The world's best known Egyptologist uncovers the stories behind his many excavations.Zahi Hawass, familiar to millions from his many television appearances, provides stirring descriptions of his life'
Passion, unconventional romance, and the determination of a strong female character to live her life freely.This audacious novel opens with Ayn as she reflects on the act of writing and wonders if lov
A vibrant novel of memorable characters who search for happiness and true love, cope with the bitterness that results from love's betrayal, and embrace new beginnings.Set in Cairo in the aftermath of
A classic Mahfouz story exploring themes of marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious life.Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recen
Abdel-Gawad, who holds a diploma in Islamic architecture from Cairo University, presents high-quality b&w photos cataloguing decorative elements on the facades of residential buildings in 19 towns
Mahfouz (1911-2006) was the first Egyptian/Arab to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). For the centenary of the novelist's birth, the editor of Mahfouz's Life's Wisdom from the Works of
The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important c
Adrian Dodson (archeology, University of Bristol, UK) has written a comprehensive new book on a neglected subject: the five centuries of ancient Egyptian civilization from the end of the New Kingdom t
The ancient Egyptians were firmly convinced of the importance of magic, which was both a source of supernatural wisdom and a means of affecting one's own fate. The gods themselves used it for creating
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by American University in Cairo students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Then, she looked at me assiduously, "What is it that you do exactly?"I replied, savoring my last sip of coffee, with all the sass of a gypsy, "A novelist."How to write a novel? Where to find inspirati
After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fort
Riyadh is a city of masks, a city "like a pressure cooker that's about to explode," a city that sleeps on a pile of words that no one dares utter. Saudi society has split into two camps, one adopting
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. S
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz's work since 1978, pres
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayida Zeinab Mosque is almost u
"How could a good Muslim boy like you be born into a Jewish family!" For Galal, forced to leave Egypt in the 1960s Jewish exodus with his family, the Diaspora has none of the beauty of a rich tapestry
Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919–1952 presents new and often dismissed aspects of the constitutional monarchy era in Egyptian history. It demonstrates that many of the domestic and regional sociopolitical a
This compact, full-color guide is an ideal introduction to the cultural, religious, artistic, and architectural heritage of Egypt’s Coptic Christian community. Covering the ancient monasteries of Wadi
