Resultaten gefilterd op "American University in Cairo Press"

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

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

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

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

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

Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt

Aidan Dodson

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives and Afterlives
• An innovative account of the lives and times of the 'warrior king' Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dod... Lees meer

The Coffeehouse

Naguib Mahfouz

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 availab... 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

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

All Strangers Are Kin

Zora O'Neill

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the 2017 SATW Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O'Neill had... 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

Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt

Amandine Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A masterpiece of seminal, meticulous, and groundbreaking scholarship."- Midwest Book Review A richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society... 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

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

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

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

The Story of the Banned Book

Mohamed Shoair

• Hardcover | Engels
• The topic of "banned books" is universally appealing The accessible style and controversial subject matter give the story wide appeal, not just to Mah... Lees meer

City of Love and Ashes

Yusuf Idris

• Paperback | Engels
• A classic novel from one of the great contemporary writers of Egypt and the Middle East Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its moder... Lees meer

I Can Imagine It for Us

Mai Serhan

• Hardcover | Engels
• A young woman's search for connection with her estranged father, her family's past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit "Mai Serhan's wri... 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

The American University in Cairo

Andrew Humphreys, Gadi Farfour

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 2019, the American University in Cairo (AUC) celebrates its centenary. Founded on Tahrir Square, the university has been at the center of the intel... Lees meer

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3

Jason Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology
• "An absolute necessity for anybody with an interest in pharaonic Egypt."--Kara Cooney, author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt The d... 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

Writing the History of Mount Lebanon

Mouannes Hojairi

• Hardcover | Engels
• A meticulous deconstruction of Maronite history writing and the ways in which Lebanese nationalist myths have been invented and perpetuated by histori... Lees meer