Cairo: 286 books
Final Night
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this physical and temporal distance from her homeland, much of her material derives from...
Nubian Encounters
The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Rethinking the Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region use trade policy to protect certain industries, provide tax incentives to promote a particular type of investment, and make subsidized credit available to firms of a certain size. Such government intervention, known as industrial policy,...
Sustainability and Innovation
The Next Global Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
One of the most urgent problems facing the world today is environmental sustainability. Current practices of pollution control, waste treatment, and environmental protection are not only hugely expensive and a burden on development but also unsustainable in the long run for their steady depletion...
Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900
Essays in Honor of André Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In his long academic career, historian André Raymond has been one of the foremost scholars of urban history in the Arab world, and in particular of Cairo during the Ottoman period. His work was instrumental in changing orientalist views on the decline and stagnation of this region prior to the modern...
Clamor of the Lake
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Clamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman and her twin boys. While he gives away nothing about his past, his undemanding companionship prompts the woman to narrate her turbulent life. Meanwhile,...
by Taha Huseein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life (he was at one time Minister of Education). But he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. He became known by the unofficial...
Fustat Finds
Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Corroded pieces of metal, stamped lumps of copper, broken bits of glass with partial inscriptions, fragments of textiles, tiny beads-these were the raw material found at al-Fustat, the site of the first Muslim settlement in Egypt in the seventh century and the heart of Cairo for many centuries following....
Neslishah
The Last Ottoman Princess
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she...
by Alberto Cavanna
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Giovanbattista Parodi, rampollo della borghesia armatoriale genovese, è un giovane medico della Regia Marina che, disertore dopo il disastro della battaglia di Lissa, deve cercare un nuovo imbarco che gli consenta di sfuggire alle autorità e ai rimorsi per un delitto innominabile. Giunto a Marsiglia...
Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Arts and Architecture
The Birth of a New Modern
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who...
Mrs. Tsenhor
A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era...