The American University in Cairo Press - Fall 2013

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The American University in Cairo Press

The American University in Cairo Press

The American University in Cairo Press is the largest English-language publisher in the Middle East. Founded in 1960, the Press plays a vital role in the cultural and academic dialog between the Arab world and the West. From Arabic fiction in translation through Egyptology to scholarly and general works on all aspects of modern Egypt and its neighbors, including the recent Arab uprisings, the publications of the AUC Press remain a canon of fresh and relevant publishing from the region.

The American University in Cairo Press Visit us at www.aucpress.com Now sold and distributed by I.B.Tauris Publishers

New Books Fall 2013

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Letter from the Director Many books have been written about Gamal Abdel Nasser, a giant of twentieth-century world politics, but none as intimate as Nasser: My Husband (page 2), in which his wife Tahia tells the story—and shares the pictures—of their marriage, their home, their children, and the man who challenged the west and changed the face of Egypt. Now since 2011 Egypt and the Middle East have been transformed again, and in the fully updated new edition of his bestselling book Life as Politics (page 40), Asef Bayat looks at how popular protest in the region, contrary to expectation, can be a real agent for change.

Our new translations of Arabic fiction this season include the winner of last year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, House of the Wolf by Ezzat El Kamhawi (page 28); an epic novel of exile from Palestine by renowned Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, The Woman from Tantoura (page 24); and Rain over Baghdad (page 23), a novel of love and disappearance in the dark days of Saddam’s Iraq by Egyptian writer Hala El Badry.

In our expanding program of books for the Arabic classroom, Book Five of Samia Louis’s popular MSA series Lughatuna al-Fusha (page 38) will appear this fall, along with a new resource for MSA learners, Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading (page 39), by veteran instructors Nariman Naili Al-Warraki and Nadia Harb.

The Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud (page 18), translated and edited

by Andrew Bednarski, finally brings to light the careful research and beautiful color plates of an early nineteenth-century visitor to the ancient tombs of Upper Egypt, while modern scholars continue to study, analyze, and conserve some of these same tombs in The Tomb Chapel of Menna, edited by Melinda Hartwig, and Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis, edited by Elena Pischikova (pages 16 & 17).

Marjorie Ransom is one of the foremost collectors of the traditional silver jewelry of Yemen, and she shares her in-depth knowledge of the craft, and many stunning photographs of necklaces, bracelets, and rings from all regions of the country in Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba (page 10), both a beautiful gift book and a valuable reference for collectors.

For those who prefer to collect memories, A Cairo Anthology (page 6), edited by Deborah Manley, brings together descriptions and thoughts on the city by early travelers from Sir Richard Burton to William Makepeace Thackeray, from Florence Nightingale to Mark Twain, in a small, precious book packed with good writing.

And if you enjoy good food as much as you enjoy good books, treat yourself to the mouth-wateringly illustrated and deliciously designed Authentic Egyptian Cooking from the Table of Abou El Sid (page 14), by Nehal Leheta.

Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones nigel@aucegypt.edu

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Illustrated Biography

Nasser My Husband

Foreword by

Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser

A new and intimate portrait of an iconic world figure by the one who knew him best—his wife

Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt’s 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private.

In 1973, three years after his early passing at the age of 52, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband for her family. The family then waited almost forty years, through the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, both unsympathetic to the memory of Nasser, before publishing Tahia’s book in Arabic for the first time in 2011. Now this unique insight into the life of one of the giants of the twentieth century is finally available in English.

Accompanied by more than one hundred photographs from the family archive, many never before published, this historic book tells the story of Gamal and Tahia’s life together from their marriage in 1944, through the Revolution and Gamal’s career on the world stage, revealing an unknown and intimate picture of the man behind the president.

Also available: TAHIA GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, born Tahia Kazem in 1923, married Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1944 and lived with him until his death in 1970, raising five children. She died in 1990.

HODA GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, daughter of Tahia and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is professor of political science at Cairo University.

Original Arabic title: Dhikrayat ma‘ahu 214pp. Hbd. 110 illus., including 21 color. November.

978-977-416-611-2. £24.95. World.

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At the end of October, Gamal was scheduled to give a speech in Alexandria at al-Manshiya Square. He left the house in the early evening. It was his habit to put a small Qur’an contained in a white metal box in his pocket. He searched everywhere for it and so did I— in a great hurry since he was running late—but we could not find it. And so I gave Gamal another one with a cardboard cover. When he was at the door, I suddenly found his original Qur’an and raced to catch up with him and give it to him. He took it and placed it in his pocket, going out with two. The assassination attempt—eight bullets fired at him— happened while he was giving his speech at al-Manshiya, and he survived. Ever after that, Gamal continued to go out of the house with two Holy Books, until the day he died.”

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At 6:30am on the morning of July 23, 1952 there was a knock on the door. Tharwat Okasha shook my hand and congratulated me: ‘The military coup has succeeded.’ I asked him about Gamal. ‘He is close by, not more than five minutes away at the General Command.’ At 9:30am an officer called: he had come from the General Command at Kubri al-Qubba, sent by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser to tell me that he was fine and would not be home for lunch.”

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Social History

The Cotton Plantation Remembered An Egyptian Family Story

Mona Abaza With photographs by the author

The story of one family’s relation to the land and cotton in a time of social change

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century.

This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured.

The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile Delta countryside and the landowners’ adoption of European lifestyles are juxtaposed visually with the former laborers’ camp of the permanent workers, which became a village (‘izba), and then an urbanized settlement. The story is retold from the perspective of both the landowners and the former workers who were tied to the ‘izba. The book includes family photo albums, photographs of political campaigns and of banquets in the countryside, documents and accounting books, modern portraits of the peasants, and pictures of daily life in the village today.

This is a story that fuses the personal and emotional with the scholar’s detached ethnographic reporting—a truly fascinating, informative, and colorful view of life on both sides of a uniquely Egyptian socio-economic institution, and a vanished world: the cotton estate.

MONA ABAZA is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the American University in Cairo.

She is the author of The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2006) and Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (AUC Press, 2011).

224pp. Hbd. 200 illus. December.

978-977-416-571-9. £24.95. World.

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Contents 1. Therapeutic Photography 2. In the Beginning There Was Cotton 3. A’yans, ‘Umdas: Getting Down to Wealth 4. The Organization of Labor 5. Violence and Banditry 6. The Vanished ‘Izba: An ‘Ashwa’iya Is Born Postscript: After January 25, 2011

Also by Mona Abaza:

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Travel Writing

A Cairo Anthology

Edited by Deborah Manley Illustrations by Edward William Lane

Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing

A wonderful gift book that evokes the world’s great love of travel to Cairo and the pyramids

Cairo has long been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and many travelers have recorded their descriptions of it over the centuries—from the early eye-witness account of Herodotus to the reflections of Sir Richard Burton, Florence Nightingale, and Mark Twain.

A Cairo Anthology gathers together the impressions of many of these writers: with them we experience the excitement of exploring the great city, through its crowded streets and colorful bazaars, we enter the hotels, hire donkeys, ascend to the historic Citadel, and look out across the Nile toward the Sphinx and the Pyramids, and we visit those vast monuments that are in reality always larger and more extraordinary than one can believe, and climb to their summits to gaze back at Cairo, the Mother of the World.

AMONG THE CONTRIBUTORS: Giovanni Belzoni, Princess Marta Bibescu, E.A. Wallis Budge, Sir Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Comte Auguste de Forbin, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon, Michael Haag, Herodotus, Alexander Kinglake, Edward William Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole, Norma Lorimer, Pierre Loti, Reverend Norman Macleod, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, William Flinders Petrie, Richard Pococke, Sophia Poole, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain.

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Whilst M.I.B. is at the boat, I and Alfred go with E. and R. to see the procession of pilgrims starting for Mecca. Out of the great gate come camels with palanquins and camels with riders, sheiks, priests and the like, dervishes and pilgrims on foot, flags of all kinds, regiments of soldiers, horses, holy men in many coloured garbs. The fat man who rides barebacked to Mecca is the sheik of the camels. And last, the Golden Pagoda and white camel.

This contains the new and sacred carpet which every year goes to replace the other one at Mecca.”

—Marianne Brocklehurst, 1873

DEBORAH MANLEY is the co-editor of Traveling through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century (AUC Press, 2004) and editor of Women Travelers in Egypt (AUC Press, 2012).

160pp. Hbd. 12x16 cm. 27 illus. October.

978-977-416-612-9. £11.99. World.

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From the terrace of the mosque [of Muhammad Ali] is what I would imagine the finest view in the whole world. Cairo, which is immense, lies at the feet, a forest of minarets and domes and towers. The Nile flows his solemn course beyond, the waters being still out (it is now high Nile), and the three Pyramids stand sharp against the sky.”

—Florence Nightingale, 1849

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The Sphinx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. And there is that in the over-shadowing majesty of this eternal figure of stone, with its accusing memory of the deeds of all ages, which reveals to one something of what he shall find when he shall stand at last in the awful presence of God.” —Mark Twain, 1868

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Travel Writing

Women Travelers in Egypt From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century

Edited by

Deborah Manley

Around Egypt through the centuries with intrepid women travelers

Until late in the nineteenth century, few guidebooks acknowledged the presence of women as travelers — although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women’s accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch and describe; they were more dependent on the Egyptian staff; they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile.

Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni, Sophia Poole, and Ellen Chennells, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go.

From Eliza Fay’s description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney’s daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by over forty women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Winifred Blackman, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.

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I quite agree with Miss Martineau that one of the greatest nuisances in travelling is keeping a journal. One is far more disposed to lie down and rest after a fatiguing ride of eight or nine hours on a camel, beneath a burning sun; than—having made a hasty toilette—to take out one’s writing materials. I persevered, however, and rejoice that I did so.”

—Lady Tobin, 1853

DEBORAH MANLEY is the co-editor of Traveling through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century (AUC Press, 2004) and editor of A Cairo Anthology (AUC Press 2013).

256pp. Pbk. September.

978-977-416-570-2. £12.99. World.

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History

The Medieval Nile Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt

John Cooper

An interdisciplinary study that draws together geography, historical navigation data, and eyewitness accounts into a comprehensive picture of one of the world’s great rivers

Contents

This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies.

John Cooper first charts the changing geography of the Nile waterways, particularly in the Delta, from the eve of Islam to the early modern period, and logs the “rise and fall” of these waterways for natural and/or anthropogenic reasons. He then presents a new perspective on the Nile, drawing on traveler accounts and environmental data to portray the river as a uniquely challenging and sometimes dangerous navigational environment requiring extensive local knowledge by skilled and hardworking Nile navigators.

Finally, he looks at how the main Delta and Red Sea ports of medieval Egypt fitted into the navigational landscape described, explaining how these ports were affected by changes occurring to the navigational landscape, and how they reflected the navigational conditions of the Nile and surrounding seas.

Part 1: Geography 1. Imagining the Nile 2. The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta 3. The Western Delta in the Islamic Era 4. The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era 5. The Bahr Yusuf Part 2: Navigation 6. The Nile Flood Cycle 7. Propulsion: Wind, Current, and Human Labor 8. Local Hazards: Mouths, Cataracts, and Mountains 9. Nile Journey Times 10. Onward Connections: The Mediterranean and Red Seas Part 3: Ports and the Navigational Landscape 11. The Ports of Fustat and Cairo 12. Ports of the Western Delta 13. Ports of the Eastern Delta 14. Ports of the Red Sea

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In modern writings about ancient Egypt it is hard to escape the paraphrase of Herodotus that Egypt was “the gift of the Nile.” Yet such a characterization is reflective of both ancient and modern orientalist perspectives of an inherently passive Egypt: it would surely be preferable to understand past Egyptian society not as a ‘gift’—for which, implicitly, no exertion or payment is required—but rather as an on-going dialectic between Egypt’s human inhabitants and the landscape in which they found themselves.”

JOHN P. COOPER is an Arabist and maritime archaeologist specializing in the maritime landscapes of the medieval Islamic world.

He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter.

392pp. Hbd. 89 illus. March.

978-977-416-614-3. £49.50. World.

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Ethnic Jewelry

Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba Regional Yemeni Jewelry

Marjorie Ransom

The first illustrated study of ethnic silver jewelry in Yemen, by an expert researcher and collector

Also available:

224pp. Hbd. 24x21 cm. 320 color illus. December.

978-977-416-600-6. £35. World.

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Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba documents a disappearing artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the author did her field research. Ransom’s descriptions of the people she met and befriended, and her exploration of the significance of a woman’s handmade jewelry with its attributes of power, protection, beauty, and personal identity, will appeal to ethnic jewelry fans, ethnographers, jewelry designers, and art historians.

Amulet cases, hair ornaments, bridal headdresses, earrings, necklaces, ankle and wrist bracelets are all beautifully photographed in intricate detail, interspersed with the author’s own photographs of the women who shared their stories and their hospitality with her. A chapter on the history of silversmithing in Yemen tells the surprising story of the famed Jewish Yemeni silversmiths, many of whom left Yemen in the late 1940s. This is the first in-depth study of Yemeni silver, uniquely illustrated with photographs of a world that is transforming before our eyes, and animated with the portraits of a precious legacy.

MARJORIE RANSOM is a Middle East specialist who has lived and worked throughout the Arab world, where she began researching and collecting traditional silver jewelry, particularly from Yemen. Her renowned collection of Middle Eastern jewelry has been exhibited at American museums.

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Contents Introduction 1. The Allure of Silver Jewelry 2. The Timeliness of This Study 3. Sources of Silver: The Maria Theresa Thaler 4. Regional Styles of Yemeni Jewelry and Costumes The North 5. The Northern Mountains: Sanaa, Saada, Amran, Haraz, Mahwit, Jabal Milhan, and Hajja 6. Marib and the Jawf 7. Al-Bayda 8. Mountains near the Red Sea: Bur‘a, Rayma, and Wasab 9. The Southern Mountains: Taiz, Hugariya, and Ibb 10. The Northern Tihama Coastal Plain: Adhra’, Hawatim al-Tur, al-Dhahiyy, and Zaydiya 11. The Southern Tihama Coastal Plain: Bayt al-Faqih, Mawza, and Zabid The South 12. Hadramaut: Sayyun 13. Wadi Amid 14. Wadi Daw‘an 15. Wadi Idim 16. Southern Hadramaut: Shihr, the Southern Coast, and Socotra 17. Mahra 18. Shabwa: Habban and Ataq

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Economic Development

Human Capital in Egypt

The Road to Sustainable Development

Edited by

Magda Kandil

Economic analysts look at a key aspect of Egypt’s modern economy

Although Egypt has made significant progress toward reviving economic growth, unemployment remains persistently high and a substantial rise in job opportunities is still needed to absorb the increasingly expanding labor force, with the challenge to absorb around 700,000 new entrants to the labor market annually.

Other labor-related problems include low female participation, excessive government employment, a high percentage of people in non-decent employment, low productivity and wages, and high unemployment among youth and women.

In addition, there is a significant mismatch between available skills and labor market requirements. Last but not least, weak social protection programs preclude the generation of enough decent work opportunities. This new collection of studies addresses these issues and more, with analyses of the current situation and future prospects, and recommendations for change going forward.

Contents 1. Employment Fluctuations and Sectoral Shifts in Egypt: Testing the Public–Private Sectoral Shifts Hypothesis Mohamed Hassan and Magda Kandil 2. Skill–Demand Polarization in Egypt Omneia Helmy 3. Enhancing Egypt’s Competitiveness: Education, Innovation, and Labor Malak Reda 4. Decent-work Attainment and Labor Productivity: A Sample Survey of Textile Firms in Egypt Iman A. Al-Ayouty 5. Nominal Wage and Price Dynamics in Egypt: An Empirical Analysis Sara B. Al-Nashar 6. Public Wage Premium in Egypt: Mirage or Reality?

Tarek El-Ghamrawy and Ziad Amer

432pp. Pbk. 130 charts, 70 tables. December.

978-977-416-584-9. £29.95. World.

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7. The Employment and Wage Effect of Minimum Wage in the Egyptian Public Sector Noha S. Omar and Heba Ibrahim 8. A Survey-based Exploration of Satisfaction and Profitability in Egypt’s Informal Sector Mohamed A. Abd El-Fattah 9. Vulnerable Employment in Egypt Somaya A. Abdel Mowla

MAGDA KANDIL is the current Executive Director and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). She has held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, including Advisor to the Executive Director and Senior Economist, and visiting scholar at the IMF Institute & Research Department.

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Islamic Legal History

Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo

Reem A. Meshal

The origins of citizenship and individual rights in the Sharia courts of sixteenth-century Cairo

In this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society, and the earlymodern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role.

Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority.

These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.

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While the Ottoman administration of justice consciously molded society to a more homogenous system of rights and obligations, it was far more cognizant of the distinction between ‘sins’ and ‘crimes’ than its successors. Nonetheless, its conflation of religious and political authority foreshadows the current struggle over the role of religion and state in post-Mubarak Egypt.”

REEM A. MESHAL is associate professor of Islamic Studies at Louisiana State University.

She has published numerous articles on Islamic social and intellectual history.

240pp. Hbd. 2 maps. January.

978-977-416-617-4. £49.50. World.

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Cookery

Authentic Egyptian Cooking

From the Table of Abou El Sid

Nehal Leheta

Classic Egyptian favorites from one of Cairo’s leading restaurants

Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the sustaining repertoire for daily meals as well as sumptuous holiday feasts.

Abou El Sid, one of Cairo’s most famous restaurants, has become well known for its authentic Egyptian dishes, and now presents more than fifty of its most classic recipes in a cookbook for the enjoyment of home cooks all over the world.

Egyptians will recognize their favorites, from holiday dishes such as fettah to the arrays of appetizers like aubergine with garlic, special lentils, and tahina; those new to Middle Eastern food will find the recipes simple and simply delicious, and enjoy the Egyptian table even if they don’t have the heritage of the pharaohs in their family backgrounds.

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Favorite Egyptian recipes in this book include: Lentil Soup Taameya Spicy Oriental Sausages Molokheya Circassian Chicken in Walnut Sauce Koshari Grilled Fish Om Ali Fiteer Meshaltit . . . and many more

144pp. Hbd. 19x24 cm. 60 color illus. December.

978-977-416-621-1. £18.99. World.

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57 authentic Egyptian recipes from starters to main courses to desserts.

Each recipe illustrated with gorgeous, full color photographs.

Beautifully designed and visually sumptuous boutique book.

NEHAL LEHETA is an interior designer in Cairo with a strong interest in cuisine. She has designed a number of restaurant interiors in Egypt, and is a cofounder of Design Point, an interior and architecture design and consulting firm.

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Egyptology

The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69) The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb

Edited by

Melinda Hartwig

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs

Contents Introduction 1. The Tomb Chapel of Menna and Its Owner 2. Scenes and Texts 3. Archaeometry Research on the Wall Paintings 4. Conservation of the Tomb 5. Photographic and Digital Survey 6. Visual and Archaeometric Analysis of the Paintings 7. Historic, Religious, and Artistic Context Bibliography

This lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document and conserve the tomb of Menna, one of the most beautiful and complex painted tombs of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Luxor. Through conservation, the tomb, which previously lay open to environmental influence, was brought back to its former glory.

Aided by non-invasive methods of scientific analysis, the historical and cultural importance of Menna’s paintings can now be viewed and studied and enjoyed by a worldwide audience. High-definition photography and drawings complement specialist essays by scholars, scientists, and technicians, who discuss the artistic and cultural significance of the paintings, their architectural context, and scientific importance.

Directed by Dr. Hartwig and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) as part of its Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project, the project was funded by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), sponsored by Georgia State University, and carried out in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.

CONTRIBUTORS: Cristina Beretta, Pieter Collet, Katy Doyle, Renata García-Moreno, Melinda Hartwig, François-Philippe Hocquet, Greg Howarth, Sasa Kosinova, Kerstin Leterme, Bianca Madden, François Mathis, Mark Perry, David Strivay, Doug Thorp, Peter Vandenabeele, Elsa Van Elslande.

240pp. Hbd. 25x30 cm. 134 color illus. January.

978-977-416-586-3. £39.95. World.

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MELINDA HARTWIG is an Egyptologist and associate professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta. A specialist in ancient Egyptian painting and mortuary culture, she has directed documentation projects in Egypt for thirty years, the most recent being the tomb of Menna (Theban Tomb 69).

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Egyptology

Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty

Edited by

Elena Pischikova

Reports on the excavations of noblemen’s tombs from a little-known period of ancient Egyptian history

This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the American–Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of the State Ministry for Antiquities and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directed by the editor. The Project is dedicated to the clearing, restoration, and reconstruction of the tombs of Karabasken (TT 391) and Karakhamun (TT 223) of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and the tomb of Irtieru (TT 390) of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, on the West Bank of Luxor.

Essays by the experts involved in the excavations and analysis cover the history of the Kushite ruling dynasties in Egypt and the hierarchy of Kushite society, the history of the South Asasif Necropolis and its discovery, the architecture and textual and decorative programs of the tombs, and the finds of burial equipment, pottery, and animal bones.

CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Booth, Julia Budka, Diethelm Eigner, Kenneth Griffin, Salima Ikram, Jack Josephson, Robert Morkot, Christopher Naunton, Elena Pischikova, Miguel Molinero Polo, Kasia Szpakowska, John Taylor.

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ELENA PISCHIKOVA is the director of the American–Egyptian South Asasif Conservation Project. She is currently a research scholar at the American University in Cairo, and teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

288pp. Hbd. 17x24 cm. 80 illus. February.

978-977-416-618-1. £49.50. World.

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Ancient Egypt and Nubia

The Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians

Translated and edited by

Andrew Bednarski

The first publication in any language of a long-lost illustrated French manuscript on ancient Egyptian arts and pastimes

The travel accounts, drawings, and collections of Frédéric Cailliaud were an important early contribution to the birth of the new scientific discipline of Egyptology in the first half of the nineteenth century. But one of his major works—on the arts and crafts of ancient Egypt—was never published. For the first time here, his exquisite color plates are presented alongside a translation of his original French text describing them. Explanatory material by Andrew Bednarski and other scholars puts the work in context.

Arriving in Egypt in 1815, Cailliaud embarked upon a series of explorations that included the rediscovery of the Roman emerald mines at Mount Zabora and ancient routes to the Red Sea, and expeditions in the Eastern and Western Deserts and the land we know today as Ethiopia. He made copious notes on the flora and fauna, people and antiquities he saw, and took a collection of over two thousand objects back to France. Cailliaud’s beautifully rendered watercolors of scenes on ancient Egyptian tombs and temples (viewed before Champollion’s deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs) show animated scenes of ancient daily life, with which he draws parallels to the nineteenth-century activities he observed around him.

This is a work that will appeal not only to Egyptologists (professional and amateur), but also to historians, art historians, and readers interested in design.

The original French text, never before published, is included in electronic form.

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ANDREW BEDNARSKI is assistant to the director of special projects at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). He has extensive excavation experience and has published broadly on ancient Egypt.

288pp. Hbd. 20x28 cm. 90 illus. March.

978-977-416-616-7. £35. World.

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Cailliaud was one of the first Europeans to visit, and bring back accurate drawings of, most of the famous archaeological sites in Egypt and Sudan. The recent rediscovery of Cailliaud’s unpublished manuscript allows us, for the first time, to highlight an integral part of his work, undertaken between 1830 and 1869. This unfinished magnum opus, meant to synthesize Cailliaud’s work on Nile civilizations, confirms his première position among the pioneers of Egyptology.”

—from Chapter 1 by Philippe Mainterot

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Egyptology and Ancient Religion

Temple of the World Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Translated by

Miroslav Verner Anna Bryson-Gustová

A thorough study of the Egyptian temple and its complex character from a prominent Egyptologist

Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine the spiritual, economic, and political aspects of these institutions and the dominant roles they played.

Miroslav Verner presents a deeper and more complex study of major ancient Egyptian religious centers, their principal temples, their rise and decline, their religious doctrines, cults, rituals, feasts, and mysteries. Also discussed are the various categories of priests, the organization of the priesthood, and its daily services and customs. Each chapter offers the reader essential and up-to-date information about temple complexes and the history of their archaeological exploration, in the context of the spiritual dimension and cultural legacy of ancient Egypt.

Also by Miroslav Verner: MIROSLAV VERNER is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and epigrapher, who has been working in archaeological excavation and research in Egypt since 1964. He has published thirteen academic monographs, mainly in foreign languages, and over a hundred and twenty academic articles. He is currently directing the Czech archaeological excavations in Abusir.

624pp. Hbd. 120 color illus. September.

978-977-416-563-4. £39.95. World.

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ANNA BRYSON-GUSTOVÁ, who has a BA and DPhil in history from Oxford University, has lived in the Czech Republic for twenty years. She is a writer, editor, and translator in the field of history and culture.

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Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Temple of the World First Excursus: Ordinary Days and Feast Days 2. Heliopolis: The City of the Sun 3. The White Wall 4. Hermopolis: The City of the Eight 5. The Kingdom of Amun Second Excursus: The Great Festivals of the King of the Gods 6. Amarna: City of the Heretic 7. Tanis: The Thebes of the North 8. Abydos: The Sacred Land Third Excursus: Osirian 9. Philae: The Pearl of Egypt 10. Edfu: The Throne of Horus 11. Dendera and the Golden Goddess Fourth Excursus: The Lady of the Turquoise 12. Alexander’s City by Egypt Final Excursus: A Brief Outline of the Overall Architectural History of the Ancient Egyptian Temple Glossary Bibliography Chronological Table Index 21

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Middle Eastern History

Tell This in My Memory Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire

Eve M. Troutt Powell

An important window on slavery in the Middle East in recent centuries

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia.

Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the nineteenth century.

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This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales, Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece.”

—Beth Baron, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics

264pp. Pbk. 10 illus., 3 maps. December.

978-977-416-622-8. £14.95. Middle East.

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EVE M. TROUTT POWELL is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean (ed. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno, AUC Press, 2010).

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Modern Arabic Literature

Rain over Baghdad

Hala El Badry Translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab

A Novel of Iraq

A new novel from the award-winning Egyptian author of A Certain Woman and Muntaha

What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century? The mid-seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein’s rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq–Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians.

We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazine’s bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behind-the-scenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was . . .

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Her boss, Abu Lu’ay, said to me: ‘Anhar hasn’t gone on leave, hasn’t called in sick, and we don’t know why she hasn’t come to work yesterday or today.’

“I called her number at home in the evening. Her mother’s tearful voice said, ‘Please, Nora. I implore you: if you find out anything new about her, let me know. I’m going crazy.’

“I don’t know why we’re so worried about what could have happened to her. It’s only been two days since she went missing. Why are we all so pessimistic?”

Original Arabic title: Matar ‘ala Baghdad 512pp. Pbk. February.

978-977-416-588-7. £12.99. World.

HALA EL BADRY is deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt’s radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006).

FAROUK ABDEL WAHAB was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. He was the translator of many works of Arabic fiction, including Gamal al-Ghitani’s The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press, 2012). He died in 2013, shortly after completing this translation.

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Modern Arabic Literature

The Woman from Tantoura A Novel of Palestine

Translated by

Radwa Ashour Kay Heikkinen

From a young girl’s point of view, through to the mature observations of an adult woman, the lifetime of Palestine, with all its peaks and valleys of human experience Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations—massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kuffiyehs and suicide bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction. This novel does not shy away from such painful images, but it is first and foremost a powerful human story, following the life of a young girl from her days in the village of al-Tantoura in Palestine up to the dawn of the new century. We participate in events as they unfold, seeing them through the uneducated but sharply intelligent mind of Ruqayya, as she tries to make sense of all that has happened to her and her family. With her, we live her love of her land and of her people; we feel the repeated pain of loss, of diaspora, and of cross-generational misunderstanding; and above all, we come to know her indomitable human spirit. As we read we discover that we have become part of Ruqayya’s family, and her voice will remain with us long after we have closed the book.

RADWA ASHOUR, a highly acclaimed Egyptian writer and scholar, is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, memoir, and criticism, including Granada (AUC Press, 2008) and Specters (AUC Press, 2010). She is a recipient of the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature and the prestigious Owais Prize for Fiction.

KAY HEIKKINEN has taught medieval history and literature as well as Islamic civilization, and currently teaches Arabic at the University of Chicago. She is the translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s In the Time of Love (AUC Press, 2010).

Original Arabic title: al-Tanturiya 356pp. Pbk. March.

978-977-416-615-0. £13.95. World.

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Modern Arabic Literature

Cairo Modern An Egyptian Novel

Naguib Mahfouz Translated by William M. Hutchins

A new paperback edition of the major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate

The novelist’s camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s.

Finally the camera comes to rest on Mahgub Abd al-Da’im. A scamp, he fancies himself a nihilist, a hedonist, an egotist, but his personal vulnerability is soon revealed by a family crisis back home in al-Qanatir, a dusty, provincial town on the Nile that is also a popular destination for Cairene day-trippers.

Mahgub, like many characters in works by Naguib Mahfouz, has a hard time finding the correct setting on his ambition gauge. His emotional life also fluctuates between the extremes of a street girl, who makes her living gathering cigarette butts, and his wealthy cousin Tahiya. Since he thinks that virtue is merely a social construct, how far will our would-be nihilist go in trying to fulfill his unbridled ambitions? What if he discovers that high society is more corrupt and cynical than he is? With a wink back at Goethe’s Faust and Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, Mahgub becomes a willing collaborator in his own corruption.

Published in Arabic in the 1940s, this cautionary morality tale about selfdefeating egoism and ill-digested foreign philosophies comes from the same period as one of the writer’s best-known works, Midaq Alley. Both novels are comic and heartfelt indictments not so much of Egyptian society between the world wars as of human nature and our paltry attempts to establish just societies.

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A fascinating example of human pain, degradation, and the tyranny of social relations.” —The Huffington Post

Original Arabic title: al-Qahira al-jadida 248pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-624-2. £10.99. Middle East.

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.

WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS, professor in the philosophy and religion Department at Appalachian State University, is the principal translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, and the translator of numerous other works of Arabic fiction.

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Modern Arabic Literature

Naguib Mahfouz Stock

Dreams of Departure

Translated by Raymond

A new paperback edition of the last collection of dreams from Egypt’s Nobel laureate

In this second collection of writing based on his own dreams, serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily terse form. As in the first volume (The Dreams, AUC Press, 2004), we meet more of the real (and unreal) figures that filled the author’s life with glory and worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly rest. In them, a man sent by a victorious invader to open a storehouse holding the statue of Egypt’s reawakening finds his access denied by a menacing reptile. An obscure writer dies, and a despairing inscription on his coffin turns his funeral into a massive demonstration. A man opens a stubborn gate to stare at a lake over which loom the illuminated faces of those he has loved, but who are no more—in search of the soul who made him long to live forever. The ever more condensed and poetic episodes in Dreams of Departure movingly carry on Mahfouz’s only major work after a knife attack in 1994 ironically inspired him to dream in print for his readers.

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An antique shop shining with brightness and cheer.

A miraculously pretty girl sat inside, serving the patrons. Walking around it for a while, I chanced upon a restaurant. I ate a sandwich and smoked a cigarette, before going back for another glimpse of the adolescent beauty. But instead of her, I found in her place a creaking old crone—my breast quivered as my eyes searched in vain for the gorgeous one for whom I’d come. I kept staring in confusion at the mirror over her head. There I beheld an old man leaning on a heavy cane, whose legs, and heart, and memory, had faltered.”

Original Arabic title: Ahlam fatrat al-naqaha 140pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-623-5. £9.99. Middle East.

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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.

RAYMOND STOCK, with a PhD in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of numerous works by Mahfouz, most recently The Coffeehouse (AUC Press, 2010).

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Modern Arabic Literature

Three Ancient Egyptian Novels Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War

Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel laureate’s early ‘pharaonic novels’ together in a handy single volume for the first time

This paperback compendium edition combines Naguib Mahfouz’s first three novels, all set in ancient Egypt, which skillfully explore recurring themes within human relationships: the balance between destiny and individual agency, the sanctity of the bonds to the land and religion, and the constant power struggles that affect human lives at multiple levels.

In Khufu’s Wisdom, translated by Raymond Stock, Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt’s throne, the proud but tender heart of Khufu’s beautiful daughter Princess Meresankh, and Khufu’s legacy as a sage, not savage, ruler.

Rhadopis of Nubia, translated by Anthony Calderbank, follows the powerful love that grows between Rhadopis, a courtesan whose ravishing beauty is unmatched in time or place, and youthful, headstrong Pharaoh Merenra, worshiped by his people as a divine presence on earth, against the background of the high politics of Sixth Dynasty Egypt.

Finally, in Thebes at War, translated by Humphrey Davies and written in 1937–1938 when Britain and Turkey held sway over Egypt, Mahfouz dramatically depicts the Egyptian people’s undying loyalty to their land and religion and their refusal to bow to outside domination. After two hundred years of occupation, the Hyksos leader in his capital in northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the south that the roaring of the sacred hippopotami at Thebes is keeping him awake at night and demands that they be killed, galvanizing Egypt into hurling its armies into a struggle to drive the barbarians from its sacred soil forever.

Original Arabic titles: ‘Abath al-aqdar, Radubis, Kifah Tiba 568pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-629-7. £16.99. Middle East.

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.

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Modern Arabic Literature

House of the Wolf An Egyptian Novel

Ezzat El Kamhawi Translated by Nancy Roberts

A sweeping saga of generations of a rural Egyptian family and the history of the wider Egypt that affects their lives, winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature This novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered

by Muhammad Ali’s mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists. The story opens with the pivotal character, Mubarka al-Fuli, now a grandmother and matriarch, wanting to dictate a letter to God for her grandson to send to the Almighty by email. We are then ushered back in time to Mubarka’s fiery adolescence and her painfully aborted romance with Muntasir, son of the village’s deceased but legendary strongman. The shifting fortunes of the al-Deeb clan affect every aspect of its members’ lives, from their sexual vulnerabilities to the grief of loss, the uncertainties of a changing world, and the heartaches born of betrayal, and love unfulfilled.

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In this beautifully crafted novel, there are luminous moments where history literally arrives at a village swept by more than a century of colonial rule, revolutions, and wars. In its evocation of imagined history and fictive events, the novel . . . invites us to reflect on the boundaries that separate the village from modernity, fiction from history, and art from life.”

—Tahia Abdel Nasser, Mahfouz Medal Award Committee

Original Arabic title: Bayt al-dib 288pp. Pbk. January.

978-977-416-620-4. £12.99. World.

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Mubarka al-Fouli, who lived to see her grandchildren talking to friends from parts of the globe they’d never seen, started asking them to send messages to God. “A little note just to remind Him of me,” she said to the young boy seated in front of the computer, who, with serious mien, prepared a new page and asked her to dictate the note. She began composing a flowery preamble, and the writer of the complaint followed along with her until he burst out laughing over her difficulty in choosing the words. He stopped typing and asked her mischievously why she was in such a hurry to die.

“For starters, it’s not nice. It’s really not nice at all,” she replied.

She was afraid of seeming disrespectful by having lived to such a ripe old age, and she spoke with the anguish of someone trying to relieve herself of the discomfort of being found in an unseemly situation through no choice of her own. Feeling as though she’d overstepped her bounds, she softened her tone: “It’s just a gentle reprimand. I mean, He has an excuse. He’ll think, who is this, after all?”

They laughed, since they knew she would be willing to withdraw her complaint the minute they reminded her of Muntasir, whose scent came wafting powerfully across her nostrils, numbing her and causing her to think twice about the whole idea of complaining or reproaching death.

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Despite its breadth of vision, the novel manages to balance both sides of the equation—the quirky and sometimes explosive developments in personal relationships within the family and the sudden and often devastating interventions of life outside the village—to create an intricate dynamic that captures much of the essence of the country’s recent experience.”

—Humphrey Davies, Mahfouz Medal Award Committee

EZZAT EL KAMHAWI, an Egyptian novelist and journalist, was born in 1961 and studied journalism at Cairo University. He is the editor-inchief of al-Doha Cultural Magazine. He is the author of ten books, including four novels and two collections of short stories.

NANCY ROBERTS is the translator of Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Translation.

Her most recent translations are Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses (AUC Press, 2012), and Abdulaziz Al Farsi’s Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs (AUC Press, 2013).

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Modern Arabic Literature

Black Magic

Translated by

An Egyptian Novel

Hamdy el-Gazzar Humphrey Davies

A new paperback edition of the award-winning first novel by a young Egyptian writer

As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father’s gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life. An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession.

In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir’s life is in limbo. A yearning for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is at once enraptured and non-committal. The resolution of this volatile mix lies in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire.

Black Magic was awarded the prestigious Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.

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Through the power of his imaginative black magic, [Hamdy el-Gazzar] resurrects slumbering art forms with a skill rarely seen in a young writer.”

—Salah Fadl, Al-Ahram

Original Arabic title: Sihr aswad 192pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-626-6. £10.99. World.

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HAMDY EL-GAZZAR was born in 1970 in Giza and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. He is the author of Private Pleasures (AUC Press, 2013).

HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011) and other works of Arabic literature. He has twice received the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

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Modern Arabic Literature

Private Pleasures A Modern Egyptian Novel

Translated by

Hamdy el-Gazzar Humphrey Davies

A dark new novel from the author of Black Magic

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirtysomething newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile’s west bank.

Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, serene Quran-readers, pious family members, religious con-men, autistic tissue-sellers, and others. Milleresque in its treatment of sex, the novel captures the essence of the phantasmagoric world of the Egyptian mega-city, disintegrating under the pressures of its home-grown horrors while pining for the sublime.

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It was Nashwa who put the rope around my neck, at our first encounter. She alone could bind and loose, she alone controlled the thick rope, which she could jerk on, pulling me to her whenever she chose. She might pull violently, dragging me in whenever she felt like it, whenever she wanted me, or let it out a little, according to her mood, depending on how bored or fed up with me she was, or how indifferent she felt toward me.”

Original Arabic title: Ladhdhat sirriya 224pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-601-3. £11.99. World.

HAMDY EL-GAZZAR was born in 1970 in Giza and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. He is the author of Private Pleasures (AUC Press, 2013).

HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011) and other works of Arabic literature. He has twice received the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

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Modern Arabic Literature

Poor A Nubian Novel

Translated by

Idris Ali Elliott Colla

A new paperback edition of the powerful story by one of Egypt’s leading Nubian writers

“This is your last day. Be strong. Don’t hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return.”

Idris Ali’s confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious and thirsty, he wanders around venting his resentments large and small, his sexual frustrations, and his sense of powerlessness in the face of unremitting injustice. He seeks to expunge his failed life in the Nile: the river that had been the life blood of his country for millennia, and that—with Egypt’s new dam—now drowns Nubia, flinging her dispossessed sons north and south into exile. Many years ago, the narrator was one of those sons, fleeing flood and famine only to arrive in Cairo, penniless and shoeless, in time to see it go up in flames, the old regime overthrown by “the men in tanks.”

Poor is the story of a life of hardship, adversity, and emotional starvation. It is also the story of opportunities squandered and hopes traded away for nothing— of a life lived, at times, all too poorly.

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A hidden view of the writer’s life . . . a world that consumes the soul and passion, the changing nature of social classes, and marginal existence at the bottom of society.”

—Salah Fadl, Egyptian critic

Original Arabic title: Taht khatt al-faqr 220pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-627-3. £11.99. World.

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IDRIS ALI (1940–2010), one of Egypt’s leading Nubian writers, was the author of three short story collections and six novels, including Dongola (AUC Press, 2006). Self-taught in literature, he attended the Religious Institute of al-Azhar.

ELLIOTT COLLA is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Georgetown University.

He has translated a number of Arabic novels, including Ibrahim Aslan’s The Heron and Ibrahim al-Koni’s Gold Dust (AUC Press, 2007, 2008).

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Modern Arabic Literature

The Collar and the Bracelet An Egyptian Novel

Yahya Taher Abdullah Samah Selim

Translated by

A new paperback edition of the dark novella of village life in southern Egypt

Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family—a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid social conventions of village life. In a series of masterful narrative circles and repetitions, the novella traces the grim intrigues of Hazina al-Bishari and the inexorable destinies of her son, the exile and notorious bandit Mustafa, her daughter Fahima, tortured by guilt and secret passion, and the tragic doom of her beautiful granddaughter Nabawiya. Yahya Taher Abdullah’s haunting prose distills the rhythmic lyricism of the folk story and weaves it into a uniquely modernist narrative tapestry of love and revenge that beautifully captures the timeless pharaonic landscapes of Upper Egypt and the blind struggles of its inhabitants against poverty, exploitation, and time—themes that are echoed and amplified in the short stories included in this volume, which span the breadth of Abdullah’s tragically short career as one of Egypt’s most brilliant writers of modern fiction.

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Samah Selim has been able to catch the Upper Egyptian and folkloric rhythms – and their utterly unromantic yoking to the everyday grimness and intimacy of modern realities – that Abdullah pioneered in his fiction.”

–Marilyn Booth, 2009 Saif Ghobash –Banipal Prize Judge

Original Arabic title: al-Tawq wa-l-iswira 156pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-628-0. £10.99. World.

YAHYA TAHER ABDULLAH (1938–1981) born in the Upper Egyptian village of Karnak, was a prominent figure in the circle of writers known as the Generation of the Sixties. He was the author of four novellas and five collections of short stories. A collection of his stories, The Mountain of Green Tea, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, was published by the AUC Press in 1999.

SAMAH SELIM is the translator of Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy (AUC Press, 2011). She won the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet. She currently teaches at Rutgers University.

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Modern Arabic Literature

Rama and the Dragon An Egyptian Novel

Translated by

Edwar al-Kharrat Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden

A new paperback edition of the winner of the 1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

This 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 and creativity—and Mikhail—the symbol of unity and constancy. Their story reflects the relationship not only between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower Egypt.

Through a delicate grid of intertextual references and juxtaposed narratives, the dreams and hopes, fears and defeats of Rama and Mikhail move from the local to the global, corresponding to human dreams and anxieties everywhere.

In this novel, Edwar al-Kharrat has created a unique form of narrative discourse in which he presents Egyptian realities and actualities of the 1960s and 1970s, with flashbacks to as early as the 1940s, in an aesthetic form that highlights historical moments while blending philosophical, mythical, and psychological perspectives in a literary parallel to the cinematic technique of montage.

In their citation awarding al-Kharrat the Mahfouz Medal, the judges stated: “Rama and the Dragon is considered a breakthrough in the literary history of modern Arabic fiction.”

EDWAR AL-KHARRAT was born, raised, and educated in Alexandria. His first book of short stories, High Walls, was published in 1959. Since then he has written novels, criticism, and poetry. He is the winner of numerous international awards, including the Cavafis Prize.

Original Arabic title: Rama w-l-tineen 340pp. Pbk. October.

978-977-416-625-9. £12.99. World.

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FERIAL GHAZOUL is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on gender issues in modern and medieval literature.

JOHN VERLENDEN is a writing instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo, and an anthologized writer of short stories. He and Dr. Ghazoul won the King Fahd translation prize from University of Arkansas in 1997 for Egyptian poet Muhammad Afifi Matar’s Quartet of Joy.

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Comparative Religion

From Akhenaten to Moses Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

Jan Assmann

A critical examination of the origins and development of monotheism

The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses—a figure of history and a figure of tradition—symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one.

The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers’ theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.

Contents 1. Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion 2. Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma 3. From Poly- to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution 4. Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History 5. Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age 6. Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment 7. Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence JAN ASSMANN is a German Egyptologist widely known for his work on the origins of monotheism. Formerly professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, he is now honorary professor of cultural studies at the University of Constance.

192pp. Hbd. March.

978-977-416-631-0. £24.95. World.

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Religious History / Reference

Coptic Civilization

Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt

Edited by

Gawdat Gabra

A comprehensive cultural history of the Copts and their rich contributions of literature, art, and architecture, material arts and music Egypt’s Copts make up one of the oldest and largest Christian communities in the Middle East. Yet despite the availability of a large number of books on aspects of Coptic culture, including art and architecture, monasticism, theology, and music, there is to date no single volume that provides a comprehensive cultural history of the Copts and their achievements. Coptic Civilization aims to fill this gap, by introducing the general reader, the interested non-specialist, to Coptic culture in all its variety and multi-faceted richness.

With contributions by twenty scholars, Coptic Civilization includes chapters on monasticism, the Coptic language, Coptic literature, Christian Arabic literature, the objects and documents of daily life, magic, art and architecture, and textiles, as well as the history of the Coptic Church, its liturgy, theology, and music.

CONTRIBUTORS: Dominique Bénazeth, Lois Farag, Cäcilia Fluck, Peter Grossmann, Gisele Helmecke, Magdalena Kuhn, Marvin Meyer, Samuel Moawad, Elisabeth R. O’Connell, Monica René, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Saad Michael Saad, Mark Sheridan, Mark N. Swanson, Hany N. Takla, Jacques van der Vliet, Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Ewa D. Zakrzewska

272pp. Hbd. 23.5x28.5 cm. 184 illus. January.

978-977-416-547-4. £29.95. World.

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GAWDAT GABRA is the former director of the Coptic Museum and the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on the history and culture of Egyptian Christianity, including The Treasures of Coptic Art (AUC Press, 2006) and The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo (AUC Press, 2012).

He is currently visiting professor of Coptic studies at Claremont Graduate University, California.

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Contents History Historiography Coptic Church History Monasticism Theology, Liturgy, and Music Alexandrian Theology from Athanasius the Great to Timothy II: A Historical Survey of Coptic Orthodox Theology Liturgy in the Coptic Church Coptic Music Culture: Tradition—Structure and Variation Language and Literature The Coptic Language Gnosticism and Manichaeism in Egypt The Coptic Bible Coptic Literature Daily Life: Documentary Evidence Warding Off Evil, Attracting Charm: Magic in Late-antique and Early-medieval Egypt Copto-Arabic Literature Art, Archaeology, and Material Culture The Discovery of Christian Egypt: From Manuscript Hunters toward an Archaeology of Late-antique Egypt Christian Architecture in Egypt Decoration of Coptic Churches Objects of Daily Life Egypt’s Post-pharaonic Textiles Renaissance of the Coptic Church The Coptic Church Today Contemporary Coptic Art Coptic Civilization in the Diaspora

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Arabic Language Learning

Lughatuna al-Fusha

Samia Louis

A New Course in Modern Standard Arabic: Book Five

An innovative, interactive, and highly structured course including DVD and interactive online exercises for teaching Arabic to advanced MSA students Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab world, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse. The fifth book in this new series for the classroom is designed for the Advanced levels, the low-mid stages of the ACTFL proficiency level, and C1 in the Common European Framework for Arabic learners. The aim of this book is to help students to read and write long and complex factual and literary texts in order to appreciate different writing styles.

The students’ facility with sentence structure and vocabulary is increased by reading newspapers and listening to news broadcasts, and by writing about real-life interests such as social, economic, political, and gender issues, technological advancements, and education. The chapters guide students through the gradual acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. Exercises at the end of each chapter cover all essential skills and translation, with emphasis on reading and writing. The accompanying DVD includes audio material for all listening activities, dialogs, and reading exercises. The book is further supported by online interactive reading, writing, and grammar drills.

Forthcoming: Books Six and Seven

Also available:

SAMIA LOUIS has taught Arabic for many years with the International Language Institute (ILI) in Cairo (www.arabicegypt.edu), an affiliate of International House, and is the author of all the books in the Kallimni ‘Arabi series (AUC Press, 2007–2009).

240pp. Pbk+DVD. February.

978-977-416-619-8. £29.95. World.

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Arabic Language Learning

Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading For Advanced Students of MSA

Nariman Naili Al-Warraki and Nadia Harb

A new resource for students of Modern Standard Arabic, whether in the classroom or for self-study

Advanced and High Intermediate Arabic learners can benefit greatly from reading texts that cover a broad range of different themes, to build their vocabulary and attain a higher proficiency level. The authors of this textbook have carefully selected a lively variety of texts that cover controversial issues and current events, which are likely to arouse students’ attention and interest. In the course of reading to learn, students will not only practice strategies (skimming, scanning, careful reading, and guessing for vocabulary recognition), but they will also engage more deeply in the material as informative of Arab and Egyptian society, politics, and culture.

The texts appear in order from least to greatest linguistic complexity, which makes it easy for instructors to choose the most level-appropriate material to present to their classes.

The book includes exercises after every five lessons, and all the drills are gathered in an appendix following the text, as well as a glossary for all vocabulary items.

Also available: NARIMAN NAILI AL-WARRAKI is senior Arabic language instructor and former director of the Arabic Language Unit of the Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo.

NADIA HARB has been an instructor at the American University in Cairo Center for Arabic Study Abroad for twenty-five years, and is the recipient of the CASA Excellence in Teaching Award.

320pp. Pbk. February.

978-977-416-613-6. ÂŁ32.50. World.

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Middle Eastern Politics

Life as Politics How Ordinary People Change the Middle East—Second Edition

Asef Bayat

A fully updated Middle Eastern perspective on the dynamics of social change

Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action.

The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran’s Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.

Praise for the first edition

‘‘

Asef Bayat has penned a remarkable study.

Life as Politics should be a mandatory read for any journalist, scholar or politician who has never been to the Middle East.”

—Arab News

392pp. Pbk. November.

978-977-416-630-3. £19.95. Middle East.

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When Life as Politics was published..., Asef Bayat’s arguments on grassroots dynamism as the harbinger of democratic transformations in the Arab world seemed a utopian hope. Barely a year later, as events of the 2011 Arab Spring continue to unfold, his critical insights on everyday forms and spaces of political activity in the region have become prescient.”

—Contemporary Sociology

ASEF BAYAT is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn.

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E-books

The Oslo Accords 1993–2013 A Critical Assessment

Edited by Petter Bauck and Mohammed Omer Foreword by Desmond Tutu

An assessment of the landmark Oslo Accords of 1993 two decades on

Twenty years have passed since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization concluded the Oslo Accords, or Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for Palestine. It was declared “a political breakthrough of immense importance.” Israel officially accepted the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and the PLO recognized the right of Israel to exist. Critical views were voiced at the time about how the self-government established under the leadership of Yasser Arafat created a Palestinian-administered Israeli occupation, rather than paving the way towards an independent Palestinian state with substantial economic funding from the international community.

Through a number of essays written by renowned scholars and practitioners, the two decades since the Oslo Accords are scrutinized from a wide range of perspectives. Did the agreement have a reasonable chance of success? What went wrong, causing the treaty to derail and delay a real, workable solution?

What are the recommendations today to show a way forward for the Israelis and the Palestinians?

Contents include: The Oslo Accords: Their Context, Their Consequences, Noam Chomsky • Revisiting 1967: The False Paradigm of Peace, Partition, and Parity, Ilan Pappé • “We Have Opened Doors, Others Have Been Closed”: Women under the Oslo Accords, Lotta Schullerqvist • Oslo +20: A Legal Historical Perspective, Richard Falk • Out of the Ashes of Oslo: The Rise of Islamism and the Fall of Favoritism, Ahmed Yousef • Palestinian Prisoners from Oslo to Annapolis, Sufian Abu Zaida • Some Gaza Impressions, Twenty Years after Oslo, Mohammed Omer • The Shattered Dream, Gideon Levy • Palestinian Identity in the Aftermath of Oslo, Ahmed Abu Retaima • Israeli Impunity, Mads Gilbert

PETTER BAUCK is the senior adviser on conflictrelated issues in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. He has published several books and articles on Eritrea and Afghanistan. He served as deputy head of the Norwegian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority from 2000 to 2003.

MOHAMMED OMER is a Palestinian journalist, reporting for numerous newspapers and journals in the USA, Scandinavia, and Germany.

He is a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

September.

978-161-797-336-9 £60. World.

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Index Abaza, Mona 4 Abdel Nasser, Tahia Gamal 2 Abdel Nasser, Tahia Khaled 2 Abdel Wahab, Farouk 23 Abdullah, Yahya Taher 33 Ali, Idris 32 Ashour, Radwa 24 Assmann, Jan 35 Authentic Egyptian Cooking 14 El Badry, Hala 23 Bauck, Petter 41 Bayat, Asef 40 Bednarski, Andrew 18 Black Magic 30 Bryson-Gustová, Anna 20 Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading 39 Cairo Anthology, A 6 Cairo Modern 25 Colla, Elliott 32 Collar and the Bracelet, The 33 Cooper, John 9 Coptic Civilization 36 Cotton Plantation Remembered, The 4 Davies, Humphrey 30, 31 Dreams of Departure 26 From Akhenaten to Moses 35 el-Gazzar, Hamdy 30, 31 Gabra, Gawdat 36 Ghazoul, Ferial 34 Harb, Nadia 39 Hartwig, Melinda 16 Heikkinen, Kay 24 House of the Wolf 28 Human Capital in Egypt 12 El Kamhawi, Ezzat 28 Kandil, Magda 12 al-Kharrat, Edwar 34 Lane, Edward William 6

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Leheta, Nehal 14 Life as Politics 40 Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud, The 18 Louis, Samia 38 Lughatuna al-Fusha 38 Mahfouz, Naguib 25, 26, 27 Manley, Deborah 6, 8 Medieval Nile, The 9 Meshal, Reem A. 13 Mosaad, Shereen 2 Nasser: My Husband 2 Omer, Mohammed 41 Oslo Accords 1993–2013, The 41 Pischikova, Elena 17 Poor 32 Private Pleasures 31 Rain over Baghdad 23 Rama and the Dragon 34 Ransom, Marjorie 10 Roberts, Nancy 28 Selim, Samah 33 Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian 13 Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba 10 Tell This in My Memory 22 Temple of the World 20 Three Ancient Egyptian Novels 27 Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69), The 16 Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis 17 Troutt Powell, Eve M. 22 Tutu, Desmond 41 Verlenden, John 34 Verner, Miroslav 20 Al-Warraki, Nariman Naili 39 Woman from Tantoura, The 24 Women Travelers in Egypt 8

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