Cairo: 286 books
Protecting Pharaoh's Treasures
My Life in Egyptology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Growing up in Egypt's Nile Delta, Wafaa El Saddik was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student she dreamed of conducting excavations herself and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology was dominated by men, especially those with...
by Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring...
The Days
His Autiobiography in Three Parts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
For the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a...
The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time. Armed with his trusty briefcase and his Islamic-calendar wristwatch, he bounces uncontrollably through the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk periods, with occasional...
Sinai
Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...
Sports and Society in the Middle East
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but...
Life is More Beautiful than Paradise
A Jihadists Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in...
by Gamal al-Ghitani
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure...
The Final Hour
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting life to remain as blessed as it was in the photograph of the happy family at a picnic in a Nileside park...
Women Travelers in Egypt
From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth...
Held in Trust
Waqf in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Waqfs (pious endowments) long held a crucial place in the political, economic, and social life of the Islamic world. Waqfs were major sources of education, health care, and employment; they shaped the city and contributed to the upkeep of religious edifices. They constituted a major resource, and...
What Drives Prices in Egypt?
An Analysis in Light of International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Since 2004, economic reforms in Egypt have led to robust expansion, a healthy external position, and enhanced investor confidence. But despite these positive macroeconomic developments, inflation has been steadily rising. Does fiscal policy threaten price stability? Does wage growth in the Egyptian...
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...
Otared
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun. As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron...