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Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and dest...

From the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee

Another hilarious adventure for children with Mr. Mummific, the mummy with attitude. Having described his death and long mummification process in h...

A visual celebration of the history and evolution of the Arabian horse in Egypt. New paperback edition.

The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can e...

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now avai...

Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim ...

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corner...

Reducere. Wonder and imagination are at the heart of this story of a friendship between a boy from New York City and the boy king, Tutankhamun A boy and his ...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-74) is best known for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art C...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color The Gaza Strip is one...

Reducere. In one of the most remarkable artistic pilgrimages in history, the nineteenth century saw scores of Western artists heading to the Middle East. Ins...

DescriptionThe three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 19...

Award NamePROSEAward categoryAnthropology/ArcheologyDescription2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology B...

The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts from the fourth century to the present day The great city of A...

DescriptionThis book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egy...

The English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during th...

Reducere. An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the...

Reducere. A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, wh...

Reducere. A richly illustrated account of the rulers of the first three dynasties of the ancient Egyptian civilization, written by renowned Egyptologist Aida...

The ancient Axumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was possibly the first nation in the world to convert to Christianity. In AD 340 King Ezana co...

A comprehensive survey of medical knowledge and practice in ancient Egypt focusing on internal medicine written by leading authorities in the field...

Reducere. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By t...

DescriptionArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic...

Reducere. A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt The art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks, notably within the royal cour...

Reducere. DescriptionWomen travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both...

Reducere. An intimate look at the true story of the funerary business of a Theban mortuary priest 2800 years ago as unearthed by an ancient papyrus Petebaste...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Mark N SwansonNumber of pages: 192Collection: Popes of EgyptPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Mohamed ShoairTranslator: Humphrey DaviesNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and politica...

A richly illustrated guide to the Egyptian temple, its history, and the story of its goddess, Mut, as told by the preeminent archaeologists directi...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Matthieu ReyNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 30Cover type:...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

Reducere. A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourse Constructions ...

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Dr Nelly Van-Doorn HarderNumber of pages: 256Collection: Popes of EgyptPublication date: 20...

Contributor(s): Author: Jason ThompsonThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cul...

A documentation, using latest technologies, of the Late and Ptolemaic Period anthropoid sarcophagi housed in Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum The indi...