Cairo: 286 books
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educated middle-class Egyptian from Alexandria, describes his experiences and those of migrant workers and professionals in one of the Gulf states,...
Colors of Enchantment
Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the...
Western Imaginings
The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how Wahhabism has been understood and represented by Western intellectuals, particularly those...
Transforming Loss into Beauty
Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda al-Nowaihi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to...
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...
Egypt's Political Economy
Power Relations in Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This new study deals with the unfolding of the great political and economic transformations of the modern Egyptian state from the appointment of Muhammad Ali as governor of Egypt in 1805 to the era of President Mubarak, with a special focus on the period 1990 2005, which witnessed a rigorous implementation...
Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue...
Coptic Monasteries
Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various...
Studies in Coptic Culture
Transmission and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived...
GIVING according to GODLY ORDER
ENJOY FINANCIAL FREEDOM THE GOD-WAY
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
When it comes to the act of GIVING, we can see that the life of the ancient Israelites was ruled by various giving practices. It has been calculated that they gave around 1/3 of all of their income to The LORD. However they did not give in the way that various preachers are teaching today, they gave...
Amarna Sunset
Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved...
Poisoned Legacy
The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among...
Amarna Sunrise
Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
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 to 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...