Cairo: 286 books
Sufism
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
For more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims. As the chief mystical tradition of Islam, it has helped to shape the history of Islamic societies. Although it is the Sufi face of Islam that has often appealed to Westerners, Sufis and Sufism remain...
Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism
The Theological and Ideological Basis of al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Beginning with an examination of medieval Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Kharjism, Ibadism, Hanbalism, and Wahhabism, Sayed Khatab looks at the similarities and differences between them and present organizations such as al-Qa*'ida. It may be surprising that many of the radical narratives...
A Tunisian Tale
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and...
The Man from Bashmour
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Egypt in the ninth century ad: an Arab, Muslim ruling class governs a country of mostly Coptic-speaking Christians. After an exorbitant land tax imposed by the caliph's governors sparks a peasant revolt, Budayr is dispatched to the marshlands of the Nile Delta as an escort for a church-appointed emissary...
Traveling Through Egypt
From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
"Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers." al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000 To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river,...
Diana e la regina
Segreti e bugie a corte
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Elisabetta è la sovrana dei record. Sul trono ha attraversato due secoli e un millennio, con impegno, disciplina e sacrificio è diventata un simbolo amatissimo della monarchia inglese. Diana era la principessa dei cuori, che per un determinazione di minare alle fondamenta proprio quel trono su cui...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
During the 1956 Suez War or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egyp life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el- Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whose...
The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge...
Transforming Education In Egypt
Western Influence and Domestic Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Basic education-considered essential for building democratic societies and competitive economies-has headed the agendas of development agencies in recent years. During the same period, Egypt topped the lists of recipients of development assistance and proclaimed education to be its national project....
Mapping Arab Women's Movements
A Century of Transformations from Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women's organizations and informal women's groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab...
by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of...
Entrepreneurship in the Arab World
Ten Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This collection of case-studies showcases the experiences of ten intriguing entrepreneurial ventures from emerging markets in the Arab world (Egypt, the UAE, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia). Readers will receive an in-depth insight on a variety of localized strategic, managerial, marketing, and innovative...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...