In This Issue

September 2010
In This Issue
» Photographer Xavier Roy
Takes Us Behind His
Viewfinder into Re:viewing
Egypt
» Two AUC Press Novels
Selected as Finalists for
American Translation
Award
Dear Reader,
The AUC Press is actively
readying itself for the new
academic year, which will be
marked by a series of colorful
literary events and an exciting
new list of books from our Fall
2010 catalog.
» New Plant Guide to Egypt's
Magnificent Wadi El Gemal
National Park
» The AUC Press
Professional Training
Program 2010–11Calls for
Graduates
Among the most recently
published titles in our
architecture and the arts section,
we are proud to present
Re:viewing Egypt: Image and
Echo, with astonishing
photographs by French
photographer Xavier Roy, and an
introspective introduction by
Egyptian author Gamal alGhitani; Against the Wall: The Art
of Resistance in Palestine, a stunning book by London-based
freelance journalist William Parry that features the graffiti by foreign
and Palestinian artists and activists covering Israel‟s separation wall;
and Gardens of Sand: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt,
Arabia, Turkey, and the Levant, by Issam Nassar, Patricia
Almárcegui, and Clark Worswick, who have brought together 90
rarely seen original photographs of early Middle East landscapes,
towns, and monuments.
The latest novels from our Arabic Literature in Translation section,
one of the fastest growing of AUC Press‟s publishing program,
include Naguib Mahfouz‟s The Final Hour, translated by Roger
Allen, and In the Time of Love, translated by Kay Heikkinen; The
Puppet by Ibrahim al-Koni, translated by William Hutchins; and The
Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets by Khairy
Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson.
Two other recently published titles from our new catalog, in the area
of politics, economics, and social issues, are Islamic Law and Civil
Code: The Law of Property in Egypt, by Richard A. Debs, which
looks into the modern development of law in Egypt‟s predominantly
Islamic society, and Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research
on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development, edited by
Nagla Rizk and Lea Shaver, “a must-read for scholars and
practitioners interested in economic development, cultural
production, and access to knowledge,” according to Susan K. Sell
from George Washington University.
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Fall 2010 Events
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Cairo Media Iftar
AUC Downtown Cultural
Center
6:00 pm
Wednesday September 29,
2010
Margo Veillon Exhibition
Swiss Ambassador's
Residence, Maadi
6:00 pm
We will be announcing many more great books from the new
catalog as they become available in the coming months.
I invite you to browse through the complete Fall 2010 catalog. And I
look forward to seeing you at our next AUC Press event.
Eid Mubarak!
Mark Linz, Director
The AUC Press Director
Cairo – New York
Book of the Month – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores
Re:viewing Egypt: Image and Echo
Photographs by Xavier Roy
Text by Gamal al-Ghitani
October 6–10, 2010
Frankfurt International Book
Fair
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Book & Author Lecture /
Reception
Hassan Fathy and Continuity
in Islamic Arts and
Architecture
The Birth of a New Modern
By Ahmad Hamid
Hassan Fathy House, Old
Cairo
5:00 pm
Xavier Roy‟s photographs of Egypt
are a lesson in the art of photography
itself, inviting us to experience
images as metaphor, to extend our
notions of reality. Gamal al-Ghitani‟s
essay on the gallery of images and
their reflection of “the essence of the
spirit of Egypt” compel the viewer to
observe Egypt‟s riches not as passive onlookers, but as engaged,
reflective beings. “Through the lens of his camera, the eyes of
Xavier Roy have seen the invisible, observed the hidden, and the
penetrating quality of his gaze takes me back to moments of my
boyhood, of my days in Upper Egypt and Gamaliya,” writes the
Egyptian author of The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009) and The
Mahfouz Dialogs (AUC Press, 2007).
Click here to read an interview with French photographer Xavier
Roy. To view a selection of photographs from Re:viewing Egypt:
Image and Echo, click here.
Click here to order the book.
New AUC Press Books – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores
The Time-Travels of the Man Who
Sold Pickles and Sweets
By Khairy Shalaby
Translated by Michael Cooperson
This modern Arabic novel by Khairy
Shalaby tells the adventures of an
unemployed Egyptian, Ibn Shalaby,
who is prone to sudden dislocations
in time. He finds himself bouncing
uncontrollably through the Fatimid,
Ayyubid, and Mamluk periods, with
occasional return visits to the 1990s.
During his colorful time-travel
adventures he meets Jawhar, the
founder of Cairo, and the historian
Maqrizi. When he gets trapped in the 1300s, he finds himself
fighting with barbarians, cannibals, and prisoners of war.
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Khairy Shalaby, described as “a master storyteller” by Banipal:
Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, is also the author of The
Lodging House (AUC Press, 2006), for which he was awarded
the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003.
To read more about The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold
Pickles and Sweets and order it, click here.
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Access to Knowledge in Egypt
Edited by Nagla Rizk and Lea
Shaver
This book offers a detailed set of
studies into questions of copyright
and creativity in Egypt at a time when
the global economy is increasingly
dominated by the production of
knowledge goods and by struggles
for control over information. Written
by leaders in the field, the essays
provide an overview of the challenges
and opportunities facing efforts to
promote access to knowledge in
Egypt.
“This book represents a critical first step in opening a
multidimensional policy dialogue in Egypt on a subject of pivotal
importance to social and economic development – enhancing
access of citizens to information and the fruits of technical
progress,” writes Frederick M. Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent
Scholar and Professor of International Law, at Florida State
University College of Law, in his review of the volume.
To read more about the book and order it, click here.
More new AUC Press books
To view a selection of photos
from Re:viewing Egypt, by
Xavier Roy, with text by
Gamal al-Ghitani, click here.
Recent Reviews of AUC Press Publications
Keep it together
Book review by Gamal Nkrumah of The River Nile in the PostColonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation among the Nile Basin
Countries, edited by Terje Tvedt, (2010)
Al Ahram Weekly, 19-24 August, 2010
East Winds, West Winds, By Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr, trans. Paul
Starkey
Book review by Alev Adil of East Winds, West Winds (2010) by
Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr, translated by Paul Starkey
The Independent, July 30, 2010
Pithy aphorisms
Book review by Gamal Nkrumah of Bahaa Abdelmegid‟s Saint
Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (2010)
Al Ahram Weekly, 29 July–4 August, 2010
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Copts under the Ayyubids
Book review by Jill Kamil of Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics
in Egypt (1218 -- 1250) (2010) by Kurt J. Werthmuller
Al Ahram Weekly, 15-21 July, 2010
Out of Arabia
Book review by Gamal Nkrumah of Robert McNamara‟s The
Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia (2009)
Al Ahram Weekly, 8-14 July, 2010
Saudi Aramco World reviews several AUC Press books,
including A Photographer on the Hajj: The Travels of Mohammed
Ali Effendi Sa„oudi (1904–1908) (2009) by Farid Kioumgi and
Robert Graham.
Click on "Reading" under "Suggestions" for the reviews of AUC
Press publications.
Books are ordered alphabetically by title.
Saudi Aramco World, July/August, 2010
Strange dependencies
Book review of Drumbeat (2010) by Mohamed El-Bisatie,
translated by Peter Daniel.
The Jordan Times, July 21, 2010
“L’Ecrivain est un cartographe de sa ville”
Interview with author Samia Mehrez about her latest book
Literary Atlas of Cairo (2010).
Al Ahram Hebdo, 7-13 July, 2010
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