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The American University in Cairo Press has been connecting the
Middle East to the world for more than 50 years through its publishing
program. Our internationally acclaimed Arabic fiction in translation
has provided a vital voice for novelists from the Arab world, and the
AUC Press non-fiction program is the single best range of publishing
relating to ancient Egypt and the modern Middle East there is. Now
publishing in print, digital, and online forms, the AUC Press future
program will be more exciting and accessible than ever before. In this
catalog, our new publications range from sustainability and
human development through fiction to more titles in our ever growing
Arabic language learning list.
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Spring 2014
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Letter from the Director
As the Arab world makes its difficult way through challenging times of political and social change, a team of expert observers analyzes and assesses the
progress and achievements in the region since 2000 in one of the most
important political economic surveys in many years: Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Bahgat Korany (page 23). And
for the wider world, Salah El-Haggar sets out a vision for an attainable balance between human activity and the planet’s resources in Sustainability
and Innovation: The Next Global Industrial Revolution (page 10).
In new studies of ancient Egypt, renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass
reviews the latest state of our knowledge of the life and afterlife of the
equally famous boy-king, in Discovering Tutankhamun (page 6); a team of
Czech specialists led by Eugen Strouhal sheds light on medical knowledge
and practice in the time of the pharaohs, in the first of three volumes on The
Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians (page 4); Aidan Dodson looks in detail
at the origins and rise of the culture of monotheistic belief under Akhenaten,
in Amarna Sunrise (page 2); and Koenraad Donker van Heel interprets
obscure ancient documents to bring to life the career of an independent
businesswoman in the sixth century BC, in Mrs. Tsenhor (page 5).
A new and updated edition of the popular textbook Media Arabic, by
Alaa Elgibali and Nevenka Korica Sullivan (page 24), is complemented this
season by a comprehensive new reference work, A Dictionary of Idiomatic
Expressions in Written Arabic, by Mahmoud Sami Moussa (page 26),
explaining in Arabic and English the meanings behind more than 8,500
idiomatic phrases found in texts from the Qur’an to modern newspapers.
When the English novelist E.M. Forster was posted to Alexandria during
the First World War, one of the unexpected by-products of his sojourn was
his wonderful Alexandria: A History and a Guide, celebrated by Lawrence
Durrell as “a small work of art.” We are happy to be publishing a new edition of this justly famous guidebook to a great historic city (page 20).
Our fiction for the spring and summer includes a new edition of a classic Naguib Mahfouz novel, Palace Walk (page 27), as well as new novels
from the Libyan Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni (page 31), Iraqi writer Muhsin
al-Ramli (page 33), and Egyptian writers Kamal Ruhayyim (page 29) and
Mohamed Salmawy (page 28).
The AUC Press is particularly proud to be launching a wide range of
electronic editions of favorite books this season: details can be found on
pages 16–19.
Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones
[email protected]
Egyptology
Amarna Sunrise
Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Aidan Dodson
The author of Amarna Sunset now looks at how
Akhenaten’s experiment with monotheism began
The latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt’s political power reach its
zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north
too much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into
Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the most stupendous temples
of all time, some of the greatest dedicated to Amun-Re, King of the Gods. Yet
a century later these temples lay derelict, the god’s images, names, and titles
all erased in an orgy of iconoclasm by Akhenaten, the devotee of a single
sun-god. This book traces the history of Egypt from the death of the great warrior-king Thutmose III to the high point of Akhenaten’s reign, when the known
world brought gifts to his newly-built capital city of Amarna, in particular
looking at the way in which the cult of the sun became increasingly important to even ‘orthodox’ kings, culminating in the transformation of Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III, into a solar deity in his own right.
Contents
Introduction: Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt
1. Dawn of the Golden Age
2. Gold is as Dust in the Land of My Brother
3. The Road to Tell el-Amarna
4. The Horizon of the Aten
5. From Zenith to Sunset
6. Will the Real Akhenaten Please Stand Up?
288pp. Hbd. 122 illus. March.
978-977-416-633-4. LE175. World.
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AIDAN DODSON is a senior research fellow in the
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at
the University of Bristol, where he teaches Egyptology. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of London in 2003. He is the author
of Amarna Sunset (AUC Press, 2009), Poisoned
Legacy (AUC Press, 2010), and Afterglow of
Empire (AUC Press, 2012).
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Praise for Amarna Sunset:
The book is highly readable and is a worthy and useful summary
of the political and religious machinations of these times aimed at
expert and ‘informed beginner’ alike.” —Journal of the Society for
the Study of Egyptian Antiquities
By the same author:
‘‘
Intriguing and involving historical study and extrapolation.
Amarna Sunset is an absolute ‘must’ for college library
Egyptology collections.”—Midwest Book Review
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Egyptology
The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians
1: Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics
Eugen Strouhal
Břetislav Vachala
and Hana Vymazalová
The first part of a comprehensive survey of medical knowledge
and practice in ancient Egypt, by leading authorities on the topic
Ancient Egyptian medicine employed advanced surgical practices, while the prevention and treatment of diseases relied mostly on natural remedies and magical
incantations. In the first of three volumes, The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians
explores these two different aspects, using textual sources and physical evidence
to cast light on the state of ancient medical knowledge and practice and the hardships of everyday life experienced by the inhabitants of the land on the Nile.
The first part of the book focuses on ancient Egyptian surgery, drawing mainly
on cases described in the Edwin Smith papyrus, which details a number of
injuries listed by type and severity. These demonstrate the rational approach
employed by ancient physicians in the treatment of injured patients. Additional
surgical cases are drawn from the Ebers papyrus.
The chapters that follow cover gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatric cases,
with translations from the Kahun gynecological papyrus and other medical texts,
illustrating a wide range of ailments that women and young children suffered in
antiquity, and how they were treated.
Illustrated with more than sixty photographs and line drawings, The Medicine
of the Ancient Egyptians is highly recommended reading for scholars of ancient
Egyptian medicine and magic, as well as for paleopathologists, medical historians, and physical anthropologists.
EUGEN STROUHAL is a physician, anthropologist,
and archaeologist, one of the founders of the
field of paleopathology. Since 1961 he has collaborated with a number of archaeological expeditions in Egypt. He is the author of sixteen
books and 350 articles.
BřETISLAV VACHALA is an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Charles University in Prague. Since
1979 he has participated in archaeological
expeditions of the Czech Institute of Egyptology
to Egypt.
HANA VYMAZALOVÁ studied Egyptology and logic
at Charles University in Prague. She is a member
of the Czech Institute of Egyptology and since
2006 has participated in archaeological expeditions to Egypt.
272pp. Hbd. 68 b/w illus. June.
978-977-416-640-2. LE300. World.
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Egyptology
Mrs. Tsenhor
A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
Koenraad Donker van Heel
An independent woman of ancient Egypt brought to life from
obscure papyrus records, by the author of Djekhy & Son
By the same author:
Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some
sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the
events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin, and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and
independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life.
If Tsenhor were alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and
enjoy a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one assumes that
this happened with the full support of her second husband Psenese, who
fathered two of her children. She married him when she was in her mid-thirties.
Like her father and husband, Tsenhor could be hired to bring offerings to the
dead in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and
that is how her family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion. But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a slave
and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with
Psenese. She seems in many ways to have been a liberated woman, some
2,500 years before the concept was invented.
Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of Egypt, and using
many sources dealing with ordinary women from the Old Kingdom up to and
including the Coptic era, this book aims to forever change the general view
on women in ancient Egypt, which is far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra.
KOENRAAD DONKER VAN HEEL is lecturer in
Demotic at Leiden University. He is the author
of Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient
Egypt (AUC Press, 2012).
256pp. Hbd. March.
978-977-416-634-1. LE150. World.
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Illustrated Egyptology
Discovering Tutankhamun
Zahi Hawass
From Howard Carter to DNA
A thorough account of what we know and don’t know
about the life and times of the famous young pharaoh,
from the discovery of his tomb in 1922 to the CT-scans
of the twenty-first century
Penned by a scholar who was personally involved in research into
the enigmatic young pharaoh, this comprehensive and fully illustrated new study reviews the current state of our knowledge about
the life, death, and burial of Tutankhamun in light of the latest investigations and newest technology. Zahi Hawass places the king in
the broader context of Egyptian history, unraveling the intricate and
much debated relationship between various members of the royal
family, and the circumstances surrounding the turbulent Amarna
period. He also succinctly explains the religious background and
complex beliefs in the afterlife that defined and informed many features of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
‘‘
This is a work by a man who passionately loves
Egypt’s past and is not afraid of controversy. There is
nothing like reading a book which contains first-hand
recollections and impressions, bringing to life an
exacting academic topic.”—Jaromir Malek
ZAHI HAWASS is one of the world’s best known
Egyptologists, former Egyptian minister of state
for antiquities, and National Geographic
Explorer-in-Residence. He is the author of many
books on ancient Egypt, including several on
Tutankhamun.
264pp. Flexibound. Published.
978-977-416-637-2. LE250. World.
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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. March.
978-977-416-631-0. LE150. World.
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Tourism and Conservation
The Valley of the Kings
A Site Management Handbook
Kent R. Weeks and
Nigel J. Hetherington
The only detailed archaeological site management plan from
the Arab world, with wider application to sites worldwide
During the New Kingdom (c. 1570–1070 BCE), the Valley of the Kings was the
burial place of Egypt’s pharaohs, including such powerful and famous rulers as
Amenhotep III, Rameses II, and Tutankhamen. They were buried here in large
and beautifully decorated tombs that have become among the country’s most
visited archaeological sites. The tourists contribute millions of badly needed
dollars to Egypt’s economy. But because of inadequate planning, these same
visitors are destroying the very tombs they come to see. Crowding, pollution,
changes in the tombs’ air quality, ever-growing tourist infrastructure—all pose
serious threats to the Valley’s survival.
This volume, the result of twenty-five years of work by the Theban Mapping
Project at the American University in Cairo, traces the history of the Valley of
the Kings and offers specific proposals to manage the site and protect its fragile contents. At the same time, it recognizes the need to provide a positive experience for the thousands of visitors who flock here daily. This is the first major
management plan developed for any Egyptian archaeological site, and as its
proposals are implemented, they offer a replicable model for archaeologists,
conservators, and site managers throughout Egypt and the region.
Published in both English and Arabic editions and supported by the World Monuments Fund, this critical study will help to ensure the survival of Egypt’s patrimony
in a manner compatible with the country’s heavy reliance on tourism income.
KENT R. WEEKS is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo
and director of the Theban Mapping Project.
English edition:
240pp. Hbd. 119 illus. February.
978-977-416-608-2. LE250. World.
Arabic edition:
240pp. Pbk. 119 illus. March.
978-977-416-609-9. LE50. World.
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NIGEL J. HETHERINGTON is an archaeologist and
owner/founder of Past Preservers and a specialist in tourism and heritage management.
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 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
360pp. Hbd. 23.5x28.5 cm. 171 color illus. April.
978-977-416-655-6. LE300. World.
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.
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Global Sustainability
Sustainability and Innovation
The Next Global Industrial Revolution
Edited by Salah M. El-Haggar
Foreword by Lisa Anderson
Protecting the environment and conserving natural
resources by using materials in cyclic loops
One of the most urgent problems facing the world today is environmental sustainability. Current practices of pollution control, waste treatment, and environmental protection are not only hugely expensive and a burden on development
but also unsustainable in the long run for their steady depletion of the world’s natural resources. Any solutions must have proven economic benefits, be technologically viable, and meet prevailing environmental and social perspectives.
The main objective of this new set of studies is to describe methods that
help to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. This can be
achieved by applying the ‘cradle-to-cradle’ concept, which aims to use materials in closed cyclic loops without generating any type of waste or pollution.
The authors provide the reader with an introduction to basic concepts of sustainable development, describe the mechanisms and benefits of related technologies, and suggest potential uses on a practical level by examining
innovations developed in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the
American University in Cairo. Particular focus is placed on innovation as a
vital means of attaining sustainability.
A timely contribution to the debate on environmentally sustainable practices, this book will be indispensable to environmentalists, scientists, economists, engineers, development specialists, and policy-makers, as well as being
of interest to the lay reader.
352pp. Hbd. August.
978-977-416-647-1. LE250. World.
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SALAH EL-HAGGAR is professor of energy and sustainable development in the American University
in Cairo’s Mechanical Engineering Department,
where he is also currently department chair. With
over thirty years’ experience in energy and sustainable development consultancy work and university teaching, El-Haggar is the author of
several books, including Sustainable Industrial
Design and Waste Management: Cradle to Cradle for Sustainable Development, and a contributing author to Environmental Engineering:
Environmental Health and Safety for Municipal
Infrastructure, Land Use and Planning, and
Industry, as well as nearly 200 scientific publications and more than 50 technical reports.
‘‘
Sustainable development is a dynamic process
that enables people to improve their quality of
living in ways which simultaneously protect and
enhance the earth’s life support systems and
preserve these resources for generations to
come. In essence, sustainable development is
about five key principles: quality of life, fairness
and equity, participation and partnership, care
for our environment, and respect for ecological
constraints.”—from the Introduction
Foam glass processing technique
Topics include:
The Green Economy
Cradle to Cradle and Innovation
The Next Industrial Revolution
Plastics Recycling
Glass Recycling
Solid waste generated in the US in 2010
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History
The Medieval Nile
Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
John P. 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
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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
392pp. Hbd. 89 illus. March.
978-977-416-614-3. LE400. World.
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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.
African Geopolitics
Dividing the Nile
David E. Mills
Egypt’s Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918–56
A new perspective on Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan
Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British
dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the
emergence of Sudanese nationalism. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian
entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests, guaranteeing Egypt’s ‘loss’ of the Sudan. It argues that British dominance
of the Condominium may have stymied initial Egyptian efforts, but that after the
First World War Egypt became increasingly interested in and capable of economic ventures in the Sudan.
However, early Egyptian financial assistance and the seemingly successful
resolution of Nile waters disputes actually divided the region, while later concerted efforts to promote commerce and acquire Sudanese lands failed dismally. Egyptian nationalists simply missed opportunities of aligning their
economic future with that of their Sudanese brethren, resulting in a divided
Nile Valley.
Dividing the Nile will appeal to historians, social scientists, and international
relations theorists, among those interested in Nile Valley developments, but its
focused economic analysis will also contribute to broader scholarship on
nationalism and nationalist theory.
Contents
Introduction
1: The “Natural” Unity of the Nile Valley
2: “Successful” Division of Water Resources
3: Agreement, Institutions, and Opportunities
4: A Valley Divided
5: Disguised Exploitation
6: An Expanded Sudanese Market?
is professor of Middle East history at Marshall University. His research interests revolve around nationalist theory and the
economic history of the Nile valley, concentrating on the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
period.
DAVID E. MILLS
336pp. Hbd. June.
978-977-416-638-9. LE300. World.
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Geology
The Geology of Egypt
A Traveler’s Handbook
Bonnie M. Sampsell
How the lie of the land made Egypt what it is
‘‘
I am going to ritually prostrate myself and
plead with you to read this splendid book.
Then, if you never think of geology again,
I will forgive you. It requires no previous
knowledge of geology, is clearly written,
well illustrated and conveys a remarkable
amount of information.”—Gaston Peltier,
Egyptological
280pp. Pbk. 50 color illus., 42 maps/figures. March.
978-977-416-632-7. LE180. World.
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Egypt is primarily a land of deserts and mountains, the habitable Nile
Valley and Delta occupying less than 5 percent of the country. Although
the ancient Egyptians lived on only a small fraction of the land, they
made extensive use of resources from the less hospitable areas, exploiting the opportunities and adjusting to the constraints of their physical
environment. This updated and expanded edition of The Geology of
Egypt: A Traveler’s Handbook describes these features and more, providing a guide for the visitor to Egypt interested in learning about its
history from a different perspective.
The author presumes no background in geology or related fields and
provides an introduction to the relevant geological concepts, presenting
examples to illustrate how the country’s geological features influenced
Egyptian civilization. Most examples are selected from the pharaonic
period and Greco-Roman period, though many cases also illustrate how
geological factors continue to have an impact on modern Egyptian society.
The text is organized as a trip on the Nile from Lake Nasser downstream to the Delta, with chapters devoted to such popular sites as Aswan,
Luxor, and Giza. Also covered are the Eastern and Western Deserts, as
well as the Sinai Peninsula. Maps, illustrations, fifty color photographs,
and an extensive glossary help make a complex but intriguing subject
accessible to everyone.
BONNIE M. SAMPSELL is a retired college professor
who has traveled to many parts of the world and
studied Egyptology, archaeology, and geology
extensively.
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
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.
224pp. Hbd. 24x21 cm. 320 color illus. April.
978-977-416-600-6. LE300. World.
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.
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e-Book—Social Science
Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers
Egypt’s Changing Northwest Coast
and
Donald Cole
Soraya Altorki
A new e-book edition of the classic study of the radical
changes that have taken place on Egypt’s northwest coast in
the face of a huge influx of Nile Valley settlers and tourists
e
266pp. e-book only. 2 maps. February.
978-1-61797-361-1. $15.95. World.
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The arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And
yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions
has for centuries been sustained. In the late twentieth century, however, forces
such as modernization, globalization, and the politics and economics of nations
became so great that major changes in the old ways had to take place for the
sake of survival.
Egypt’s northwest coast, where meager coastal rains have supported a sparse but
thriving population of Bedouin, saw the arrival of settlers from the Nile Valley,
accustomed to a very different way of life and production, and hordes of tourists
whose “empty, silent structures” effectively turned the most productive strip of the
coastal range into an artificial desert. This study documents the great accommodations that took place to ensure the arid rangelands of the northwest coast continue to be viable for the demands of human existence imposed on them.
“A main thesis of this study,” the authors write, “is that change in the northwest
coast of Egypt has strong parallels in other arid regions of the wider Arab world;
and specific comparisons are made to change underway elsewhere—especially
regarding the transformation of Arab nomadic pastoralist production to a new
form of ranching, and the related changes of sedentarization and the monetization of most aspects of livelihood.”
DONALD COLE is professor emeritus of anthropology at the American University in Cairo
and the author of Nomads of the Nomads:
The Al-Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter.
SORAYA ALTORKI is professor of anthropology at
the American University in Cairo and author
of Women in Saudi Arabia: Ideology and
Behavior Among the Elite.
e-Books—Classic Egyptian Writers
The Days
A Man of Letters
The Sufferers
Taha Hussein
New e-book editions of three of the great writer’s classic works
Taha Hussein (1889–1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue
a distinguished career in Egyptian public life. He was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings, and became known as the “Dean of Arabic Letters.” His three-part
autobiography, The Days, is a saga of perseverance in the face of daunting odds, as he first learns
not only to come to terms with his blindness but to excel in spite of it, then wins a place at the
prestigious Azhar University in Cairo, and later earns a doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris.
The stories in The Sufferers were first published in the periodical al-Katib al-misri in 1946, but
were banned by the government when collected in book form in 1947. The collection was finally
published in Lebanon, and was only published in Egypt after the 1952 Revolution.
Based on the true story of a friend of the author, A Man of Letters—unfolding between Cairo and
Paris and through vivid personal correspondence—draws a picture of a powerful friendship and of
a young man’s dilemma: the man of letters of the title finds himself split between—and in love
with—two cultures essentially incompatible, East and West. In his desperate struggle to reconcile
them his soul is estranged and he is thrown—or escapes—deeper into the backstreet abyss of First
World War Paris. In the end it is perhaps the very impracticality of his own morality that destroys him.
The Days
412pp. e-book only. March.
978-1-61797-470-0. $9.95. World.
A Man of Letters
144pp. e-book only. March.
978-1-61797-472-4. $9.95. World.
The Sufferers
144pp. e-book only. March.
978-1-61797-471-7. $9.95. World.
e
TAHA HUSSEIN (1889–1973) was most influential
through his voluminous, varied and controversial
writings. He was unofficially known as the ‘’Dean
of Arabic Letters.’’
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Publications available in
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icon throughout the catalog.
A selection of AUC Press scholarly books in
electronic form for libraries is available through
ebrary, EBSCO, and Dawson Books.
New & Recent e-Titles
Literature and Guides
Alexandria
A History and a Guide
E.M. Forster
One of the best guide books ever written, to a great city
by a great novelist
“Alexandria is still alive and alters even when one tries to sum her up . . . . Only
the climate, only the north wind and the sea remain as pure as when Menelaus,
the first visitor, landed three thousand years ago.” In the autumn of 1915, in a
“slightly heroic mood,” E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as
a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring “the
magic, antiquity and complexity” of the place in order to cope with living in
what he saw as a “funk-hole.” With a novelist’s pen, he brings to life the fabled,
romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Greco-Roman Egypt, beacon
of light and culture symbolized by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair
of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has
ever known was built. Threading three thousand years of history with vibrant
strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences,
Forster immortalized Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great
city and, inadvertently, himself.
Also available:
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A small work of art, for it contains some of
Forster’s best prose, as well as felicities of
touch such as only a novelist of major talent
could command.”—Lawrence Durrell
Forster’s Alexandria, with time in one section,
place in the other, and its many invitations to
flip between the two, confuses the categories
with lucid effect.”—Michael Haag
320pp. Hbd. April.
978-977-416-464-4. LE150. Middle East.
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EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER (1879–1970) was one
of the most respected literary figures of his age.
Among his best known novels are A Room with
a View, A Passage to India, Howard’s End, and
Maurice. Alexandria: A History and a Guide was
inspired by the time he spent in Egypt during the
First World War, and was first published in 1922.
Art Deco in Egypt
Paris along the Nile
Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque
Cynthia Myntti
A pictorial celebration of the wonderfully imaginative architecture
of Cairo’s new building boom that began in the 1870s.
Cairo, ‘Mother of the World’: its vividly diverse neighborhoods and building
styles reveal its cosmopolitan energy and reflect the myriad of economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the city over the centuries. So
impressed was Khedive Ismail after a visit to Haussmann’s ‘new’ Paris in 1867
that he decided to build a modern city along the same architectural lines and
aesthetics, and brought European architects to Cairo to initiate Egypt’s most
dynamic building period since medieval times. The stunning buildings of latenineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Cairo remain, but they are neglected,
threatened by pollution, and are being pulled down for concrete highrises and
parking lots. Paris along the Nile captures in 200 black-and-white photographs
the architectural jewels of ‘modern’ Cairo.
CYNTHIA MYNTTI, who lived and worked in
Cairo in the 1980s, is an anthropologist and
architect. She directs the Neighborhood Initiative at the American University of Beirut, in
Lebanon.
112pp. Pbk. 200 illus. February.
978-977-416-653-2. LE200. World.
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Current Affairs
Arab Spring in Egypt
Edited by Bahgat Korany
and Rabab El-Mahdi
Revolution and beyond
New paperback edition, including new retrospective essay
Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries,
the street protests of the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied
Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in
the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February
2011 of the regime in the region’s most populous country, Egypt, led to key
questions of why, how, and with what consequences did this occur?
Inspired by the “contentious politics” school and Social Movement Theory,
Arab Spring in Egypt addresses these issues, examining the reasons behind the
collapse of Egypt’s authoritarian regime; analyzing the group dynamics in
Tahrir Square of various factions: labor, youth, Islamists, and women; describing economic and external issues and comparing Egypt’s transition with that
of Indonesia; and reflecting on the challenges of transition.
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‘‘
Students and general readers alike will gain many
insights from this book; its analysis is as fresh as the
breathtaking events it covers.”— Nathan Brown,
George Washington University
Arab Spring in Egypt is a modern history study that
brings much greater understanding to light about the
views of modern Arab people and the future they see
for their country.”—Midwest Book Review
364pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-646-4. LE120. World.
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BAHGAT KORANY is professor of international
relations and political economy at the American University in Cairo, and director of the
AUC Forum. He is the co-editor of The Foreign
Policies of Arab States (AUC Press, 2008) and
editor of The Changing Middle East: A New
Look at Regional Dynamics (AUC Press, 2010).
RABAB EL-MAHDI is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at
the American University in Cairo, and the
co-editor of Egypt Moment of Change (AUC
Press, 2009).
Social Sciences—Middle East
Arab Human Development
in the Twenty-first Century
The Primacy of Empowerment
Edited by Bahgat
Korany
A critical political economy examination of development
in the Middle East
CONTRIBUTORS: Louisa Ait-Driss, Najoua
Fezza, Lina Khatib, Mustafa Khawaja,
Zeyad Makhamret, Mhamed Malki,
Baqer El-Najjar, Sabria El-Thawr
312pp. Hbd. June.
978-977-416-658-7. LE250. World.
With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly
auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the
greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab
Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP’s
Arab Human Development Report, Arab Human Development in the Twentyfirst Century places empowerment at the center of human development in the
Arab world, viewing it not only from the vantage point of a more equitable
distribution of economic resources but also of fundamental legal, educational,
and political reform.
The ten chapters in this book follow closely this political economy framework. They look back at what Arab countries have achieved since the early
2000s and forward to what remains to be done to reach full development.
Supported by a wealth of statistical material, they cover the rule of law, the
evolution of media, the persistence of corruption, the draining of resources
through armed conflict, the dominance and increase of poverty, the environment, and religious education. The concluding chapter attempts an inventory
of the world literature and different experiences on democratic transition to
explore where the region could be heading.
This critical and timely study is indispensable reading to development specialists and to Middle East scholars and students alike, as well as to anyone
with an interest in the future trajectory of the region.
BAHGAT KORANY is professor of international
relations and political economy at the American University in Cairo, and director of the
AUC Forum. He is the co-editor of The Foreign Policies of Arab States (AUC Press, 2008)
and Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and
Beyond (AUC Press, 2012) and editor of The
Changing Middle East: A New Look at
Regional Dynamics (AUC Press, 2010).
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Bestselling Textbook—updated
Media Arabic
A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News
Revised and Updated Edition
Alaa Elgibali
and Nevenka Korica
A new and updated edition of the essential activities book for
learning to read the news in Arabic
In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic—in academia, governments, NGOs, and business—Media Arabic is a unique and
timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this
important global region firsthand. Media Arabic introduces the language of
the newspapers, magazines, and internet news sites to intermediate and
advanced level students of Modern Standard Arabic. Using this textbook, students will be able to master core vocabulary and structures typical of frontpage news, recognize various modes of coverage, distinguish fact from
opinion, detect bias, and read critically in Arabic.
Drawing on their long experience as Arabic instructors, Alaa Elgibali and
Nevenka Korica have organized the book into six chapters, each covering a
dominant news topic: Talks and Conferences, Demonstrations and Protests,
Conflicts and Terrorism, Elections, Rule of Law, and Business. In addition, the
book offers three self-assessment units and a glossary organized by theme.
The book enables students to read extended texts with greater accuracy and
speed by focusing on the relationships among meaning, language form, and
markers of cohesive discourse. The activities include pre-reading discussions as
well as extensive practice on vocabulary in context, organizing information,
skimming, scanning, critical reading, and analyzing content.
ALAA ELGIBALI is professor of Arabic and linguistics and director of the Arabic language
programs at the University of Maryland.
NEVENKA KORICA currently teaches Arabic in
the Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is
co-author of Umm al-Dunya: Advanced Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (AUC Press, 2013).
232pp. Pbk. May.
978-977-416-652-3 . LE150. World.
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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).
352pp. Pbk+DVD. May.
978-977-416-619-8. LE180. World.
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Arabic Language Reference
A Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions
in Written Arabic
For Readers of Classical and Modern Texts
Mahmoud Sami Moussa
An invaluable new resource for learners and native
speakers of Modern Standard Arabic
How would you ever know that “to lose a baby ostrich” means to rush
into something without thinking? Or that “what can the wind take from
the pavement?” is said when someone has nothing left to lose?
This comprehensive guide to idiomatic expressions in literary Arabic,
the first of its kind, will inform, amuse, and entertain, through more than
8500 entries found in texts from the Qur’an to today’s newspapers. With
explanations in Arabic and English, it is an essential resource for both students of Arabic and native speakers.
Reaching into the great wealth of this complex and intriguing language,
the dictionary draws on and reveals the rich cultural and religious traditions of Arabic-speaking communities that have informed its idioms.
Expressions of condolence, astonishment, and hardship, alongside sayings
about friendship, miserliness, and reconciliation are collected and made
accessible here, and glimpses are provided into history through phrases
tied to important events and figures—from the ancient Egyptians to Saddam Hussein—altogether allowing a fascinating insight into Arabic’s many
quirks and intricacies.
MAHMOUD SAMI MOUSSA is a senior instructor
in the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo.
550pp. Hbd. April.
978-977-416-641-9. LE300. World.
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Classic Fiction—reissue
Palace Walk
Translated by
Naguib Mahfouz
William M. Hutchins
and Olive E. Kenny
A new edition of a perennial favorite,
the first part of the Cairo Trilogy
Palace Walk transports us into the life of a Cairo family during Egypt’s occupation by British forces in the 1900s. The father, Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, is
somber and tyrannical with his wife and children, but at night seeks pleasure
in the aesthetic and erotic. His wife, Amina, is a willing prisoner in a society
where it is forbidden for a virtuous woman to leave her house except in the
company of her husband or adult sons. Aisha, their younger daughter, dares
to peer through the mashrabeya from which the women view the world. And
Fahmy, their second son, is caught up in the violence that threatens them all
as Egypt struggles to become free.
By the same author:
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Naguib Mahfouz was born
in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of
Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length
works, plus hundreds of short stories and
numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1988. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at
the age of 94.
WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS, a professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at
Appalachian State University, has translated
the works of many Arab writers, including
Tawfiq al-Hakim, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Ibrahim
al-Koni, and Mohammed Khudayyir.
Original Arabic title: Bayn al-qasrayn
514pp. Pbk. March.
978-977-416-651-8. LE120. Middle East.
OLIVE E. KENNY studied Arabic in Cairo and
taught English there for many years. Her translation credits include Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace
of Desire and Wedding Song, and War in the
Land of Egypt by Yusuf al-Qaid.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Butterfly Wings
An Egyptian Novel
Mohamed Salmawy
Raphael Cohen
Translated by
The prescient Egyptian novel that described the
January 2011 Revolution before it happened
A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an academic
and leading dissident. The story of their relationship and Doha’s self-discovery
runs alongside a young Egyptian’s search for the mother he never knew, and
these intersecting narratives unfold against the background of political protests
that culminate in the overthrow of the regime.
A moving and at times humorous story, Butterfly Wings is an extended allegory
of Egypt’s modern experience of authoritarian rule and explores the fractures and
challenges of a society at the moment of revolutionary transformation.
Mohamed Salmawy’s almost prophetic novel was first published in Arabic
immediately prior to the events of 25 January 2011, and has been celebrated as
‘the novel that predicted the Revolution.’
By the same author:
MOHAMED SALMAWY is an Egyptian playwright,
novelist, and poet. He is president of the
Writers’ Union of Egypt, secretary general of
the General Union of Arab Writers, and editor
in chief of the leading daily newspaper
Al-Masry Al-Youm.
RAPHAEL COHEN is the translator of So You May
See by Mona Prince (AUC Press, 2011) and Status: Emo by Eslam Mosbah (AUC Press, 2013).
Original Arabic title: Ajnihat al-farasha
176pp. Pbk. April.
978-977-416-642-6. LE90. World.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Diary of a Jewish Muslim
An Egyptian Novel
Kamal Ruhayyim
Sarah Enany
Translated by
A novel about growing up half-Jewish, half-Muslim in an
Egypt where Jews were increasingly unwelcome, by the
author of Days in the Diaspora
Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab–Israeli
wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony.
Offering an intimate yet panoramic view of the easy coexistence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in an old neighborhood of Cairo, this sweeping yet
personal novel, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, accompanies Galal, a young
boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in the vibrant popular quarter of Daher. With his schoolboy crushes and
teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly with his mother, father,
and grandfather in old Cairo—a middle-class social fabric of manners and
morals, values and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and as cheerfully
transcends religion, but a fabric that is about to be torn apart by a bigger world
of politics that will also put Galal’s very identity to the test.
By the same author:
KAMAL RUHAYYIM, born in Egypt in 1947, has a
PhD in law from Cairo University. He is the
author of a collection of short stories and five
novels, including Days in the Diaspora (AUC
Press, 2012). Through his career in the Egyptian police force and Interpol he has lived in
Cairo and Paris.
Original Arabic title: Qulub munhaka: al-muslim al-yahudi
224pp. Pbk. May.
978-977-416-643-3. LE100. World.
SARAH ENANY, with a Ph.D. in drama, is a lecturer in the English Department of Cairo University. Her translation credits include works
by Yusuf Idris, Mohamed Salmawy, Jerzy Grotowski, and Kamal Ruhayyim’s Days in the
Diaspora (AUC Press, 2012).
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Modern Arabic Literature
Anubis
Ibrahim al-Koni
Translated by William M. Hutchins
A Libyan Novel
A new paperback edition of the tale of one man’s quest
and survival in the Sahara Desert, set in the framework
of Tuareg mythology
A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find
the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit
world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden
of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the
rise of human civilization. Over the sands and the years, the hero is pursued by
a lover who matures into a sibyl-like priestess.
The Libyan Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni, who has earned a reputation as a
major figure in Arabic literature with his many novels and collections of short
stories, has used Tuareg folklore about Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the
underworld, to craft a novel that is both a lyrical evocation of the desert’s beauty
and a chilling narrative in which thirst, incest, patricide, animal metamorphosis, and human sacrifice are more than plot devices. The novel concludes with
Tuareg sayings collected by the author in his search for the historical Anubis
from matriarchs and sages during trips to Tuareg encampments, and from
inscriptions in the ancient Tifinagh script in caves and on tattered manuscripts.
In this novel, fantastic mythology becomes universal, specific, and modern.
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A true journey into the human
psyche.”—Cairo Magazine
The novel has many levels, all attempting to
unravel the complexities of obligation and
customs that delineate how relationships
are made . . . and how these relationships
can prosper and endure with man living in
a changing society.” —Banipal
Original Arabic title: Anubis
208pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-636-5. LE80. World.
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IBRAHIM AL-KONI was born in Libya in 1948. A
Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his
childhood in the desert and learned to read
and write Arabic when he was twelve. He is
the author of many novels, including Gold
Dust, The Puppet, The Seven Veils of Seth, and
The New Oasis (AUC Press, 2008, 2009,
2010, 2014). He was awarded the Sheikh
Zayed Prize for Literature in 2008.
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.
Modern Arabic Literature
The New Oasis
A Libyan Novel
Ibrahim al-Koni
Translated by William M. Hutchins
A mythical tale of the conflict between nomadism and settled
life in the Sahara Desert
Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir
dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle
of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his
love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as leader. Whether by human
design or the meddling of the Spirit World, his death inspires his tribe to settle down permanently, abandoning not only nomadism but also the inherited laws of the tribe. The community they found, New Waw, which they
name for the mythical paradise of the Tuareg people, is also the setting of
Ibrahim al-Koni’s companion novel, The Puppet.
For al-Koni, this Tuareg tale of the tension between nomadism and settled
life represents a choice faced by people everywhere, in many walks of life,
as a result of globalism. He sees an inevitable interface between myth and
contemporary life.
By the same author:
Original Arabic title: Waw al-sughra
164pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-648-8. LE90. Middle East .
IBRAHIM AL-KONI was born in Libya in 1948. A
Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his
childhood in the desert and learned to read
and write Arabic when he was twelve. He is
the author of many novels, including Anubis,
Gold Dust, The Puppet, and The Seven Veils of
Seth (AUC Press, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010).
He was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for
Literature in 2008.
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
The Last of the Angels
An Iraqi Novel
Translated by
Fadhil al-Azzawi
William M. Hutchins
A new paperback edition of the magical, comic, and ultimately
profound story of old Kirkuk
Set in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk during the 1950s, The Last of the Angels
tells the slyly humorous tale of three strikingly different people in one small
neighborhood. During a labor strike against the British-run Iraq Petroleum Company, Hameed Nylon becomes a labor organizer and later a revolutionary, like
his hero, Mao Tse-Tung. His brother-in-law, the sheep butcher Khidir Musa,
travels to the Soviet Union to find his long-lost brothers, and returns home to
great acclaim (and personal fortune) in an airship. Meanwhile, a young boy
named Burhan Abdullah discovers an old chest in the attic of his family’s house
that lets him talk to angels. By turns satiric, picaresque, and apocalyptic, The
Last of the Angels paints a loving, panoramic, and elegiac portrait of Kirkuk in
the final years of Iraq’s monarchy. But as the grim reality of modern Iraqi history catches up with the novel’s events, we come to learn the depth and complexity of Hameed Nylon, Khidir Musa, and Burhan Abdullah, and al-Azzawi’s
comic novel becomes a moving tale of growing up in a dangerous world.
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‘‘
The novel’s language is an unbroken flow
that seduces you right up to the final page of
this magnificent tale. And in telling the story,
its details sparkle with every description,
every sentence, and every page.”—al-Zaman
The epic achievement of Fadhil al-Azzawi . . .
puts the Iraqi and Arabic novel in a worldclass category.”—al-Thaqafa al-‘arabiya
Original Arabic title: Akhir al-mala’ika
288pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-649-5. LE100. World.
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FADHIL AL-AZZAWI was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, in
1940. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural journalism
from the University of Leipzig and is the
author of several novels and collections of
poetry. He is the author of Cell Block Five
(AUC Press pbk, 2013) and The Traveler and
the Innkeeper (AUC Press, 2011). He has lived
in Germany since 1977.
WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS is the principal translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy (AUC
Press, 1989-92), and is the translator of works
by a number of other Arab writers, including
Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mohammed Khudayyir, and
Ibrahim al-Koni.
Modern Arabic Literature
Dates on My Fingers
Muhsin al-Ramli
Luke Leafgren
Translated by
An Iraqi Novel
A colorful, fast-paced novel of youthful love, post-conflict
violence, and family honor that moves between the villages
and prisons of Iraq and the nightclubs of Madrid
Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies
of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his
lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in
a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks
and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his
father’s presence in Spain and his altered life. In doing so, he recalls formative moments in Iraq of familial love, war, and the haunting accidental death
of his cousin Aliya, Saleem’s partner in the hesitant, tender exploration of sexuality. When the renewed relationship with his father erupts in a violent conflict, Saleem is forced to rediscover his sense of self and the hard-won stability
of his life. Through Saleem’s experiences and reflections, the fast-paced narrative carries the reader between Spain and Iraq to a surprising resolution.
‘‘
He was calm, as though his heart were made of
still water. A halo of spiritual contentment clearly
enveloped him. I felt at the time that I had
regained my father, finding him much as I
remembered him to be. So I decided to stop
digging up whatever he was hiding. I would stop
wondering about it entirely. I would forget.”
Original Arabic title: Tamr al-asabi‘
192pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-644-0. LE90. World.
MUHSIN AL-RAMLI is a novelist, poet, translator, and academic who writes in both Arabic
and Spanish. He currently lives in Madrid,
where he teaches at Saint Louis University.
He is the author of a play, several collections
of poetry and short stories, and three novels.
Dates on My Fingers was longlisted for the
International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
LUKE LEAFGREN Luke Leafgren learned Arabic
while completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has studied in
Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and has taught at
Middlebury College’s Summer Arabic School.
Dates on My Fingers is his first translation.
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Egyptian Short Stories
Homecoming
Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
Selected and translated by
Denys Johnson-Davies
A new paperback edition of award-winning translator Denys
Johnson-Davies’s anthology of short Arabic fiction from
more than half a century
Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys JohnsonDavies, described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of
our time,” arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he
was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud
Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate
Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local Englishlanguage periodicals of the time.
He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings
together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt’s
leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not
only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes
works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as
Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well
as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and
Youssef Rakha.
‘‘
For anyone interested in Egyptian literature
over the years, this book comes as an
absolute goldmine of stories.” —Cairo 360
DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES has produced more than
thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic
literature, including The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He received the
Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.
372pp. Pbk. Published.
978-977-416-654-9. LE100. World.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Munira’s Bottle
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Translated by Anthony Calderbank
A Saudi Arabian Novel
A new paperback edition of the controversial Saudi novel
In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddam’s invasion of
Kuwait, we learn the story of Munira—with the gorgeous eyes—and the
unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an
insult to his character and manhood. It is also the tale of many other women of
Saudi Arabia who pass through the remand center where Munira works, victims
and perpetrators of crimes, characters pained and tormented, trapped in
cocoons of silence and fear. Munira records their stories on pieces of paper that
she folds up and places in the mysterious bottle given to her long ago by her
grandmother, a repository for the stories of the dead, that they might live again.
This controversial novel looks at many of the issues that characterize the lives
of women in modern Saudi society, including magic and envy, honor and
revenge, and the strict moral code that dictates male–female interaction.
‘‘
‘‘
Yousef al-Mohaimeed is a rising star in
international literature.”—Annie Proulx
Mohaimeed takes on some of the most
divisive subjects in the Arab world and
writes in a lush style that evokes a writer
he cites as an influence, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.”—Washington Post
Original Arabic title: al-Qarura
224pp. Pbk. March.
978-977-416-639-6. LE80. World.
YOUSEF AL-MOHAIMEED was born in Riyadh in
1964. He is the author of several novels and
short story collections, and has studied English
and photography at Norwich University. He is
the author of Wolves of the Crescent Moon
(AUC Press, 2007).
ANTHONY CALDERBANK has translated several
works of modern Arabic fiction, including
Haggag Hassan Oddoul’s Nights of Musk
(AUC Press, 2005) and Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s
Wolves of the Crescent Moon (AUC Press, 2007)
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Autobiography
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
A Novel of Palestine
Translated by
Mourid Barghouti
Humphrey Davies
The author of I Saw Ramallah returns to Palestine—
new paperback edition
In 1996 Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti went back to his home for the first
time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, and wrote a poignant and
incisive account of the exile’s lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In
2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family.
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here traces Barghouti’s own life in recent years
and in the past—his early life in Palestine, his expulsion from Cairo and exile
to Budapest, marriage and the birth of his son, Tamim, and then the young
man’s own expulsion from Cairo—and tells the story of the Palestinian journey
of father and son.
Ranging freely back and forth in time, Barghouti weaves into his poetically
crafted account sensitive evocations of Palestinian history and daily life. I
Was Born There, I Was Born Here is destined, like its predecessor, to become
a classic.
‘‘
‘‘
Moving.”—The Guardian
More personal than his first volume, freighted
with individual and collective return, here are
the minutiae of the immediate consequences.
It’s an honest confrontation with Israeli violence
and impunity, an unflinching description of the
Palestinian Authority’s compromising failures,
and a plea for joy.”—The Independent
Original Arabic title: Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna
220pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-650-1. LE100. Middle East.
36
MOURID BARGHOUTI was born in Palestine in
1944, and graduated from the Faculty of Arts,
Cairo University in 1967. His poems have
been published in Beirut, Amman, and Cairo
since 1972, and his Collected Works were
published in Cairo in 1997. He lives in Cairo.
HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of a number
of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian
Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press,
2004). He has twice been awarded the Saif
Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary
Translation, and was runner-up in 2012 for
this translation of I Was Born There, I Was
Born Here.
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.
‘‘
Some books have a way of enchanting, attracting, and drawing
you to leave your world and start a life among its pages. The
Woman from Tantoura, the latest masterpiece from Egyptian writer
Radwa Ashour, is exactly that kind of book.”—Diwan al-Arab
By the same author:
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. April.
978-977-416-615-0. LE120. World.
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Modern Arabic Literature
Brooklyn Heights
Miral al-Tahawy
Translated by Samah Selim
An Egyptian Novel
A new paperback edition of the novel that won the Naguib
Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was shortlisted for the
Arabic Booker prize
Hind, newly arrived in New York with her eight-year-old son, several suitcases
of unfinished manuscripts, and hardly any English, finds a room in a Brooklyn
teeming with people like her who dream of becoming writers.
As she discovers the various corners of her new home, they conjure up parallel memories from her childhood and her small Bedouin village in the Nile
Delta: Emilia who sells used shoes at the flea market smells like Zeinab, the
old woman who worked for Hind’s grandfather; the reflection of her own body
as she dances tango awakens the awkwardness of her relationship to that body
across the years; the story of Lilette, the Egyptian bourgeoise who has lost her
memory, prompts Hind to safeguard her own.
Through this kaleidoscopic spectrum of disadvantaged characters we
encounter unique but familiar life histories in this award-winning and intensely
moving novel of displacement and exile.
‘‘
‘‘
A powerful and realistic portrayal of emigration
and the process of adapting to a new
place.”—The UBS Review of Books
Al-Tahawy’s narrative highlights the fissures
between east and west, exploring cultural, religious and sexual differences. Hend, with her
superstitious fatalism and borderline hysteria, is
an awkward and often unattractive character, but
her fears, dissatisfactions and vulnerabilities have
an uncomfortable ring of truth.”—The Guardian
Original Arabic title: Bruklin Hayts
192pp. Pbk. February.
978-977-416-659-4. LE90. Middle East and North America.
38
MIRAL AL-TAHAWY is the author of The Tent
(AUC Press, 1998), Blue Aubergine (AUC
Press, 2002), and Gazelle Tracks (AUC Press,
2008). She is professor of Arabic at the School
of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona
State University.
SAMAH SELIM is the translator of Memories of a
Meltdown: An Egyptian between Moscow and
Chernobyl by Mohamed Makhzangi (AUC
Press, 2006). She won the 2009 Saif GobashBanipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for
her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet
by Yahya Taher Abdullah (AUC Press, 2008).
Calendar
The Near East in 1862
Francis Bedford’s Photographs from Cairo to Constantinople: Calendar 2015
Beautiful early photographs of iconic
Middle Eastern scenes
This medium-format wall calendar boasts twelve beautiful and
timeless images of iconic scenes around Egypt, the Holy Land,
and Turkey, by one of the earliest professional photographers to
visit the region. Francis Bedford was the officially appointed photographer who accompanied the Prince of Wales (later King
Edward VII) on his royal tour of the Near East in 1862. The photographs he took on the journey are celebrated as some of the
finest products of the new art form of the nineteenth century. The
calendar is practically designed with plenty of space to write in
special events and daily appointments throughout the year.
24pp. Calendar. April
978-121-315-231-1. LE75. World.
39
Cairo Papers in Social Science
Negotiating Space
The Evolution of the Egyptian Street, 2000–2011
Dimitris Soudias
A look at the growing role of street protest in recent Egyptian history
This monograph offers a diachronic analysis of the development of street protests in Egypt that
led to the downfall of Mubarak in 2011. It shows how the January 25 uprising was the culminating episode of negotiating power relations in a series of five consecutive contentious cycles
since 2000. Based on a conceptual framework combining premises of social movement theory,
power and knowledge, and sociology of space, it argues that the negotiation of power relations in Egypt has been expressed through the ‘battle’ over socially produced protest spaces.
Cairo Papers Vol. 32, No. 4.
136pp. Pbk. May.
978-977-416-657-0. LE20. World.
DIMITRIS SOUDIAS Dimitris Soudias is an independent researcher who has been working for
the Free University of Berlin’s Center of Middle
Eastern and North African Politics as well as the
Yemen Polling Center, Sanaa.
Masculinities in Egypt and the Arab World
Historical, Literary, and Social Science Perspectives
Edited by
Helen Rizzo
Essays exploring some of the many meanings and expressions
of masculinity across the Middle East
While reflecting upon the Arab Spring, the essays in this collection cover several themes that
include utilizing the concept of hegemonic masculinity in productive ways, the role of the state
in promoting certain types of masculinities while devaluing and disciplining others, the potential role of feminism and activism in influencing masculinities, and the effects of colonialism,
nationalism and postcolonialism, as well as war and violence. Presenting cases from Egypt,
Lebanon, and Tunisia, they seek to humanize, contextualize, and historicize masculinities to
particular times and places in the Middle East. Cairo Papers Vol. 33, No. 1.
HELEN RIZZO is associate professor of sociology,
the American University in Cairo.
156pp. Pbk. June.
978-977-416-656-3 . LE20. World.
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Backlist
Arabic Literature
978 977 416 624 2
LE100
978 977 416 559 7
LE90
978 977 416 628 0
LE75
978 977 416 623 5
LE75
978 977 416 592 4
LE75
978 977 416 620 4
LE100
978 977 416 603 7
LE75
978 977 416 627 3
LE90
978 977 416 588 7
LE100
978 977 416 625 9
LE100
Archaeology and Ancient Egypt
978 977 416 629 7
LE150
978 977 416 435 4
LE150
978 977 424 907 5
LE120
978 977 416 478 1
LE300
978 977 416 563 4
LE250
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Architecture and the Arts
978 977 416 354 8
LE150
978 977 416 552 8
LE150
978 977 416 572 6
LE250
History and Biography
978 977 416 581 8
LE150
978 977 416 583 2
LE180
42
978 977 416 496 5
LE200
978 977 416 619 8
LE180
Language Studies
978 977 416 611 2
LE150
978 977 416 598 6
LE180
978 977 416 613 6
LE200
978 977 424 839 9
LE65
978 977 416 493 4
LE140
Politics, Economics, and Social Issues
978 977 416 571 9
LE200
Religious Studies
978 977 416 589 4
LE150
978 977 416 576 4
LE200
978 977 416 529 0
LE200
Travel Literature & Guidebooks
978 977 416 459 0
LE300
978 977 416 578 8
LE45
978 977 416 595 5
LE45
978 977 416 594 8
LE45
978 977 416 621 1
LE200
978 977 424 608 1
LE200
978 977 416 579 5
LE45
978 977 416 302 9
LE200
978 977 416 612 9
LE100
978 977 416 310 4
LE120
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Index
Alexandria 20
Altorki, Soraya 16
Amarna Sunrise 2
Anderson, Lisa 10
Anubis 30
Arab Human Development in the
Twenty-first Century 23
Arab Spring in Egypt 22
Ashour, Radwa 37
Assmann, Jan 7
al-Azzawi, Fadhil 32
Barghouti, Mourid 36
Bedford, Francis 39
Bedouin, Settlers, and
Holiday-Makers 16
Brooklyn Heights 38
Butterfly Wings 28
Cairo Papers in Social Science 40
Calderbank, Anthony 35
Cohen, Raphael 28
Cole, Donald 16
Cooper, John P. 12
Coptic Civilization 9
Dates on My Fingers 33
Davies, Humphrey 36
Days 17
Diary of a Jewish Muslim 29
Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in
Written Arabic 26
Discovering Tutankhamun 6
Dividing the Nile 13
Dodson, Aidan 2
Donker van Heel, Koenraad 5
Elgibali, Alaa 24
Enany, Sarah 29
Forster, E.M. 20
From Akhenaten to Moses 7
Gabra, Gawdat 9
Geology of Egypt 14
El-Haggar, Salah M. 10
Hawass, Zahi 6
Heikkinen, Kay 37
Hetherington, Nigel J. 8
Homecoming 34
Hussein, Taha 17
Hutchins, William M. 27, 30, 31, 32
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here 36
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Johnson-Davies, Denys 34
Kenny, Olive E. 27
al-Koni, Ibrahim 30, 31
Korany, Bahgat 22, 23
Korica, Nevenka 24
Last of the Angels 32
Leafgren, Luke 33
Louis, Samia 25
Lughatuna al-Fusha 25
El-Mahdi, Rabab 22
Mahfouz, Naguib 27
Man of Letters 17
Masculinities in Egypt and the
Arab World 40
Media Arabic 24
Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians 4
Medieval Nile 12
Mills, David E. 13
Al-Mohaimeed, Yousef 35
Moussa, Mahmoud Sami 26
Mrs. Tsenhor 5
Munira’s Bottle 35
Myntti, Cynthia 21
Near East in 1862 39
Negotiating Space 40
New Oasis 31
Palace Walk 27
Paris along the Nile 21
al-Ramli, Muhsin 33
Ransom, Marjorie 15
Rizzo, Helen 40
Ruhayyim, Kamal 29
Salmawy, Mohamed 28
Sampsell, Bonnie M. 14
Selim, Sahar 38
Silver Treasures from the Land
of Sheba 15
Soudias, Dimitris 40
Strouhal, Eugen 4
Sufferers 17
Sustainability and Innovation 10
al-Tahawy, Miral 38
Vachala, Bretislav 4
Valley of the Kings 8
Vymazalová, Hana 4
Weeks, Kent R. 8
Woman from Tantoura 37
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