Egypt category: 1199 books
Cleopatra
Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of her is largely gleaned from the film starring Elizabeth Taylor or from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare himself was inspired...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish...
For Better, For Worse
The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed...
by Nadia Idle,Alex Nunns
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Thousands of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution as it happened. This book brings together...
The Science of the Dogon
Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
A look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
• Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the Egyptian and Hebrew religions
• Demonstrates the parallels between Dogon mythical...
by Malcolm C. Peck
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volume_Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)_possess about 20 percent of the world's total oil...
by Jeffrey Martini, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Erin York
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Since the 2011 revolution in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a key political player. Although individuals under the age of 35 make up a large share of the membership, the group's strict hierarchy has led to disaffection among its youth. These members merit attention not only as a challenge...
by George Ade
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from George Ade ‘In Pastures New.’
‘In Pastures New’ is a humorous account of travels, chiefly in London and Egypt. Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these...
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A complete handbook about the pyramids of Ancient Egypt during the Pyramid Age. It contains: the locations and dimensions of interiors and exteriors of the pyramids; the history and builders of the pyramids; theories of construction; theories on their purpose and function; the sacred geometry that...
Studies in Coptic Culture
Transmission and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived...
The Great Pyramid Hoax
The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged
• Includes evidence from the time of the discovery of the marks: Vyse’s private field notes, surveys, facsimile drawings, and eye-witness testimony
•...
Amarna Sunset
Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved...
Poisoned Legacy
The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among...
Afterglow of Empire
Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta...