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Arabic Literature in Translation
Archaeology and Ancient Egypt
Architecture and the Arts
History and Biography
Language Studies
Politics, Economics, and Social Issues
Religious Studies
Complete Catalog Fall 2008
Travel Literature and Guidebooks
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Nobel Laureate
Naguib Mahfouz
Khan al-Khalili
Naguib Mahfouz
A Modern Arabic Novel
Translated by Roger Allen
A major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel Laureate
The time is 1942, the Second World War is at its
height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the
northern coast of Egypt as far as El Alamein. Against
this backdrop of international upheaval, the novel
tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that
has taken refuge in Cairo’s historic and bustling Khan
al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German
forces will never bomb such a famously religious
part of the city, they seek safety among the crowded
alleyways, busy cafés, and ancient mosques of the
Khan, adjacent to the area where Mahfouz himself
spent much of his young life. Through the eyes of
Ahmad, the eldest Akif son and the novel’s central
character, Mahfouz presents a richly textured
vision of the Khan, drawing on his own memories
to assemble a lively cast of characters whose world
is framed by the sights, smells, and flavors of his
childhood home.
Also by Naguib Mahfouz:
Cairo Modern
Morning and Evening Talk
The Complete Mahfouz Library:
The 25 Fiction Volumes of the
Nobel Laureate in English
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was born in the crowded
Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novellength works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous
screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature
in 1988.
Roger Allen is professor of Arabic language and literature
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Original Arabic title: Khan al-Khalili
304pp. Hbd.
September. 978-977-416-191-9. LE90 / $24.95. World.
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The Zafarani Files
As Doha Said
Gamal al-Ghitani
Bahaa Taher
Translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
Translated by Peter Daniel
The intrigues of an old Cairo quarter, in a parable
about political and personal freedoms
A tale of post-revolutionary disillusionment from
the winner of the first Arabic Booker Award
An unknown observer is watching the residents of
a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo’s old
city, making notes. The college graduate, the street
vendors, the political prisoner, the café owner, the
taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with
the troll of a husband—all are subjects of surveillance. The watcher’s reports flow seamlessly into
a narrative about Zafarani Alley, a village tucked
into a corner of the city, where intrigue is the main
entertainment, and everyone has a secret.
Suspicion, superstition, and a wicked humor
prevail in this darkly comedic novel. Drawing upon
the experience of his own childhood growing up
in al-Hussein, where the fictional Zafarani Alley is
located, Gamal al-Ghitani has created a world
richly populated with characters and situations that
possess authenticity behind their veils of satire.
In Egypt a new era has dawned, but the dawn has
taken an ominous turn. President Gamal Abdel
Nasser has just proclaimed the first in a series of
nationalization decrees, the stock exchange has
shut down, and its parking attendant, Sayyid, is
staring at penury. Across the street, the office of the
Ministry’s Supervisory Board of Administrative
Organization is engulfed in an eerie silence, and
the narrator, one of the two remaining fulltime
occupants of that nearly defunct government office,
has fallen desperately in love with the other,
Doha—forceful, erudite, and, a complete enigma,
with a spiritual bond to the Egyptian goddess Aset.
In this sophisticated, richly textured novel the
author explores such themes as apathy and despair,
courage and self-sacrifice, ambition and temptation,
disillusionment and political faith, and, above all,
commitment and betrayal.
Gamal al-Ghitani, born in 1945, is the author of The
Mahfouz Dialogs (AUC Press, 2007), Zayni Barakat (AUC
Press, 2004), and Pyramid Texts (AUC Press, 2007). He is
editor-in-chief of the literary review Akhbar al-adab.
Farouk Abdel Wahab is the translator of Alaa Al Aswany’s
Chicago (AUC Press, 2007).
Bahaa Taher is the author of Love in Exile (AUC Press, paperback edition 2005). In 2008 he was awarded the first
International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’).
Peter Daniel, a freelance translator, has taught Arabic as a
foreign language in Cairo for many years.
Original Arabic title: Waqa’i‘ Harat al-Za‘farani
340pp. Hbd.
November. 978-977-416-190-2. LE90 / $24.95. World.
Original Arabic title: Qalat Duha
160pp. Hbd.
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Moon over Samarqand
The Seven Veils of Seth
Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil
Ibrahim al-Koni
Translated by Jennifer Peterson
Translated by William M. Hutchins
An unusual novel of idealism, power,
and brutality in Uzbekistan and Egypt
From the award-winning author of Anubis
and Gold Dust
A journey through Central Asia and beyond, Moon
over Samarqand is the story of one Egyptian’s quest
for the truth. Seeking explanations to his troubled
past through a long-lost friend in Samarqand, Ali’s
travel brings him into encounters with the Uzbekistan
of today, yesterday, and once upon a time. His tale
embraces many tales—those of his confounding
taxi driver, of Islamic activists, and of the criminal
underworld, as well as stories of struggles against
authoritarianism in Egypt. Woven among these are
legendary tales of gypsies, khans, and madmen, of
magic, treasure, and love.
Drawing parallels between Uzbekistan and Egypt,
the novel shows diverse historical and modern connections between Central Asia and the Arab world,
painting a vivid portrayal of idealistic visionaries and
brutal regimes.
Moon over Samarqand received the 2006 Sawiris
Foundation Award for Literature.
In the ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is the evil god
who out of jealousy slays his brother Osiris, the good
god of agriculture, to seize the throne. Seth is, however,
also the god of the desert and therefore a benevolent
champion of desert dwellers like the traditionally
nomadic Tuareg. In The Seven Veils of Seth, al-Koni
draws on the tension between these two opposing
visions of Seth to create a novel that also provides a
vivid account of daily life in a Tuareg oasis.
Isan—either Seth himself or a latter-day avatar—
is a desert-wandering seer and proponent of desert
life. When he settles for an extended stay in a fertile
oasis, the results are disastrous, and we encounter
infanticide, betrayal, metamorphosis, and murder.
Tuareg folklore, Egyptian mythology, Russian
literature, and medieval European thought are all part
of this existential reflection on life in which the truth
is elusive, a mirage pulsing at the horizon.
Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil was born in 1949 in the
Egyptian Delta city of al-Mahalla al-Kubra. He lives in
Kuwait with his wife and son, where he writes for the
monthly magazine al-‘Arabi.
Jennifer Peterson is an independent researcher, writer, and
translator residing in Cairo.
Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in 1948. His novel Anubis
was published by the AUC Press in 2005, and Gold Dust in
2008. He was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature
in 2008.
William M. Hutchins is the principal translator of Naguib
Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, and has most recently translated
Fadhil al-Azzawi’s Cell Block Five (AUC Press, 2008).
Original Arabic title: Qamar ‘ala Samarqand
432pp. Hbd.
December. 978-977-416-189-6. LE90 / $29.95. World.
Original Arabic title: al-Bahth ‘an al-makan al-da’i‘
312pp. Hbd.
November. 978-977-416-222-0. LE90 / $24.95. Middle East.
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Gazelle Tracks
Granada
Miral al-Tahawy
Radwa Ashour
Translated by Anthony Calderbank
Translated by William Granara
From the author of The Tent and Blue Aubergine
A powerful novel of cultural loss and the dissapearance of a vanquished population
This short but cleverly crafted novel recounts the tale
of Muhra, a young woman born of the descendants
of the Bedouin tribes who settled in Egypt’s Nile Delta
in the nineteenth century.
Past mingles with present and myth and folklore
blend with reality, as Muhra seeks to discover the truth
about her mother through the old family photographs
that adorn the walls of her grandfather’s house and other
documents hidden away in cupboards and drawers.
Muhra’s tale of self-discovery is set against the
dwindling fortunes of her own people as they struggle
to preserve their identity and culture amid the larger
Egyptian community that encroaches upon them.
Unwilling to give up despite premonitions of
doom, Muhra moves inexorably toward the bitter
truth about her mother’s poignant life.
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At the end of the fifteenth century, the keys to Granada,
the last Muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula, have
been handed over to the Christian king and queen.
Abu Jaafar the bookbinder watches Christopher
Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade
of exotic plants, animals, and human captives from
the Americas. But as Spain celebrates the acquisition
of a new world, Muslims and Jews throughout the
country are mourning the loss of an old one, and now
face confiscations, forced conversions, and expulsions.
As the new masters of Granada burn books, Abu
Jaafar quietly moves his rich library out of town.
“The language is rich and evocative, and the characters
are engaging.”
—Booklist
Miral al-Tahawy has been described by the Washington Post
as “the first novelist to present Egyptian Bedouin life beyond
stereotypes and to illustrate the crises of Bedouin women and
their urge to break free.” She is the author of The Tent (AUC
Press, 2000) and Blue Aubergine (AUC Press, 2002).
Anthony Calderbank has translated several works of
modern Arabic fiction, most recently Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s
Wolves of the Crescent Moon (AUC Press, 2007).
“This is a haunting tale about culture, history, and,
above all, human emotion that manages to condense
the oppression of a people into the experiences of
one man. Recommended for all fiction collections.”
—Library Journal
Original Arabic title: Naqarat al-ziba’
104pp. Hbd.
Original Arabic title: Gharnata
128pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-230-5.
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Radwa Ashour has written seven novels, three collections
of short stories, and four books of criticism. She is professor of English literature at Ain Shams University, Cairo.
William Granara is professor of Arabic at Harvard University.
LE60 / $17.95.
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The Eye of the Mirror
Arab Women Writers
Liana Badr
A Critical Reference Guide, 1873–1999
Translated by Samira Kawar
Edited by Radwa Ashour, Ferial
J. Ghazoul, and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi
The story of one woman in a brutal time of war
Taken from the quiet sanctuary of a convent school,
where she works as a maid, Aisha is thrown back
into the chaotic world of her parents’ home in the
Tal Ezza’tar refugee camp when the Lebanese
civil war begins. From then on she is caught up in
a series of tragedies, including the continuous
bombardment of the camp by the Phalangists and
the subsequent invasion and massacres within the
settlement. Aisha’s family and friends are torn apart
by events beyond their control and although she
finds love and marries, amid such violence the
decision to start her own family becomes harder
still. Set within one of the most bloody conflicts
of modern times, this powerful story shows how
women’s experience of war is particularly cruel as
they confront the dilemma of bringing a new life
into a war-zone.
Turning a simple love story into a complex portrayal
of Palestinian history, Liana Badr has triumphantly
retold a nation’s history for its women.
Liana Badr was born in Jerusalem and has lived in
Lebanon, Damascus, Tunis, and Amman, before returning
to Palestine in 1994.
Samira Kawar is Middle East editor at Argus Media in
London.
Original Arabic title: ‘Ayn al-mir’ah
266pp. Hbd.
Translated by Mandy McClure
An invaluable new reference source and
critical review
This unique study—first published in Arabic in 2004—
looks at the work of the early pioneers of Arab women’s
writing and then traces the development of Arab
women’s literature through the end of the twentieth
century, and also includes a meticulously researched,
comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women.
Nine essays examine the origin and evolution of
women’s writing in each country in the region, addressing fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographical writing.
The second part of the volume contains bibliographical entries for over 1,200 Arab women
writers. Each entry contains a short biography and
a bibliography of the author’s published works. This
section also includes Arab women’s writing in
French and English, as well as a bibliography of
works translated into English.
Contributors: Emad Abu Ghazi, Radwa Ashour,
Mohammed Berrada, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Subhi Hadidi,
Haydar Ibrahim, Yumna al-‘Id, Su‘ad al-Mani‘, Iman
al-Qadi, Amina Rachid, Huda al-Sadda, Hatim al-Sakr.
Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian writer and scholar.
Ferial J. Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator.
Hasna Reda-Mekdashi is a Lebanese publisher.
Previously announced
512pp. Hbd.
October. 978-977-416-146-9.
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In a Fertile Desert
Heads Ripe for Plucking
Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Selected and translated by
Translated by Hala Halim
A new collection of short fiction from the Arabian Gulf
An avant-garde tale of beheadings both literal
and metaphorical
Denys Johnson-Davies
Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories
from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant
center of the Arab world.
Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many
of the stories in this collection—by both men and
women from all corners of the country—tell of those
times and the almost unbelievable changes that have
come about in the space of two generations. Some
tell of the struggles faced in the early days, while
others bring the immediate past and the present
together, revealing that the past, with all its difficulties
and dangers, nonetheless possesses a certain nostalgia.
Contributors: Abdul Hamid Ahmed, Roda al-Baluchi,
Hareb al-Dhaheri, Nasser Al-Dhaheri, Maryam Jumaa
Faraj, Jumaa al-Fairuz, Nasser Jubran, Saleh Karama,
Lamees Faris al-Marzuqi, Mohamed al-Mazroui,
Ebtisam Abdullah Al-Mu’alla, Ibrahim Mubarak,
Mohamed al-Murr, Sheikha al-Nakhy, Mariam Al
Saedi, Omniyat Salem, Salma Matar Seif, Ali Abdul
Aziz al-Sharhan, Muhsin Soleiman, ‘A’ishaa al-Za‘aby.
Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as “the
leading Arabic–English translator of our time,” has produced
more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic
literature. He is the editor of The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
(AUC Press, 2008). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.
112pp. Hbd.
October. 978-977-416-218-3.
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An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, “I see heads
that are ripe for plucking.” In Mahmoud Al-Wardani’s
novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head
seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in
previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and
metaphorical—torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one’s head—are the subject of the
six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from
the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of
Communists in Nasser’s prisons, the meanderings of
a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread
riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf
War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the
new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads
are periodically severed to undergo maintenance
and downloading of programs.
Mahmoud Al-Wardani, born in Cairo in 1950, is a writer
and cultural journalist. He is the author of six novels and
three collections of short stories.
Hala Halim teaches at New York University. Her translation
of Mohamed El-Bisatie’s Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press,
2004) won an Egyptian State Incentive Award.
Original Arabic title: Awan al-qitaf
160pp. Hbd.
October. 978-977-416-188-9. LE80 / $22.95. World.
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Tales from Dayrut
A Naughty Boy Called Antar
Mohamed Mustagab
M.M. Tawfik
Modern Arabic Stories
Translated by Humphrey Davies
Translated by the Author
The black humor of life in an Upper Egyptian village
A darkly humorous and intricate crime novel from Egypt
This collection of fourteen connected stories and a
novella takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village
of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was
born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty,
ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of honor,
Mustagab deploys the black humor and Swiftian
sarcasm of the insider who knows his society only
too well. When the stillness of a day’s end is shattered
by a single gunshot, poignant beauty merges seamlessly into horror, and when a police officer seeking
to unravel a murder finds himself with more body parts
than he knows what to do with, violence tips as easily
into farce. In counterpoint, the author’s often surrealist imagination explores the mysteries of a landscape
where seductive women haunt dusty paths and a man
may find himself crushed like a worm beneath
another’s foot. Previously almost unknown in English,
Mustagab’s voice is both original and disturbing.
“When the first armchair smashed into the asphalt,
Sergeant Ashmouni was at his usual spot on the
median of the Nile Corniche, trapped by the road’s
twin currents turbulently flowing forth to Maadi and
back to Old Cairo. He was wiping the sweat away
from his eyes with his worn out sleeve—and in the
process adding a new stain to his white traffic-police
uniform—when surprise from the thunderous impact
catapulted him into the fast lane of the side of the
road closest to the Nile.”
Mohamed Mustagab (1938–2006) received little formal
education but published his first short story in 1968 and
wrote prolifically after that, receiving numerous prizes.
Humphrey Davies is the translator of Alaa Al Aswany’s The
Yacoubian Building (AUC Press, 2004) and Elias Khoury’s
Gate of the Sun, for which he was awarded the Banipal
Prize for Literary Translation.
Original Arabic title: Dayrut al-Sharif / Min al-tarikh al-sirri
li-Nu‘man ‘Abd al-Hafiz
192pp. Hbd.
Thus opens this fast-paced city thriller laced with
dry humor that takes us inside Borg al-Saada—
‘Tower of Happiness’—and inside the sordid lives
and lavish lifestyles of its super-rich and famous
denizens, including Kasib Bey, overweight, toupeed,
and decked in gold chains; newly insomniac Abd
al-Tawab Mabruk Basha (Tutu Basha to his friends);
and belly-dancer Lula Hamdi, who would be able to
see Timbuktu if she stood on top of a pile of all her
money. And of course there is Antar—the naughty
boy—who roams the tower, enters apartments, and
overhears conversations, unsettling and exposing
the decadent occupants and their relationships.
M.M. Tawfik, born in Cairo in 1956, has pursued careers
in engineering, diplomacy, and writing.
Original Arabic title: Tifl shaqi ismuh ‘Antar
320pp. Hbd.
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The Lodging House
The Loved Ones
Khairy Shalaby
Alia Mamdouh
Translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
Translated by Marilyn Booth
New paperback edition of the award-winning novel
New paperback edition of the award-winning Iraqi novel
A young man’s dreams for a better future as a student
in the Teachers’ Institute are shattered after he assaults
one of his instructors for discriminating against him.
From then on, he begins his descent into the underworld. Penniless, he seeks refuge in Wikalat ‘Atiya,
a historic but now completely run-down caravanserai
that has become the home of the town’s marginal
and underprivileged characters. The novel takes on
epic dimensions as the narrator escorts us on a journey
to this underworld, portraying—as he sinks further
into its intricate relationships—the many characters
that inhabit it.
Through a labyrinth of tales we are introduced
to these denizens, whose lives oscillate between the
real and the fantastic, the contemporary and the
timeless. And while the narrator starts out as a
spectator of these characters’ lives, he soon becomes
an integral part of the lodging house’s community
of rogues.
Suhaila lies in a coma in a Paris hospital. The loved
ones of the title are the constellation of friends, predominantly women, who flock to Suhaila’s side from
all over the world to envelope her in the warmth of
friendship that may ultimately save her and enable
her rebirth. Suhaila comes alive through the stories
about her: her excesses, her love of dancing, of wine,
and of poetry, despite years of abuse by her Iraqi
husband, the bleakness of exile from home, and the
frustrating separation from her only son. This awardwinning novel is a hymn to friendship and to boundless giving that ultimately restores life—it is a story
about memory and history, a story against forgetting.
The Loved Ones was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz
Medal for Literature in 2004.
Khairy Shalaby, born in the Nile Delta in 1938, has written
seventy books, including novels, short stories, historical tales,
and critical studies. The Lodging House was awarded the
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003.
Farouk Abdel Wahab is the translator of Alaa Al Aswany’s
Chicago (AUC Press, 2007).
Original Arabic title: Wikalat ‘Atiya
440pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-239-8. LE70 / $18.95. World.
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Alia Mamdouh, born in Iraq, served as editor-in-chief of
al-Rasid magazine from 1970 to 1982. She now lives in
Paris. She is the author of Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad
(AUC Press, 2005).
Marilyn Booth is the translator of several Arabic novels,
including Hoda Barakat’s The Tiller of Waters (AUC Press,
2003).
Original Arabic title: al-Mahbubat
288pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-208-4. LE70 / $18.95. World.
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Nile Sparrows
Nights of Musk
Clamor of the Lake
Ibrahim Aslan
Stories from Old Nubia
Mohamed El-Bisatie
Translated by Mona El-Ghobashy
New paperback edition
Aslan’s second novel chronicles
the daily rhythm of life of rural
migrants to Cairo and their complex
webs of familial and neighborly
relations. It opens with the mysterious disappearance of the tiny
grandmother, Hanem, who is over
100 years old. Her grandson Mr.
Abdalla, who has children of his
own and not a few flecks of gray
in his hair, reluctantly sets out
for their home village to search
for her, embarking on a bittersweet odyssey into his family’s
past and a confrontation with his
own aging.
Haggag Hassan Oddoul
Translated by
Anthony Calderbank
Haggag Oddoul’s work, as well
as documenting the personal
tragedy of individuals caught up
in massive social transformation,
also casts a nostalgic light on the
heritage and way of life of the
Nubians: their rhythmic dancing,
their beautiful women, the lively
humor of their elders, and the
enormous centrality of their traditions and the spirits with which
they shared the environment.
Ibrahim Aslan was born in Tanta in
1937. He is the author of The Heron
(AUC Press, 2005) and is culture editor in the Cairo bureau of the Londonbased daily newspaper al-Hayat.
Mona El-Ghobashy is assistant professor of political science at Barnard
College, Columbia University.
Haggag Hassan Oddoul was born in
Alexandria in 1944 to parents who
had left their native village in Nubia.
He has written short stories, novels,
and plays. Nights of Musk was awarded
the State Prize for Short Stories in 1990.
Anthony Calderbank has translated
several works of modern Arabic fiction,
most recently Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s
Wolves of the Crescent Moon (AUC
Press, 2007).
Original Arabic title: ‘Asafir al-Nil
128pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-240-4.
LE60 / $17.95. World.
Original Arabic title: Layali misk al-‘atiqa
136pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-216-9.
LE60 / $17.95. World.
Translated by Hala Halim
An old fisherman of unknown
origin arrives in 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.
In this lyrical novel, the stories
of these and other figures converge
on the mercurial presence of the
lake, which in the end proves
the narrative’s true hero. Clamor
of the Lake won the 1995 Cairo
International Book Fair Award for
Best Novel of the Year.
Mohamed el-Bisatie is the author of
a number of novels and collections
of short stories, including Over the
Bridge (AUC Press, 2006) and Hunger
(AUC Press, 2008). He was awarded
the Oweiss prize in 2001.
Hala Halim is an Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
Original Arabic title: Sakhab al-buhayra
144pp. Pbk.
December. 978-977-416-241-1.
LE60 / $17.95. World.
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Kallimni ‘Arabi
Bishweesh
Kallimni ‘Arabi
Kallimni ‘Arabi Aktar
A Beginners’ Course in
Spoken Egyptian Arabic 1
An Intermediate Course in
Spoken Egyptian Arabic 2
An Upper Intermediate Course
in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 3
Samia Louis
Samia Louis
Samia Louis
336pp. Pbk + Audio CD.
September. 978-977-416-220-6.
LE120 / $24.95. World.
Published. 978-977-424-977-8.
LE120 / $24.95. World.
Published. 978-977-416-100-1.
LE120 / $24.95. World.
Kallimni ‘Arabi
Mazboot
Kallimni ‘Arabi
fi Kull Haaga
An Early Advanced
Course in Spoken
Egyptian Arabic 4
A Higher Advanced
Course in Spoken
Egyptian Arabic 5
Samia Louis
Samia Louis
October.
978-977-416-223-7.
LE120 / $24.95. World.
December.
978-977-416-224-4.
LE120 / $24.95. World.
The complete series of innovative new coursebooks
in Egyptian colloquial Arabic
Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic
instructor and course developer, Samia Louis has
used a functional approach to create a bright, innovative set of coursebooks for the study of Egyptian
colloquial Arabic—the spoken dialect most frequently
studied and most widely understood in the Arab
world. Now three new books, for beginner, early
advanced, and higher advanced students, have been
added to the series. Designed according to the
ACTFL guidelines for teaching Arabic as a foreign
language, each book of Kallimni ‘Arabi trains students
through highly structured lessons in the crucial
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language studies
skills, with particular emphasis on listening and
speaking, using real-life situations and expressions.
The accompanying audio CD carries recordings
of the dialogs and exercises in each chapter, made
by Egyptian native speakers.
“The books in the [Kallimni ‘Arabi] series altogether
present the best Arabic textbooks available . . . miles
ahead of most others.”
—David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut
Samia Louis has taught Arabic for fifteen years with the
International Language Institute (ILI) in Cairo, an affiliate
of the International House World Organization. She is
also a writer and course developer.
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al-Kitab al-asasi
al-Mu‘jam al-musa‘id
fi ta‘lim al-lugha al-‘arabiya li-ghayr
al-natiqin biha
Abdellatif Abid
Volumes 1, 2, and 3
et al.
392pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-234-3.
LE180
/ $34.95. World.
El-Said Badawi et al.
Vol. 1: 414pp. Pbk + CD.
October. 978-977-416-231-2.
LE180
/ $34.95. World.
Vol. 2: 403pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-232-9.
LE180
/ $34.95. World.
Vol. 3: 373pp. Pbk.
November. 978-977-416-233-6.
LE180
/ $34.95. World.
A fully revised and expanded new edition of the
favorite Modern Standard Arabic study series
This three-part course in Modern Standard Arabic for
non-native speakers approaches the language through
a series of themed topics—daily life in the Arab
world, politics and governance, literature and the
arts, science and medicine, astronomy—concentrates principally on listening and speaking skills.
In each section, vocabulary is built up as various
linguistic structures and strategies are introduced
and practiced in a clear introduction to Arabic
grammar. A CD accompanies Volume 1, and in
addition to a full glossary of vocabulary items at
the end of each volume (with meanings in both
English and French), a supplementary dictionary,
al-Mu‘jam al-musa‘id, gives a complete key to the
vocabulary of all three books in four languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish. Comprehensive
and easily digestible, varied and informative, these
books make an ideal basis for a classroom-based
course in Arabic anywhere in the world.
El-Said Badawi is professor of Arabic at the Arabic
Language Institute of the American University in Cairo,
and the co-editor of A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic.
language studies
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Bahgory
Artistic Adaptations
An Egyptian Artist’s Words and Pictures
Approaches and Positions
Georges Bahgory
Edited by Ferial
Translated by Humphrey Davies
The creative spirit of one of Egypt’s best-known
artists, in images and in words
A keen observer of events that unfold around him,
Georges Bahgory is in the habit of sketching his
impressions in carnets de voyages (sketchbook
diaries), many from Egyptian street scenes that are
recognizable to anyone familiar with Cairo daily
life. This new collection of the artist’s paintings is
accompanied by extracts from his autobiographical
novel The Icon of Faltas. Turning from the brush to
the pen, he has created vignettes, each a brief scene
in a richly textured tapestry of imagined narrative.
His descriptions convey an acute awareness of the
sensual landscape that amplifies his painterly imagery.
Expressing himself as ardently in words as he does in
paint on canvas, Bahgory offers another dimension of
his creative spirit with Bahgory: An Egyptian Artist’s
Words and Pictures.
Georges Bahgory, born in Luxor in 1935, studied at the
Fine Arts Faculty in Zamalek and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
in Paris. His work has been exhibited in France, Egypt, the
UK, Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, and Italy.
Humphrey Davies is the translator of Alaa Al Aswany’s The
Yacoubian Building (AUC Press, 2004) and Elias Khoury’s
Gate of the Sun, for which he was awarded the Banipal
Prize for Literary Translation.
128pp. Pbk. 17x24cm. 75 color photographs.
October. 978-977-416-193-3. LE90 / $19.95. World.
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architecture and the arts
J. Ghazoul
An examination of adaptation across genres,
time, and space
Articles in this volume look at adaptation of, among
other things, novels into films, sacred texts into literary works, rituals into installation art, historical documents into narrative texts, art objects into poetic
discourse, folk legends into dramatic works, ideological positions into fables, erotic verses into Sufi
lessons, and e-mails and personal diaries into performances. The contributors are from Africa,
America, Asia, and Europe. Between them they
cover postcolonial adaptations, gendered appropriations, and literary rewriting of the past, as well as
theoretical and esthetic dimensions of such artistic
adaptations. Examples are given from Egyptian,
Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Pakistani, American, British,
Andalusian, and sub-Saharan African works. There
are also translations related to the topic of adaptation, and testimonies by writers who have adapted
works across genres. Alif 28.
Ferial J. Ghazoul is professor of English and comparative
literature at the American University in Cairo.
500pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-195-7. ISSN 1110-8673.
LE30 / $19.95. World.
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Islamic Art and Culture
Timeline and History
Nasser D. Khalili
A full-color celebration of the rich cultural legacy
of Islam
The material culture of the Islamic world, from
Spain to Indonesia, North Africa to the Steppes, is
richly varied, taking in architectural projects on a
vast scale and minutely detailed miniature paintings,
exquisitely patterned silk textiles and bold yet
sophisticated calligraphy.
Now the spectacular format of Islamic Art and
Culture: Timeline and History allows the reader to
view the magnificent sweep of the art of Islam in a
unique way. With a continuous timeline chart of
the history of the Islamic lands, illustrated with a
gallery of color photographs, chapters on the ruling
dynasties, and sections devoted to the different art
forms, this lavishly illustrated book is a rich celebration of Islamic artistic heritage.
Nasser D. Khalili, who was born in Iran, is a scholar,
collector, and benefactor of international standing.
186pp. Hbd. 21.6x31.5cm. Over 800 color illustrations.
September. 978-977-416-194-0. LE250 / $49.95. Middle East.
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The Golden Years of Egyptian Film
Cinema Cairo, 1936–1967
Edited by Sherif Boraie
With essays by Rafik el-Sabban, Mustafa Darwish,
and Yasser Alwan
A celebration of the great black-and-white Arabic
movies of the mid-twentieth century
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, the Egyptian
cinema industry was at its height, producing hundreds
of black-and-white comedies, dramas, and romances,
many of which became enduring classics, much
loved and watched over and over throughout the
Arab world in cinemas and on television.
Here in this sumptuous, large-format treatment,
film fan Sherif Boraie has gathered over a hundred
promotional stills from more than eighty great Egyptian
movies. In glorious black-and-white, stars who are
household names from Casablanca to Baghdad pucker
or pout, cower or scowl, clinch or croon, scheme or
triumph. There are the divas and the crooners: Umm
Kulthum, Laila Murad, Abd al-Halim Hafez, Farid
al-Atrash; the leading ladies: Faten Hamama, Suad
Husni; the leading men: Omar Sharif, Rushdi Abaza;
the dancers: Naima Akif, Tahiya Carioca; the villains:
Tawfiq al-Diqn, Mahmoud al-Meligui; and the
comics: Mary Munib, Isma‘il Yasin. Not to mention
the child star Fayruz, the people’s hero Farid Shawqi,
and the magnificent Hind Rustum. Introduced and
captioned in English and Arabic, this book of the
greatest and the best of Egyptian cinema will appeal
to classic film lovers everywhere.
Sherif Boraie is a publisher who lives in Cairo.
240pp. Hbd. 33x25cm. Over 100 illustrations.
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Twilight Visions
in Egypt’s Nile Delta
Ann Parker
Text by Muhammad Afifi Matar
Haunting and lyrical photographs of the theater of
rural Egyptian life
In this beautiful art book, award-winning American
photographer Ann Parker records and celebrates life as
it passes along a road through a typical village in the
Egyptian Nile Delta in the early twenty-first century.
But her photographs are not mere documents of a
specific time and place; they transcend both as she
captures timeless moments in an eternal world and
presents us with a potentially infinite and hauntingly
memorable pageant of living tableaux, silhouetted
against the late afternoon sky. Like spectators seated in a
theater, we watch the comings and goings of the village’s
people, animals, and vehicles on the road in front of us.
Introducing the photographs are extracts from
the autobiographical reflections of the poet Muhammad
Afifi Matar, who was born and grew up in a small
Delta village very like the one pictured by Ann Parker.
His recollections of a rural Egyptian childhood and
adolescence are sometimes warming, sometimes
chilling, but always insightful and thought-provoking.
Ann Parker has produced over 50 one-woman exhibitions
around the world. Her photographs can be found in major
collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Muhammad Afifi Matar was born in the Nile Delta village
of Ramlat al-Anjab in 1935. Widely recognized as one of
Egypt’s leading poets, he was awarded the prestigious Oweiss
Prize in 1999.
160pp. Hbd. 26.5x22.5cm. 100 duotone photographs.
October. 978-977-416-186-5. LE180 / $39.95. World.
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Said Nursi
The Great Belzoni
Makers of Islamic Civilization
The Circus Strongman who Discovered Egypt’s
Ancient Treasures
Colin Turner and Hasan Horkuc
A new biography of a controversial figure
Said Nursi (1876–1960) was one of the most
influential figures in twentieth-century Muslim
scholarship. For many of his disciples, he was the
prophesied ‘mujaddid,’ who according to Muslim
tradition would appear at the beginning of each
century to revive Islam and reinterpret the tenets
of the Qur’an according to the needs of the day.
Yet for all who revere him, Nursi has as many
detractors. In many ways his life and what he stood
for echo the increasingly dangerous polarization in
Turkey between Islamic traditionalism and the
secularism established by Ataturk. This short book
offers a sure guide to the fierce debates surrounding
Said Nursi’s life, thought, and major writings.
Colin Turner is lecturer in Islamic studies and Persian at
the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the
University of Durham.
Hasan Horkuc is a research fellow in the same institution.
An I.B. Tauris publication
160pp. Pbk.
October. 978-184511-774-0.
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history and biography
/ $27.50. Middle East.
Stanley Mayes
The astonishing life of a giant of exploration
and archaeology
The truly extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni—
engineer, barber, monk, actor and circus strongman—
who became one of the giants of nineteenth-century
Egyptian archaeology. He was the first person to
penetrate the heart of the second pyramid at Giza
and the first European to visit the oasis of Siwa and
discover the ruined city of Berenice on the Red Sea.
In 1823, at the age of forty-five, Belzoni died of
fever trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu.
There has never been a character quite like him in
the history of exploration.
Stanley Mayes was a respected historian and biographer,
highly regarded for his work on Egypt, archaeology and the
history of the Ottoman Empire.
360pp. Pbk.
September. 978-184511-333-9.
LE170 / $29.95. Middle
East.
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Islamic Civilization
History and Treasures
Francesca Romana Romani
A sumptuously illustrated look at early Islamic culture
This full-color chronicle begins with the seventhcentury origin of Islam in the desert oasis of Mecca
and an account of the Bedouin society in which the
Prophet Muhammad was raised.
Then it moves on to explore the dynamic development of Islamic culture and society under the first
‘rightly guided’ caliphs and the Umayyad and Abbasid
caliphates, a golden age in which Islamic philosophy,
science, and literature flourished to the full. The last
chapter explores the main aspects of classical Islamic
culture, looking particularly at theology and law,
knowledge and science, mysticism and faith, and
art and architecture.
Francesca Romana Romani is a specialist in the history of
medicine at La Sapienza University, Rome, looking in
particular at medieval medical culture and hygiene in the
Near East.
history and biography
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Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs
Silent Images
Volume 1: Predynastic to the Twentieth
Dynasty: 3300–1069 BC
Women in Pharaonic Egypt
Darrell D. Baker
Foreword by H.E. Mrs Suzanne Mubarak
A comprehensive guide to the first 350 rulers of
ancient Egypt
This new and meticulous reference work includes
an alphabetized list of all the known pharaohs up to
the end of the Twentieth Dynasty. Each entry includes
a brief biography of the reign, the tomb location and
number (if known), the location of known mummies,
the chief consorts (if known), the hieroglyphs and
transliterations of each form of the pharaoh’s name,
and pertinent bibliographical references. In addition,
the encyclopedia contains a glossary of commonlyused terms, an index of Greek forms of names and
variant spellings, a list of apocryphal kings of the
Fourteenth Dynasty, the royal titulary, and a chronological king list by dynasty.
“Although there are several books on Egyptian
pharaohs, few are as easy to use, as comprehensive,
or as honest. The references for each entry are superb,
and the index is enormously useful.”
—Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology,
the American University in Cairo
Darrell D. Baker studied ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, and language at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
588pp. Hbd. 17x23.5cm.
October. 978-977-416-221-3.
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archaeology and ancient egypt
Zahi Hawass
A new paperback edition of a classic book
Despite the multitude of artifacts and texts that have
come to us from ancient Egypt, much still remains
obscure regarding the lives of women. Women
were, from the historical perspective, silent—but
how should this silence be interpreted? What was
the reality of women’s lives behind the standardized
images? We know that their chief role in society as
mothers and anchors of the family was honored and
respected, although it meant a degree of segregation.
Nevertheless, in law they were the equals of men
and they could, and did, own property.
Zahi Hawass searches for a more realistic picture
of women’s lives in ancient Egypt, reconsidering
the evidence from tomb and temple, and drawing
on unpublished material from his excavations at the
workers’ cemetery at Giza. The text is complemented
by lavish illustrations of places and objects, many
made especially for this book.
Zahi Hawass is the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme
Council of Antiquities. He is the author of many books on
ancient Egypt, including The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art
of Thebes Revealed and King Tutankhamun: The Treasures
of the Tomb (both AUC Press, 2007).
208pp. Pbk. 24.5x30cm. 141 color illustrations.
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Egypt’s Sunken Treasures
Edited by Franck
Goddio with David Fabre
Photography by Christoph Gerigk
Foreword by Zahi Hawass
Finally revealed by the sea: the mysteries of the
lost cities of Egypt
Submerged by the waters of the Mediterranean
since antiquity, the ancient cities of Canopus,
Thonis, and Heracleion flourished on the shores
of the Mediterranean near Alexandria. Recent
underwater archaeology has revealed the reality
behind the dreams these mysterious places have
evoked. This new book, fully illustrated in color,
presents the exciting story of these discoveries
from the bottom of the sea.
The statue of a queen depicted as Isis-Aphrodite,
of a priest tenderly holding an Osiris-Canopus jar,
the colossi of a king and queen, the monumental
sculpture of the god Hapy, the remains of sphinxes,
fields of fractured columns scattered as if by the
hand of a giant—in all these discoveries, made
with the most advanced archaeological methods
and based on historical knowledge, an enigmatic,
fascinating world is brought to light.
Franck Goddio, born in 1947, is the author of many books,
scientific articles, and publications about his research projects
and excavations.
400pp. Hbd. 24x28cm. 600 color illustrations.
October. 978-977-416-215-2. LE250 / $49.95. Middle East.
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The Illustrated Dictionary of
Ancient Egypt
In association with the British Museum
Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson
A successful and highly-esteemed reference work now
republished in an enlarged and fully revised edition
This authoritative illustrated dictionary provides
clear, in-depth explanations and descriptions of the
important ideas, events and personalities throughout
four thousand years of Egyptian civilization. More
than 600 extensively cross-referenced and comprehensively-indexed A-Z entries provide detailed and
in-depth information on all aspects of ancient Egypt
and Nubia during the pharaonic and Graeco-Roman
periods. Each entry is followed by a bibliography.
The dictionary is lavishly illustrated throughout with
photographs, line drawings, site plans, and maps.
Praise for the previous edition:
“Sets a standard that all such works should emulate
and strive to attain.”
—Journal of Near Eastern Studies
“The best of both worlds: a basic textbook that would not
disfigure a coffee table, and a picture book with bite.”
—Times Higher Education Supplement
“Answers every Egyptian question you can imagine.”
—New Statesman
Ian Shaw is lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the
University of Liverpool. Paul Nicholson is senior lecturer in
archaeology at Cardiff University.
368pp. Hbd. 22x27.5cm. 450 illustrations.
January. 978-977-416-226-8. LE200 / $39.95. Egypt.
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The Royal Mummies
Immortality in Ancient Egypt
Francis Janot
Introduction by Zahi Hawass
A spectacular new look at what lay behind the
mummification of Egypt’s monarchs
Embalming, the art that people had learned from the
god Anubis, was the practical intervention that checked
the ineluctable decomposition of the pharaoh’s body—
a battle that had to be won, since the cosmic order
itself depended on its successful outcome. This lavishly
illustrated book acquaints the readers with both the
physical procedures and the religious rites involved in
preparing a royal corpse for eternity, allowing the
regenerated body—transfigured and wrapped in linen
bandages—to proceed along the paths fraught with
danger that led to the Field of Reeds, the ancient
Egyptian paradise.
The modern discovery of the royal mummies is
described, and the latest research on the mummies
themselves is presented, including X-rays and CT scans,
which help us to understand not only how particular
pharaohs died out but also what ailments they may
have suffered in life, and in some cases what the living
person actually looked like.
Francis Janot is an associate professor in the Faculty of
Dental Surgery at the University of Nancy 1, and a specialist
in the art of embalming in ancient Egypt.
Zahi Hawass is the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme
Council of Antiquities. He is the author of many books on
ancient Egypt.
Also available in French, German, Italian.
368pp. Hbd. 25.5x35.5cm. 454 color illustrations.
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The Lost Tombs
of Saqqara
Alain Zivie
Photographs by Patrick Chapuis
Translated by David Lorton
An unusual visual account of
French excavations at Saqqara
Alain Zivie and his team have spent
the last twenty-five years exhuming
a major New Kingdom cemetery
from the sands of Saqqara. This
unique book gives the reader a rare
insight into the immediacy, excitement, and hard work of archaeological excavations, through the
outstanding photography of Patrick
Chapuis and the reflections of
the author on the significance of
the archaeological, historical,
and artistic results of the team’s
discoveries.
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Mishkah
Egyptian Journal of
Islamic Archaeology
Volume 2
The Supreme Council
of Antiquities
Reports on the latest excavations
and restorations
Contributors: Muhammad Ali Abd
al-Hafiz, Hisham bin Muhammad
Ali bin-Hasan Ajimi, Khaled
Muhammad Azab, Gamal al-Busaili,
Muhammad al-Sayyid Hamdi,
Zahi Hawass, Angela Milward
Jones, Mutsuo Kawatoko, Al-Mustafa
Muhammad al-Kharrat, Sami Saleh
Abd al-Malik, Mahmud Abd al-Basit
Muhammad, Stéphane Pradines,
Ibrahim Subhi.
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Zahi Hawass
and Ashraf Senussi
This publication discusses the
pottery that was discovered by
Zahi Hawass’s excavations at
Giza, including the Cemetery of
the Pyramid Builders, the Western
Cemetery, and the settlement
beneath the modern suburb of
Nazlet el-Samman.
An SCA publication
160pp. Pbk. Illustrated.
September. 978-977-305-986-6.
LE100/ $29.95. World.
Unique Statues
from Giza
Zahi Hawass
Alain Zivie is director of the excavations of the French Archaeological
Mission of the Bubasteion at Saqqara.
Patrick Chapuis has been photographing the French excavations at Saqqara
since 1987.
A cara.cara edition
152pp. Pbk. 21x22cm.
56 color illustrations.
September. 978-2-913805-02-6.
LE150 / $29.95. World.
Old Kingdom Pottery
from Giza
An SCA publication
404pp. Pbk. 21x29.5cm. 635 illustrations incl. 51 in color, 66 maps
September. 978-977-437-470-8.
ISSN 1687-5613.
LE60 / $18.50. World.
This publication discusses the
statuary discovered by Zahi Hawass
at Giza. These statues range in date
from the Old Kingdom through the
New Kingdom, and were found
in a variety of contexts including
tombs as well as near the royal
pyramid complexes.
An SCA publication
120pp. Pbk. Illustrated.
September. LE100/ $29.95. World.
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Contents:
Foreign Policy Analysis in the Global Era and the World
of the Arabs
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Foreign Policy Approaches and Arab Countries: A
Critical Evaluation and an Alternative Framework
Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies: Constraints
or Marginalization?
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Bahgat Korany
From Arab System to Middle Eastern System: Regional
Pressures and Constraints
Paul Noble
The Foreign Policies of Arab States
The Challenge of Globalization
The new revised edition of an essential Middle East
studies textbook
The first edition of this book was praised as “a
milestone for present and future research on Arab
and Third World foreign policies” (American Political
Science Review), and “an indispensable aid for
those studying or teaching the foreign policies of
the contemporary Middle East” (International Journal
of Middle East Studies). It has become a standard
textbook in Middle East studies curricula all over
the world. This third edition, with new material
reflecting the earth-shaking events at the end of
the Cold War and the continuation of violence
and terrorism, examines foreign policies of nine
Arab states in the context of globalization. The editors
first establish an analytical framework for assessing
foreign policy, which they and other contributors
then apply chapter by chapter to Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the United Arab
Emirates, Algeria, and Iraq.
Bahgat Korany is professor of international relations and
political economy at the American University in Cairo, and
director of the AUC Forum.
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki is professor of political science at
Cairo University, and has been visiting professor at numerous universities, including UCLA and Princeton.
480pp. Hbd.
November. 978-977-416-197-1.
LE120
/ $34.95. World.
Regional leadership: Balancing off Costs and
Dividends: Foreign Policy of Egypt
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a
Foreign Policy?
Mohamed Soffar
Does the Successor Make a Difference? The Foreign
Policy of Jordan
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Karen Abul Kheir
The Art of the Impossible: The Foreign Policy
of Lebanon
Bassel F. Salloukh
The Far West of the Near East: The Foreign Policy of
Morocco
Jennifer Rosenblum and William Zartman
Irreconcilable Role-Partners? Saudi Foreign Policy
between the Ulama and the U.S.
Bahgat Korany and Moataz A. Fattah
From Fragmentation to Fragmentation? Sudan’s
Foreign Policy
Ann M. Lesch
The Challenge of Restructuring: Syrian Foreign Policy
Hazem Kandil
Politics of Constructive Engagement: The Foreign Policy
of the United Arab Emirates
Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat
Conclusion: Foreign Policy, Globalization and the Arab
Dilemma of Change
politics, economics, and social issues
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Egypt’s Political Economy
Beyond the Façade
Power Relations in Development
Political Reform in the Arab World
Nadia Ramsis Farah
Edited by
A new assessment of the impact of power relations
on economic development
This new study deals with the unfolding of the great
political and economic transformations of the
modern Egyptian state from the appointment of
Muhammad Ali as governor of Egypt in 1805 to the
era of President Mubarak, with a special focus on
the period 1990–2005, which witnessed a rigorous
implementation of structural adjustment policies, the
acceleration of economic privatization and liberalization, the emergence of a group of neo-conservatives
within the ruling National Democratic Party, and
the consolidation of business interests and representation in parliament and government. The author
asserts that the modernization process in Egypt
over the last two centuries has been determined by
power relations and their articulation, and so she
investigates in depth the impact of power relations
on development strategies, on political liberalization,
on politicized Islam as a hegemonic ideology adopted
by the state since the beginning of the 1970s, and
on gender relations in development.
Nadia Ramsis Farah is professor of political economy at
the American University in Cairo. She has taught at
Cairo University, Duke University, and the University of
Maryland, and has worked as an international consultant
in the areas of gender, development, population, and
reproductive health.
256pp. Hbd.
January. 978-977-416-217-6.
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/ $29.95. World.
and
Marina Ottaway
Julia Choucair-Vizoso
Some governments of the Middle East have taken
steps toward political reform. Are these meaningful
changes, or empty attempts to pacify domestic and
international public opinion? How do we distinguish
reforms that alter the character of the political system
from those that are only window dressing?
Beyond the Façade evaluates the changes that are
taking place in the region and explores the potential
for further reform. The essays provide careful, detailed
examinations of ten countries, highlighting the diversity of processes and problems.
Contributors: Nathan Brown, Julia Choucair-Vizoso,
Michele Dunne, Amr Hamzawy, Ellen Lust-Okar,
Marina Ottaway, Sarah Phillips, Meredith Riley, Hugh
Roberts, and Paul Salem.
“A significant and needed contribution.”
—Robert Springborg, SOAS, University of London
“Superb . . . coherent, concise, and consistently
insightful.”
—Foreign Affairs
Marina Ottaway is a senior associate in the Democracy
and Rule of Law Program and director of the Carnegie
Middle East Program.
Julia Choucair-Vizoso is a former associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
304pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-238-1.
LE100 / $29.95. Middle
East.
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Contents:
A Political Analysis of the Egyptian Judges’ Revolt
Mohamed al-Sayed Said
The Development of the Relations between the Mixed
Courts and the Executive Authority in Egypt (1875–1904)
Isabelle Lendrevie-Tournan
The Law on the Judicial Authority and Judicial
Independence
Mahmud al-Khudayri
The General Prosecutor between the Judicial and
Executive Authorities
Abdallah Khalil
The Political Role of the Egyptian Judiciary
Nabil Abd al-Fattah
Judges and Political Reform
in Egypt
Edited by
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
A wide-ranging review of the relationship between
the Egyptian judiciary and the government
Recent years have seen growing tensions in Egypt
between the judiciary and the executive authority
in Egypt. In order to gain concessions, judges went
as far as to threaten to boycott the supervision of
the presidential and legislative elections in the fall
of 2005 and to organize sit-ins in the streets. A conference held in Cairo in early April 2006 on the
theme of the role of judges in the process of political reform in Egypt and the Arab world led to this
collection of papers dealing with Egypt. They allow
a better understanding of the role judges are playing
in the process of democratic reform in Egypt as well
as the limits of their struggle.
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron is a senior researcher and
the representative of the Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement in Cairo. She holds her Ph.D in public
law from Paris X University.
The Political Role of the Supreme Constitutional
Court: Between Principles and Practice
Tamir Moustafa
The Role of the Judges’ Club in Enhancing the
Independence of the Judiciary and Spurring Political
Reform
Atef Shahat Said
Reining in the Executive: What Can the Judiciary Do?
Nathan J. Brown
Judges and Elections: The Politicization of the Judges’
Discourse
Sherif Younes
Exceptional Courts and the Natural Judge
Hafez Abu Saada
Judges and Acts of Sovereignty
Muhammad Maher Abu al-Einein
The Government’s Non-execution of Judicial Decisions
Negad al-Borai
Egyptian Parties and Syndicates vis-à-vis Judicial
Decisions
Ahmad Abd al-Hafiz
The Judicial Authority and Civil Society
Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyed
The Relationship between Judges and Human Rights
Organizations during the 2005 Elections and the
Referendum
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
336pp. Hbd.
December. 978-977-416-201-5.
LE150
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The Independence of the Judiciary as a Democratic
Construct
Hisham El-Bastawisi
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What the Arabs Think of America
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Andrew Hammond
Islam and Textbooks in the
Middle East
What Arabs love—and hate—about the
United States
Edited by
These days, Americans and America provoke strong
opinions from Arabs of all sorts, from politicians and
journalists to the ordinary men and women of the
‘Arab Street.’ Their voices aren’t always heard in the
west, but for over a decade British journalist Andrew
Hammond, based in the Middle East, has been listening to what they have to say, and in this book
they are heard loud and clear on American politics,
pop culture, and lifestyle.
“a well-documented and timely volume.”
—MultiCultural Review
“[a] timely and informative study.”
—Arab News
“Engaged journalism at its best.”
—Madawi al-Rasheed, author of
A History of Saudi Arabia
Andrew Hammond is Reuters Senior Correspondent in Saudi
Arabia. He is the author of Popular Culture in the Arab World
(AUC Press, 2007).
Comparing Curricula
Eleanor Abdella Doumato
and Gregory Starrett
A close look at Islam in public education in nine
Arab countries
Exploring the political and social priorities behind
religious education in nine Middle Eastern countries,
the authors reveal dramatic differences in the way that
Islam is presented in textbooks across the region. They
also illustrate the perhaps surprising adaptability of
Islam as leaders strive to reconcile Muslim identity
with both state citizenship and the modern reality of
an interdependent, globalized world.
Contributors: Taghreed Alqudsi-ghabra, Ozlem Altan,
Betty Anderson, Nathan Brown, Seif Da‘Na, Eleanor
Abdella Doumato, Muhammad S. Eissa, Joshua Landis,
Mandana E. Limbert, Golnar Mehran, Gregory Starrett,
James A. Toronto.
“An invaluable close scrutiny, especially in the wake of
the September 11th attacks and accusations that textbooks fostering violence have heavily infiltrated Saudi
Arabia and the Muslim world. Highly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
Eleanor Abdella Doumato is visiting fellow at the Watson
Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
Gregory Starrett is associate professor of anthropology at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
246pp. Pbk.
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October. 978-977-416-236-7.
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From Charity to Social Change
Bedouins by the Lake
Trends in Arab Philanthropy
Environment, Change, and Sustainability
in Southern Egypt
Edited by Barbara Ibrahim
and Dina H. Sherif
A landmark study of philanthropic action in the
modern Middle East
Persistent societal problems and wealth creation
in the Arab region are driving a new generation of
actors to commit their resources for the greater public welfare. Voluntary contributions to causes that
serve a public good are a longstanding and important aspect of cultures in the Arab region. What is of
particular interest today is the proliferation of ways
in which this private giving is being channeled into
new institutional forms.
Through an examination of philanthropic trends
in eight key Middle Eastern countries, this book
seeks to shed light on the forms of institutionalized
giving that currently exist, as well as to provide recommendations for how charitable contributions can
be most effective as vehicles of future social change.
Drawing on data collected from endowed corporate
foundations, public–private partnerships, and smallscale community-based organizations, this study
marks the first attempt to map the dynamic contemporary landscape of philanthropy in the Arab region.
Ahmed Belal, John Briggs, Joanne Sharp,
Irina Springuel
and
How nomads are adapting to a changing
desert environment
Sustainable development and environmental change
have become two of the watchwords of the new
century. But what do they mean for ordinary people
living in some of the harshest environments in the
world where survival is the driving force? This book
sets out to examine these issues and how they affect,
and are affected by, Bedouin communities living in
the arid areas of the Nubian Desert in southeastern
Egypt. This book seeks to examine how the Bedouin
of this area have coped with the environmental
changes brought about after the construction of the
Aswan High Dam and resulting formation of Lake
Nasser. Bedouins by the Lake argues that people in
these communities are active agents of change and
must not be seen as passive victims. For them, sustainable development and environmental change are
not abstract academic debates, but real-life, everyday
issues around which they must organize their lives.
Barbara Ibrahim is founding director of the John D.
Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement,
established at the American University in Cairo in 2006.
Dina H. Sherif is associate director of the John D. Gerhart
Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the
American University in Cairo.
Ahmed Belal, established the Unit of Environmental Studies
and Development in South Valley University, Aswan. John
Briggs is professor of geography at the University of Glasgow.
Joanne Sharp is senior lecturer in geography at the University
of Glasgow. Irina Springuel has been advancing higher
education and multidisciplinary research in Upper Egypt
since 1981.
192pp. Pbk.
November. 978-977-416-207-7.
256pp. Hbd. 20 illustrations, 17 maps.
LE100
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A New Muslim Order
Modern Islamic Political Thought
The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis
Hamid Enayat
Nicolas Pelham
Foreword by Roy P. Mottahedeh
A first-hand account by one of the few journalists
to have been in Iraq before, during, and after the war
Indispensable for an understanding of the politics
of the Muslim world
Nicolas Pelham explores how America’s overthrow of the Baath party in Iraq and the failures of
Washington’s post-invasion regime spawned a
Shiite revolution in the heartland of the Arab world.
Through first-hand accounts from Saddam’s rule to
that of the post-Bremer rulers, he traces the turning
of the tables from a Sunni- to a Shia-led state. As
Washington struggled to back-pedal, Pelham reveals
how the Ayatollahs’ drive for elections won power
for their acolytes to draft the constitution for a
utopian Shia state.
The revival and power of religious feelings among
Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a
complicated and often perplexing picture of the
politics of the Islamic world in the modern era.
What are the ideas that have influenced the direction
of these trends? In this book, which since its original
publication has established itself as a seminal work,
Hamid Enayat provides an answer by describing
and interpreting some of the major Islamic political
ideas. He also examines the concept of the Islamic
state, and the Muslim response to the challenge of
alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism,
democracy, and socialism.
Nicolas Pelham has spent 20 years studying, writing, and
broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hamid Enayat was reader in modern Middle Eastern
history at Oxford University and fellow at St. Antony’s
College, Oxford.
Roy P. Mottahedeh is professor of history and chair of the
Committee on Islamic Studies at the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
288pp. Pbk.
October. 978-184511-139-7.
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240pp. Pbk.
September. 978-185043-466-5. LE190 / $32.95. Middle East.
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The Student Movement and
National Politics in Egypt
New Paperback Edition
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Political and Social Protest in Egypt
Edited by
Nicholas S. Hopkins
Collected papers chronicling the history of Egyptian
protest groups over the last three decades
Ahmed Abdalla
An account of student activism in Egypt, by one
of its leaders
When the doors of university education in Egypt
were opened to hundreds of thousands of the sons
and daughters of peasants, workers, and lowermiddle-class employees after the 1952 Revolution,
quantitative growth was not matched by qualitative
advance, and the result was one of the world’s most
turbulent student movements. This history of that
movement’s most critical years, first published in
1985, was written by a young Egyptian who was a
participant in many of the events. Ahmed Abdalla
describes the sociological composition of the student
body, the physical and social conditions in the
universities, the shifts in government education
policy, and the attempts of the students to influence
the direction of national development.
This book is an important contribution to our
understanding of Egypt’s modern history, and will
also be of interest to anyone concerned with the
more universal issues of higher education, social
change, and state politics in the Third World.
Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977,
the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in
Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary,
Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms
of protest have been developing with the aim of
challenging the existing order and inducing change.
This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at
Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal
with the different protest groups that have been active
in Egypt in the last three decades, including the
Kefaya movement, the Negm–Imam phenomenon,
the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the
Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers’ protests,
rural resistance, and the judges’ call for reform. Cairo
Papers Vol. 29, No. 2.
Contributors: Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Marilyn
Booth, Ray Bush, Françoise Clément, Rabab al-Mahdi,
Sameh Naguib, Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, Samer
Soliman, Robert Springborg.
Nicholas S. Hopkins is professor of anthropology at the
American University in Cairo.
Ahmed Abdalla (1950–2006) received a degree in political
science from Cairo University in 1973. He was president
of the Higher National Committee of Cairo University
Students, which led the student uprising of January 1972,
and was a defendant in the trial of student activists in 1973.
300pp. Pbk.
October. 978-977-416-199-5.
LE100
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112pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-200-8. ISSN 1110-659X.
LE20 / $16.95. World.
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Islam Today
A Short Introduction
to the Muslim World
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Islamic Thought in the Recognizing Islam
Twentieth Century
Religion and Society in the
Modern Middle East
Akbar S. Ahmed
Edited by Suha Taji-Farouki
and Basheer M. Nafi
LA Times Best Non-Fiction Book
of the Year
A fresh approach to topical
questions
An original understanding of
religion in the Middle East
Although there are over one billion Muslims in the world, most
discussion of Islam in the west
is based on clichés or outright
prejudice. This lively and compelling book sets out to bridge the
gulfs of misunderstanding. Islam,
argues Akbar Ahmed, does not
mean the subordination of women,
contempt for other religions,
opposition to the modern world,
or ‘barbaric punishments’ for
petty crime.
This highly accessible book
is an ideal introduction for nonMuslims and Muslims alike interested in the issues facing and raised
by the Muslim world.
The first of its kind, this book provides in-depth discussion of Islamic
thought across the twentieth
century, encompassing the breadth
of self-expression in Muslim communities worldwide. It explores key
themes in modern Islamic thinking,
including the social origins and
ideological underpinnings of the
late 19th- early 20th-century
Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist
attitudes towards democracy,
Muslim perceptions and constructions of the west, and aspects of
Muslim thinking on Christians
and Jews.
Michael Gilsenan shows that Islam
covers a multitude of forms and
practices that are woven into daily
existence in complex and sometimes almost invisible ways. He
explores a variety of social worlds
all claiming Islamic affiliation:
the feudal aristocracy of northern
Lebanon, the working-class Sufi
brotherhoods of Egypt, and the
new bourgeoisies of Algeria and
Morocco. In each he shows how
Islam evolves in relation to shifting
social, political, economic, and
class structures.
Akbar S. Ahmed is a fellow of Selwyn
College, Cambridge. He is the author
of numerous books and articles.
272pp. Pbk.
September. 978-186064-257-9.
LE180 / $29.95. Middle East.
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religious studies
Suha Taji-Farouki is research associate at
the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Basheer M. Nafi is reader in Islamic
history at the Muslim College and
adjunct professor of Islamic studies at
Birkbeck College, University of London.
400pp. Pbk.
September. 978-185043-751-2.
Michael Gilsenan
“Remarkably well-written . . . . A
vital account of Islam and unique
for being so.”
—Edward Said
Michael Gilsenan is professor of
anthropology and Middle Eastern
studies at New York University.
296pp. Pbk.
September. 978-186064-409-2.
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The Genesis of Literature
in Islam
Historical Dictionary
of the Coptic Church
From the Aural to the Read
Gawdat Gabra
Gregor Schoeler
Translated by Shawkat Toorawa
A new examination of the development of
the rich written Arabic tradition
The study of Islamic tradition which began in the last
third of the seventh century, relied predominantly
on oral communication between teacher and student,
although writing was already an integral part of this
process, and it was the genesis of one of the richest
literatures of late antiquity and the middle ages.
Here Gregor Schoeler explains how this change—
from predominantly oral to written—came about.
In particular, he explains how the tension between
oral and written resulted in a creative coexistence.
Gregor Schoeler is professor and chair of Islamic studies
in the Orientalisches Seminar at the University of Basel.
Shawkat Toorawa is associate professor of Arabic literature
and Islamic studies at Cornell University.
160pp. Pbk.
December. 978-977-416-235-0. LE100 / $29.95. Middle East.
A comprehensive new reference work
According to tradition, Saint Mark brought Christianity
to Egypt during the first century, and in so doing
formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Today, Copts comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. They make up perhaps
tenth of Egypt’s population, and many hundreds of
thousands also live in North America and Australia.
This new and comprehensive reference work by
a leading Coptic scholar details the history of one
of the oldest Christian churches through a chronology,
an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than
400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important
people, organizations, and structures, the theology
and practices of the church, its literature and liturgy,
and its monasteries and churches.
Gawdat Gabra is the author or editor of numerous books
on Egyptian Christianity, including The Treasures of Coptic
Art (AUC Press, 2006). He is currently visiting professor of
Coptic Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
304pp. Hbd.
December. 978-977-416-237-4. LE150 / $34.95. Middle East.
religious studies
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Desert Songs
A Woman Explorer in Egypt and Sudan
Arita Baaijens
The extraordinary story of one woman’s lone quest
in the harsh but beautiful desert
Arita Baaijens gave up her job as an environmentalist
nearly twenty years ago, and has been exploring the
deserts of Egypt and Sudan with her small camel
caravan ever since. In Desert Songs she recounts her
passion for the desert, the place she loves and fears.
On one level Desert Songs reads as an ode to
camels, vistas and horizons, nomads and exploration.
On another it is a story about an inward journey, a
rite of passage. It is about leaving the world you
know to venture into the unknown where you discover your true strength. How strong are you when
there’s no backup? Where do your limits lie? Baaijens
sets out on a voyage of self-discovery and unrelenting
physical trials to find the answers. The experience
changes her forever.
Arita Baaijens is an author, a photographer, and a fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society. She has published several
books on her desert journeys. In between travels she lives
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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travel literature and guidebooks
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Vintage Alexandria
Photographs of the City, 1860–1960
Michael Haag
Archival photographs that reveal the forgotten heart
of a great city
Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens,
and on the city’s streets and beaches, the faces of
forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks,
Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the
Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped
modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted
their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant
and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy,
E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too
are included in these pages along with photographs
of scenes and people that were familiar to them.
Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth
of the city, follows its story through the dramatic
events of two world wars, and above all provides a
background to the city’s place in twentieth-century
cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria’s
cosmopolitan citizens themselves.
Michael Haag has photographed and written Alexandria
Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC
Press, 2006), and he is the author of Alexandria: City of
Memory (AUC Press, 2004).
160 pages. Hbd. 25x25cm. 200 illustrations.
October. 978-977-416-192-6. LE180 / $39.95. World.
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Islamic Monuments in Cairo
The Fayoum
The Practical Guide
New Revised Edition
History and Guide
New Revised Edition
Caroline Williams
R. Neil Hewison
A new edition of the popular guide to Cairo’s
monuments
A fully revised guide to one of Egypt’s most
beautiful natural areas
This new, fully revised edition of a popular and
handy guide continues to walk the visitor around
two hundred of the city’s most interesting Islamic
monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration
initiatives and newly opened monuments such as
the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House.
The Fayoum, a large and exceptionally fertile depression in Egypt’s Western Desert, some 90 kilometers
southwest of Cairo, is a region both rich in history
and outstanding in natural beauty. Its historical legacy
includes temples, pyramids, and towns from the
Middle Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Period, as well as
churches, monasteries, and mosques from later times.
Neil Hewison here outlines the history (and prehistory) of the Fayoum and its lakes, describes the
agriculture and rural life of the region, then guides
the visitor around the province site by site, never
averse to taking an interesting detour along the way.
Originally published in 1984, this guide to one of
Egypt’s most distinctive and beautiful regions quickly
became regarded as a classic. The text has been
thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition,
including a new section on the recently declared
UNESCO World Heritage Site of Wadi al-Hitan, the
Valley of the Whales. The book is illustrated with color
photographs and two maps.
“This book ought to be in the luggage of every visitor
to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, lovers and students
of Cairo’s architecture will find it a convenient and
accurate quick reference as well as a cherished
souvenir of many profitable and enjoyable rambles
among the monuments of Cairo.”
—Jonathan M. Bloom, Journal of the American
Research Center in Egypt
“Any visitor to Cairo who wants to see the monuments
should not be without it.”
—Bernard O’Kane
Recommended by Lonely Planet.
Recommended by Lonely Planet.
Caroline Williams, with graduate degrees in Middle
Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo, has been a frequent resident/visitor of Cairo since 1961.
287pp. Pbk. 29 color photographs, 24 illustrations, 16 maps.
October. 978-977-416-205-3. LE90 / $24.95. World.
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R. Neil Hewison taught English in Fayoum from 1979 to
1982. He is the translator of two modern Arabic novels,
City of Love and Ashes by Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 1998)
and Wedding Night by Yusuf Abu Rayya (AUC Press, 2006).
136pp. Pbk. 27 color illustrations, 2 maps.
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Cairo
Cairo
The Practical Guide
New Revised Edition
The Practical Guide Maps
New Revised Edition
Compiled by Claire E. Francy
Updated and edited by Lesley Lababidi
The handiest and most accurate map guide to the
great city of Cairo
“Indispensable”—The New York Times
Revised and updated for 2008, this classic guide
fills a vital niche for expatriates and Cairenes alike
who need a helping hand to organize—and enjoy—
the challenges of a sojourn in Cairo. The basics of
daily life—finding a flat, transporting personal goods,
investigating school options for children, navigating
Egypt’s famous bureaucracy, and the intricacies of
feeding and clothing oneself and one’s family from
the local market—are all detailed here. Advice
gathered from a wide range of Cairo insiders, both
native and foreign, gives the reader a cornucopia
of current facts on prices, neighborhoods, product
availability, work and business opportunities, and
the dizzying range of cultural and leisure pursuits
that Cairo is famous for.
Cairo: The Practical Guide, now in its sixteenth
edition, is the key to deciphering the complexities of
living, working, and enjoying life in one of the world’s
most exciting and dauntingly complex mega-cities.
Updated and expanded for 2008, this handy map
book includes all the principal areas of metropolitan
Cairo and Giza, including for the first time the major
developing district of New Cairo. The easy-to-use
format and clear, uncluttered cartographic style make
finding where you want to go a pleasure. Each page
overlaps with adjoining pages—no more lost streets
while turning the page! Indexes are provided for
street names and places of interest, while symbols
highlight notable landmarks and useful locations.
And all this information is packed into a slim booklet of 74 pages—handy enough to take anywhere.
Lesley Lababidi is the author of Cairo: The Family Guide
(third edition, AUC Press, 2006), Silent No More: Special
Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2002), and Cairo’s
Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges,
Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008).
256pp. Pbk.
September. 978-977-416-203-9.
LE90
/ $19.95. World.
74pp. Pbk. 57 maps.
September. 978-977-416-204-6.
LE60
/ $12.95. World.
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Globetrotter Egypt Travel Pack
Robin Gauldie
Compact, user-friendly, and up-to-date guides and
maps in the popular Globetrotter series
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Globetrotter Egypt Travel Map
Color fold-out. 100x71.5cm opened / 12.5x25cm folded.
20 color photographs.
The Egypt Globetrotter Travel Pack comprises the
Travel Guide and a full-size Travel Map. The handy
travel guide is crammed with up-to-date, useful
information, travel tips, and recommendations for
the traveler. Both attractive and practical, it includes
sound suggestions on where to tour, stay, eat, shop,
and relax. The user-friendly travel map, also available
separately as a sturdy fold-out, allows you to locate
cities, towns, major roads and scenic routes, airports, hotels, golf courses, holiday resorts, parks,
and nature reserves. In addition, the reverse side
incorporates area maps and town and city plans
of the major centers. The Best of Cairo and Luxor
offers visitors the highlights of the capital and the
principle visitor destination in a concise format,
featuring well-presented, to-the-point sections on
the highlights of the both locations, places of
interest, activities, accommodation, where to eat
out, entertainment, and excursions.
Robin Gauldie, who first visited Egypt in 1981, is the
author of numerous travel guides.
Globetrotter Best of Cairo
and Luxor
Robin Gauldie
96pp. Pbk. 10x19.5cm. 80 color photographs,
plus fold-out map.
128pp. Pbk. 12.5x18cm. 100 color photographs,
30 color maps, plus full-size travel map.
September. 978-1-84537-950-6.
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The Great Shipwrecks of the
Red Sea
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Sinai Diving Guide
Thistlegorm & Rosalie Moller
Volume 1: Sharm el-Sheikh, Ras Mohammed,
Tiran, Gubal, Dahab
Alberto Siliotti
Alberto Siliotti
A diving guide to two historic relics of World War Two
Winner of Best Guide of the Underwater World
2005, Antibes
In the space of two days in October 1941, German
bombers sank two British cargo ships, the Thistlegorm
and the Rosalie Moller, in the Gulf of Suez.
Rediscovered by divers in 1992, the Thistlegorm
became one of the most famous shipwrecks in the
world and one of the favorite attractions for Red Sea
divers. In 1993, the shipwreck of the Rosalie Moller,
which lies in a more inaccessible site, was also
found, and is only now becoming well known. This
fully illustrated guide introduces divers to the intricate
secrets of these two fascinating wrecks.
Alberto Siliotti is a scientific journalist and a scuba diving
instructor. He is one of the leading experts on the Red Sea.
He is the author of the popular series of Egypt Pocket Guides.
Also available in French, German, Italian, Russian.
78pp. Pbk. 22x22cm. Color illustrations throughout.
Sinai is now one of the world’s most popular diving
destinations, and in Sharm el-Sheikh alone an average
of more than one thousand dives are made every
day—but mainly on just one tenth of the dive sites.
Now here is a real diving atlas that has been
developed through more than ten years of diving
experience, and which illustrates clearly the topography of all major dive sites of south Sinai, and their
secrets. A must for all Red Sea divers.
Also available in German, Italian, Russian.
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Fishes of the Red Sea
The Red Sea
Alberto Siliotti
The Coral Garden
An indispensable guide for observing the most
important fish in the Red Sea
The Red Sea is home to a rich array of wildlife,
including more than 1,000 species of fish. This
guide allows divers and snorkelers to identify easily
over 100 common species and to recognize their
principal characteristics, habitats, and, distribution,
biology, and behavior.
Alberto Siliotti
A full-color introduction to the wonderful world
of the coral reef
Home to over 1,000 species of fish and 250 species
of coral, the reefs of the Red Sea are among the
richest marine environments in the world, and the
most easily accessible. This beautifully-illustrated
full-color celebration of all that is under the surface
of the shallow waters of the Red Sea explains the
complex ecology of the coral reef and introduces
some of its most interesting and unusual—and often
visually stunning—denizens.
288pp. Pbk. 11x11.5cm. Color illustrations throughout.
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Map
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Egypt Map
Red Sea
Diving &
Safari Map
These handy but tough, plastic-coated, fold-out maps
can be used anywhere, from dusty city streets, to
sandy desert oases, to wet and salty Red Sea beaches.
They can also be written on with marker pens and
later wiped clean—ideal for recording routes or
making your own additions and amendments. The
Sinai & Sharm el-Sheikh Diving Map shows all the
major diving venues around south Sinai, as well as
the roads to get there, and also has 30 3-D plans of
individual dive sites. The Red Sea Diving & Safari
Map shows the whole of Egypt’s Red Sea coast and
Sinai & Sharm
el-Sheikh
Diving Map Map of the
Western Desert
Oases of Egypt
the dive sites along it, with city plans of El-Gouna,
Hurghada, Safaga, and Marsa Alam. The Egypt Map
covers the whole country from north to south, with
city plans of Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, and
Aswan. The Cairo City Map covers central Cairo,
with additional plans of Heliopolis, Nasr City, and
Maadi. The Map of the Western Desert shows clearly
everything between the Nile and the Libyan border,
and has detailed maps of the Bahariya, Farafra,
Dakhla, Kharga, and Siwa oases, and the Gilf Kebir
and Gebel Uweinat.
All also available in French, German, Italian, Russian.
Cairo City Map
Color fold-out. 66x48cm opened / 11x23.5cm folded.
Egypt Map
Sinai & Sharm el-Sheikh Diving Map
Red Sea Diving & Safari Map
Map of the Western Desert Oases of Egypt
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