Cairo: 286 books
by Miral al-Tahawy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women characters whose lives are subject to the will of a single, often absent, patriarch and his brutal, foul-mouthed mother. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the lives of the Bedouin and peasant women unfold,...
by Tarek Eltayeb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In a desperate attempt to save his mother and two sisters from famine and disease, a young man leaves his native village in Sudan and sets out alone to seek work in the city. This is the beginning of Hamza's long journey. Hunger and destitution lead him ever farther from his home: first from Sudan...
The Book of Safety
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Khaled transcribes testimonies at the Palace of Confessions, a shadowy state-run agency situated in a respectable Cairo suburb. There he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence....
The Scents of Marie-Claire
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This novel from one of Tunisia’s leading writers, the first of his works to be translated into English, narrates a love story in all its stages, in all its glorious and inglorious details. Moment by moment we become acquainted with the morning rituals, the desires of the flesh, the turbulence of...
Arab Women Writers
A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's...
The Smiles of the Saints
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"I have returned to settle my account. . . ." Told through the voices of a group of close friends and spanning a generation, The Smiles of the Saints is an epic story condensed into a short, intricate novel. Twenty-year-old Haneen has just returned to Egypt after an absence of fifteen years...
Egypt in Flux
Essays on an Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist...
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
by Samia Abdennour
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
How do Egyptian Muslims celebrate Ramadan? How do Copts Egyptian Christians celebrate Easter? What should you expect to find on the table when invited to eat in an Egyptian home? What do you say when an Egyptian colleague sneezes? Exactly what do Egyptians do with a mortar and pestle, a sieve, and...
by Halim Barakat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes and in particular one wounded bird as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact...
by Elisabetta Cametti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Katherine Sinclaire è una donna che ama le sfide. Il suo talento l’ha portata a diventare direttore generale della 9Sense Publishing, una delle più potenti case editrici mondiali. È abituata ad avere tutto sotto controllo, ma quando entra nell’ufficio del suo amministratore delegato e lo trova...
Egypt’s Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster? (New Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to...
The Red Land
The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
For thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial-though until now little understood-role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were reluctant...
Egypt from Alexander to the Copts
An Archaeological and Historical Guide Revised Electronic Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
After its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 bc, Egypt was ruled for the next 300 years by the Ptolemaic dynasty founded by Ptolemy I, one of Alexander's generals. With the defeat of Cleopatra VII in 30 bc, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, and later of the Byzantine Empire. For a millennium...