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The 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is awarded to Robin Moger for his translation of the
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The AUC Bookstores have had a busy summer, working hard to complete the biggest overhaul in how we present our
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The AUC Press is sad to note the passing of one of its most distinguished authors, the pioneering medical historian