June 2021

The prominent Egyptian author and translator passed away on October 27 at the age of 87. Taher wrote short stories

    In celebration of the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, AUC Press and Egypt Exploration Society are

In this short Q&A, we ask Aidan Dodson about the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh

Dalal Abo  El Seoud is chair of, and senior instructor in, the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American

Farah  Shafie is an illustrator based in Cairo, Egypt.

Heba  Nassar is professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and former vice-president of Cairo University.

Editor, journalist and history writer, Jonathan  Downs is author of Life in the Industrial Revolution 1770-1809, Discovery at Rosetta—the first

Colin  D. Reader is a professional engineering geologist who has long been fascinated by the monuments of ancient Egypt. He

Mariam F. Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. In 2020–2021 she was a

Eid  Mertah is a Conservator of archaeological materials in the Restoration and Conservation Department of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Christian  Eckmann is a conservator and head of the department for restoration and conservation at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz,

Christian  Koeberl is a professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, a full member of

Florian  Ströbele was a researcher between 2011 and 2019 at the archaeometry laboratories of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz, Germany, and

Katja  Broschat is a conservator at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, Germany.

Born in France in 1987, Simon  Connor was awarded his PhD by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 2014.

Ferial  Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American

Youssef  Rakha is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and essayist working in both Arabic and English.

Xenia  Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer, curator, and teacher currently based in Cairo. A former curator of the Russian