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The Book Smuggler - Omaima Al Khamis - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Book Smuggler - Omaima Al Khamis - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A magical story of a Crusade-era bookseller who embarks on a journey through the Islamic world’s great medieval cities, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba. He discovers a dangerous new world of ideas and experiences the cultural diversity of the Islamic Golden Age, its sects, philosophical schools, wars, and ways of life. Omaima Al-Khamis’s magical storytelling and her vivid descriptions of time and place trace a route through ancient cities and cultures and immerse us in a distant era, uncovering the intellectual debates and struggles which continue to rage today.

DKK 168.00
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The Night Will Have Its Say - Ibrahim Al Koni - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Night Will Have Its Say - Ibrahim Al Koni - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world''s most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu''man. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat them. The Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the seventh century CE, narrated from the perspective of the conquered peoples. Written in Ibrahim al-Koni''s unique and enchanting voice, his lyrical and deeply poetic prose speaks to themes that are intensely timely. Through the wars and conflicts of this distant, turbulent era, he addresses the futility of war, the privilege of an elite few at the expense of the many, the destruction of natural habitats and indigenous cultures, and questions about literal and fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts.Al-Koni''s masterly account of conquest and resistance is both timeless and timely, infused with a sense of disaster and exile—from language, the desert, and homeland.

DKK 429.00
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The Night Will Have Its Say - Ibrahim Al Koni - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Night Will Have Its Say - Ibrahim Al Koni - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world''s most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu''man. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat them. The Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the seventh century CE, narrated from the perspective of the conquered peoples. Written in Ibrahim al-Koni''s unique and enchanting voice, his lyrical and deeply poetic prose speaks to themes that are intensely timely. Through the wars and conflicts of this distant, turbulent era, he addresses the futility of war, the privilege of an elite few at the expense of the many, the destruction of natural habitats and indigenous cultures, and questions about literal and fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts.Al-Koni''s masterly account of conquest and resistance is both timeless and timely, infused with a sense of disaster and exile—from language, the desert, and homeland.

DKK 165.00
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The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes - Jassim Al Asadi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes - Jassim Al Asadi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A FOREIGN AFFAIRS BEST BOOK OF 2024 The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a protected site The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, once the largest wetland system on the planet, have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Ma‘dan, or Marsh Arabs, but they remain remote, isolated, and virtually unknown. In the early 1990s, the Saddam Hussein regime drained the Marshes and set out to destroy not only a critical ecosystem but a unique way of life as well. It stands as one of the greatest environmental and humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. In the wake of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, local residents destroyed the earthen dams built to divert water from the wetlands and the Marshes were reflooded. Their future, however, is in peril. The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes tells the history of the creation, destruction, and revitalization of the Marshes and their inhabitants against the backdrop of the dramatic events that have convulsed Iraq in the past fifty years. It follows the life of Jassim al-Asadi, an irrigation engineer who was jailed and tortured under Saddam Hussein and who subsequently dedicated his life to the reflooding and restoration of the Marshes. He eventually contributed to the Marshes being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Jassim is eminently relatable, and the stories of his life and other marsh dwellers are infused with pathos, tragedy, humor, and passion.

DKK 429.00
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I Do Not Sleep - Iohsaan Abd Al Qaddaus - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

I Do Not Sleep - Iohsaan Abd Al Qaddaus - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never before been available in English Sixteen-year-old Nadia had been raised by her father, after her parents divorced when she was only a baby. Indulged and petulant, she remained the only female in her father’s life. But when she returns from boarding school to find that he has remarried without her knowledge, she conspires to restore her rightful place, creating misery, confusion, and a flood of unexpected consequences in her wake.Written as a letter, a confession, by now twenty-one-year old Nadia, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s classic novel of revenge and betrayal challenges patriarchal norms with its strong female characters and brazen sexuality, and continues to speak to the complex human condition. It dives into middle-class life, and lays bare the repressed desires, seething jealousies, and complicated dramas of family.Abdel Kouddous’s masterpiece I Do Not Sleep was adapted into a classic of Egyptian cinema in 1957, and its publication for the first time in English is an international publishing event.

DKK 193.00
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From Reading to Writing, Volume 1 - Abbas Al Tonsi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

From Reading to Writing, Volume 1 - Abbas Al Tonsi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A new comprehensive approach to teaching Arabic reading and writing skills to heritage students at the intermediate and advanced levels From Reading to Writing, Volume 1 is a content- and task-based textbook for students of Arabic as a heritage language at the intermediate and advanced levels, aimed at developing learners’ basic language skills, especially reading and writing. Although heritage learners can often communicate in colloquial Arabic through exposure to the spoken language at home or in their country of residence, they equally as often face fundamental problems in reading and writing, as well as in speaking Modern Standard Arabic. Through authentic texts, carefully chosen to represent the lived realities of the language, supported by a range of tasks, this book seeks to develop heritage learners’ communication skills to meet the practical requirements of university study and the modern-day workplace. The topics covered also offer intellectually stimulating content to learners while connecting them in a meaningful way to Arab culture and society. The authors developed the course content with their students for over a decade and have designed the tasks in this book with the notion that language acquisition is not just a set of rules but an interactive process that depends on performing different tasks in multiple contexts. The tasks include prereading and intensive reading activities; comprehension questions; writing, listening, and grammar exercises; and vocabulary building, as well as higher-order questions designed to promote critical thinking skills. The majority of the writing and listening tasks focus on group work to encourage students to collaborate and engage in the learning process. From Reading to Writing , Volume 1 is also suitable for foreign-language learners of Arabic at the intermediate and advanced levels and native Arabic speakers enrolled at Arab universities.

DKK 598.00
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From Ibn Sina to Sindbad - David Dimeo - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

From Ibn Sina to Sindbad - David Dimeo - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A unique textbook of guided readings from the great works of Arabic prose for advanced level students of Classical Arabic literature From Ibn Sina to Sindbad makes some of the greatest works of the Golden Age of Arab Civilization accessible to Arabic students at the mid- to high-advanced level of proficiency, while also providing a ready curriculum for teachers of Advanced Arabic. It introduces students to classical Arabic literature through twenty guided readings of works spanning prose genres from travel writing to philosophy, science, religion, humor, and imaginative fiction, including texts by al-Jahiz, al-Kindi, Ibn Khaldun, and Ibn Rushd. Original texts are supplemented with supporting explanatory material, to make them accessible to students, who then progress through an extensive series of exercises to test their comprehension, develop interpretive and critical reading skills, and apply the linguistic structures to their own speaking and writing. Each of the twenty lessons is designed to stand alone for classroom use or individual study, making this a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.

DKK 392.00
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A rich exploration of sibling bonds in literature and the arts This issue of Alif explores representations of brotherhood/sisterhood in literature and the arts. What does it mean to be part of a brotherly/sisterly bond? And what do such bonds entail, positively or otherwise? These questions have been extensively posed and revisited in a variety of traditions old and new. Sibling relations, here defined, can also transcend kinship and blood relations to include shared causes and values, such as political solidarity and gender equality. Contributors: Shereen Abouelnaga , Cairo University, Egypt Abdelrahman Abuabed , independent scholar, Doha, Qatar Karam AbuSehly , Beni-Suef University, Egypt Saad Al-Bazei , King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mariam Elashmawy , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Safaa Fathy , poet, essayist, and filmmaker, France Anna Głowacka , independent scholar, Austria Hala K. Gomaa , independent scholar, Cairo, Egypt Noha Hanafy , The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt Magda Hasabelnaby , Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Amina Mansour , photographer, creative conceptualizer, and copywriter, Cairo, Egypt Dalia Said Mostafa , The University of Manchester, UK Manal Al-Natour , West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Andrea Maria Negri , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Yomna Saber , Qatar University, Doha, Qatar Muhammed F. Salem , independent scholar, Cairo, Egypt Mary Youssef , Binghamton University, New York State, USA

DKK 772.00
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Challenges in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Challenges in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the field Although teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the TAFL classroom experience. In this insightful volume, Dalal Abo El Seoud brings together up-to-date practice-based research and conceptual contributions by eighteen professionals in the field. These address a wide range of challenges in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and ways of overcoming them with a clear eye to twenty-first-century language-learning skills, which advocate communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.The chapters address curriculum design, teaching Arabic to non-English speakers, trends in the use of technology, motivating students, teaching Arabic language varieties, and teaching language skills. This volume will be an invaluable resource for teachers and teachers in training of TAFL and for scholars and researchers in the field. Contributors: Dalal Abo El Seoud , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Hagar Lotfy Amer , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Wael M. Asfour , independent scholar, Cairo, Egypt Mona Azzam , State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA Mahmoud Al-Batal , The American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Nino Ejibadze , Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Shereen Y. El Ezabi , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Mohamed Ibrahim , Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr al-Sheikh, Egypt Mimi Melkonian , Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA Haitham S. Mohamed , University of California, Berkeley, Berkely, California, USA Joanna Natalia Murkocinska , Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Heba Salem , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Mohamed Sawaie , University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Laila Al-Sawi , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Paweł Siwiec , Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Iman Aziz Soliman , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Przemysław Turek , Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Shahira Yacout , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

DKK 577.00
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Open Gaza - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Open Gaza - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, however, is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude, resistance, and imagination; a context in which inhabitants go to remarkable lengths to create the ordinary conditions of the everyday and to reject their exceptional status. Inspired by Gaza’s inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists, and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the US, the UK, India, and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare.Contributors Affiliations Salem Al Qudwa , Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA Hadeel Assali , Columbia University, USA Tareq Baconi , International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium Teddy Cruz , University of California-San Diego, USA Fonna Forman , University of California-San Diego, USA M. Christine Boyer , Princeton University, Princeton, USA Alberto Foyo , architect, New York, USA Nasser Golzari , Westminster University, London, UK Yara Sharif , Westminster University, London, UK Denise Hoffman Brandt , City College of New York, USA Romi Khosla , architect, New Delhi, India Craig Konyk , Kean University, Union, NJ, USA Rafi Segal , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA Chris Mackey , Payette Architects, Boston, USA Vyjayanthi V. Rao , Terreform, New York, USA Sara Roy , Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Mahdi Sabbagh , architect, New York, USA Meghan McAllister , architect, San Francisco Bay Area, USA Deen Sharp , London School of Economics, UK Malkit Shoshan , Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Pietro Stefanini , University of Edinburgh, Scotland Michael Sorkin (1948–2020) , City University of New York, USA Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University, USA Omar Yousef , Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Fadi Shayya , The University of Manchester, UK

DKK 663.00
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Life Histories of Theban Tombs - Andrea Loprieno Gnirs - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Life Histories of Theban Tombs - Andrea Loprieno Gnirs - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A thorough transdisciplinary archaeological study of the ancient Egyptian Theban rock-cut tombs at Sheikh ‘Abd al-Qurna In recent years, archeological research has undergone major changes. The material turn in archaeology and related disciplines prompted the adoption of sophisticated scientific, digital, and technical approaches and methods often conducted on a micro level, enhancing our understanding of depositional processes and of the creation and life of an archeological object. This volume reflects seven seasons of transdisciplinary archaeological research at a cluster of rock-cut tombs in Sheikh ''Abd al-Qurna, an ancient Egyptian hillside cemetery and part of the much larger Theban Necropolis. Organized in twelve main chapters, Life Histories of Theban Tombs presents current investigations in landscape archaeology (including recent excavations at a large debris hill previously covering a tomb), geo- and bioarcheology, the archaeology of tomb construction, burial practices, and domestic uses as well as various epigraphical, visual, and material studies. The last two sections provide additional insight into the applied recording, surveying, and visualization methods and techniques and the database system used for data recording and organization. Contributors’ Affiliations : Martina Aeschlimann-Langer, Basel, Switzerland Zulema Barahona-Mendieta, University of Basel, Switzerland Susanne Bickel, University of Basel, Switzerland Oliver Bruderer, Zurich, SwitzerlandRachael Colldeweih, Nagra, Wettingen, Switzerland Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain Xavier Droux, Hierakonpolis Expedition, Oxford, England Stéphane Fetler, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Zan Gojcic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland Charlotte Hunkeler, University of Basel, Switzerland Mahmoud Ibrahim, University of Cairo, Egypt Matjaž Kačičnik, Cairo, Egypt Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, University of Manchester, England Lara Selina Kurmann, University of Basel, Switzerland Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs, University of Basel, Switzerland Sabrina Meyer, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland Matthias Müller, University of Basel, Switzerland Julianna K. Paksi, University of Basel and École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Erico Peintner, Cairo, Egypt Matthew A. Perras, York University, Toronto, Canada Lukas Richner, canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Frank Rühli, University of Zurich, Switzerland Marina Sartori, University of Basel, Switzerland Nadine Schönhütte, Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS), Cologne, Germany Roger Seiler, University of Zurich, Switzerland Stephan M. Unter, University of Basel, Switzerland André J. Veldmeijer, American University in Cairo, Egypt Noémi Villars, University of Basel, Switzerland Andreas Wieser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland Andrea Wolter, ETH Engineering Geology Group, Zurich, Switzerland Martin Ziegler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland

DKK 665.00
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The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui - Samia Mehrez - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui - Samia Mehrez - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD A multigenerational literary memoir that sheds new light on one of the Arab world’s most renowned Romantic poets, through the eyes of his granddaughter Ibrahim Nagui (1898–1953) was one of the Arab world’s most important Romantic poets writing in Arabic during the first half of the twentieth century. A founding member of the Apollo school, he also published widely in the fields of medicine, nutrition, psychology, sociology, and translation. This multigenerational, genre-crossing work of literary nonfiction sheds new light on Nagui through the eyes of his granddaughter, literary scholar Samia Mehrez. Nagui is best known for his poem al-Atlal (“the Ruins”), which was later sung by legendary Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum. Drawing on a series of family archives, including Nagui’s own published and unpublished writings, Mehrez embarks on a journey through multiple languages, generations, and geographies, as she comes to reconcile with the shadow of her grandfather, who died two years before she was born. Mehrez unpacks many of the myths surrounding Nagui and in doing so, reflects on how he impacted her own career as a literary critic.

DKK 429.00
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture in Fifteen Monuments - Felix Arnold - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Ancient Egyptian Architecture in Fifteen Monuments - Felix Arnold - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

An authoritatively written overview of ancient Egyptian architecture from the point of view of an archaeologist and architectural historian The monuments of ancient Egypt have held scholars and tourists in their thrall for centuries. The sheer mass of the pyramids of Giza, the interaction of the temples at Deir al-Bahari with the natural environment, and the use of light in the hypostyle hall of Karnak all make these buildings world-class masterpieces of architecture, rivaling those of Greece and Rome. Ancient Egyptian Architecture in Fifteen Monuments presents an authoritative overview of Egyptian architecture from the point of view of an archaeologist and architectural historian with decades of fieldwork experience in Egypt and elsewhere. It focuses on fifteen selected masterpieces, from well-known structures such as the Bent Pyramid in Dahshur and the temple of Horus at Edfu to lesser-known monuments in Hierakonpolis, Abydos, Hawara, and Bubastis, each building representing an important stage in the development of Egyptian architecture and a different vision of what architecture should aspire to achieve.Using sixty reconstruction drawings and black-and-white photographs, Felix Arnold presents new insights into form, meaning, and the organization of space, providing a fresh perspective on ancient Egyptian culture and society.

DKK 843.00
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 44 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 44 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Food as culture in literature and the art s This issue of Alif seeks to contribute to current scholarship on food and foodways. Food, here, emerges as a way to construct identities—both individual and national—and as a means of addressing familial, social, and religious issues, thereby providing a valuable critical approach, not just to literature and the arts, but to the humanities and social sciences as well.CONTRIBUTORS: Emad Abdul-latif , Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Randa Aboubakr , Cairo University, Egypt Shereen Abouelnaga , Cairo University, Egypt Asaad Alsaleh , Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Isabella Altoé , Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada Yasmin Amin , Orient-Institute Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Nada Ayad , The Cooper Union, New York City, New York, USA David Bell , Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Sayyed Daifallah , The Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt Anusha D’souza , University of Mumbai, India Anny Gaul , University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Walid Ghabbour , Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt Magda Hasabelnaby , Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Mohja Kahf , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA Adham Masaoud Al Kak , Levant Center for Cultural Studies, Cairo, Egypt Ezzat El Kamhawi , Egyptian author, Cairo, Egypt Mousa M. Khoury , Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine Theresa Moran , Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Salma Serry , University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Omer Taher , Egyptian Author, Cairo, Egypt

DKK 777.00
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Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers - Mostafa Mohie - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers - Mostafa Mohie - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices of both dwellers and the state Founded in 1859, as part of the Suez Canal project and named after Khedive Said, the city of Port Said has always stood at the juncture of global, national, and local networks of forces, the city itself a reflection of many layers of Egypt’s modern history, from its colonial past through to the eras of national liberation and neoliberalism.Drawing on Bruno Latour’s and Henri Lefebvre’s conceptual works, this study examines how the ‘social’ (encompassing all aspects of human life—the political, the economic, and the social) of the city of Port Said was created, and how its spaces were mutually produced and transformed through the practices of both dwellers and the state. Looking also at the temporality of these processes, Mostafa Mohie examines three key moments: al-tahgir (the forced migration that followed the outbreak of the 1967 war and remained until 1974, when Port Saidians were permitted to return to their homes following the 1973 October War); the declaration of the free trade zone in the mid-1970s; and the Port Said Stadium massacre in 2012.

DKK 288.00
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The House of the Coptic Woman - Ashraf El Ashmawi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The House of the Coptic Woman - Ashraf El Ashmawi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A Notable African Book of 2023 ( Brittle Paper ) Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on the run from an abusive husband and, harboring a dark secret, seeks a new start in this small village and hopes to escape her harrowing past.Nothing is to be easy for Hoda or Nader, and the dramatic circumstances of their first meeting signal the disquiet to come. It is not long before tensions between Copts and Muslims, already on a knife-edge, spiral into a spate of unexplained killings and arson attacks. The locals blame the trouble on the supernatural, and Nader is thrown into a quagmire of sectarian conflict and superstition that no amount of formal training could have prepared him for. His investigations are thwarted at every turn, by uncooperative witnesses and an obstructive police force. As Nader and Hoda each pursue happiness and justice, their parallel journeys struggle against the forces of ignorance, poverty, hatred, and greed. With its echoes of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Diary of a Country Prosecutor , this is a powerful and personal tale of conflict, crime, and upheaval in rural Egypt.

DKK 193.00
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The House of the Coptic Woman - Ashraf El Ashmawi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The House of the Coptic Woman - Ashraf El Ashmawi - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A Notable African Book of 2023 ( Brittle Paper ) Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on the run from an abusive husband and, harboring a dark secret, seeks a new start in this small village and hopes to escape her harrowing past.Nothing is to be easy for Hoda or Nader, and the dramatic circumstances of their first meeting signal the disquiet to come. It is not long before tensions between Copts and Muslims, already on a knife-edge, spiral into a spate of unexplained killings and arson attacks. The locals blame the trouble on the supernatural, and Nader is thrown into a quagmire of sectarian conflict and superstition that no amount of formal training could have prepared him for. His investigations are thwarted at every turn, by uncooperative witnesses and an obstructive police force. As Nader and Hoda each pursue happiness and justice, their parallel journeys struggle against the forces of ignorance, poverty, hatred, and greed. With its echoes of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Diary of a Country Prosecutor , this is a powerful and personal tale of conflict, crime, and upheaval in rural Egypt.

DKK 429.00
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My Life in Jewelry - Azza Fahmy - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

My Life in Jewelry - Azza Fahmy - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

"How a female artisan became the Arab world’s top jewelry designer"— CNBC on Azza Fahmy The inspiring personal story of an exceptional female artist and entrepreneur who overcame great obstacles to become one of the most recognized jewelers in the Arab world and an international luxury brand In the Egypt of the 1970s, a young Azza Fahmy set out into the all-male world of Historic Cairo''s jewelry district to apprentice as a silversmith. This was the start of a remarkable success story that would make her name an international luxury brand. With warmth and candor, she recalls a happy childhood in Upper Egypt, spent in the bygone world of postwar Egypt. This idyllic start to life ended abruptly with the death of her father, when Azza Fahmy was only thirteen, and the family was forced to move to Cairo, to begin a new life under much reduced circumstances.It was a chance find at a book fair that changed the course of events for her—sparking a passion for silversmithing, and inspiring her to seek out the master craftsmen of Khan al-Khalili, the great craft district of Historic Cairo, and the nearby Sagha, or goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ district. Through her intimate knowledge of these jewelry workshops, Azza Fahmy takes us through the quarter’s exquisite architecture and bustling alleyways, peopled with silversmiths, goldsmiths, brass workers, and artisans of every stripe, and lays out the indelible influence this now disappearing world has left on her acclaimed jewelry designs.While Azza Fahmy’s story is one of great accomplishment, woven through it are her struggles as a single mother, a middle-class Egyptian, and a woman working in a man''s profession. This memoir, a tribute to the people and places that shaped her creative imagination, is also an ode to the conviction that with hope and perseverance, anything is possible.

DKK 335.00
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Fayoum Pottery - R Neil Hewison - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Fayoum Pottery - R Neil Hewison - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

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 rare methods, providing an in-depth look at the pottery produced in the Fayoum The Fayoum, a broad, fertile depression in Egypt’s Western Desert, known for its great salt lake, its rich green fields, and its unique pharaonic and Greco-Roman remains, is also home to three very different centers of pottery production. The potters of Kom Oshim specialize in decorated garden pots and other utilitarian ware, and guard the special secret of how to make the largest clay vessels in Egypt, up to an extraordinary two and a half meters tall. At al-Nazla, ancient traditions are kept alive, as members of a single extended family continue to use millennia-old techniques passed down from generation to generation, hand-forming among other things their distinctive spherical water jars with amazing dexterity and speed. In the small village of Tunis, the establishment of a pottery school by a Swiss couple in 1990 led to a complete transformation, and the village now hosts more than twenty-five pottery workshops and showrooms, whose products are sold in Cairo, London, and New York.In this lively insight into a varied and vital craft, the author reveals the stories of the three villages and the skilled potters who make their living there, looking at how they learned their trade and how they work, from the preparation of the clay to the formation of the pots on the wheel or by hand, to the decoration, the glazing, and the firing, and finally to the display or distribution and sale of the finished product.For past and future travelers to Egypt, lovers of the craft of pottery, practitioners, and collectors, this beautifully illustrated exploration of the ceramics of the Fayoum will inspire and enchant.

DKK 359.00
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42 - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity This issue of Alif explores the ways in which humans have come to confront their mortality across time and space. Contributions question the nature of loss, grief, and the possibility of an afterlife. Is death only an interlude? Perhaps simply the end? How have people used literature and the arts to conceptualize its relentless presence in our existence?The articles in this issue decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity. They provide a wide scope of responses to mortality, anthropologically, philosophically, and psychologically. They shed light on different cultural receptions of loss, annihilation, and mortality, ranging from India to Yemen, Palestine to Iraq, the Island of Lampedusa to the war-ravished city of Beirut, among many other locales. Death is dealt with in an intimate fashion through the exploration and reinterpretation of modern and classical elegiac poetry, children’s picturebooks, fictional accounts of war, grief, and displacement, and dramatic treatments of dying and the afterlife. Contributors: Hajjaj Abu Jabr , Egyptian Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt Karam AbuSehly , Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt Hala Amin , Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt Shaimaa El-Ateek , Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Birairi , Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt, and American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Elliott Colla , Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Saeed Elmasry , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Shaimaa Gohar , Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Walid El Khachab , York University, Toronto, Canada Yasmine Motawy , American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Dani Nassif , University of Münster, Münster, Germany Andrea Maria Negri , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany Marwa Ramadan , Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt Caroline Rooney , University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom Tania Al Saadi , Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden May Telmissany , University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Shahla Ujayli , American University of Madaba, Madaba, Jordan

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The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-first Century - Khalid Ikram - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-first Century - Khalid Ikram - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A multi-faceted account of Egyptian economic development by nineteen internationally recognized authorities and the critical challenges the economy is likely to face in the next twenty years The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-first Century addresses the question of why Egypt, despite possessing a plethora of assets—such as a fertile agriculture, a strategic geographic location, oil and gas deposits, innumerable tourist sites, a labor force prized by regional countries, and a diaspora that remits large amounts of funds—has seldom performed to its economic potential during the last sixty years. Indeed, economic weakness created political weakness, and often exposed the country to foreign diktats. What should the country do to change this state of affairs?Nineteen internationally recognized authorities on the Egyptian economy discuss the critical challenges that the Egyptian economy is likely to face in the next two to three decades, challenges which must be overcome in order to improve the life of Egypt’s citizens and to protect the country from external pressures. Their analyses cover population and employment; development strategies; principal macroeconomic issues; development of a digital economy; fiscal and monetary matters; the external sector; poverty and income distribution; the enterprise structure; higher education; water availability; urbanization; institutional performance; and many others. Contributors: - Gouda Abdel Khalek , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt - Khaled M. Abu-Zeid , Regional Water Resources, CEDARE (Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe), Cairo, Egypt. - Fatma El Ashmawy , World Bank. - Ragui Assaad , University of Minnesota, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA - Izak Atiyas , Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt. - Marwa Biltagy , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. - Lahcen Bounader , International Monetary Fund. - Ishac Diwan , École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. - Ahmed Ghoneim , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. - Khalid Ikram , Washington DC, USA. - Karima Korayem , al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. - Heba el-Laithy , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. - Noha el-Mikawy , Ford Foundation, Middle East and North Africa, Cairo, Egypt. - Mohamed Mohieddin , Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt. - Heba Nassar , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. - Osman Mohamed Osman , Cairo, Egypt. - Noha Raze k , University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. - David Sims , Cairo, Egypt. - John Waterbury , Princeton, New Jersey.

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The Life of Bishoi - Tim Vivian - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

The Life of Bishoi - Tim Vivian - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the founder of one of the four great monasteries of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun): those of Macarius, John the Little, Bishoi, and the Baramus. Yet in spite of Bishoi’s prominence, the various recensions of his hagio-biography have received sporadic, scattered attention. The Life of Bishoi joins other Lives of eminent monastics of early-Egyptian monasticism: the Lives of Antony, Daniel, John the Little, Macarius, Paphnutius, Shenoute, and Syncletica. These Lives are vital for what they tell us about monastic politeia (way of life), spirituality, and theology, both of the early monastics and of those who later wrote, translated, and revised the Lives . They appeared first in Greek and Coptic, and later generations translated and revised them into Syriac, Arabic and Ge‘ez (Ethiopic).This definitive volume contains the first English translation of the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Lives of Bishoi, each translation accompanied by an introduction that focuses on certain aspects of the source text. It also has the first transcription and English translation of an important Greek text. The General Introduction provides rich context about the texts and textual traditions in the various languages, and thoroughly revises our knowledge about the Syriac tradition, the translation of the Syriac text here now consequently providing what is the best translation in any modern language. CONTRIBUTORS Tim Vivian, California State University, Bakersfield Maged S.A. Mikhail, California State University, Fullerton Rowan Allen Greer III (1935–2014), an Episcopal priest and Walter H. Gray Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School, was author of Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church and Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present. Robert Kitchen is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He read for the D.Phil. (Oxford) in Syriac Language and Literature and has taught Syriac studies in Sweden and Austria. Apostolos N. Athanassakis was Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Cairo Securitized - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Cairo Securitized - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban order Until the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime free, safe, and public facing. It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life. In recent decades, however, the Egyptian state has accelerated a wholesale dismantlement of public education and public sector jobs and reversed the modest land reforms of the Nasser era. As a result, the vast majority of Cairo’s people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital.Eschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control.Another kind of city can live again. But how? By tackling a range of issues, including public health, transportation, labor safety, and housing and property distribution, Cairo Securitized unsettles simplistic binaries of thug and police, public versus private, and slum versus enclave, and proposes compelling new ways in which securitizing processes can be reversed, reengineered, and replaced with a participatory and equitable urban order.Contributors: Sara Soumaya Abed African Leadership Centre, Kings College London Zeinab Abul-Magd Oberlin College, USA Mohamed Ahmed Political Scientist and historian, Cairo Egypt Rania Ahmed Independent Researcher, Cairo Egypt Nicholas Simcik Arese University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Awadalla University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Ahmad Borham The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Miguel A. Fuentes Carreño University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Roberta Duffield Scholar on urbanism, public space, Cairo Egypt Momen El-Husseiny The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elmeshad SOAS, London UK Ifdal Elsaket Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elshahed Independent Writer and Curator, Mexico City Amy Fallas University of California Santa Barbara, USA Tina Guirguis University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Elena Habersky The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Hanan Hammad Texas Christian University, USA Hatem Hassan Impact Justice, Pittsburgh, USA Amira Hetaba Federal Government of Lower Austria, Austria Deena Khalil The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Omnia Khalil City University of New York, USA Sabrina Lilleby University of Texas, Austin, USA Paul Miranda Nonviolent Peaceforce, South Mosul, Iraq Mostafa Mohie American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Laura Monfleur University François-Rabelais, Tours, France Aya Nassar Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Nora Noralla human rights researcher, Berlin, Germany Aly El Reggal Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence Italy Afsaneh Rigot Harvard University, Cambridge USA Yahia Saleh Malmö University, Sweden Bassem al-Samragy political analyst at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands Yahia Shawkat Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Maïa Sinno Géographie Cités Lab, CNRS / Sorbonne University, Paris France Mark Westmoreland Leiden University, The Netherlands

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Cairo Securitized - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

Cairo Securitized - - Bog - American University in Cairo Press - Plusbog.dk

A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban order, now in paperback Until the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime free, safe, and public facing. It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life. In recent decades, however, the Egyptian state has accelerated a wholesale dismantlement of public education and public sector jobs and reversed the modest land reforms of the Nasser era. As a result, the vast majority of Cairo’s people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital.Eschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control.Another kind of city can live again. But how? By tackling a range of issues, including public health, transportation, labor safety, and housing and property distribution, Cairo Securitized unsettles simplistic binaries of thug and police, public versus private, and slum versus enclave, and proposes compelling new ways in which securitizing processes can be reversed, reengineered, and replaced with a participatory and equitable urban order.Contributors: Sara Soumaya Abed African Leadership Centre, Kings College London Zeinab Abul-Magd Oberlin College, USA Mohamed Ahmed Political Scientist and historian, Cairo Egypt Rania Ahmed Independent Researcher, Cairo Egypt Nicholas Simcik Arese University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Awadalla University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Ahmad Borham The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Miguel A. Fuentes Carreño University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Roberta Duffield Scholar on urbanism, public space, Cairo Egypt Momen El-Husseiny The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elmeshad SOAS, London UK Ifdal Elsaket Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elshahed Independent Writer and Curator, Mexico City Amy Fallas University of California Santa Barbara, USA Tina Guirguis University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Elena Habersky The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Hanan Hammad Texas Christian University, USA Hatem Hassan Impact Justice, Pittsburgh, USA Amira Hetaba Federal Government of Lower Austria, Austria Deena Khalil The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Omnia Khalil City University of New York, USA Sabrina Lilleby University of Texas, Austin, USA Paul Miranda Nonviolent Peaceforce, South Mosul, Iraq Mostafa Mohie American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Laura Monfleur University François-Rabelais, Tours, France Aya Nassar Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Nora Noralla human rights researcher, Berlin, Germany Aly El Reggal Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence Italy Afsaneh Rigot Harvard University, Cambridge USA Yahia Saleh Malmö University, Sweden Bassem al-Samragy political analyst at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands Yahia Shawkat Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Maïa Sinno Géographie Cités Lab, CNRS / Sorbonne University, Paris France Mark Westmoreland Leiden University, The Netherlands

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