wanting to be involved in the costly suppression of the rebellion ordered Egypt...
by L. J. M. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Dr Elizabeth Pimms, enthusiastic archaeologist and reluctant librarian has returned to Egypt.
Among the treasures of the Cairo museum she spies cryptic symbols in the corner of an ancient papyrus. Curiosity leads Elizabeth and her gang of sleuths to investigate a cache of mummies hidden in...
by Mary G. Damer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
That women of fashion should travel further than the magasins of Paris, or the cameo-shops of Rome, is meritorious: that they should keep journals while on their travels is industrious and creditable, but that they should publish the said journals is somewhat supererogatory. Mrs. Dawson Damer, however,...
by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
M. Perrot's name as a classical scholar and archæologist, and M. Chipiez's as a penetrating critic of architecture, stand so high that any work from their pens is sure of a warm welcome from all students of the material remains of antiquity. These volumes are the first instalment of an undertaking...
by Tarek Osman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Arab Patriotism
The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew...
The Great Social Laboratory
Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad...
Muslim Rebels
Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith...
The Power of Representation
Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas...
by Simon Henry Leeder
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This Western apologist for Islam claims that no writings on Mohammedanism are "more misleading than those of missionaries," especially those published in recent years. Their writings are said to be cruel and relentless attacks on Islam. This book is a sympathetic study and appreciation of...