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Egyptology continues to inspire a broad interest worldwide. But how andwhen did Egyptology begin, who were its early pioneers, and how did itbecome the careful science that it is today? Historian Jason Thompson tracesthat development in the first volume of the first book of its kind, Wonder-ful Things: A History of Egyptology from Ancient Times to 1881 (page 2).The second and third parts of this major work will be published over thenext year, bringing the story right up to the twenty-first century.

In 1862, the future King Edward VII of England embarked on a grandtour of the Near East, accompanied, for the first time on such a royal tour,by a photographer, Francis Bedford. Bedford returned with a remarkablecollection of early photographs of Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, and Turkey,120 of which are showcased in the fascinating collection Cities, Citadels,and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photo-graphs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople (page 14).

Another outstanding collection of photographs is presented in OmarAttum’s Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness (page 22), wherewe are privileged to view the beautiful desert scenery of Sinai, from the softdunes of the north to the rugged mountains of the south, and some of thepeninsula’s highly adapted inhabitants, through the lens of an extraordi-narily gifted photographer. And staying with wildlife, two new additions tothe popular Nature Foldouts series are published this season: Cats of Egypt(page 32) and Wildlife of the Holy Land (page 33).

The events of the Egyptian Revolution of early 2011 that so stunned theworld have been widely recorded and debated, but what was it actuallylike to be in Tahrir Square during those historic eighteen days? What was itlike for a woman? Mona Prince’s personal, first-hand, day-by-day accountof the spirit, the humor, the tragedy, and the eventual victory of that life-changing occupation is now available for the first time in English, in Revo-lution Is My Name (page 6).

Following the success of our Cairo Anthology last year, Michael Haag,one of the leading historians of Egypt’s second city, has compiled AnAlexandria Anthology (page 16), with words of description, humor, or wis-dom from Amr ibn al-As to Noël Coward, from Plutarch to Mark Twain.

For students of Arabic, a comprehensive new reference work, MahmoudMoussa’s Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in Written Arabic (page 28)contains more than 8,500 entries. And on the lighter side of the language,A Roving Eye: Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions (page 29) is fullof fun, but educational too.

Dr. Nigel [email protected]

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Wonderful Things A History of EgyptologyFrom Antiquity to 1881

The first part of the first comprehensive history of the studyand understanding of ancient Egypt, from ancient times to

the twenty-first century to the twenty-first century

Egyptology–New Series

Jason Thompson

352pp. Hdb. November.978-977-416-599-3. LE250. World.

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology aremomentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptol-ogy is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the pic-ture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past whileinventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generationsof enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the first of athree-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination withancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egyptand its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mys-teries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. Wonderful Things affirms thatthe history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it alsodemonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understand-ing how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

JASON THOMPSON is currently a visiting associateprofessor at Bates College. He is the editor ofEdward William Lane’s Description of Egypt(AUC Press, 2000) and An Account of the Man-ners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians(AUC Press, 2003), and the author of Sir Gar-diner Wilkinson and His Circle, A History ofEgypt: From Earliest Times to the Present (AUCPress, 2008), and Edward William Lane, 1801–1876 (AUC Press, 2010).

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[Wonderful Things] is a remarkable achievement: a scholarly work packedwith facts but one which is also genuinely readable. It is ambitious in itsscope and detail. To follow the growth of an arcane but also a highlyromantic branch of learning becomes in Thompson’s book somethingclose to an adventure. The author successfully conveys his infectiousenthusiasm for the subject but writes with a degree of detachment thatallows him to be refreshingly and occasionally almost ruthlessly trenchantand critical.” —from the Foreword by Jaromir Malek

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Contents

Foreword by Jaromir MalekAcknowledgmentsChronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian History

Introduction1. Egyptology in Antiquity2. A Medieval Hiatus3. Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance4. Ancient Egypt in the Age of the Enlightenment5. The Discovery of Ancient Egypt6. The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs7. Lifting the Veil8. Egypt Itself9. Arrested Development10. Consolidation11. Preservation and Depredation12. Taking Possession of Egypt for the

Cause of Science13. Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Art,

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Ancient Egyptian medicine employed advanced surgical practices, while the pre-vention and treatment of diseases relied mostly on natural remedies and magicalincantations. In the first of three volumes, The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptiansexplores these two different aspects, using textual sources and physical evidenceto cast light on the state of ancient medical knowledge and practice and the hard-ships of everyday life experienced by the inhabitants of the land on the Nile.

The first part of the book focuses on ancient Egyptian surgery, drawing mainlyon cases described in the Edwin Smith papyrus, which details a number ofinjuries listed by type and severity. These demonstrate the rational approachemployed by ancient physicians in the treatment of injured patients. Additionalsurgical cases are drawn from the Ebers papyrus.

The chapters that follow cover gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatric cases,with translations from the Kahun gynecological papyrus and other medical texts,illustrating a wide range of ailments that women and young children suffered inantiquity, and how they were treated.

Illustrated with more than sixty photographs and line drawings, The Medicineof the Ancient Egyptians is highly recommended reading for scholars of ancientEgyptian medicine and magic, as well as for paleopathologists, medical histori-ans, and physical anthropologists.

The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians 1: Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics

The first part of a comprehensive survey of medical knowledgeand practice in ancient Egypt, by leading authorities on the topic

Egyptology

Eugen Strouhal Břetislav Vachala

and Hana Vymazalová

240pp. Hbd. 68 b/w illus. September.978-977-416-640-2. LE300. World.

HANA VYMAZALOVÁ studied Egyptology and logicat Charles University in Prague. She is a memberof the Czech Institute of Egyptology and since2006 has participated in archaeological expedi-tions to Egypt.

BřETISLAV VACHALA is an Egyptologist andarchaeologist at Charles University in Prague.Since 1979 he has participated in archaeologi-cal expeditions of the Czech Institute of Egyp-tology to Egypt.

EUGEN STROUHAL is a physician, anthropologist,and archaeologist, one of the founders of thefield of paleopathology. Since 1961 he has col-laborated with a number of archaeological expe-ditions in Egypt. He is the author of sixteenbooks and 350 articles.


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Ancient Egypt–Reference

The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt

A comprehensive illustrated guide to the towns, cities, and settlements of pharaonic Egypt

Steven Snape

Ancient Egyptian cities and towns have until recently been one of the least-studied and least-published aspects of this great civilization. Now, newresearch and excavation are transforming our knowledge. This is the first bookto bring these latest discoveries to a wide general and scholarly audience,and to provide a comprehensive overview of what we know about ancient set-tlement during the dynastic period.

From the earliest city, Hierakonpolis, founded at the beginning of Egyptianhistory around 3000 BC, to the famous metropolis of Alexandria, one of thegreat cities of the Greco-Roman world, the development of urban living isexplored throughout the whole Nile Valley and Delta. The different parts ofEgyptian cities and towns are examined in detail, with accounts of the sacredprecincts, royal palaces and military fortifications as well as forensic descrip-tions of a variety of typical houses. And beyond the monumental architectureand domestic buildings, the reader is introduced to daily life in ancient Egypt:from essential provisioning of food and water to evidence of sport and leisureactivities, from early schooling to the ritual activities surrounding death, fromlabor to politics to religion. Evidence from literature, scribal texts, inscriptionsand graffiti, as well as artifacts and architectural remains, combine to re-createin amazing detail the everyday lives of the inhabitants of these communities.

Written by a leading authority, and supported by a detailed gazetteer ofsites, The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt has a range and depth beyondany other publication on the subject and will quickly become the standardwork, as well as appealing to all those who seek to look beyond the tombs andtemples to the urban life of those who made their homes along the Nile.

240pp. Pbk. 220 illus (incl. 200 color). September. 978-977-416-676-1. LE150. Middle East.

STEVEN SNAPE teaches Egyptian archaeology atthe University of Liverpool. Settlement archae-ology in Egypt is one of his major research sub-jects, particularly during his excavations at theRamesside fortress town of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. His publications include AncientEgyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death.


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Tahrir Studies

Revolution Is My Name An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir

What it was like and how it felt to be an Egyptian woman revolutionary during the eighteen days that changed Egypt forever

Mona Prince Translated by Samia Mehrez

Original Arabic Title: Ismi thawra 200pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-669-3. LE90. World.

Mona Prince’s humorous and insightful memoir tells of one woman’s journey asa hesitant revolutionary through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising thattoppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Alongside the brutal violence of the security forces, the daily battles of resist-ance, and the author’s own abduction and beating at the hands of the police, thisis a story of exceptional solidarity, perseverance, and humanity. Juggling humorand horror, hope and fear, certitude and anxiety, Prince immerses us in the detailsof each unpredictable and fateful day. She mixes the political and the personal,the public and the private to expose and confront divisions within her family, aswell as her own social prejudices, which she discovers through encounters withdiverse sectors of society, from police conscripts to street children.Revolution Is My Name is a testimony not only of women’s participation in the

Egyptian uprising and their courage in confronting constrictive gender divides athome and on the street, but equally of their important contribution as chroniclersof the momentous events of January and February 2011.

SAMIA MEHREZ is professor of Arabic literature inthe Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizationand director of the Center for Translation Studiesat the American University in Cairo. She is theauthor of The Literary Atlas of Cairo (AUC Press,2010) and The Literary Life of Cairo (AUC Press,2011), and editor of Translating Egypt’s Revolu-tion: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2012).

MONA PRINCE was born in Cairo in 1970. Sheis associate professor of English Literature atSuez Canal University in Egypt. She has pub-lished novels (including So You May See, AUCPress, 2011) and short stories in Arabic, andhas translated both poetry and short stories. In2012, she nominated herself for the Egyptianpresidency in the run-up to the country’s firstever democratic presidential elections.

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Prince’s prose is experientially unsettling and yet irrationally jovial,much like the iconic eighteen days she so vividly helps us relive.As revolution drifts further into individual and communal memory,Prince’s retelling will remain a stubborn testament to the momentsof hopeful triumph over the status quo.” —Adel Iskandar, authorof Egypt in Flux (AUC Press, 2013)

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Revolution is My Name is a beautifully written, detailed text,bringing together Facebook statuses, discussions on thestreets, at home, and with friends, life on a daily basis inTahrir, conversations with military and police soldiers, andmuch more. A must read for anyone interested in the experi-ential level of the revolution.” —Atef Said, Visiting scholar andlecturer in Sociology, the University of Illinois at Chicago

This book offers a first rate discussion of all the importantissues with which Egypt and Egyptians of differentclasses, genders, generations, ethnic groups, and politi-cal orientations continue to struggle. It encourages itsreaders to stay tuned to see what the Egyptian revolu-tion, and those funny and unpredictable Egyptians, willeventually deliver.” —Mervat F. Hatem, Professor of Politi-cal Science, Howard University, Washington DC

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1. Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3. Suez 4. Thursday, January 27, 2011 5. Friday of Rage, January 28, 2011 6. Saturday January 29 7. Sunday, January 30: Afternoon 8. The First Million-Protestor March: Tuesday, February 1 9. Wednesday, February 2: The Battle of the Camel 10. Thursday, February 3 11. Friday of Departure 12. The Week of Perseverance 13. Friday of Deliverance: February 11


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Temple Bar A Novel

A novel of culture shock in Dublin and Cairo by the authorof Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers

Arabic Fiction—New

Bahaa Abdelmegid Translated by Jonathan Wright

Original Arabic Title: Khammarat al-ma‘bad 224pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-660-0. LE100. World.

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academicMoataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz hasenough problems with his family’s high expectations and the unrequited, ide-alized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantanker-ous landlords, inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, hauntedseminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffeyto make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with him, especially theclash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionallyentangled with anyone other than his version of the ideal woman. In his yearaway from home Moataz learns how diverse the world is, but returning toCairo is a shock that tests his physical and mental strength. Only when hepasses that test can he make a promising new start.

JONATHAN WRIGHT is the translator of a numberof Arabic novels including Rasha Al Ameer’sJudgment Day (AUC Press, 2011) and Fahd al-Atiq’s Life on Hold (AUC Press, 2012). He wasawarded the 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizefor Arabic Literary Translation for his transla-tion of Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan.

BAHAA ABDELMEGID teaches English literature atAin Shams University and is the author of twocollections of short stories and four novels,including Saint Theresa and Sleeping withStrangers (AUC Press, 2010).

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Women of Karantina A Novel

A baroque novel of crime and excess in a future Alexandria,from a young Egyptian writer of promise

Nael Eltoukhy Translated by Robin Moger

Original Arabic Title: Nisa’ al-Karantina 308pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-662-4. LE120. World.

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds flee-ing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria’s main train station. Fugi-tives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set aboutrebuilding, and from the coastal city’s arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom ofcrime, a revolution: Karantina.

Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhy’s slypsychopomp of a narrator is our guide not only to the teeming cast of pimps,dealers, psychotics, and half-wits and the increasingly baroque chronicles oftheir exploits, but also to the moral of his tale. Defiant, revolutionary, andpatriotic, are the rapists and thieves of Alexandria’s crime families deludedmaniacs or is their myth of Karantina—their Alexandria reimagined as theonce and future capital—what they believe it to be: the revolutionary dreammade brick and mortar, flesh and bone?

Subversive and hilarious, deft and scalpel-sharp, Eltoukhy’s sprawling epicis a masterpiece of modern Egyptian literature. Mahfouz shaken by the tail, alunatic dream, a future history that is the sanest thing yet written on Egypt’scurrent woes.

ROBIN MOGER studied Egyptology and Arabicat Oxford University before working as a jour-nalist in Cairo for six years. He is the transla-tor of A Dog with No Tail by Hamdi AbuGolayyel (AUC Press, 2009) and his transla-tion for Writing Revolution (2013) won the2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writ-ing in translation.

NAEL ELTOUKHY is an Egyptian writer and jour-nalist, born in Kuwait in 1978. He graduatedfrom the Hebrew Department in Ain ShamsUniversity, Cairo in 2000. His first collectionof short stories was published in 2003, and heis the author of four novels. He has also trans-lated two books from Hebrew into Arabic.

This book is certainly a significant additionfor its young author . . . and is for sure anew twist in the evolution of the form of theEgyptian novel itself.”—Ahram Online‘‘

With an epic tone that laughs at everything, anunusual lightness of spirit, and a surprisinglyfresh treatment of old motifs, such as violenceor succession, Eltoukhy creates somethingunprecedented in the history of the Arabicnovel.” —Arabic Literature (in English)

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Original Arabic Title: Ju‘124pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-680-8. LE75. World.

Hunger An Egyptian Novel

Mohamed El-Bisatie Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

A novel of country life below the poverty line by the master of minimalism, in a new paperback edition

As with his earlier works, Mohamed El-Bisatie’s novel is set in the Egyptiancountryside, about which he writes with such understanding. Episodic in form,it deals with a family—Zaghloul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffer-ing wife, and two young boys. The central theme of the book is hunger: thehunger of not knowing where one’s next meal is coming from, and the uni-versal hunger for sex and love. Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provideher family with the necessary daily loaves of bread that will stave off starva-tion. Labor-shy Zaghloul works on and off at one of the village’s cafés, butprefers to spend his time listening in on conversations about subjects such aspolitics, which he would have liked to know more about, if only he had beenan educated man. He is also intrigued by the stories told by young universitystudents about their sexual exploits. Eventually chance presents him with anew job: to keep company with an elderly and over-fat man and help him onand off the mule he has to use for getting about.

After looking in turn at the lives of the husband and the wife, the novelfinally focuses on their elder son, who, although lacking the advantages ofany sort of education, nonetheless shows more initiative than his father, anddiscovers his own way of contributing to the family bread larder.

Despite its bleak title, Hunger is told with a lightness of touch and thewriter’s trademark wry humor.

MOHAMED EL-BISATIE (1937–2012) was theauthor of a number of novels and short storycollections, including A Last Glass of Tea (AUCPress, 1994), Houses behind the Trees (AUCPress, 1997), Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press,

DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES has produced more thanthirty volumes of translation of modern Arabicliterature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008), The Essential YusufIdris (AUC Press, 2009), and The Essential

Arabic Fiction—1st Time in Paperback

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Wedding Night An Egyptian Novel

Arabic Fiction—1st Time in Paperback

Yusuf Abu Rayya Translated by R. Neil Hewison

In a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda the deaf and mute butcher’sapprentice. Revealing the town’s private stories through public sign language,Houda articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparentquietude of rural society. But his own unrestrained desire threatens to scan-dalize the town and rock its codes of public behavior.

When it is reported that he has violated the sanctity of his employer’s ownhouse, the whole town, with the butcher and Shaykh Saadoun, the pretend-ing Sufi, in the lead, rises to avenge itself and publicly humiliate and ridiculeHouda. The elaborate ruse planned by the butcher and the shaykh, playing onHouda’ s hopes, dreams, and fantasies, is foolproof—but while Houda may bea dreamer, he is certainly no fool.

This original, satiric novel, introducing the reader to every public and pri-vate corner in the life of a small town, is both a daring critique of contempo-rary Egyptian reality and a thoroughly good read, a remarkable novel ofsustained carnivalesque suspense and wicked black humor that marks thearrival of a true literary talent.

Original Arabic Title: Laylat ‘urs144pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-683-9. LE75. World.

YUSUF ABU RAYYA (1955–2009) was born inHihya in the Nile Delta. He wrote seven novels,five short story collections, and nine books forchildren, and was on the governing board of theEgyptian branch of PEN International. WeddingNight was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medalfor Literature in 2005.

R. NEIL HEWISON is the translator of City of Loveand Ashes by Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 1998), andthe author of The Fayoum: History and Guide(AUC Press, 4th ed. 2008).

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The Lanterns of the King of Galilee A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine

An epic novel of historic Palestine from the author of Time of White Horses

Ibrahim Nasrallah Translated by Nancy Roberts

Original Arabic Title: Qanadil malik al-Jalil 560pp. Pbk. November. 978-977-416-666-2. LE120. World.

In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee’s Lake Tiberias, vision-ary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a jour-ney toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: theestablishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge therule of the greatest power in the world at the time—the Ottoman Empire—while translating the ideals of human dignity, justice, and religious toleranceinto concrete daily realities.

In this compelling story of love and loss, victory and defeat, loyalty andbetrayal, award-winning poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, author of theArabic Booker shortlisted Time of White Horses, once again brings Palestin-ian history alive with a set of characters and events both real and imagined tocapture the essence of a rich and dramatic epoch in the turbulent annals of aland that has been fought over for millennia.


NANCY ROBERTS is the translator of a number ofArabic novels including Salwa Bakr’s The Manfrom Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for whichshe received a commendation in the SaifGhobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, andIbrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses.

IBRAHIM NASRALLAH was born to Palestinian par-ents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugeecamp there. He has written fourteen collectionsof poetry and fourteen novels as well as worksof literary criticism. He is also a painter andphotographer. He is the author of Inside theNight (AUC Press, 2007) and Time of WhiteHorses (AUC Press, 2012).

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ROSEMARY SAYIGH is an oral historian andanthropologist and the author of Palestinians:From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Too ManyEnemies: The Palestinian Experience inLebanon, and Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement. She is a currently visiting professor at the Center for Arab andMiddle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut.

Yusif Sayigh Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot: A Fractured Life Story

A rare firsthand account by a prominent Palestinian economist of his youth and childhood in the mandate-eraLevant and his life’s devotion to the cause of Palestine

Biography

Edited by Rosemary Sayigh

376pp. Hdb. 19 b/w illus. September.978-977-416-671-6. LE200. World.

An acclaimed economist and lifelong Palestinian nationalist Yusif Sayigh(1916–2004) came of age at a time of immense political change in the Mid-dle East. Born in al-Bassa, near Acre in northern Palestine, he was witness tothe events that led to the loss of Palestine and his memoir therefore constitutesa vivid social history of the region, as well as a revealing firsthand account ofthe Palestinian national movement almost from its earliest inception. Familyand everyday life, co-villagers, landscapes, pleasures, outings, schooling, andpolitical figures recreate the vanished world of Sayigh’s formative years in theLevant. An activist in Palestine, he was taken prisoner of war by the Israelis in1948. Later, as an economist, he wrote extensively on Arab oil, economicdevelopment, and manpower, teaching for many years at the American Uni-versity of Beirut and taking early retirement in 1974 to work as a consultantfor a number of pan-Arab and international organizations. A single chapter onPalestinian politics provides insights into his later activist work and experi-ences of working as a consultant with the Palestine Liberation Organizationto produce an economic plan for an eventual Palestinian state.

This fascinating memoir by a pioneer and major figure of the Palestiniannational movement is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Pales-tinian life during the first half of the twentieth century as well as an accountof some of the most pressing political and economic issues to have faced theArab world for the better part of the twentieth century.


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Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople

Haunting images of the great cities and historic sites ofthe Near East from a bygone era through the eyes of an

English photographer in royal company

Travel and Early Photography

Text by Sophie Gordon and Badr El Hage

160pp. Flexibound. 120 illus. September. 978-977-416-670-9. LE200. World.

In 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain’s Queen Victoria,embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlight-enment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accom-plished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged withtaking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royalalbum. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best earlyphotographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and theHoly Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From time-less views of the Pyramids, the Dome of the Rock, Baalbek, and HagiaSophia to scenes from another age of the streets of Cairo or tall ships on theBosphorus, 120 of Bedford’s most outstanding photographs are showcasedhere in this fascinating visual tour of ancient lands in royal company.

SOPHIE GORDON is senior curator of photographs at Royal Collec-tion Trust and has published widely on nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century photography. BADR EL HAGE is an independentphoto-historian who has worked as a freelance writer and curatorin the Middle East.

FRANCIS BEDFORD (1815–94) was an Englisharchitect and lithographer who took up the newart of photography in the early 1850s and beganfulfilling royal commissions for Queen Victoriain 1857. In 1862 he was appointed official pho-tographer to the Prince of Wales’s tour of theMiddle East, and his photographs from this tripwere critically acclaimed. His London photo-graphic studio prospered until his death in 1894.

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The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 1 April 1862

A street in Cairo, 24 March 1862 Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), 22 May 1862


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Literary Gift Book

An Alexandria Anthology Travel Writing through the Centuries

The great port city of Alexandria, its shambling elegiaccharm and vanished pasts and pleasures, seen through the

eyes of writers and travelers

Edited by Michael Haag

Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria hasbelonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting ofEurope on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the East—the fabled cosmo-politan town that fascinated travelers, writers, and poets in the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries, where French and Arabic, Italian and Greek were spokenin the cafés and on the streets.

In the pages of An Alexandria Anthology, we follow the delight of travelers dis-covering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures. Most of allthey are haunted by the city’s resplendent past—the famous Library, the templebuilt by Cleopatra for Antony, the great Pharos lighthouse, one of the seven won-ders of the world, of which only traces remain—we follow our travelers heretoo as they voyage through an immense ghost city of the imagination.

MICHAEL HAAG is a writer and photographerbased in London. He has photographed andwritten Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press,2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006),and he is the author of Alexandria: City ofMemory and Vintage Alexandria: Photographsof the City, 1860–1960 (AUC Press, 2008).160pp. Hdb. 20 b/w illus. September.

978-977-416-672-3. LE100. World.

Alexandria described by Amr ibn al-As, Constantine Cavafy, JeanCocteau, Noël Coward, Vivant Denon, Lawrence Durrell, ElizaFay, E.M. Forster, Ibn Battuta, Naguib Mahfouz, Florence Nightin-gale, Plutarch, Henry Salt, Strabo, W.M. Thackeray, Mark Twain,Count Patrice de Zogheb, and many others

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I have made the pilgrimage sixtytimes; but if God had suffered meto stay a month at Alexandria andpray on its shores, that monthwould be dearer to me than thesixty prescribed pilgrimageswhich I have undertaken.” —Abd al-Malik ibn Juraij, c.760

Alexandria is very jealous of Cairo and isalways training tennis and golf players togo and collect cups from the capital, andif Cairo has a riot in the streets Alexandriaalways has a bigger and better one nextday; there seems to be more buildinggoing on in Alexandria and therefore abetter supply of bricks and stones tothrow at the police. Also Alexandria hasmore Greek grocers to be looted andbeaten.” —C.S. Jarvis, 1937

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Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 1500–1800

A revisionist approach to the period of world history between 1500 and 1800, away from

Eurocentric accounts of early modern globalizationto a more complex, multi-centered view of world

transformation, with the focus on Egypt

Near Eastern History

Nelly Hanna

192pp. Hdb. September. 978-977-416-664-8. LE200. World.

Based on the Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lectures given by Nelly Hanna at the Cen-ter for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University, this groundbreaking bookwill be of interest to all those looking for a different perspective on the historyof south–north relations.

Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwidetransformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Professor Hannaquestions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modernworld history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America andAsia, the formation of trading companies, and scientific discoveries. She addsto the debate by showing that there were worldwide trends that touched Egypt,India, southeast Asia, and Europe: in all these areas, for example, there werelinguistic shifts that brought the written language closer to the spoken word.She also demonstrates that technology and know-how, far from being centeredonly in Europe, flowed in different directions: for instance, in the eighteenthcentury, French entrepreneurs were trying to imitate the techniques of bleach-ing and dyeing of cloth that they found in Egypt and other Ottoman localities.

NELLY HANNA is distinguished university professorin the Department of Arab and Islamic Civiliza-tions at the American University in Cairo. She isthe author of a number of books including Societyand Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediter-ranean 1600–1900 (AUC Press, 2005) and ArtisanEntrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capital-ism 1600–1800 (AUC Press, 2011).

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Travel and Biography

American Travelers on the Nile Early U.S. Visitors to Egypt, 1774–1839

A fascinating study of the early American experience in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean

Andrew Oliver

424pp. Hdb. 34 color illus. October.978-977-416-667-9. LE200. World.

The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Ameri-cans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists toRome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. Moreintrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt.Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, amongthem graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of theBible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers.Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see thepyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered riceand cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the KalahariDesert for wild animal shows in New York.

Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neg-lected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, thisbook offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the east-ern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the storiestold by the travelers themselves.

ANDREW OLIVER is a retired art historian andmuseum administrator living in Washington,DC. With degrees from Harvard College andthe Institute of Fine Arts at New York Univer-sity, he was director of the Museum Program atthe National Endowment for the Arts, a federalagency in Washington, from 1982 to 1994.Earlier in his career, from 1960 to 1970, hewas a curator in the Greek and Roman Depart-ment at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The Arabian Horse of Egypt

Magnificent photographs celebrating the history and splendor of this special breed—new paperback edition

New in Paperback

Photographs by Nasr Marei Foreword by HRH Princess Alia Bint Al Hussein

160pp. Pbk. 140 color photographs. September. 978-977-416-665-5. LE150. World.

Prized for their stamina and their acclimation to the harsh conditions of theArabian deserts, the ancestors of the horses that are now recognized as theEgyptian Arabian purebred horse entered Egypt centuries ago, establishing thevaluable bloodlines of the breed there. The breeding programs in Egypt there-fore became the root source for the finest Arabian horses, attracting passion-ate enthusiasts from all corners of the world. Artists, poets, and historians havefor centuries been inspired by their great beauty and romantic legacy.

Nasr Marei is the third-generation owner of a stud farm in Giza, Egypt. Hislove for and knowledge of the Egyptian Arabian horse, coupled with his sen-sitive and striking photography, have inspired this visual tribute. His extraor-dinary photographs, accompanied by text that traces the history and evolutionof the Arabian’s journey into Egypt, celebrate the lineage of this living treas-ure of Egyptian heritage.

NASR MAREI holds a PhD from the University ofCalifornia, Davis. He is the co-founder and vice-chairman of the Egyptian Arabian Horse Breed-ers Association. He was given a LifetimeAchievement Award by the Arabian HorseBreeders Alliance in 2013.

HRH PRINCESS ALIA BINT AL HUSSEIN of Jordan is aworld-renowned Arabian horse breeder, showjudge, and director of the Royal Stables of Jor-dan for the Preservation of the Arabian Horse.

Thanks to Marei’s extraordinary photo-graphs and informative text, no reader willfail to appreciate the unique history, andextraordinary beauty that have long madethe Arabian of Egypt among the mostcelebrated and sought-after animals in theworld.” —Saudi Aramco World

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Travel and Tradition

The timeless allure of Siwa through its traditional crafts,and the history and customs in which they are rooted

Margaret M. Vale

272pp. Pbk. 139 illus., incl. 37 in color. November.978-977-416-681-5. LE150. World.

Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the borderwith Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As aresult of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its craftsof basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silver-work. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelerythat was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies.

Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with refer-ence to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this high-point of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs,social life, and dramatic history. It places the women’s jewelery, costume, andembroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in cer-emonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and atti-tudes to the world.

The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century,the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasiswas exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the tra-ditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.

MARGARET VALE has an MA in social anthropol-ogy from the University of London. She hastraveled extensively and lived for long periodsin the Middle East, where she studied andcollected desert jewelry and textiles. In Egyptshe developed an interest in Siwan life andculture and has lived in the oasis and visitedit regularly.

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Sinai Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness

A uniquely spectacular visual journey through thewildlife and landscapes of the Sinai peninsula

Omar Attum

192pp. Hdb. 150 color photographs. September. 978-977-416-661-7. LE250. World.

Sinai’s allure is legendary. Its spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna,and unique history, the store of centuries, have long held sway in the imagi-nation of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula’s south pro-vide the fertile soil that feeds some of Egypt’s highest diversity of plants, whilefoxes, vipers, lizards, and tortoises are just some of the animals that make theirhome in the north, which is characterized by lagoons and vast dunes of softsand. Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness transports us to thehaunting grandeur of this peninsula with 150 breathtaking full-color photo-graphs. Omar Attum’s discerning eye shows us blood-red mountains, animalsin natural repose and habitat, solitary trees and flowers, and fugitive strips ofwater, conveying stark beauty and enormous vulnerability, an abundance of lifeyet utter, devastating peace. The photographs are accompanied by an evoca-tive introduction by Attum to Sinai’s wildlife and landscape.

OMAR ATTUM is a wildlife biologist and professorat Indiana University Southeast who fell in lovewith Sinai at the age of sixteen. He has beenconducting wildlife research and surveys in thepeninsula since 1998. A self-taught photogra-pher, his credits include National Geographicmagazine, The Courier Journal, Outdoor Photog-rapher, Popular Photography, Shutterbug, EgyptToday, and The Jordan Times. He is the recipientof a Blue Earth Alliance Photography fellowship.

Nature Photography

Biologist Omar Attum’s photographsreveal the extraordinary beauty of naturein the Middle East. His pictures are stun-ning and surprising. This book will changethe perceptions of anyone who has theopportunity to peruse its pages. Omar hasthe rare gift of combining expert knowl-edge with an artistic eye.”—Pam Spauld-ing, award-winning photojournalist

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This is a fascinating book that revealsmore of the magic of Sinai throughnew and alternative perspectives,never explored before. The author’slove of nature, his keen artistic visionand infatuation with the Sinai are allreflected in the enormous effortmade to capture this rich visual doc-umentary and bring it to the public toshare and appreciate.”—Sherif BahaEl Din, Nature Conservation Egypt

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Social Sciences—Middle East

A critical political economy examination of development in the Middle East

Edited by Bahgat Korany

368pp. Hdb. 53 charts, 12 tables. October.978-977-416-658-7. LE300. World.

With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularlyauspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by thegreatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the ArabSpring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP’sArab Human Development Report, Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century places empowerment at the center of human development in theArab world, viewing it not only from the vantage point of a more equitabledistribution of economic resources but also of fundamental legal, educational,and political reform.

The ten chapters in this book follow closely this political economy frame-work. They look back at what Arab countries have achieved since the early2000s and forward to what remains to be done to reach full development.Supported by a wealth of statistical material, they cover the rule of law, theevolution of media, the persistence of corruption, the draining of resourcesthrough armed conflict, the dominance and increase of poverty, the environ-ment, and religious education. The concluding chapter attempts an inventoryof the world literature and different experiences on democratic transition toexplore where the region could be heading.

This critical and timely study is indispensable reading to development spe-cialists and to Middle East scholars and students alike, as well as to anyonewith an interest in the future trajectory of the region.

BAHGAT KORANY is professor of internationalrelations and political economy at the Ameri-can University in Cairo, and director of theAUC Forum. He is the co-editor of The For-eign Policies of Arab States (AUC Press, 2008)and Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution andBeyond (AUC Press, 2012) and editor of TheChanging Middle East: A New Look atRegional Dynamics (AUC Press, 2010).

CONTRIBUTORS: Louisa Ait-Driss, Najoua Fezza,Lina Khatib, Mustafa Khawaja, Zeyad Makhamret,Mhamed Malki, Baqer El-Najjar, Sabria El-Thawr

Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first CenturyThe Primacy of Empowerment

A timely collection of essays by schol-ars from the region on some of the keypolitical-economy and institutionalchallenges facing the Arab world today.Arab Human Development in theTwenty-first Century is essential read-ing for students, scholars, and policy-makers who desire a way forward inachieving broadly based human devel-opment in the Arab world.”—Fawaz A.Gerges, London School of Economicsand Political Science

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Egypt’s Desert Dreams Development or Disaster?

A rigorous and comprehensive examination of Egypt’s desertdevelopment over the past half-century, the first of its kind, by

the author of Understanding Cairo

Sustainability

David Sims Foreword by Timothy Mitchell

416pp. Hdb. 85 photographs, 15 maps. November. 978-977-416-668-6. LE300. World.

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as theultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new indus-trial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all havebeen promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pulltens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valleyinto the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures andever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at best, andtoday Egypt’s desert is littered with stalled schemes, abandoned projects, andforlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly uninhabited. Egypt’s Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kind to look at Egypt’s desert

development in its entirety. It recounts the failures of governmental schemes,analyzes why they have failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt’s desertprojects, as well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behindit, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is not lost, and thatthere are alternative paths that Egypt could take.

TIMOTHY MITCHELL is professor of Middle EasternStudies at Columbia University. He is the authorof Colonising Egypt, Rule of Experts: Egypt,Techno-Politics, Modernity, and Carbon Democ-racy: Political Power in the Age of Oil.

DAVID SIMS is an economist and urban plannerwho has been based in Egypt since 1974. As wellas having worked in several Arab, Asian andAfrican countries, he has led studies on urbandevelopment, industrial estates, tourism, andother aspects of Egypt’s economic geography andspatial development. He is the author of Under-standing Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Con-trol (AUC Press, 2010).

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From Christian Egypt to Islamic Egypt Religion, Identity, and Politics after the Arab Conquest

A vital contribution to the understudied period of Byzantine to early Islamic Egypt

History

Maged S.A. Mikhail

444pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-682-2. LE200. Middle East.

Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period by drawingon a wide array of literary and documentary sources, Maged Mikhailstresses the cultural and institutional developments that punctuated thehistories of Christians and Muslims in the province under early Islamicrule. From Christian Egypt to Islamic Egypt traces how the largely agrarianEgyptian society responded to the influx of Arabic and Islam, the means bywhich the Coptic Church constructed its sectarian identity, the Islamizationof the administrative classes and how these factors converged to create anew medieval society. The result is a fascinating and essential study forscholars of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt.

MAGED S.A. MIKHAIL is associate professor ofhistory at California State University, Fullerton,specializing in late antique and early Islamichistory, and is the managing editor of Coptica.He is the co-editor of Christianity and Monas-ticism in Wadi al-Natrun (AUC Press, 2009).

[This] is a tour de force of historical analysis. . . .The data is meticulously analyzed and the con-clusions drawn from it impressively documented.This is a rich and layered work that challengessome widespread and long-held views on therelationship between Christian and Muslim iden-tity and community in Egypt.”—Jamal J. Elias,University of Pennsylvania

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Christianity and Monasticismin Middle Egypt

The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in MiddleEgypt from the fourth century to the present day

Edited by Gawdat Gabra and Hany Takla

352pp. Hdb. 90 b/w illus. January. 978-977-416-663-1. LE200. World.

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in MiddleEgypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla.The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology fromaround the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in MiddleEgypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeol-ogy, architecture, language and literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sitesin the region is highlighted, attesting to their important legacies in the region.

Religious History

GAWDAT GABRA is the former director of theCoptic Museum and the author, coauthor, oreditor of numerous books on the history andculture of Egyptian Christianity, including TheHistory and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo(AUC Press, 2013). He is currently visitingprofessor of Coptic studies at Claremont Grad-uate University, California.

HANY N. TAKLA is the founding president of theSaint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society.

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A Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in Written Arabic For Readers of Classical and Modern Texts

An invaluable new resource for learners and nativespeakers of Modern Standard Arabic

Arabic Language Reference

Mahmoud Sami Moussa

550pp. Hbd. October. 978-977-416-641-9. LE300. World.

How would you ever know that “to lose a baby ostrich” means to rushinto something without thinking? Or that “what can the wind take fromthe pavement?” is said when someone has nothing left to lose?

This comprehensive guide to idiomatic expressions in literary Arabic,the first of its kind, will inform, amuse, and entertain, through more than8500 entries found in texts from the Qur’an to today’s newspapers. Withexplanations in Arabic and English, it is an essential resource for both stu-dents of Arabic and native speakers.

Reaching into the great wealth of this complex and intriguing language,the dictionary draws on and reveals the rich cultural and religious tradi-tions of Arabic-speaking communities that have informed its idioms.Expressions of condolence, astonishment, and hardship, alongside sayingsabout friendship, miserliness, and reconciliation are collected and madeaccessible here, and glimpses are provided into history through phrasestied to important events and figures—from the ancient Egyptians to Sad-dam Hussein—altogether allowing a fascinating insight into Arabic’s manyquirks and intricacies.

MAHMOUD SAMI MOUSSA is a senior instructorin the Arabic Language Institute of the Ameri-can University in Cairo.


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A Roving Eye Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions

A book whose blood is light, whose tongue drips honey, and which throws its ears at the sayings that color

everyday talk in Egypt

Mona Ateek, Mona Kamel Hassan Trevor Naylor, Marian Sarofim

Photographs by Doriana MacMullen

96pp. Hdb. November. 978-977-416-679-2. LE100. World.

No matter where we come from, we all have our unique local expressionsand proverbs that raise confused eyebrows when translated literally. Thesephrases usually carry humor and wisdom at their core, but are only fullyunderstood in their native language. A Roving Eye explores some of thesephrases and sayings from one of the world¹s most expressive tongues, Egypt-ian Arabic, the most widely spoken form of Arabic.

Including some one hundred popular phrases and proverbs, all linked toparts of the body and features of the face, A Roving Eye uses striking black-and-white photography to bring these expressions to life. The result is a bookthat will delight both learners and native speakers of Arabic, as well as loversof Egypt who have little knowledge of the language. Each phrase or saying fea-tures a photograph, the original expression in Arabic, its transliteration, andits equivalents in English (both literal and proverbial). The whole book makesa perfect gift or a fun read for family and friends.

Language and Culture

MONA ATEEK has been teaching in the EnglishLanguage Institute of the American University inCairo (AUC) since 1987. MONA KAMEL HASSAN isa senior Arabic language instructor in theDepartment of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI)at the AUC. TREVOR NAYLOR is the author of Liv-ing Normally: Where Life Comes Before Style.He lives in Cairo. MARIAN SAROFIM has beenteaching English at the AUC since 1972. DORIANA MACMULLEN is a Bulgarian photogra-pher who lives and works in Cairo. Her love ofthe Egypt and its people is reflected here inwhat has been her most exciting photographychallenge yet.


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Uktub al-‘arabiya Intermediate Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic

A new textbook series for Arabic language students

Language Studies

Azza Hassanein Dalal Abo El Seoud

and Hala Yehia

112pp. Pbk. January. 978-977-416-635-8.LE120. World.

This new series of three books aims to develop the writing skills of studentslearning Modern Standard Arabic, enabling them to move from forming cor-rect words, phrases, sentences, and simple texts, to writing simple paragraphsand ultimately producing texts with the competency of a native speaker. TheIntermediate level volume introduces students to authentic Arabic writingstyles; strengthens and enhances their grammar; includes more sophisticatedkey words, collocations, expressions, and idioms; reinforces linguistic accu-racy; and trains them to use handwriting script. Practical skills such as how towrite memorandums, messages, and e-mails and how to compile informationare included. Developed and piloted in the classrooms of the Arabic Lan-guage Institute at the American University in Cairo, this series has benefitedfrom the expertise and knowledge of leading teachers of Arabic.

DALAL ABO EL SEOUD, with a PhD from AinShams University, is a senior instructor in theArabic Language Institute at the AmericanUniversity in Cairo.

AZZA HASSANEIN holds a BA from MansouraUniversity and an MA in Teaching Arabic as aForeign Language from the American Univer-sity in Cairo. She is a senior instructor in theArabic Language Institute at the AmericanUniversity in Cairo.

HALA YEHIA is a senior instructor in the ArabicLanguage Institute at the American Universityin Cairo.

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Nature Foldouts

Cats of Egypt An AUC Press Nature Foldout

A handy colorful guide to the wild and domestic felines of Egypt ancient and modern

Dominique Navarro and Richard Hoath

8pp. Folded 14.5x21.5 cm. Unfolded 21.5x58.5 cm. November.978-977-416-675-4. LE45. World.

Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintingsof domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worshipto the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores wild anddomestic cats of Egypt: large cats like the Cheetah, the Leopard, and the Cara-cal, which are all extremely threatened or near extinction within Egypt; andsmaller cats including the African Wild Cat, Swamp Cat, Sand Cat, and EgyptianMau. Whether wild or household pets, cats have long been beloved by people.• Each species described and illustrated, alongside examples of their

natural prey in the wild• Map of Egypt describing the various habitats of wild cats, as well

as locations of ancient Egyptian sites where the cat was worshiped and mummified

• Noted appearances of felines in hieroglyphs and reliefs• Conservation efforts for threatened cat species

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RICHARD HOATH is one of Egypt’s leading natu-ralists. He is the author of A Field Guide to theMammals of Egypt (AUC Press, 2004) andNatural Selections, A Year of Egypt’s Wildlife(AUC Press, 1993), and is on the faculty of theAmerican University in Cairo.

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO is a natural history artistand writer. She has also done archaeologicalillustrations and sculptural reconstructions ofunidentified persons and ancient archaeologi-cal remains. She is an Emmy nominated artdirector for the television documentary seriesBig History.

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Wildlife of the Holy Land An AUC Press Nature Foldout

A handy colorful guide to the animals and plantsof the Holy Land

Nature Foldouts

Dominique Navarro and Sherif Baha El Din

8pp. Folded 14.5x21.5 cm. Unfolded 21.5x58.5 cm. September.978-977-416-674-7. LE45. World.

The Holy Land—the birthplace of great religions—is also an environment ofunique flora and fauna. Encompassing a vast, ancient region—lying betweenthe Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, from Syria in the north down toEgypt in the south—the Holy Land has been home to an array of wildlife,some of which remain today, others of which have vanished for all time. Thesacred stories of Noah’s Ark filled with such animals, and the Garden of Edenexemplified the diversity and cohabitation of the natural world. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores some of the most beloved wildliferevered as sacred and special in the Holy Land, past and present.• Includes over 50 species of flora and fauna• Map of the Holy Land with geological sites including the Jordan Valley,

Euphrates River, Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, Negev Desert, Sinai, theMediterranean, Red Sea, and River Nile

• Quotes from holy texts giving insight on the relationship of humankindwith wildlife

SHERIF BAHA EL DIN, with a PhD in ecology, issenior technical advisor at BirdLife Interna-tional, Florida, and environmental consultantto the UNDP. He is the author of CommonBirds of Egypt (AUC Press, 1984) and A Guideto the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt (AUCPress, 2006).


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Islamic History through Coins An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coinage (Revised Edition)

A revised and expanded digitaledition of the classic investigationof what historians can learn through the study of coins

e-Book

Jere L. Bacharach

e-Book. November. 978-161-797-520-2. $29.99. World.

Islamic History through Coins has become the standard reference for Islamiccoinage struck by the Ikhshidid rulers of Egypt and Palestine (935–69). The sec-ond edition not only corrects minor errors in the first edition but adds data onmore than three hundred new specimens, including a half-dozen coin types notidentified in the first edition. The new specimens include two examples struckwith the mint name Mecca and a gold issue associated with the famous eunuchKafur, two years before he became sole ruler of Egypt. As noted in a number ofvery positive reviews, the value of this book is that it serves two distinct audi-ences successfully. While the first part of the book is considered the best intro-duction to the study of Islamic coinage available in English and serves the needsof students, faculty, collectors and dealers who are seeking a place to start theirpossible study of Islamic numismatics, the second half is a catalogue of morethan 1,500 specimens, enabling curators, collectors, and dealers to identifycoins and their relative rarity. The early chapters, which are heavily illustrated,demonstrate how numismatic evidence can be used to enhance our under-standing of this period of Islamic rule. For example, the coinage reveals thehierarchy of parts of the names used by the Ikhshidid rulers, which cannot befound in narrative texts, and the retention of a pre-Islamic artistic memory oftheir Central Asian origins unknown until this study of their coinage.

JERE L. BACHARACH is emeritus professor of Mid-dle Eastern history at Washington University.He is the editor of The Restoration and Con-servation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt(AUC Press, 1995) and Fustat Finds: Beads,Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, andOther Artifacts from the Awad Collection(AUC Press, 2001).


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e-Book

Nocturnal Poetics The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context

A critical study of one of the world’s best loved books, in a new digital edition

Ferial J. Ghazoul

e-Book. September. 978-161-797-538-7. $9.99. World.

The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights,is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabicnarrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul’s analy-sis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricateand much-admired literary masterpiece.

The author draws on a wealth of critical tools — medieval Arabic aestheticsand poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literarycriticism, and formal and structural analysis — to explain the specific genius ofthe The Arabian Nights. The author describes and examines the internal cohe-sion of the book, establishing its morphology and revealing the dialectics of theframe-story and enframed cycles of narrative. She discusses various forms of nar-rative — folk epics, animal fables, Sindbad voyages, and demon stories — andanalyzes them in relation to narrative works from India, Europe, and the Ameri-cas. Covering an impressive range of writings, from ancient Indian classics to theworks of Shakespeare and the modern writers Jorge Luis Borges and John Barth,she places The Arabian Nights in the context of an ongoing storytelling traditionand reveals its influence on world literature.

FERIAL GHAZOUL is an Iraqi scholar, critic, andtranslator. She is professor of English and com-parative literature at the American Universityin Cairo and has written extensively on genderissues in modern and medieval literature.


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World Literature: Perspectives and Debates Alif 34: Journal of Comparative Poetics

Essays exploring the inherent tension between postcolonialstudies and “world criticism”

Journals

Edited by Andrew Rubin

180pp. Pbk. November.978-977-416-685-3. LE40. World.

As one of the first non-European journals to critically address the category of Weltliteratur bilin-gually from the perspective of the Global South, this special issue of Alif addresses this prob-lem theoretically and empirically. The critical conversation about the problem of the categoryof Weltliteratur is not only extended beyond the European and North American sphere that haslargely dominated and framed the discussion of Weltliteratur, but is juxtaposed formally in a waythat permits us to understand that there are other “world literatures” that allow us to reexam-ine the contending theories, practices, and underlying assumptions of Weltliteratur.

Anthropology in Egypt, 1900–67Culture, Function, and Reform — Cairo Papers Vol. 33, No. 2 Nicholas S. Hopkins

An overview of the development of anthropological study intwentieth-century Egypt, by a leading anthropologist

Anthropology as a discipline came to Egypt around 1900, as foreign anthropologists reportedhome on the culture they found. As Egyptians took the lead in anthropology, in the 1930s, thediscipline entered into the debate about the need to reform Egyptian society and culture espe-cially in the rural areas, against a general background of functionalism. This study traces the evo-lution of anthropology in Egypt through the stories of its practitioners such as Blackman, Galal,Evans-Pritchard, Hocart, Abbas Ammar, Hamid Ammar, Berque, Abou Zeid, el Hamamsy,Uways, and their contemporaries, showing their challenges and accomplishments.

500pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-678-5. LE30. World.

ANDREW N. RUBIN is scholar in residence at Georgetown University. He is theauthor of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War and the co-editor of Adorno: A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader. He has pub-lished on the subject of twentieth century culture in magazines and journalsincluding The South Atlantic Quarterly, The New Statesman, and Al-Ahram.

NICHOLAS S. HOPKINS is emeritus professor of anthropology and former dean of theSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo.


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Calendar

Cats, Crocodiles, and Camels Calendar 2015

Egypt’s wildlife ancient and modern captured intwelve beautiful full-color scenes, to be enjoyed

month by month

24pp. 28x22cm. October.978-121-315-232-8. LE90. World.

This colorful, medium-format wall calendar presents twelve illus-trations from the AUC Press Nature Foldout Series. Egypt’s uniqueflora and fauna come to life on each page, including ancientEgyptian animals, prehistoric dinosaurs, birds, plants, and otherwildlife that can be found throughout the country today. Eachspecies is identified along with its scientific name, and a brief nat-ural history fact is included for every spread. The calendar is prac-tically designed with plenty of space to write in special eventsand daily appointments throughout the year.

Illustrations by Dominique Navarro


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History and Biography

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Index

Abdelmegid, Bahaa 8Abo El Seoud, Dalal 30Abu Rayya, Yusuf 11Alexandria Anthology 16Alif 36American Travelers on the Nile 19Anthropology in Egypt 36Arab Human Development 24Arabian Horse of Egypt 20Ateek, Mona 29Attum, Omar 22Bacharach, Jere L. 34Baha El Din, Sherif 33Bedford, Francis 14Bint Al Hussein, HRH Princess Alia 20El-Bisatie, Mohamed 10Cairo Papers 36Cats of Egypt 32Cats, Crocodiles, and Camels 37Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt 27

Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East 14

Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt 5Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in Written Arabic 28

Egypt’s Desert Dreams 25Eltoukhy, Nael 9From Christian Egypt to Islamic Egypt 26

Gabra, Gawdat 27Ghazoul, Ferial J. 35Gordon, Sophie 14Haag, Michael 16El Hage, Badr 14Hanna, Nelly 18Hassanein, Azza 30Hewison, R. Neil 11Hoath, Richard 32Hopkins, Nicholas S. 36Hunger 10Islamic History through Coins 34Johnson-Davies, Denys 10Kamel Hassan, Mona 29

Korany, Bahgat 24Lanterns of the King of Galilee 12MacMullen, Doriana 29Marei, Nasr 20Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians 4Mehrez, Samia 6Mikhail, Maged S.A. 26Mitchell, Timothy 25Moger, Robin 9Moussa, Mahmoud Sami 28Nasrallah, Ibrahim 12Navarro, Dominique 32, 33, 37Naylor, Trevor 29Nocturnal Poetics 35Oliver, Andrew 19Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 18

Prince, Mona 6Revolution Is My Name 6Roberts, Nancy 12Roving Eye 29Rubin, Andrew 36Sarofim, Marian 29Sayigh, Rosemary 13Sims, David 25Sinai 22Siwa 21Snape, Steven 5Strouhal, Eugen 4Takla, Hany 27Temple Bar 8Thompson, Jason 2Uktub al-‘arabiya 30Vachala, Bretislav 4Vale, Margaret M. 21Vymazalová, Hana 4Wedding Night 11Wildlife of the Holy Land 33Women of Karantina 9Wonderful Things 2World Literature 36Wright, Jonathan 8Yehia, Hala 30Yusif Sayigh 13


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