Alternative Perspectives on Cairo An interview with curator and architectural historian Mohamed Elshahed, author of the bestseller Cairo since 1900:
“Midnight in Cairo is a fizzing tale of an underexplored period.”—Financial Times “An utterly unique book, teeming with vividly recounted
The staff at AUC Press are deeply saddened by the loss of professor of Islamic art and architecture and AUC
Basma Abdel Aziz is an award-winning writer, sculptor, and psychiatrist, specializing in treating victims of torture. A weekly columnist for
By Cyrus Kadivar, author of Farewell Shiraz, An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile (AUC Press, 2019, paperback edition). My
Midnight in Cairo is a fizzing tale of an underexplored period.”—Financial Times, David Gardner, July 8 Review of
The exceptional Egyptian sociologist, AUC professor, and AUC Press author Mona Abaza sadly left us yesterday after a long and
About the Book “The body makes its voice heard. From everyday chitchat to formal discourse, speech is peppered with
It was with deep sadness that AUC Press learned of the passing on June 9 of Nicholas Hopkins, emeritus professor
The AUC Press Faculty Review Board (FRB), composed of ten to fifteen members of the AUC faculty, advises the AUC
Egypt’s Supreme Council for Culture announced yesterday, June 1, during its 65th annual meeting, that Cairo since 1900: An Architectural
My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Aida Bamia (Hoopoe,
On Earth Day 2021, we celebrate Egypt’s flora, fauna, and wildlife. Desert Plants of Egypt’s Wadi El Gemal
‘Engaging Books: Hoopoe selections on new fiction from the Middle East’ Jadaliyya features three forthcoming Hoopoe novels—The Critical Case
“These are among the most significant royal leaders of the New Kingdom and, of course, unique examples of royal mummification
“[A]n unprecedented breadth of concern, depth of documentary research and methodological rigor” About Yahia Shawkat’s Egypt’s Housing Crisis: The Shaping