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An invitation to attend the Gourmand World Summit was one thing but to be invited to attend in Paris was

Here is how The Arab Weekly describes Yasser Abdel Hafez’s novel The Book of Safety, translated by Robin Moger (Hoopoe,

During his recent visit to Egypt, Khalid Ikram, author of The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking

On March 18, AUC Press celebrated the book launch of Ahmed Aboul Gheit’s Witness to War and Peace: Egypt, the

By Neil Hewison, author, translator, and former AUC Press associate director for editorial programs Forget Ghost Protocol. There were times

There is no better person than Iman Hamdy to tell the story of Cairo Papers in Social Science, the American

The AUC Press participated this year in the 50th Cairo International Book Fair, which ran from January 23 to February

Veteran translator of Arabic fiction Nancy Roberts shared first prize of the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International

AUC Press proudly announces that Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920 by James Parry (AUC Press, 2018)

“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,

On his blog, Andrew Humphreys describes Classic Egyptian Movies: 101 Must-see Films by film critic Sameh Fathy, translated by Sarah

Leena Pekkalainen is a Finnish writer and artist who studied Egyptology at Manchester University. She loves cats, horses, ancient Egypt,

In a review for the Foreign Affairs magazine (November / December 2018 issue) John Waterbury describes Khalid Ikram’s The Political

It has been said that “he who drinks from the waters of the Nile shall return,” and this certainly was

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

  AUC Press is deeply saddened by the passing of Galal Amin, one of Egypt’s most prominent economists and a

  Dr. Wafaa El Saddik was the first Egyptian woman to direct an excavation and the first female general director