A historical-anthropological study of the people who lived in the antiquities precinct of Luxor's West Bank.Until their recent demolition, the colorful mud-brick hamlets of al-Qurna village, situated
Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign (1353-1335 BC) in his new temple to the Aten at
Bringing 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 in
This third and final volume of The Popes of Egypt spans the five centuries from the arrival of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present era. Hardly any scholarly work has been written about the Copts durin
Based on unstructured interviews with thirteen Romanian–Egyptian couples presently living in Cairo, this study focuses on three interrelated aspects of these mixed marriages: the contexts that allowed
Scholars of Coptic language and literature, of art history, of religion, and of other disciplines focus on the legacy of Saint Shenoute the Archimandrite, one of the great figures of Coptic Christiani
The papers presented here are from a 2008 symposium held in Naqada, Egypt. Gabra and Takla, both scholars of Coptic Christianity, begin with articles concerning language and literature among the Copti
Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum is a regular Egyptological forum for scholarly discussion of the various aspects of ancient Egyptian art, objects and collections, conservation, and museology.The colle
This easy-to-use beginner's level guide to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) grammar is the ideal supplement for students of ECA as a foreign language. Keda Mazbuut is divided into twenty-five lessons,
This fascinating book describes the excavation and preservation of three early Roman villas in Egypt's ancient port city of Alexandria. Chronicling the work of the Polish Archaeological Mission in Ale
Cynthia Nelson was an outstanding professor of anthropology at AUC and the founding director of the Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies. This collection of her essays, which highlight her distingu
This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, "Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East," held in s
New studies examining the religious endowments that have historically played a variety of important roles in Muslim communities Waqfs (pious endowments) long held a crucial place in the political, eco
This collection of essays seeks to investigate questions of oil and water resources contestation, wars, and cooperation in the context of the Gulf region, especially Iraq, and of the Nile Basin. It tr
An invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century .Arab women's writing in the modern age
Wadi al-Natrun, a depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, is one of the most important centers for the development and continual thriving of the Coptic monastic tradition. Christianity and monastic
