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Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told th...

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Gripping accounts of how ordinary Syrians strove to survive the hardships that preceded the Assad...

The Essential Yusuf Idris

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An offbeat tale of creativity, friendship, and finding your voice in this uproarious journey thro...

A superbly illustrated full-color selection of 200 of the museum's most beautiful and important o...

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The inside story of one of the most successful U.S. foreign aid programs in the Middle East in re...

'A Trade in Dreams charts one hundred years of the evolution of print media advertising in Egypt,...

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The complete series of innovative new coursebooks in Egyptian colloquial ArabicDrawing on her yea...

The complete series of innovative new coursebooks in Egyptian colloquial ArabicAimed at the growi...

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In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family collapses into tragedy and ruin. The moth...

A new and updated edition of the essential activities book for learning to read the news in Arabi...

King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early ...

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper E...

From the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaoh...

Embark on a colorful journey to reveal a hidden Egypt! Explore Egyptian gods, animals, hieroglyph...

An epic novel of historic Palestine from the award-winning author of Time of White Horses'His wri...

Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, a...

The history of Cairo's football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the January 25, 20...

This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civiliza...

For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful o...

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to t...

A one-of-a-kind exploration of this international destination city from within its inner sanctums...

Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive th...

In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visite...

Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser's revolution in 1952, this compelling follow...

Born in Istanbul, Neslishah Sultan (1912-2012) was the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. This a...

This fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and w...

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