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Birds of Amber

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

• Hardcover | Engels
• During the 1956 Suez War or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egyp life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live... Lees meer

Global Dreams

Anouk De Koning

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office ... Lees meer

Zamalek

Chafika Hamamsy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Examines the change in upper-class Egypt, from a staunch conservatism toward westernised liberalism at the turn of the 19th century. Following one fam... Lees meer

Annales Du Service Des Antiquités de l'Egypte

Supreme Council of Antiquities

• Paperback | Engels | Annales du Service des Antiquite
• For centuries, Egyptian civilization and its antiquities have inspired passionate interest. Archaeologists, engineers, astronomers, poets, painters, p... Lees meer

The Lamp of Umm Hashim

Yahya Hakki

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Writing
• The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures Together with such... Lees meer

The Egyptian Peasant

Henry Habib Ayrout

• Paperback | Engels
• Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and televi... Lees meer

Fayoum Pottery

R Neil Hewison

• Hardcover | Engels
• NAMED A BEST NEW POTTERY BOOK TO READ IN 2022 BY THE BOOK AUTHORITY Lavishly illustrated with over 250 full-color photographs of unique designs and ra... Lees meer

The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels
• A multi-faceted account of Egyptian economic development by nineteen internationally recognized authorities and the critical challenges the economy is... Lees meer

Women of Karantina

Nael Eltoukhy

• Paperback | Engels
• Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station... Lees meer

Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples

Nigel Fletcher-Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• The ideal introduction to the great temples of Lower Nubia The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue fr... Lees meer

Mrs. Tsenhor

Koenraad Donker Van Heel

• Paperback | Engels
• Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik ... Lees meer

The Traditional Jewelry of Egypt

Azza Fahmy

• Hardcover | Engels
• The story of urban, rural, and desert jewelry in modern Egypt, in a beautifully designed new edition For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their b... Lees meer

Yalla!

Dina El Dik, Emad Iskander

• Paperback | Engels
• An indispensable reference book of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic verbs for students and teachers Mastering the conjugation of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic ... Lees meer

Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt

Amandine Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels
• A richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and children In ancient Egypt, a woman's ... Lees meer

Old Kingdom Pottery from Giza

Zahi Hawass

• Paperback | Engels
• Discusses the pottery that was discovered by Zahi Hawass' excavations at Giza, including the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders, the Western Cemetery, a... Lees meer

Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt

Salima Ikram

• Paperback | Engels
• A 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 ... Lees meer

A History of Arab Graphic Design

Bahia Shehab, Haytham Nawar

• Paperback | Engels
• PROSE AWARD WINNER, ART HISTORY & CRITICISM The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic design Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentie... Lees meer

Historic Cairo

J. Antoniou

• Paperback | Engels
• Cairo contains the greatest concentration of Islamic monuments in the world, and its mosques, mausoleums, religious schools, baths, and caravanserais,... Lees meer

City of Love and Ashes

Yusuf Idris

• Paperback | Engels
• Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and i... Lees meer

Iron from Tutankhamun's Tomb

Katja Broschat, Florian Ströbele, Christian Koeberl, Christian Eckmann, Eid Mertah

• Hardcover | Engels
• A comprehensive study of the iron objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb that include daggers, quivers, arrows, and an elaborately decorated bow case A c... Lees meer

Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground

Ellen R Weis

• Paperback | Engels | Cairo Papers in Social Science
• A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expression This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists w... Lees meer

Securing Eternity

Reg Clark

• Hardcover | Engels
• The ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with complex s... Lees meer

Munira's Bottle

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
• In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munira--with the gorgeous eyes--and the un... Lees meer

From Siena to Nubia

• Hardcover | Engels
• A medical practitioner and talented draftsman, Alessandro Ricci was born in Siena, Italy, at the end of the eighteenth century. He traveled extensivel... Lees meer