August 2021

March 20 6:00pm–7:00pm  Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Cultural Center  Free & open to the public | Facebook live streaming  Hosted

Tuesday 7 March 2023 7pm Cairo, 5pm London, 12pm EST, 9am PST A Virtual Book Discussion of Zar: Spirit Possession,

Last month, the award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer Xenia Nikolskaya talked about her book Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition

“The Naguib Mahfouz award, established by AUC Press, is important because it showcases modern contemporary fiction from the Arab world,”

Photo: Ahmad El-Nemr   The American University in Cairo Press is delighted to welcome its new executive director, Veerle De

Wednesday 15 March 2023, at 7:00pm Cairo time, Virtual Event Register here for the Zoom discussion Mariam F. Ayad, editor

January 25 – February 6 10 am – 8 pm daily / Thursdays & Fridays 10 am – 9 pm

  On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the

  On December 11, AUC Press announced the award of the 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Egyptian

  The Award Ceremony and Reception, Oriental Hall and Fountain Area, 6:00 pm (By invitation)  Films Screenings and Discussion, Ewart

AUC Press is delighted to announce that its Hoopoe imprint novel, The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author

This year’s in-person Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting is being held in Denver, Colorado, during December 1–4. AUC Press will

“Western readers will be rewarded with insights into the rise of Islam” About The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim al-Koni,

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

  Join us on November 19 at 3:00PM for the book launch of Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Modernity from Reel to

  This month Hoopoe is offering you the chance to be one of the three lucky winners to receive a