Books from American University in Cairo Press
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A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt
By Richard HoathThe gerbils are all adapted to life in arid areas though they also occur in semidesert, steppe, salt marsh, and agricultural regions. Habitat can be important for identification as it will be seen that certain species seem to occur with ...
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American Travelers on the Nile: Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
By Andrew OliverIn his manuscript diary (in a private collection) David Roberts says, “our party consisted of Mr. Dunlop one of the Council of Directors at Bombay Dr Tatham [sic] a gentleman celebrated for his learning in the early Coptic Gospels [the ...
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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
By Jason ThompsonEdwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, 608–609. Edwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, 307–308. Edwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, 452. Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life: Present and Past, 3 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1848).
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Directions of Change in Rural Egypt
By Nicholas S. HopkinsHelen Watson also notes how “... the concept has suffered the typical fate of all things which undergo the transformation from periphery to center, the change of status from something progressive, new and exciting to that of the ...
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Siwa: Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis
By Margaret M. ValeBibliography Abdallah, M.M. “Siwan Customs.” Harvard African Studies 1. Cambridge,. 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 Vivian, Western Desert, 123. Malim, Oasis, 54. Malim, Oasis, 48. S. Weir, Palestinian Costume (London: British Museum Press, ...
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Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?
By David Sims4 T. Scudder, “The Aswan High Dam Case,” unpublished manuscript, 2003, ... “Rising Sea Levels Endanger the Delta,” Egypt Independent, 10 January 2012, ww w.egyptindependent.com/node/594181 Quoted in Sowers, “Remapping,” 165.
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Growing Old in Egypt: The Supply and Demand of Care for Older Persons
By Thomas BoggatzLee, D.T. 1997. Residential care placement: Perceptions among elderly Chinese people in Hong Kong. ... Mason, A., S.H. Lee, and G. Russo. 2001a. Population Momentum and Population Aging in Asia and Near East Countries.
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Wedding Night: An Egyptian Novel
By Yusuf Abu Rayya“Wait until your wedding day—it's coming very soon!” You smiled at her and asked her, “How did you know?” She tipped the rest of the water out onto the ground, and said, “Everyone knows.” She brought her hands up to her chest, ...
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Diaries of an Egyptian Princess
By Nevine Abbas HalimPacked with royal gossip and political intrigue, with tales of young love and fashionable society, and of princes and princesses dancing perilously close to the edge of a way of life that would one day fall apart and then vanish, Diaries of ...
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Farewell to Alexandria: Eleven Short Stories
By Harry E. TzalasThe eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War.
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The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft
By Seif El RashidiHammond, J.D. “'Tifaifai' of eastern Polynesia: Meaning and communication in a women's reintegrated art form.” PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ... “The Egyptian Art of Tent-making.” Ahram Online, July 24, 2012, ...
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Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies
By Sahar Saleem, Zahi Hawass. . . The results are sometimes surprising but always fascinating. . . . This book will be of great interest not only to scholars but to anyone else fascinated by Egyptian mummies."—Choice "[A] remarkable book.
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The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris
By Jean-Babtiste Apollinaire Lebas, Jean-Baptiste Apollinaire LebasThe extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of ...
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Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism
By Nancy GallagherPicking Up the Pieces from Portugal to Palestine: Quaker Refugee Relief in World War II. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2004. Yarrow, C.H. Mike. Quaker Experiences in International Conciliation. New Haven: Yale University ...
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Sacred Flames: The Power of Artificial Light in Ancient Egypt
By Meghan E. StrongB.P. Grenfell, Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Oxford: Clarendon 17 Press, 1896). Grenfell, Revenue Laws, XXXIV–XXXVII; D. Brent Sandy, The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt, Bulletin of the American Society ...
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Natural Selections: A Year of Egypt's Wildlife
Both anecdotal and informative, Natural Selections is based on the author's own observations in the field and is generously illustrated with over seventy of his original pencil-drawings of the mammals,...
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Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
By Donald Malcolm ReidStamps and banknote from collection of D. Reid. ... Another stamp set celebrated Alexandria as the site of the first Mediterranean Games in 1951; it showed a Roman triumphal arch—the entrance to the Alexandria Municipal Stadium which ...
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Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context
By Ferial J. GhazoulThe Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative.
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The Red Land: The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert
By Steven E. Sidebotham, Martin Hense, Hendrikje M. Nouwensrelations with India and continued political dealings with states in the southern Arabian Peninsula, and Africa south of Egypt. Many of the contacts with these lands would have been by sea via the Red Sea ports in Egypt.
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Perspectives on the Gulf Crisis
By Bassam Tibi, Dan TschirgiPerspectives on the Gulf Crisis