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The American University in Cairo Press is the
largest English-language publisher in the Middle
East. Founded in 1960, the Press plays a vital
role in the cultural and academic dialog
between the Arab world and the West. From
Arabic fiction in translation through Egyptology
to scholarly and general works on all aspects of
modern Egypt and its neighbors, including the
recent Arab uprisings, the publications of the
AUC Press remain a canon of fresh and relevant
publishing from the region.
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New Books
Fall 2013
Letter from the Director
Many books have been written about Gamal Abdel Nasser, a giant of twentieth-century world politics, but none as intimate as Nasser: My Husband
(page 2), in which his wife Tahia tells the story—and shares the pictures—of
their marriage, their home, their children, and the man who challenged the
west and changed the face of Egypt. Now since 2011 Egypt and the Middle
East have been transformed again, and in the fully updated new edition of his
bestselling book Life as Politics (page 40), Asef Bayat looks at how popular
protest in the region, contrary to expectation, can be a real agent for change.
Our new translations of Arabic fiction this season include the winner of
last year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, House of the Wolf by Ezzat
El Kamhawi (page 28); an epic novel of exile from Palestine by renowned
Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, The Woman from Tantoura (page 24); and
Rain over Baghdad (page 23), a novel of love and disappearance in the dark
days of Saddam’s Iraq by Egyptian writer Hala El Badry.
In our expanding program of books for the Arabic classroom, Book Five
of Samia Louis’s popular MSA series Lughatuna al-Fusha (page 38) will
appear this fall, along with a new resource for MSA learners, Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading (page 39), by veteran instructors Nariman
Naili Al-Warraki and Nadia Harb.
The Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud (page 18), translated and edited
by Andrew Bednarski, finally brings to light the careful research and beautiful color plates of an early nineteenth-century visitor to the ancient tombs
of Upper Egypt, while modern scholars continue to study, analyze, and conserve some of these same tombs in The Tomb Chapel of Menna, edited by
Melinda Hartwig, and Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis, edited by
Elena Pischikova (pages 16 & 17).
Marjorie Ransom is one of the foremost collectors of the traditional silver
jewelry of Yemen, and she shares her in-depth knowledge of the craft, and
many stunning photographs of necklaces, bracelets, and rings from all
regions of the country in Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba (page 10),
both a beautiful gift book and a valuable reference for collectors.
For those who prefer to collect memories, A Cairo Anthology (page 6),
edited by Deborah Manley, brings together descriptions and thoughts on the
city by early travelers from Sir Richard Burton to William Makepeace Thackeray, from Florence Nightingale to Mark Twain, in a small, precious book
packed with good writing.
And if you enjoy good food as much as you enjoy good books, treat yourself to the mouth-wateringly illustrated and deliciously designed Authentic
Egyptian Cooking from the Table of Abou El Sid (page 14), by Nehal Leheta.
Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones
[email protected]
Illustrated Biography
Nasser
Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser
Foreword by Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser
My Husband
A new and intimate portrait of an iconic world figure
by the one who knew him best—his wife
Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt’s 1952 Revolution, president of the
country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the
Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his
private life largely private.
In 1973, three years after his early passing at the age of 52, his wife Tahia
wrote a memoir of her beloved husband for her family. The family then waited
almost forty years, through the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak,
both unsympathetic to the memory of Nasser, before publishing Tahia’s book in
Arabic for the first time in 2011. Now this unique insight into the life of one of
the giants of the twentieth century is finally available in English.
Accompanied by more than one hundred photographs from the family
archive, many never before published, this historic book tells the story of
Gamal and Tahia’s life together from their marriage in 1944, through the Revolution and Gamal’s career on the world stage, revealing an unknown and intimate picture of the man behind the president.
Also available:
TAHIA GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, born Tahia Kazem in
1923, married Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1944 and
lived with him until his death in 1970, raising
five children. She died in 1990.
HODA GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, daughter of Tahia
and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is professor of political science at Cairo University.
Original Arabic title: Dhikrayat ma‘ahu
214pp. Hbd. 110 illus., including 21 color. September.
978-977-416-611-2. LE150. World.
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‘‘
At the end of October, Gamal was scheduled to give
a speech in Alexandria at al-Manshiya Square. He left
the house in the early evening. It was his habit to put
a small Qur’an contained in a white metal box in his
pocket. He searched everywhere for it and so did I—
in a great hurry since he was running late—but we
could not find it. And so I gave Gamal another one
with a cardboard cover. When he was at the door, I
suddenly found his original Qur’an and raced to
catch up with him and give it to him. He took it and
placed it in his pocket, going out with two. The
assassination attempt—eight bullets fired at him—
happened while he was giving his speech at al-Manshiya, and he survived. Ever after that, Gamal
continued to go out of the house with two Holy
Books, until the day he died.”
‘‘
At 6:30am on the morning of July 23, 1952 there was
a knock on the door. Tharwat Okasha shook my
hand and congratulated me: ‘The military coup has
succeeded.’ I asked him about Gamal. ‘He is close
by, not more than five minutes away at the General
Command.’ At 9:30am an officer called: he had
come from the General Command at Kubri al-Qubba,
sent by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser to tell me that
he was fine and would not be home for lunch.”
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Social History
The Cotton Plantation Remembered
An Egyptian Family Story
Mona Abaza
With photographs by the author
The story of one family’s relation to the land
and cotton in a time of social change
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuuda family, Egyptian landed gentry
with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century.
This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has
researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes
well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey
how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by
the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds:
one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured.
The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile Delta countryside
and the landowners’ adoption of European lifestyles are juxtaposed
visually with the former laborers’ camp of the permanent workers,
which became a village (‘izba), and then an urbanized settlement. The
story is retold from the perspective of both the landowners and the former workers who were tied to the ‘izba. The book includes family
photo albums, photographs of political campaigns and of banquets in
the countryside, documents and accounting books, modern portraits of
the peasants, and pictures of daily life in the village today.
This is a story that fuses the personal and emotional with the scholar’s
detached ethnographic reporting—a truly fascinating, informative, and
colorful view of life on both sides of a uniquely Egyptian socio-economic institution, and a vanished world: the cotton estate.
MONA ABAZA is a professor in the Department of
Sociology at the American University in Cairo.
She is the author of The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2006) and
Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (AUC Press, 2011).
224pp. Hbd. 200 illus. October.
978-977-416-571-9. LE200. World.
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Contents
1. Therapeutic Photography
2. In the Beginning There Was Cotton
3. A’yans, ‘Umdas: Getting Down to Wealth
4. The Organization of Labor
5. Violence and Banditry
6. The Vanished ‘Izba: An ‘Ashwa’iya Is Born
Postscript: After January 25, 2011
Also by Mona Abaza:
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Travel Writing
A Cairo Anthology
Edited by Deborah Manley
Illustrations by Edward William Lane
Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing
A wonderful gift book that evokes the world’s great love of
travel to Cairo and the pyramids
Cairo has long been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and
many travelers have recorded their descriptions of it over the centuries—from
the early eye-witness account of Herodotus to the reflections of Sir Richard
Burton, Florence Nightingale, and Mark Twain.
A Cairo Anthology gathers together the impressions of many of these writers: with them we experience the excitement of exploring the great city,
through its crowded streets and colorful bazaars, we enter the hotels, hire
donkeys, ascend to the historic Citadel, and look out across the Nile toward
the Sphinx and the Pyramids, and we visit those vast monuments that are in
reality always larger and more extraordinary than one can believe, and climb
to their summits to gaze back at Cairo, the Mother of the World.
AMONG THE CONTRIBUTORS: Giovanni Belzoni,
Princess Marta Bibescu, E.A. Wallis Budge, Sir
Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Comte Auguste de
Forbin, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon, Michael Haag,
Herodotus, Alexander Kinglake, Edward William
Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole, Norma Lorimer, Pierre
Loti, Reverend Norman Macleod, Harriet Martineau,
Florence Nightingale, William Flinders Petrie,
Richard Pococke, Sophia Poole, William Makepeace
Thackeray, Mark Twain.
‘‘
Whilst M.I.B. is at the boat, I and Alfred go with E. and R.
to see the procession of pilgrims starting for Mecca. Out
of the great gate come camels with palanquins and
camels with riders, sheiks, priests and the like, dervishes
and pilgrims on foot, flags of all kinds, regiments of soldiers, horses, holy men in many coloured garbs. The fat
man who rides barebacked to Mecca is the sheik of the
camels. And last, the Golden Pagoda and white camel.
This contains the new and sacred carpet which every
year goes to replace the other one at Mecca.”
—Marianne Brocklehurst, 1873
DEBORAH MANLEY is the co-editor of Traveling
through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth
Century (AUC Press, 2004) and editor of
Women Travelers in Egypt (AUC Press, 2012).
160pp. Hbd. 12x16 cm. 27 illus. September.
978-977-416-612-9. LE100. World.
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From the terrace of the mosque [of
Muhammad Ali] is what I would
imagine the finest view in the whole
world. Cairo, which is immense,
lies at the feet, a forest of minarets
and domes and towers. The Nile
flows his solemn course beyond,
the waters being still out (it is now
high Nile), and the three Pyramids
stand sharp against the sky.”
—Florence Nightingale, 1849
‘‘
The Sphinx is grand in its loneliness; it
is imposing in its magnitude; it is
impressive in the mystery that hangs
over its story. And there is that in the
over-shadowing majesty of this eternal figure of stone, with its accusing
memory of the deeds of all ages,
which reveals to one something of
what he shall find when he shall stand
at last in the awful presence of God.”
—Mark Twain, 1868
See also Cairo Calendar
2014, page 43.
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Travel Writing
Women Travelers in Egypt
From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Edited by
Deborah Manley
Around Egypt through the centuries with intrepid
women travelers
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guidebooks acknowledged the presence of women as travelers — although women had been traveling around the
world for centuries. Women’s accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of
male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch
and describe; they were more dependent on the Egyptian staff; they spent time
both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile.
Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni, Sophia Poole, and Ellen Chennells, spoke
Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic
culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go.
From Eliza Fay’s description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary
Mahoney’s daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by over forty women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold,
Isabella Bird, Winifred Blackman, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence
Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.
‘‘
I quite agree with Miss Martineau that one of the greatest nuisances in
travelling is keeping a journal. One is far more disposed to lie down and
rest after a fatiguing ride of eight or nine hours on a camel, beneath a
burning sun; than—having made a hasty toilette—to take out one’s
writing materials. I persevered, however, and rejoice that I did so.”
—Lady Tobin, 1853
DEBORAH MANLEY is the co-editor of Traveling
through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth
Century (AUC Press, 2004) and editor of A
Cairo Anthology (AUC Press 2013).
256pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-570-2. LE100. World.
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History
The Medieval Nile
Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
John Cooper
An interdisciplinary study that draws together geography,
historical navigation data, and eyewitness accounts into a
comprehensive picture of one of the world’s great rivers
Contents
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval
Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler
accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies.
John Cooper first charts the changing geography of the Nile waterways, particularly in the Delta, from the eve of Islam to the early modern period, and logs the “rise
and fall” of these waterways for natural and/or anthropogenic reasons. He then presents a new perspective on the Nile, drawing on traveler accounts and environmental data to portray the river as a uniquely challenging and sometimes dangerous
navigational environment requiring extensive local knowledge by skilled and hardworking Nile navigators.
Finally, he looks at how the main Delta and Red Sea ports of medieval Egypt fitted
into the navigational landscape described, explaining how these ports were affected
by changes occurring to the navigational landscape, and how they reflected the navigational conditions of the Nile and surrounding seas.
Part 1: Geography
1. Imagining the Nile
2. The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta
3. The Western Delta in the Islamic Era
4. The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era
5. The Bahr Yusuf
Part 2: Navigation
6. The Nile Flood Cycle
7. Propulsion: Wind, Current, and Human Labor
8. Local Hazards: Mouths, Cataracts, and Mountains
9. Nile Journey Times
10. Onward Connections: The Mediterranean and Red Seas
Part 3: Ports and the Navigational Landscape
11. The Ports of Fustat and Cairo
12. Ports of the Western Delta
13. Ports of the Eastern Delta
14. Ports of the Red Sea
‘‘
In modern writings about ancient Egypt it is hard to escape
the paraphrase of Herodotus that Egypt was “the gift of the
Nile.” Yet such a characterization is reflective of both ancient
and modern orientalist perspectives of an inherently passive
Egypt: it would surely be preferable to understand past
Egyptian society not as a ‘gift’—for which, implicitly, no
exertion or payment is required—but rather as an on-going
dialectic between Egypt’s human inhabitants and the landscape in which they found themselves.”
JOHN P. COOPER is an Arabist and maritime
archaeologist specializing in the maritime
landscapes of the medieval Islamic world.
He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter.
392pp. Hbd. 89 illus. January.
978-977-416-614-3. LE400. World.
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Ethnic Jewelry
Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba
Regional Yemeni Jewelry
Marjorie Ransom
The first illustrated study of ethnic silver jewelry in Yemen,
by an expert researcher and collector
Also available:
224pp. Hbd. 24x21 cm. 320 color illus. December.
978-977-416-600-6. LE300. World.
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Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba documents a disappearing
artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs
showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the
author did her field research. Ransom’s descriptions of the people she
met and befriended, and her exploration of the significance of a
woman’s handmade jewelry with its attributes of power, protection,
beauty, and personal identity, will appeal to ethnic jewelry fans, ethnographers, jewelry designers, and art historians.
Amulet cases, hair ornaments, bridal headdresses, earrings, necklaces, ankle and wrist bracelets are all beautifully photographed in
intricate detail, interspersed with the author’s own photographs of the
women who shared their stories and their hospitality with her. A chapter on the history of silversmithing in Yemen tells the surprising story of
the famed Jewish Yemeni silversmiths, many of whom left Yemen in
the late 1940s. This is the first in-depth study of Yemeni silver, uniquely
illustrated with photographs of a world that is transforming before our
eyes, and animated with the portraits of a precious legacy.
MARJORIE RANSOM is a Middle East specialist
who has lived and worked throughout the
Arab world, where she began researching and
collecting traditional silver jewelry, particularly from Yemen. Her renowned collection of
Middle Eastern jewelry has been exhibited at
American museums.
Contents
Introduction
1. The Allure of Silver Jewelry
2. The Timeliness of This Study
3. Sources of Silver: The Maria Theresa Thaler
4. Regional Styles of Yemeni Jewelry and Costumes
The North
5. The Northern Mountains: Sanaa, Saada, Amran, Haraz,
Mahwit, Jabal Milhan, and Hajja
6. Marib and the Jawf
7. Al-Bayda
8. Mountains near the Red Sea: Bur‘a, Rayma, and Wasab
9. The Southern Mountains: Taiz, Hugariya, and Ibb
10. The Northern Tihama Coastal Plain: Adhra’,
Hawatim al-Tur, al-Dhahiyy, and Zaydiya
11. The Southern Tihama Coastal Plain: Bayt al-Faqih,
Mawza, and Zabid
The South
12. Hadramaut: Sayyun
13. Wadi Amid
14. Wadi Daw‘an
15. Wadi Idim
16. Southern Hadramaut: Shihr, the Southern Coast, and Socotra
17. Mahra
18. Shabwa: Habban and Ataq
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Economic Development
Human Capital in Egypt
The Road to Sustainable Development
Edited by
Magda Kandil
Economic analysts look at a key aspect
of Egypt’s modern economy
Although Egypt has made significant progress toward reviving economic growth,
unemployment remains persistently high and a substantial rise in job opportunities is still needed to absorb the increasingly expanding labor force, with the
challenge to absorb around 700,000 new entrants to the labor market annually.
Other labor-related problems include low female participation, excessive government employment, a high percentage of people in non-decent employment,
low productivity and wages, and high unemployment among youth and women.
In addition, there is a significant mismatch between available skills and labor
market requirements. Last but not least, weak social protection programs preclude the generation of enough decent work opportunities. This new collection
of studies addresses these issues and more, with analyses of the current situation
and future prospects, and recommendations for change going forward.
Contents
1. Employment Fluctuations and Sectoral Shifts in Egypt:
Testing the Public–Private Sectoral Shifts Hypothesis
Mohamed Hassan and Magda Kandil
2. Skill–Demand Polarization in Egypt
Omneia Helmy
3. Enhancing Egypt’s Competitiveness: Education,
Innovation, and Labor
Malak Reda
4. Decent-work Attainment and Labor Productivity:
A Sample Survey of Textile Firms in Egypt
Iman A. Al-Ayouty
5. Nominal Wage and Price Dynamics in Egypt:
An Empirical Analysis
Sara B. Al-Nashar
6. Public Wage Premium in Egypt: Mirage or Reality?
Tarek El-Ghamrawy and Ziad Amer
432pp. Pbk. 130 charts, 70 tables. October.
978-977-416-584-9. LE200. World.
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7. The Employment and Wage Effect of Minimum
Wage in the Egyptian Public Sector
Noha S. Omar and Heba Ibrahim
8. A Survey-based Exploration of Satisfaction and
Profitability in Egypt’s Informal Sector
Mohamed A. Abd El-Fattah
9. Vulnerable Employment in Egypt
Somaya A. Abdel Mowla
MAGDA KANDIL is the current Executive Director
and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center
for Economic Studies (ECES). She has held various
positions at the International Monetary Fund,
including Advisor to the Executive Director and
Senior Economist, and visiting scholar at the IMF
Institute & Research Department.
Islamic Legal History
Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian
Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo
Reem A. Meshal
The origins of citizenship and individual rights in the Sharia
courts of sixteenth-century Cairo
In this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the
Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society, and the earlymodern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related
to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century, a new
legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam
that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role.
Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that
local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority.
These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.
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While the Ottoman administration of justice consciously molded society to a
more homogenous system of rights and obligations, it was far more cognizant
of the distinction between ‘sins’ and ‘crimes’ than its successors. Nonetheless,
its conflation of religious and political authority foreshadows the current struggle
over the role of religion and state in post-Mubarak Egypt.”
REEM A. MESHAL is associate professor of
Islamic Studies at Louisiana State University.
She has published numerous articles on
Islamic social and intellectual history.
240pp. Hbd. 2 maps. November.
978-977-416-617-4. LE300. World.
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Cookery
Authentic Egyptian Cooking
From the Table of Abou El Sid
Nehal Leheta
Classic Egyptian favorites from one of Cairo’s
leading restaurants
Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at
home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the
sustaining repertoire for daily meals as well as sumptuous holiday feasts.
Abou El Sid, one of Cairo’s most famous restaurants, has become well
known for its authentic Egyptian dishes, and now presents more than
fifty of its most classic recipes in a cookbook for the enjoyment of home
cooks all over the world.
Egyptians will recognize their favorites, from holiday dishes such as
fettah to the arrays of appetizers like aubergine with garlic, special
lentils, and tahina; those new to Middle Eastern food will find the recipes
simple and simply delicious, and enjoy the Egyptian table even if they
don’t have the heritage of the pharaohs in their family backgrounds.
•
•
•
Favorite Egyptian recipes in this book include:
Lentil Soup
Taameya
Spicy Oriental Sausages
Molokheya
Circassian Chicken in Walnut Sauce
Koshari
Grilled Fish
Om Ali
Fiteer Meshaltit
. . . and many more
144pp. Hbd. 19x24 cm. 60 color illus. December.
978-977-416-621-1. LE200. World.
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57 authentic Egyptian recipes from starters to main courses to desserts.
Each recipe illustrated with gorgeous, full color photographs.
Beautifully designed and visually sumptuous boutique book.
NEHAL LEHETA is an interior designer in Cairo with a
strong interest in cuisine. She has designed a number of restaurant interiors in Egypt, and is a cofounder of Design Point, an interior and
architecture design and consulting firm.
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Egyptology
The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb
Edited by
Melinda Hartwig
The most detailed set of studies ever on all
aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated
Egyptian non-royal tombs
Contents
Introduction
1. The Tomb Chapel of Menna and Its Owner
2. Scenes and Texts
3. Archaeometry Research on the Wall Paintings
4. Conservation of the Tomb
5. Photographic and Digital Survey
6. Visual and Archaeometric Analysis of the Paintings
7. Historic, Religious, and Artistic Context
Bibliography
This lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document
and conserve the tomb of Menna, one of the most beautiful and complex
painted tombs of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Luxor. Through conservation, the tomb, which previously lay open to environmental influence, was
brought back to its former glory.
Aided by non-invasive methods of scientific analysis, the historical and
cultural importance of Menna’s paintings can now be viewed and studied
and enjoyed by a worldwide audience. High-definition photography and
drawings complement specialist essays by scholars, scientists, and technicians, who discuss the artistic and cultural significance of the paintings, their
architectural context, and scientific importance.
Directed by Dr. Hartwig and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) as part of its Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project,
the project was funded by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), sponsored by Georgia State University, and
carried out in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
CONTRIBUTORS: Cristina Beretta, Pieter Collet, Katy Doyle,
Renata García-Moreno, Melinda Hartwig, François-Philippe
Hocquet, Greg Howarth, Sasa Kosinova, Kerstin Leterme,
Bianca Madden, François Mathis, Mark Perry, David Strivay,
Doug Thorp, Peter Vandenabeele, Elsa Van Elslande.
240pp. Hbd. 25x30 cm. 134 color illus. November.
978-977-416-586-3. LE300. World.
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Also available:
MELINDA HARTWIG is an Egyptologist and associate
professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta. A specialist in ancient Egyptian painting and mortuary
culture, she has directed documentation projects in
Egypt for thirty years, the most recent being the
tomb of Menna (Theban Tomb 69).
Egyptology
Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis
Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391)
in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Edited by
Elena Pischikova
Reports on the excavations of noblemen’s tombs from a
little-known period of ancient Egyptian history
This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the American–Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of
the State Ministry for Antiquities and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and
directed by the editor. The Project is dedicated to the clearing, restoration, and
reconstruction of the tombs of Karabasken (TT 391) and Karakhamun (TT 223)
of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and the tomb of Irtieru (TT 390) of the Twenty-sixth
Dynasty, on the West Bank of Luxor.
Essays by the experts involved in the excavations and analysis cover the history of the Kushite ruling dynasties in Egypt and the hierarchy of Kushite society, the history of the South Asasif Necropolis and its discovery, the architecture
and textual and decorative programs of the tombs, and the finds of burial equipment, pottery, and animal bones.
CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Booth, Julia Budka,
Diethelm Eigner, Kenneth Griffin, Salima
Ikram, Jack Josephson, Robert Morkot,
Christopher Naunton, Elena Pischikova,
Miguel Molinero Polo, Kasia Szpakowska,
John Taylor.
Also available:
ELENA PISCHIKOVA is the director of the American–Egyptian South Asasif Conservation Project. She is currently a research scholar at the
American University in Cairo, and teaches at
Fairfield University in Connecticut.
288pp. Hbd. 17x24 cm. 80 illus. December.
978-977-416-618-1. LE250. World.
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Ancient Egypt and Nubia
The Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud
Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians
Translated and edited by
Andrew Bednarski
The first publication in any language of a long-lost illustrated
French manuscript on ancient Egyptian arts and pastimes
The travel accounts, drawings, and collections of Frédéric Cailliaud were an
important early contribution to the birth of the new scientific discipline of
Egyptology in the first half of the nineteenth century. But one of his major
works—on the arts and crafts of ancient Egypt—was never published. For the
first time here, his exquisite color plates are presented alongside a translation
of his original French text describing them. Explanatory material by Andrew
Bednarski and other scholars puts the work in context.
Arriving in Egypt in 1815, Cailliaud embarked upon a series of explorations
that included the rediscovery of the Roman emerald mines at Mount Zabora
and ancient routes to the Red Sea, and expeditions in the Eastern and Western
Deserts and the land we know today as Ethiopia. He made copious notes on
the flora and fauna, people and antiquities he saw, and took a collection of
over two thousand objects back to France. Cailliaud’s beautifully rendered
watercolors of scenes on ancient Egyptian tombs and temples (viewed before
Champollion’s deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs) show animated scenes of
ancient daily life, with which he draws parallels to the nineteenth-century
activities he observed around him.
This is a work that will appeal not only to Egyptologists (professional and
amateur), but also to historians, art historians, and readers interested in design.
The original French text, never before published, is included in electronic form.
Also available:
ANDREW BEDNARSKI is assistant to the director
of special projects at the American Research
Center in Egypt (ARCE). He has extensive
excavation experience and has published
broadly on ancient Egypt.
288pp. Hbd. 20x28 cm. 90 illus. January.
978-977-416-616-7. LE250. World.
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‘‘
Cailliaud was one of the first Europeans to visit, and bring back accurate drawings
of, most of the famous archaeological sites in Egypt and Sudan. The recent rediscovery of Cailliaud’s unpublished manuscript allows us, for the first time, to highlight
an integral part of his work, undertaken between 1830 and 1869. This unfinished
magnum opus, meant to synthesize Cailliaud’s work on Nile civilizations, confirms
his première position among the pioneers of Egyptology.”
—from Chapter 1 by Philippe Mainterot
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Egyptology and Ancient Religion
Temple of the World
Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
Translated by
Miroslav Verner
Anna Bryson-Gustová
A thorough study of the Egyptian temple and its complex
character from a prominent Egyptologist
Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books
about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication from a
prominent Czech scholar answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine the spiritual, economic, and political aspects of
these institutions and the dominant roles they played.
Miroslav Verner presents a deeper and more complex study of major ancient
Egyptian religious centers, their principal temples, their rise and decline, their
religious doctrines, cults, rituals, feasts, and mysteries. Also discussed are the
various categories of priests, the organization of the priesthood, and its daily
services and customs. Each chapter offers the reader essential and up-to-date
information about temple complexes and the history of their archaeological
exploration, in the context of the spiritual dimension and cultural legacy of
ancient Egypt.
Also by
Miroslav Verner:
MIROSLAV VERNER is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and epigrapher, who has been working in
archaeological excavation and research in Egypt
since 1964. He has published thirteen academic monographs, mainly in foreign languages, and over a hundred and twenty
academic articles. He is currently directing the
Czech archaeological excavations in Abusir.
624pp. Hbd. 120 color illus. Published.
978-977-416-563-4. LE250. World.
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ANNA BRYSON-GUSTOVÁ, who has a BA and DPhil in history from
Oxford University, has lived in the Czech Republic for twenty
years. She is a writer, editor, and translator in the field of history
and culture.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Temple of the World
First Excursus: Ordinary Days and Feast Days
2. Heliopolis: The City of the Sun
3. The White Wall
4. Hermopolis: The City of the Eight
5. The Kingdom of Amun
Second Excursus: The Great Festivals of the
King of the Gods
6. Amarna: City of the Heretic
7. Tanis: The Thebes of the North
8. Abydos: The Sacred Land
Third Excursus: Osirian
9. Philae: The Pearl of Egypt
10. Edfu: The Throne of Horus
11. Dendera and the Golden Goddess
Fourth Excursus: The Lady of the Turquoise
12. Alexander’s City by Egypt
Final Excursus: A Brief Outline of the Overall
Architectural History of the Ancient Egyptian Temple
Glossary
Bibliography
Chronological Table
Index
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Middle Eastern History
Tell This in My Memory
Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Eve M. Troutt Powell
An important window on slavery in the
Middle East in recent centuries
In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the
Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region
crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and
women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers
from Sudan or Ethiopia.
Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in
the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The
framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the
slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary
refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas
faced by slaves in the nineteenth century.
‘‘
This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about
the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the
stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture
to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales,
Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece.”
—Beth Baron, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
264pp. Pbk. 10 illus., 3 maps. November.
978-977-416-622-8. LE150. Middle East.
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EVE M. TROUTT POWELL is associate professor of
history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is
a contributor to Race and Slavery in the Middle
East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in
Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the
Ottoman Mediterranean (ed. Terence Walz and
Kenneth M. Cuno, AUC Press, 2010).
Modern Arabic Literature
Rain over Baghdad
A Novel of Iraq
Translated by
Hala El Badry
Farouk Abdel Wahab
A new novel from the award-winning Egyptian author
of A Certain Woman and Muntaha
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century? The mid-seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein’s rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and
the Iraq–Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war
and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many
Egyptians.
We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazine’s bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behind-the-scenes view of what was
really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she
has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian
Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew
it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted
annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was . . .
‘‘
Her boss, Abu Lu’ay, said to me: ‘Anhar hasn’t gone
on leave, hasn’t called in sick, and we don’t know
why she hasn’t come to work yesterday or today.’
“I called her number at home in the evening. Her
mother’s tearful voice said, ‘Please, Nora. I implore
you: if you find out anything new about her, let me
know. I’m going crazy.’
“I don’t know why we’re so worried about what
could have happened to her. It’s only been two
days since she went missing. Why are we all so
pessimistic?”
Original Arabic title: Matar ‘ala Baghdad
512pp. Pbk. December.
978-977-416-588-7. LE100. World.
HALA EL BADRY is deputy editor-in-chief of
Egypt’s radio and television magazine. She is
the author of four novels, including A Certain
Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha
(AUC Press, 2006).
FAROUK ABDEL WAHAB was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of
Chicago. He was the translator of many works
of Arabic fiction, including Gamal al-Ghitani’s The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press,
2012). He died in 2013, shortly after completing this translation.
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Modern Arabic Literature
The Woman from Tantoura
A Novel of Palestine
Radwa Ashour
Translated by Kay Heikkinen
From a young girl’s point of view, through to the mature
observations of an adult woman, the lifetime of Palestine, with
all its peaks and valleys of human experience
Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and
disjointed associations—massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements,
terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kuffiyehs and suicide bombers, a
seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction. This novel does not shy away
from such painful images, but it is first and foremost a powerful human story, following the life of a young girl from her days in the village of al-Tantoura in Palestine up to the dawn of the new century. We participate in events as they unfold,
seeing them through the uneducated but sharply intelligent mind of Ruqayya, as
she tries to make sense of all that has happened to her and her family. With her,
we live her love of her land and of her people; we feel the repeated pain of loss,
of diaspora, and of cross-generational misunderstanding; and above all, we come
to know her indomitable human spirit. As we read we discover that we have
become part of Ruqayya’s family, and her voice will remain with us long after we
have closed the book.
RADWA ASHOUR, a highly acclaimed Egyptian
writer and scholar, is the author of more than
fifteen books of fiction, memoir, and criticism,
including Granada (AUC Press, 2008) and
Specters (AUC Press, 2010). She is a recipient
of the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature
and the prestigious Owais Prize for Fiction.
KAY HEIKKINEN has taught medieval history and
literature as well as Islamic civilization, and
currently teaches Arabic at the University of
Chicago. She is the translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s In the Time of Love (AUC Press, 2010).
Original Arabic title: al-Tanturiya
356pp. Pbk. January.
978-977-416-615-0. LE120. World.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Cairo Modern
An Egyptian Novel
Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by William M. Hutchins
A new paperback edition of the major early novel
by the Egyptian Nobel laureate
The novelist’s camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo
University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students
in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s.
Finally the camera comes to rest on Mahgub Abd al-Da’im. A scamp, he fancies himself a nihilist, a hedonist, an egotist, but his personal vulnerability is
soon revealed by a family crisis back home in al-Qanatir, a dusty, provincial
town on the Nile that is also a popular destination for Cairene day-trippers.
Mahgub, like many characters in works by Naguib Mahfouz, has a hard time
finding the correct setting on his ambition gauge. His emotional life also fluctuates between the extremes of a street girl, who makes her living gathering cigarette butts, and his wealthy cousin Tahiya. Since he thinks that virtue is merely
a social construct, how far will our would-be nihilist go in trying to fulfill his
unbridled ambitions? What if he discovers that high society is more corrupt and
cynical than he is? With a wink back at Goethe’s Faust and Henry Fielding’s
Joseph Andrews, Mahgub becomes a willing collaborator in his own corruption.
Published in Arabic in the 1940s, this cautionary morality tale about selfdefeating egoism and ill-digested foreign philosophies comes from the same
period as one of the writer’s best-known works, Midaq Alley. Both novels are
comic and heartfelt indictments not so much of Egyptian society between the
world wars as of human nature and our paltry attempts to establish just societies.
‘‘
A fascinating example of human pain,
degradation, and the tyranny of social
relations.” —The Huffington Post
Original Arabic title: al-Qahira al-jadida
248pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-624-2. LE100. Middle East.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in
the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He
wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus
hundreds of short stories and numerous
screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1988.
WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS, professor in the philosophy and religion Department at Appalachian
State University, is the principal translator of
Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, and the translator of numerous other works of Arabic fiction.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock
Dreams of Departure
A new paperback edition of the last collection of
dreams from Egypt’s Nobel laureate
In this second collection of writing based on his own dreams, serialized in a
Cairo magazine before his death in 2006, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib
Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily
terse form. As in the first volume (The Dreams, AUC Press, 2004), we meet
more of the real (and unreal) figures that filled the author’s life with glory and
worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly
rest. In them, a man sent by a victorious invader to open a storehouse holding
the statue of Egypt’s reawakening finds his access denied by a menacing reptile. An obscure writer dies, and a despairing inscription on his coffin turns his
funeral into a massive demonstration. A man opens a stubborn gate to stare at
a lake over which loom the illuminated faces of those he has loved, but who
are no more—in search of the soul who made him long to live forever. The ever
more condensed and poetic episodes in Dreams of Departure movingly carry
on Mahfouz’s only major work after a knife attack in 1994 ironically inspired
him to dream in print for his readers.
‘‘
An antique shop shining with brightness and cheer.
A miraculously pretty girl sat inside, serving the
patrons. Walking around it for a while, I chanced
upon a restaurant. I ate a sandwich and smoked a
cigarette, before going back for another glimpse of
the adolescent beauty. But instead of her, I found in
her place a creaking old crone—my breast quivered
as my eyes searched in vain for the gorgeous one
for whom I’d come. I kept staring in confusion at
the mirror over her head. There I beheld an old man
leaning on a heavy cane, whose legs, and heart,
and memory, had faltered.”
Original Arabic title: Ahlam fatrat al-naqaha
140pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-623-5. LE75. Middle East.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in
the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He
wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1988.
RAYMOND STOCK, with a PhD in Near Eastern
languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of
Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of
numerous works by Mahfouz, most recently
The Coffeehouse (AUC Press, 2010).
Modern Arabic Literature
Three Ancient Egyptian Novels
Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
Naguib Mahfouz
The Nobel laureate’s early ‘pharaonic novels’ together in a
handy single volume for the first time
This paperback compendium edition combines Naguib Mahfouz’s first three
novels, all set in ancient Egypt, which skillfully explore recurring themes within
human relationships: the balance between destiny and individual agency, the
sanctity of the bonds to the land and religion, and the constant power struggles that affect human lives at multiple levels.
In Khufu’s Wisdom, translated by Raymond Stock, Pharaoh Khufu is battling
the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt’s throne, the proud but tender
heart of Khufu’s beautiful daughter Princess Meresankh, and Khufu’s legacy as
a sage, not savage, ruler.
Rhadopis of Nubia, translated by Anthony Calderbank, follows the powerful love that grows between Rhadopis, a courtesan whose ravishing beauty is
unmatched in time or place, and youthful, headstrong Pharaoh Merenra, worshiped by his people as a divine presence on earth, against the background of
the high politics of Sixth Dynasty Egypt.
Finally, in Thebes at War, translated by Humphrey Davies and written in
1937–1938 when Britain and Turkey held sway over Egypt, Mahfouz dramatically depicts the Egyptian people’s undying loyalty to their land and religion
and their refusal to bow to outside domination. After two hundred years of occupation, the Hyksos leader in his capital in northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the
south that the roaring of the sacred hippopotami at Thebes is keeping him awake
at night and demands that they be killed, galvanizing Egypt into hurling its
armies into a struggle to drive the barbarians from its sacred soil forever.
Original Arabic titles: ‘Abath al-aqdar, Radubis, Kifah Tiba
568pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-629-7. LE150. Middle East.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in
the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He
wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1988.
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Modern Arabic Literature
House of the Wolf
An Egyptian Novel
Ezzat El Kamhawi
Nancy Roberts
Translated by
A sweeping saga of generations of a rural Egyptian family
and the history of the wider Egypt that affects their lives,
winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
This novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered
by Muhammad Ali’s mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US
invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the
life dramas of its protagonists. The story opens with the pivotal character,
Mubarka al-Fuli, now a grandmother and matriarch, wanting to dictate a letter to God for her grandson to send to the Almighty by email. We are then
ushered back in time to Mubarka’s fiery adolescence and her painfully aborted
romance with Muntasir, son of the village’s deceased but legendary strongman. The shifting fortunes of the al-Deeb clan affect every aspect of its members’ lives, from their sexual vulnerabilities to the grief of loss, the uncertainties
of a changing world, and the heartaches born of betrayal, and love unfulfilled.
‘‘
In this beautifully crafted novel, there are luminous moments where history literally
arrives at a village swept by more than a century of colonial rule, revolutions, and
wars. In its evocation of imagined history and fictive events, the novel . . . invites
us to reflect on the boundaries that separate the village from modernity, fiction
from history, and art from life.”
—Tahia Abdel Nasser, Mahfouz Medal Award Committee
Original Arabic title: Bayt al-dib
288pp. Pbk. November.
978-977-416-620-4. LE100. World.
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Mubarka al-Fouli, who lived to see her grandchildren talking to friends
from parts of the globe they’d never seen, started asking them to send
messages to God.
“A little note just to remind Him of me,” she said to the young boy
seated in front of the computer, who, with serious mien, prepared a new
page and asked her to dictate the note. She began composing a flowery
preamble, and the writer of the complaint followed along with her until he
burst out laughing over her difficulty in choosing the words. He stopped
typing and asked her mischievously why she was in such a hurry to die.
“For starters, it’s not nice. It’s really not nice at all,” she replied.
She was afraid of seeming disrespectful by having lived to such a ripe
old age, and she spoke with the anguish of someone trying to relieve
herself of the discomfort of being found in an unseemly situation
through no choice of her own. Feeling as though she’d overstepped her
bounds, she softened her tone:
“It’s just a gentle reprimand. I mean, He has an excuse. He’ll think,
who is this, after all?”
They laughed, since they knew she would be willing to withdraw her
complaint the minute they reminded her of Muntasir, whose scent came
wafting powerfully across her nostrils, numbing her and causing her to
think twice about the whole idea of complaining or reproaching death.
‘‘
Despite its breadth of vision, the novel manages to balance both sides of the
equation—the quirky and sometimes explosive developments in personal relationships within the family and the sudden and often devastating interventions of
life outside the village—to create an intricate dynamic that captures much of the
essence of the country’s recent experience.”
—Humphrey Davies, Mahfouz Medal Award Committee
EZZAT EL KAMHAWI, an Egyptian novelist and
journalist, was born in 1961 and studied journalism at Cairo University. He is the editor-inchief of al-Doha Cultural Magazine. He is the
author of ten books, including four novels and
two collections of short stories.
NANCY ROBERTS is the translator of Salwa Bakr’s
The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007),
for which she received a commendation in the
Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Translation.
Her most recent translations are Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses (AUC Press,
2012), and Abdulaziz Al Farsi’s Earth Weeps,
Saturn Laughs (AUC Press, 2013).
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Modern Arabic Literature
Black Magic
Hamdy el-Gazzar
Translated by Humphrey Davies
An Egyptian Novel
A new paperback edition of the award-winning first
novel by a young Egyptian writer
As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father’s gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack
working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older
than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking
what she wants from life. An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession.
In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen
through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir’s life is in limbo. A yearning
for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is
at once enraptured and non-committal. The resolution of this volatile mix lies
in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire.
Black Magic was awarded the prestigious Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.
‘‘
Through the power of his imaginative black magic,
[Hamdy el-Gazzar] resurrects slumbering art forms
with a skill rarely seen in a young writer.”
—Salah Fadl, Al-Ahram
Original Arabic title: Sihr aswad
192pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-626-6. LE80. World.
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HAMDY EL-GAZZAR was born in 1970 in Giza
and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. He is the author of Private Pleasures
(AUC Press, 2013).
HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of Midaq
Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011)
and other works of Arabic literature. He has
twice received the Saif Ghobash–Banipal
Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Modern Arabic Literature
Private Pleasures
Hamdy el-Gazzar
Translated by Humphrey Davies
A Modern Egyptian Novel
A dark new novel from the author of Black Magic
Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirtysomething newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his
native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits
opposite Cairo on the Nile’s west bank.
Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly
attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with
whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and
wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, serene
Quran-readers, pious family members, religious con-men, autistic tissue-sellers, and others. Milleresque in its treatment of sex, the novel captures the
essence of the phantasmagoric world of the Egyptian mega-city, disintegrating
under the pressures of its home-grown horrors while pining for the sublime.
‘‘
It was Nashwa who put the rope around my neck,
at our first encounter. She alone could bind and
loose, she alone controlled the thick rope, which
she could jerk on, pulling me to her whenever she
chose. She might pull violently, dragging me in
whenever she felt like it, whenever she wanted
me, or let it out a little, according to her mood,
depending on how bored or fed up with me she
was, or how indifferent she felt toward me.”
Original Arabic title: Ladhdhat sirriya
224pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-601-3. LE90. World.
HAMDY EL-GAZZAR was born in 1970 in Giza
and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. He is the author of Private Pleasures
(AUC Press, 2013).
HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of Midaq
Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011)
and other works of Arabic literature. He has
twice received the Saif Ghobash–Banipal
Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Poor
A Nubian Novel
Translated by
Idris Ali
Elliott Colla
A new paperback edition of the powerful story by
one of Egypt’s leading Nubian writers
“This is your last day. Be strong. Don’t hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return.”
Idris Ali’s confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably
hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just
decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious and thirsty, he wanders around
venting his resentments large and small, his sexual frustrations, and his sense of
powerlessness in the face of unremitting injustice. He seeks to expunge his failed
life in the Nile: the river that had been the life blood of his country for millennia,
and that—with Egypt’s new dam—now drowns Nubia, flinging her dispossessed
sons north and south into exile. Many years ago, the narrator was one of those
sons, fleeing flood and famine only to arrive in Cairo, penniless and shoeless, in
time to see it go up in flames, the old regime overthrown by “the men in tanks.”
Poor is the story of a life of hardship, adversity, and emotional starvation. It is
also the story of opportunities squandered and hopes traded away for nothing—
of a life lived, at times, all too poorly.
‘‘
A hidden view of the writer’s life . . . a world that
consumes the soul and passion, the changing
nature of social classes, and marginal existence
at the bottom of society.”
—Salah Fadl, Egyptian critic
Original Arabic title: Taht khatt al-faqr
220pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-627-3. LE90. World.
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IDRIS ALI (1940–2010), one of Egypt’s leading
Nubian writers, was the author of three short
story collections and six novels, including
Dongola (AUC Press, 2006). Self-taught in literature, he attended the Religious Institute of
al-Azhar.
ELLIOTT COLLA is associate professor of Arabic
and Islamic studies at Georgetown University.
He has translated a number of Arabic novels,
including Ibrahim Aslan’s The Heron and
Ibrahim al-Koni’s Gold Dust (AUC Press,
2007, 2008).
Modern Arabic Literature
The Collar and the Bracelet
An Egyptian Novel
Yahya Taher Abdullah
Samah Selim
Translated by
A new paperback edition of the dark novella
of village life in southern Egypt
Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the
British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The
Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family—a family ripped
apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid
social conventions of village life. In a series of masterful narrative circles and repetitions, the novella traces the grim intrigues of Hazina al-Bishari and the inexorable destinies of her son, the exile and notorious bandit Mustafa, her daughter
Fahima, tortured by guilt and secret passion, and the tragic doom of her beautiful granddaughter Nabawiya. Yahya Taher Abdullah’s haunting prose distills the
rhythmic lyricism of the folk story and weaves it into a uniquely modernist narrative tapestry of love and revenge that beautifully captures the timeless pharaonic
landscapes of Upper Egypt and the blind struggles of its inhabitants against
poverty, exploitation, and time—themes that are echoed and amplified in the
short stories included in this volume, which span the breadth of Abdullah’s tragically short career as one of Egypt’s most brilliant writers of modern fiction.
‘‘
Samah Selim has been able to catch the Upper
Egyptian and folkloric rhythms – and their utterly
unromantic yoking to the everyday grimness
and intimacy of modern realities – that Abdullah
pioneered in his fiction.”
–Marilyn Booth, 2009 Saif Ghobash
–Banipal Prize Judge
Original Arabic title: al-Tawq wa-l-iswira
156pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-628-0. LE75. World.
YAHYA TAHER ABDULLAH (1938–1981) born in
the Upper Egyptian village of Karnak, was a
prominent figure in the circle of writers
known as the Generation of the Sixties. He
was the author of four novellas and five collections of short stories. A collection of his
stories, The Mountain of Green Tea, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, was published by the AUC Press in 1999.
SAMAH SELIM is the translator of Brooklyn
Heights by Miral al-Tahawy (AUC Press,
2011). She won the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her
translation of The Collar and the Bracelet. She
currently teaches at Rutgers University.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Rama and the Dragon
An Egyptian Novel
Edwar al-Kharrat
Translated by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden
A new paperback edition of the winner of the
1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle
between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion
between Rama—the symbol of multiplicity and creativity—and Mikhail—the symbol of unity and constancy. Their story reflects the relationship not only between
man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower Egypt.
Through a delicate grid of intertextual references and juxtaposed narratives, the
dreams and hopes, fears and defeats of Rama and Mikhail move from the local to
the global, corresponding to human dreams and anxieties everywhere.
In this novel, Edwar al-Kharrat has created a unique form of narrative discourse
in which he presents Egyptian realities and actualities of the 1960s and 1970s,
with flashbacks to as early as the 1940s, in an aesthetic form that highlights historical moments while blending philosophical, mythical, and psychological perspectives in a literary parallel to the cinematic technique of montage.
In their citation awarding al-Kharrat the Mahfouz Medal, the judges stated:
“Rama and the Dragon is considered a breakthrough in the literary history of
modern Arabic fiction.”
EDWAR AL-KHARRAT was born, raised, and educated in Alexandria. His first book of short stories, High Walls, was published in 1959. Since
then he has written novels, criticism, and
poetry. He is the winner of numerous international awards, including the Cavafis Prize.
Original Arabic title: Rama w-l-tineen
340pp. Pbk. September.
978-977-416-625-9. LE100. World.
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FERIAL GHAZOUL is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and
translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University
in Cairo and has written extensively on gender
issues in modern and medieval literature.
JOHN VERLENDEN is a writing instructor in the
Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the
American University in Cairo, and an anthologized writer of short stories. He and Dr. Ghazoul won the King Fahd translation prize from
University of Arkansas in 1997 for Egyptian
poet Muhammad Afifi Matar’s Quartet of Joy.
Comparative Religion
From Akhenaten to Moses
Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
Jan Assmann
A critical examination of the origins and
development of monotheism
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses—a figure of history and a figure of tradition—symbolize this
shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that
were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus,
where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order
to enter the new one.
The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism
in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to
the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers’ theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the
eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.
Contents
1. Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion
2. Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma
3. From Poly- to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution
4. Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History
5. Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age
6. Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment
7. Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence
JAN ASSMANN is a German Egyptologist widely
known for his work on the origins of
monotheism. Formerly professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, he is now
honorary professor of cultural studies at the
University of Constance.
192pp. Hbd. January.
978-977-416-631-0. LE150. World.
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Religious History / Reference
Coptic Civilization
Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt
Edited by
Gawdat Gabra
A comprehensive cultural history of the Copts
and their rich contributions of literature, art,
and architecture, material arts and music
Egypt’s Copts make up one of the oldest and largest Christian communities in the Middle East. Yet despite the availability of a large number of books on aspects of Coptic
culture, including art and architecture, monasticism, theology, and music, there is to date no single volume that provides a comprehensive cultural history of the Copts and their
achievements. Coptic Civilization aims to fill this gap, by
introducing the general reader, the interested non-specialist,
to Coptic culture in all its variety and multi-faceted richness.
With contributions by twenty scholars, Coptic Civilization
includes chapters on monasticism, the Coptic language,
Coptic literature, Christian Arabic literature, the objects and
documents of daily life, magic, art and architecture, and textiles, as well as the history of the Coptic Church, its liturgy,
theology, and music.
CONTRIBUTORS: Dominique Bénazeth, Lois Farag, Cäcilia
Fluck, Peter Grossmann, Gisele Helmecke, Magdalena Kuhn,
Marvin Meyer, Samuel Moawad, Elisabeth R. O’Connell,
Monica René, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Saad Michael Saad,
Mark Sheridan, Mark N. Swanson, Hany N. Takla, Jacques
van der Vliet, Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Gertrud J.M. van
Loon, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Ewa D. Zakrzewska
272pp. Hbd. 23.5x28.5 cm. 184 illus. December.
978-977-416-547-4. LE250. World.
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GAWDAT GABRA is the former director of the Coptic
Museum and the author, coauthor, or editor of
numerous books on the history and culture of
Egyptian Christianity, including The Treasures of
Coptic Art (AUC Press, 2006) and The History and
Religious Heritage of Old Cairo (AUC Press, 2012).
He is currently visiting professor of Coptic studies at
Claremont Graduate University, California.
Contents
History
Historiography
Coptic Church History
Monasticism
Theology, Liturgy, and Music
Alexandrian Theology from Athanasius the Great to
Timothy II: A Historical Survey of Coptic Orthodox Theology
Liturgy in the Coptic Church
Coptic Music Culture: Tradition—Structure and Variation
Language and Literature
The Coptic Language
Gnosticism and Manichaeism in Egypt
The Coptic Bible
Coptic Literature
Daily Life: Documentary Evidence
Warding Off Evil, Attracting Charm: Magic in Late-antique
and Early-medieval Egypt
Copto-Arabic Literature
Art, Archaeology, and Material Culture
The Discovery of Christian Egypt: From Manuscript Hunters
toward an Archaeology of Late-antique Egypt
Christian Architecture in Egypt
Decoration of Coptic Churches
Objects of Daily Life
Egypt’s Post-pharaonic Textiles
Renaissance of the Coptic Church
The Coptic Church Today
Contemporary Coptic Art
Coptic Civilization in the Diaspora
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Arabic Language Learning
Lughatuna al-Fusha
Samia Louis
A New Course in Modern Standard Arabic: Book Five
An innovative, interactive, and highly structured course
including DVD and interactive online exercises for teaching
Arabic to advanced MSA students
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books,
media, and formal communication throughout the Arab world, the region’s
principal shared language of written and official discourse. The fifth book
in this new series for the classroom is designed for the Advanced levels,
the low-mid stages of the ACTFL proficiency level, and C1 in the Common
European Framework for Arabic learners. The aim of this book is to help
students to read and write long and complex factual and literary texts in
order to appreciate different writing styles.
The students’ facility with sentence structure and vocabulary is increased
by reading newspapers and listening to news broadcasts, and by writing
about real-life interests such as social, economic, political, and gender issues,
technological advancements, and education. The chapters guide students
through the gradual acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. Exercises at the
end of each chapter cover all essential skills and translation, with emphasis
on reading and writing. The accompanying DVD includes audio material for
all listening activities, dialogs, and reading exercises. The book is further supported by online interactive reading, writing, and grammar drills.
Forthcoming: Books Six and Seven
Also available:
SAMIA LOUIS has taught Arabic for many years
with the International Language Institute (ILI) in
Cairo (www.arabicegypt.edu), an affiliate of
International House, and is the author of all the
books in the Kallimni ‘Arabi series (AUC Press,
2007–2009).
240pp. Pbk+DVD. January.
978-977-416-619-8. LE180. World.
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Arabic Language Learning
Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading
For Advanced Students of MSA
Nariman Naili Al-Warraki
and Nadia Harb
A new resource for students of Modern Standard Arabic,
whether in the classroom or for self-study
Advanced and High Intermediate Arabic learners can benefit greatly from reading texts that cover a broad range of different themes, to build their vocabulary
and attain a higher proficiency level. The authors of this textbook have carefully selected a lively variety of texts that cover controversial issues and current
events, which are likely to arouse students’ attention and interest. In the course
of reading to learn, students will not only practice strategies (skimming, scanning, careful reading, and guessing for vocabulary recognition), but they will
also engage more deeply in the material as informative of Arab and Egyptian
society, politics, and culture.
The texts appear in order from least to greatest linguistic complexity, which
makes it easy for instructors to choose the most level-appropriate material to
present to their classes.
The book includes exercises after every five lessons, and all the drills are
gathered in an appendix following the text, as well as a glossary for all vocabulary items.
Also available:
NARIMAN NAILI AL-WARRAKI is senior Arabic
language instructor and former director of the
Arabic Language Unit of the Arabic Language
Institute at the American University in Cairo.
NADIA HARB has been an instructor at the
American University in Cairo Center for Arabic Study Abroad for twenty-five years, and is
the recipient of the CASA Excellence in Teaching Award.
320pp. Pbk. December.
978-977-416-613-6. LE200. World.
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Middle Eastern Politics
Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East—Second Edition
Asef Bayat
A fully updated Middle Eastern perspective
on the dynamics of social change
Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as
unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life
as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change
through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring
swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the
ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action.
The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran’s
Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book
remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests,
millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the
discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims
heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates
over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.
Praise for the first edition
‘‘
Asef Bayat has penned a remarkable study.
Life as Politics should be a mandatory read
for any journalist, scholar or politician who
has never been to the Middle East.”
—Arab News
392pp. Pbk. October.
978-977-416-630-3. LE180. Middle East.
40
‘‘
When Life as Politics was published..., Asef Bayat’s
arguments on grassroots dynamism as the harbinger of
democratic transformations in the Arab world seemed a
utopian hope. Barely a year later, as events of the 2011
Arab Spring continue to unfold, his critical insights on
everyday forms and spaces of political activity in the
region have become prescient.”
—Contemporary Sociology
ASEF BAYAT is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian
Professor of Global and Transnational Studies
and Professor of Sociology at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author
of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements
and the Post-Islamist Turn.
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E-books
The Oslo Accords 1993–2013
A Critical Assessment
Edited by Petter Bauck
and Mohammed Omer
Forewords by Desmond Tutu
and Össur Skarphéðinsson
An assessment of the landmark Oslo Accords
of 1993 after two decades
Twenty years have passed since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization
concluded the Oslo Accords, or Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for Palestine. It was declared “a political breakthrough of
immense importance.” Israel officially accepted the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and the PLO recognized the right of Israel to
exist. Critical views were voiced at the time about how the self-government established under the leadership of Yasser Arafat created a Palestinian-administered
Israeli occupation, rather than paving the way towards an independent Palestinian state with substantial economic funding from the international community.
Through a number of essays written by renowned scholars and practitioners,
the two decades since the Oslo Accords are scrutinized from a wide range of
perspectives. Did the agreement have a reasonable chance of success? What
went wrong, causing the treaty to derail and delay a real, workable solution?
What are the recommendations today to show a way forward for the Israelis
and the Palestinians?
Contents include:
The Oslo Accords: Their Context, Their Consequences, Noam
Chomsky • Revisiting 1967: The False Paradigm of Peace, Partition, and Parity, Ilan Pappé • “We Have Opened Doors, Others
Have Been Closed”: Women under the Oslo Accords, Lotta
Schullerqvist • Oslo +20: A Legal Historical Perspective, Richard
Falk • Out of the Ashes of Oslo: The Rise of Islamism and the
Fall of Favoritism, Ahmed Yousef • Palestinian Prisoners from
Oslo to Annapolis, Sufian Abu Zaida • Some Gaza Impressions,
Twenty Years after Oslo, Mohammed Omer • The Shattered
Dream, Gideon Levy • Palestinian Identity in the Aftermath of
Oslo, Ahmed Abu Retaima • Israeli Impunity, Mads Gilbert
PETTER BAUCK is the senior adviser on conflictrelated issues in the Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation. He has published
several books and articles on Eritrea and
Afghanistan. He served as deputy head of
the Norwegian Representative Office to the
Palestinian Authority from 2000 to 2003.
MOHAMMED OMER is a Palestinian journalist,
reporting for numerous newspapers and journals in the USA, Scandinavia, and Germany.
He is a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize
for Journalism.
September.
978-161-797-336-9 $90. World.
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Calendars
High above Egypt Calendar 2014
Photographs by
Marcello Bertinetti
A bird’s-eye view of Egypt, month by month
This medium-format wall calendar boasts twelve stunning aerial photographs of Egypt’s spectacular ancient monuments and
varied landscapes, from city to sea, from mountain to river, from
desert to oasis. Practically designed with plenty of space to write
in special events and daily appointments throughout the year.
Also available:
12pp. 28x22 cm. September.
978-121-314-231-2. LE75.
42
Calendars
Cairo Calendar 2014
Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing
Illustrations by
Edward William Lane
Travel back to the nineteenth century
every month in 2014
This unique wall calendar celebrates the classic age of Egyptian
travel, with carefully chosen extracts from the writings of early
visitors to the country, from Richard Pococke in 1737 to Murray’s
Handbook Egypt of 1897, and including such familiar names as
Florence Nightingale and Mark Twain. Accompanying each
extract is a beautiful line drawing by the great observer of early
nineteenth-century Egypt, Edward William Lane.
12pp. 28x22 cm. September.
978-121-314-232-9. LE75.
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Guidebooks
Introduced by Zahi Hawass
Edited by Alessandro Bongioanni
and Maria Sole Croce
Photographs by Araldo De Luca
The Illustrated Guide to
the Egyptian Museum
German and Chinese Editions
The ultimate guide to The Egyptian Museum of Cairo,
now in German and Chinese
The only official guide to Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is now available in German
and Chinese language editions.
ZAHI HAWASS is an internationally renowned
Egyptologist and former Egyptian minister of state
for antiquities.
631pp. Flexibound. October.
Chinese: 9788854023116
German: 9788854003101
LE200. Middle East.
The Illustrated Guide to Luxor
Tombs, Temples, and Museums: German and Chinese Editions
Kent R. Weeks
The ultimate guide to the monuments of Thebes,
now in German and Chinese
Fully illustrated in color, the authoritative guide to the temples and tombs of Luxor is now
available in German and Chinese language editions.
KENT R. WEEKS is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and
director of the Theban Mapping Project.
564pp. Flexibound. October.
Chinese 9788854023109
German: 9788854002838
LE200. Middle East.
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Index
Abaza, Mona 4
Abdel Nasser, Tahia Gamal 2
Abdel Nasser, Tahia Khaled 2
Abdel Wahab, Farouk 23
Abdullah, Yahya Taher 33
Ali, Idris 32
Ashour, Radwa 24
Assmann, Jan 35
Authentic Egyptian Cooking 14
El Badry, Hala 23
Bauck, Petter 41
Bayat, Asef 40
Bednarski, Andrew 18
Bertinetti, Marcello 42
Black Magic 30
Bongioanni, Alessandro 44
Bryson-Gustová, Anna 20
Building Arabic Vocabulary
through Reading 39
Cairo Anthology, A 6
Cairo Calendar 43
Cairo Modern 25
Colla, Elliott 32
Collar and the Bracelet, The 33
Cooper, John 9
Coptic Civilization 36
Cotton Plantation Remembered, The 4
Croce, Maria Sole 44
Davies, Humphrey 30, 31
De Luca, Araldo 44
Dreams of Departure 26
From Akhenaten to Moses 35
el-Gazzar, Hamdy 30, 31
Gabra, Gawdat 36
Ghazoul, Ferial 34
Harb, Nadia 39
Hartwig, Melinda 16
Hawass, Zahi 44
Heikkinen, Kay 24
High above Egypt Calendar 42
House of the Wolf 28
Human Capital in Egypt 12
Illustrated Guide to Luxor, The 44
Illustrated Guide to the Egyptian
Museum, The 44
48
El Kamhawi, Ezzat 28
Kandil, Magda 12
al-Kharrat, Edwar 34
Lane, Edward William 6, 43
Leheta, Nehal 14
Life as Politics 40
Lost Manuscript of Frédéric
Cailliaud, The 18
Louis, Samia 38
Lughatuna al-Fusha 38
Mahfouz, Naguib 25, 26, 27
Manley, Deborah 6, 8
Medieval Nile, The 9
Meshal, Reem A. 13
Mosaad, Shereen 2
Nasser: My Husband 2
Omer, Mohammed 41
Oslo Accords 1993–2013, The 41
Pischikova, Elena 17
Poor 32
Private Pleasures 31
Rain over Baghdad 23
Rama and the Dragon 34
Ransom, Marjorie 10
Roberts, Nancy 28
Selim, Samah 33
Sharia and the Making of the
Modern Egyptian 13
Silver Treasures from the Land
of Sheba 10
Tell This in My Memory 22
Temple of the World 20
Three Ancient Egyptian Novels 27
Tomb Chapel of Menna
(TT 69), The 16
Tombs of the South Asasif
Necropolis 17
Troutt Powell, Eve M. 22
Tutu, Desmond 41
Verlenden, John 34
Verner, Miroslav 20
Al-Warraki, Nariman Naili 39
Weeks, Kent R. 44
Woman from Tantoura, The 24
Women Travelers in Egypt 8
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