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Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and social upheaval and change. It reveals how rappers approached and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era...
All the Pasha's Men
Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
While scholarship has traditionally viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, firmly locating him within the Ottoman context as an ambitious, if problematic, Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
This book presents a concise account of the lives and times of some of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian throne, from the unification of the country around 3000
The Zafarani Files
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the café owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with the troll of a husband all are subjects...
Butterfly Wings
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
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...
by Ibrahim Aslan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Set in the author's own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious...
Mapping My Return
A Palestinian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from...
Revolution Is My Name
An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February 2011. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear,...
Nasser
My Husband
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
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...
Neutrino Hunters
The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the Season
A Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog
A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide Selection
One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics...
The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized...
Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
And Other Reflections on Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?
In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist...
The Cotton Plantation Remembered
An Egyptian Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda 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...