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Economies of the Male Body
An intimate portrayal of masculinity in Egypt from lively, grounded, and fresh perspectivesBased on long-term research in Cairo and Alexandria and grounded in ethnographic stories and intimate portrayals, Economies of the Male Body takes up masculinity in Egypt from an important new angle: male b...
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A Daring Enterprise
The inside story of one of the most successful U.S. foreign aid programs in the Middle East in recent decades“This book offers a proven, bipartisan model for how the United States can foster a more peaceful and prosperous world.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former US Secretary of StateWhat happens wh...
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The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri al-Barudi
An invaluable window onto pre-Ba‘th Syrian politics and early twentieth century Damascene society and culture through the life and times of a leading Syrian nationalist and politician.
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Yawmiyat Bint Battuta fi-l-Mudun al-Masriya
Through engaging and original narratives, this innovative approach to teaching Egyptian Colloquial Arabic takes students on a tour of Egypt, exploring its diverse communities and linguistic richnessEgyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) is among the most commonly taught dialects of Arabic, reflective o...
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Red Like Orange
An offbeat tale of creativity, friendship, and finding your voice in this uproarious journey through Cairo's music scene in the early 2000s, where everything from American rock to Egyptian popular songs cultivates big dreamsWINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARDFollowing a breakup with his long-ter...
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The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine’s Cinema
A comprehensive study of Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine’s work from a post-colonial point of view, emphasizing the ideological underpinnings of his themes as well as his esthetics, new in paperback.
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Arab Women Writers
An invaluable reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, complete with bibliographical entries for over 1,200 Arab women writers from the last third of the nineteenth century through 1999, new in...
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The Zafarani Files
The intrigues of an old Cairo quarter: gossip, spells, betrayals, and busybodies in a parable about political and personal freedoms"Absurdist and bleakly comic"—Robert Irwin, Times Literary SupplementAn unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo’s ol...
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The Devil Turns Preacher
To mark twenty years since the death of Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, his only collection of plays are to be published worldwide in English for the first timeNaguib Mahfouz is a literary icon, and the only Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been celebrated across the globe...
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Waiting on Borders
A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese–Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border control, and is incessantly contested. Repeated internal displacement and refugee crises have been ...
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Western Imaginings
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. In contrast to the existing literature that treats Wahhabism as a historical phenomenon or a monolithic theological ideology, a literature often written by authors keen to promo...
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Revolution Is My Name
What it was like and how it felt to be an Egyptian woman revolutionary during the eighteen days that changed Egypt foreverMona Prince’s humorous and insightful memoir tells of one woman’s journey as a hesitant revolutionary through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Hosni Mub...
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Crowds and Sultans
During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249–50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects of recurrent plagues to changes in international trade routes. Both these challenges and the policies and beh...
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The Life of Bishoi
Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany o...
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Descendants of a Lesser God
A new perspective on the dynamics of dynastic rule in the southernmost province of Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the New KingdomThe First Upper Egyptian nome, with its capital, Elephantine, was important in ancient times, as it stood on the southern border between Egypt and the Nubian provinces...
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The Pharaoh's Kitchen
Beautifully illustrated with scenes from tomb reliefs, objects and artifacts in museum exhibits, and modern photographs, the recipes are accompanied by explanatory material that describes the ancient home and kitchen, cooking vessels and methods, table manners and etiquette, banquets, beverages, ...
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Common Birds of Egypt
More than 100 of Egypt's most common bird species are illustrated in color and described in both English and Arabic in this fully revised edition of a favorite book. An introduction provides notes on habitats, migration, conservation, and where to watch birds, and there is a complete checklist of...
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South Yemen's Independence Struggle
A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in YemenAt its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loose merger of different people, most of them former army personnel and state employees of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) who were forc...
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Lughatuna al-Fusha: Book One
An innovative and highly structured course for teaching Arabic to beginners and for self-studyModern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab world, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse...
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The Collar and the Bracelet
Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family—a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of...
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Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun: In My Own Hieroglyphs tells the story, for older children, of the life and afterlife of the famous young pharaoh in his own words. Tutankhamun tells us about the trouble he got into as a child in Akhenaten’s palace in the new city of Akhetaten, and how he became a boy pharaoh. As we ...
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Drumbeat
In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, lea...
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Menorahs and Minarets
After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal's home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between his two identities: his Jewish mother's family are cosmopolitan business people, while his father's family are rural f...
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A Continuity of Shari‘a
A challenge to the “end of the shari‘a” thesis in Islamic legal historiographyIn the second half of the nineteenth century, states across the Muslim World developed new criminal codes and reshaped their legal landscapes, laying the foundations of the systems that continue to inform the applicatio...
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Edward Said
Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete’s temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab–Israeli war, which transformed his thinking and led him to forge ties with political groups and ...
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Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States
Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States draws on rich ethnographic and historical research to examine the interaction of the Yemeni diaspora with states and empires in Djibouti and Ethiopia from the early twentieth century. Elegantly combining theoretical readings with extensive empirical findings...
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Cairo Cosmopolitan
A new paperback edition of the first collected volume from the Cairo School of Urban StudiesBringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investo...
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Arab Cinema
Since it was first published, Viola Shafik’s Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history—economic, ideological, and aesthetic—with thought-provoking analysis, Arab Cinema pr...
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Divine Creatures
The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive offerings. For the first time, a series of s...
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Truths and Lies in the Middle East
A gripping memoir by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated Middle East journalistsBorn in Cairo to an Egyptian Jewish family, Eric Rouleau was one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation, a status he owed to his extraordinary career, which began when the director of Le Monde...
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The Butcher of Casablanca
A serial killer taunts Casablanca’s most famous detective, Hanash, in this nail-biting Moroccan noir, a follow-up to Bled Dry A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to...
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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me
Hassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco’s rulers. Yet when he is suddenly conscripted into a losing war in the Sahara, and drafted to a far-flung desert outpost, it seems that all is lost.Could his estranged...
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Clamor of the Lake
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. Meanw...
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The Theocrat
The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions ...
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Discovering Tutankhamun
Penned by a scholar who was personally involved in research into the enigmatic young pharaoh, this comprehensive and fully illustrated new study reviews the current state of our knowledge about the life, death, and burial of Tutankhamun in light of the latest investigations and newest technology....
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Cats of Egypt
Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintings of domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worship to the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores wild and domestic cats of Egypt.- Each species described and illustrated...
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Life Histories of Theban Tombs
A thorough transdisciplinary archaeological study of the ancient Egyptian Theban rock-cut tombs at Sheikh ‘Abd al-Qurna In recent years, archeological research has undergone major changes. The material turn in archaeology and related disciplines prompted the adoption of sophisticated scientific,...
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Marcus Simaika
This fascinating biography draws upon Simaika’s unpublished memoirs as well as on other documents and photographs from the Simaika family archive to deepen our understanding of several important themes of modern Egyptian history: the development of Coptic archaeology and heritage studies, Egyptia...
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The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity
Christian–Islamic encounters through religious arts, architecture, and material culture in the medieval eraThe coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the medieval Mediterranean led to an interchange of knowledge in architecture and material culture that went well beyond religious and geograph...
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City of Love and Ashes
A classic novel from one of the great contemporary writers of Egypt and the Middle EastCairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radic...
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A Morocco Anthology
This elegant, pocket-sized volume feature the writings and observations of travel writers and diarists who visited the cities, mountains, and villages of Morocco through the centuries. Vivid and evocative travelers’ accounts of some of the country's most distinctive sights and sites are enhanced ...
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A Stranger in Baghdad
WINNER OF THE 2024 SHARJAH AWARD FOR THE BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD “A stirring novel about a family.”—World Literature Today An intergenerational drama rendered in beautifu...
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Egypt’s Flora and Fauna
Besides its archaeological treasures, Egypt is also home to an exotic and mysterious wealth of wildlife, hiding at times in its temples and tombs, its deserts and oases. The Nile nourishes an array of habitats, flora, and fauna often overlooked by the archaeologically curious tourist. This full-c...
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 39
This issue of Alif explores drama in its many manifestations-—textual plays, performances, folk drama, choreographed story-telling, staged poetry recitals, and protest songs—as well as presenting modes of directing and production, comparative dramaturgy, specialized theater journals, experimental...
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Poor
“This is your last day. Be strong. Don’t hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return.”Idris Ali’s confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious a...
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The Polymath
WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREWINNER OF THE GRAND ATLAS AWARDONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)This magnificent novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularl...
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