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
Books make perfect gifts! The AUC Bookstores is holding its AUC Christmas Book Fair in the AUC Tahrir Bookstore, from
Ronnie Close is a writer, filmmaker, and assistant professor of visual media at the
Former Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, author of Witness to War and Peace: Egypt, the October War, and Beyond
On a recent trip to Egypt, Cairo-born Alain Gresh, former editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, author of
Prominent Greek historian Alexander Kitroeff, author of The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2019) gave a
Acclaimed Egyptologist and AUC Press author Salima Ikram gave a lively illustrated talk on mummification in ancient Egypt at Cairo’s
The AUC Press is participating in the 53rd Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual meeting in New Orleans (November 14–17,
This year marks the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who