“[David Sims] is one of Cairo’s sharpest observers.” That is how the Los Angeles Review of Books describes the American
We asked acclaimed Egyptologist and author Aidan Dodson what it felt like working and writing, under the current lockdown, in
AUC Press staff are also working from home these days, trying to adjust to a new routine, holding meetings online,
Trevor Naylor is the author of Cairo Inside Out (AUC Press, hbk, 2016; pbk, 2020) and more recently of Egypt
In a recent article for The National, journalist Razmig Bedirian “identified some of the most beautiful sites designed by Arab
The AUC Bookstores have closed to the public temporarily, to help limit the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and to protect
This is a magical recipe for Orzo Chicken Soup from Authentic Egyptian Cooking: From the Table of Abou El Sid
Much awaited is the release of Adel Kamel’s rediscovered 1940s classic The Magnificent Conman of Cairo. Praised by Nobel laureate
It is with great sadness that AUC Press learns of the passing of Michael Haag (1943–2020), writer, photographer, and historian.
Born in Minnesota to Iranian-French parents, Cyrus Kadivar grew up during the Shah’s reign in the Persian city of Shiraz.
AUC Press is deeply saddened by the passing of Deborah Manley, author, editor, and co-editor of some 60 books, and
On February 11, Ronnie Close, writer, filmmaker, assistant professor of visual media at AUC, and author of Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance
Shelf Awareness, the American daily online publishing newsletter, interviewed Trevor Naylor, author of Cairo Inside Out (AUC Press, 2017) and
If you have not yet been to the 51st Cairo International Book Fair at the Exhibition Center in New
Last month, the New York Review of Books reviewed three of Khaled Khalifa’s novels, including No Knives in
Simon Sebag Montefiore, British historian, television presenter, and bestselling author of popular history books and novels, who has won prizes
Early last month, AUC Press partnered with the Great Egyptian Museum (GEM) to take a group of Cairo high school
World traveler and AUC Press author Lesley Lababidi went last month to Bida, Nigeria, for her official turbaning after being
Muhammad Abdelnabi’s novel In the Spider’s Room, a sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt,
The Dream: A Diary of the Film by Mohammad Malas, introduced by Samirah Alkassim, is published by the American University