American University in Cairo Press
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Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel
$29.95 Read moreFrom the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Ri… [more below]
- Author: Humphreys, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 9774167198
- Language: English
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Authentic Egyptian Cooking: From the Table of Abou El Sid
$25.62 Read moreClassic Egyptian favorites from one of Cairo’s leading restaurants, in a new soft cover edition
Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home, where generations of unreco
- Author: Leheta, Nehal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 9776790046
- Language: English
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The Long Way Back
$19.95 Read moreThe Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the charac… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Takarli, Fuad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 07 2007
- ISBN10: 9774160924
- Language: English
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The Theocrat
$18.95 Read moreThe Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth ce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Himmich, Bensalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 977416251X
- Language: English
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The Lodging House: A Modern Arabic Novel
$19.95 Read moreA young man’s dreams for a better future as a student in the Teachers’ Institute are shattered after he assaults one of his instructors for discriminating against him. From then on, he begins his desc… [more below]
- Author: Shalaby, Khairy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 9774162390
- Language: English
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The Heron
$16.95 Read moreOne long winter night and the Cairo neighborhood of Kit Kat stands at a crossroads. Poised like herons fishing on the banks of the Nile, the characters of this novel wait and watch as opportunities sw… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Aslan, Ibrahim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 9774163079
- Language: English
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Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel
$19.95 Read moreThis multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama–the symbol of multiplicity a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Kharrat, Edwar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 9774166256
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Heights: An Egyptian Novel
$18.95 Read more- Author: Al-Tahawy, Miral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 9774166590
- Language: English
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The Longing of the Dervish
$18.95 Read moreAt the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let out of prison with the overthrow of the Mahdist state in Sudan. On the brink of death, the memory of his beloved Theodora is all that … [more below]
- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: Ziada, Hammour
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 9774167880
- Language: English
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Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt
$34.95 Add to cartA Book Riot 100 Must-Read Book on Ancient History
Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of deat- Author: Ikram, Salima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 9774166876
- Language: English
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Rameses III, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
$40.83 Read moreMaster story-teller and renowned Egyptologist, Aiden Dodson, reveals the secrets of Rameses III, in this fully-illustrated, accessible history, the first to exclusively cover this last great pharaoh, … [more below]
- Author: Dodson, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 9774169409
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
$40.83 Add to cartAn innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan Dodson
The spectacular discovery o- Series: Lives and Afterlives
- Author: Dodson, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1649031610
- Language: English
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The House of the Coptic Woman
$18.95 Read moreA Notable African Book of 2023 (Brittle Paper)
Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: El-Ashmawi, Ashraf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1649032544
- Language: English
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Papa Sartre
$24.95 Add to cartAfter a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country’s in
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
- Author: Bader, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 9774162986
- Language: English
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Clamor of the Lake
$16.95 Add to cartClamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman and her twin boys. While he gives away nothing abo
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: El-Bisatie, Mohamed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 9774162412
- Language: English
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Final Night: Short Stories
$16.95 Add to cartLove and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979.
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al Nasiri, Buthaina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 9774161157
- Language: English
