Egypt category: 1199 books
The Diplomat
Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Saturday, November 3, 1956
The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m.
Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal...
Liberation Square
Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's demise and the country's efforts to build a democracy
In early 2011, the world's attention was riveted...
Walking in the City of the Dead
A Visitor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Arm yourself with maps and all the information you need for walking through Cairos famous and ancient Islamic cemeteries, viewing their beautiful monuments, and meeting the people who call these sacred places home.
Jeffrey A. Nedoroscik, the author of The City of the Dead: A History of Cairos...
Harem Years
The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women.
In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...
The Shadow King
The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. Archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is the name given to a series of ancient Egyptian funerary texts dating from 1550-50 B.C. Known in Egypt as the Book of Coming Forth by Day, the text has a number of magic spells that were to assist the dead person to the underworld and the afterlife. The Book of the Dead...
An Unexpected Fork in the Road
From Cairo to Jerusalem and Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Since schooldays Anya was intrigued by the mystery and wonder of Egypt. Newly independent she could now fulfil her dream to see the pyramids, the mask of Tutankhamun and ride camels through the desert. Three weeks of camping took her up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel and into the Sinai to Sharm el...
Initiative to Stop the Violence
Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing....
The Six Day War 1967
Sinai
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive...
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A study of the remains of the native religious literature of ancient Egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that the belief in magic, that is to say, in the power of magical names, and spells, and enchantments, and formulæ, and pictures, and figures, and amulets, and in the performance...
by Amelia Ann Blandford
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Miss Blandfords' 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile ' is one of the classics of the literature of Egypt. Her work as an Egyptologist, and deserved reputation as such, began with the expedition of which it is the narrative. The author has studied her subjects with great care; she has consulted and compared...
Islamic Monuments in Cairo
The Practical Guide; New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first...
Legends of the Egyptian Gods
Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the most interesting and important Egyptian...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
*Discusses some of the popular myths and legends surrounding Cleopatra's life, including her heritage, how she died, and more.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events in Cleopatra's life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Her beauty, as we are...