“In the beautifully and profusely illustrated pages of Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830 – 1920”, [James]
The AUC Press announced today the award of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Saudi Arabian writer
This year Ibrahim Nasrallah won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel The Second War of the Dog,
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In a review for the Foreign Affairs magazine (November / December 2018 issue) John Waterbury describes Khalid Ikram’s The Political
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Lesley Lababidi takes us through her journey of compiling A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo, showing
Based in Egypt for many years now, David Sims is an independent consultant specialized in urban development and habitat. He
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“The ‘Arab Word’ is really worlds, plural”—Zora O’Neill Zora O’Neill could be described as an outgoing, witty, and determined New
Her blog Invisiblearabs centers around Arab popular culture and politics. In fact it is dedicated to all those “real Arabs”
Thousands of her black-and-white photographs of Egypt spanning more than three decades, detailed travel notes of her keen exploration of
The 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is awarded to Robin Moger for his translation of the
The Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb was awarded the 2017 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature this evening in Cairo, for her
The AUC Bookstores have had a busy summer, working hard to complete the biggest overhaul in how we present our
In this chilling piece for The Guardian, Iraqi novelist Khaled Khalifa, author of No Knives in the Kitchens of
The American University in Cairo Press was very saddened by the passing of the leading and award-winning Arabic–English translator Denys