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The staff at AUC Press are deeply saddened by the loss of professor of Islamic art and architecture and AUC

Basma Abdel Aziz is an award-winning writer, sculptor, and psychiatrist, specializing in treating victims of torture. A weekly columnist for

By Cyrus Kadivar, author of Farewell Shiraz, An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile (AUC Press, 2019, paperback edition). My

Stephen Lee is a voice artist,  actor, and poet from London. With numerous credits in voicework for Sega, MOX Creative,

The exceptional Egyptian sociologist, AUC professor, and AUC Press author Mona Abaza sadly left us yesterday after a long and

In a recent book review, Arab News described A Morocco Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries, edited by Martin Rose,

It was with deep sadness that AUC Press learned of the passing on June 9 of Nicholas Hopkins, emeritus professor

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Culture announced yesterday, June 1, during its 65th annual meeting, that Cairo since 1900: An Architectural

Makes: 4 servings 2 tablespoons dried hibiscus flowers, or 4 hibiscus teabags 1 star anise 1 cm (1⁄2 in) piece

  On Earth Day 2021, we celebrate Egypt’s flora, fauna, and wildlife.   Desert Plants of Egypt’s Wadi El Gemal

“These are among the most significant royal leaders of the New Kingdom and, of course, unique examples of royal mummification

On March 31, during an online ceremony, AUC Press announced the award of the 2021 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

The acclaimed and revered  Palestinian poet and writer Mourid Barghouti passed away on February 14 at the age of 76.

The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, former ambassador, and former Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, talks to AUC

Lisa  J. White was a senior instructor of Arabic (2009–2019) and former executive director (1993–97) of CASA (the Center for

It was with great sadness that AUC Press learned of the death of young Egyptian novelist Bahaa Abdelmegid. He passed

On Saturday 28 November, AUC Press celebrated the launch of its newest book, A History of Arab Graphic Design, with

Poet, novelist, and Hoopoe author Ibrahim Nasrallah won the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction for the second time, in the

Writer, journalist, and AUC Press author Jenny Jobbins, who lived and worked in Egypt and the Middle East for many

A social and cultural anthropologist, Samuli Schielke works as a senior researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is

AUC Press is participating in the Middle East Studies Association’s 54th Annual Meeting (October 5–17). This year’s MESA is being

We are glad to announce that AUC Bookstores Tahrir branch reopened on 23 August, 2020. The normal working hours are

It was with great sadness that AUC Press learned of the death of John Rodenbeck. The former AUC Press director

Michael Duckworth has been named the new director of AUC Press, effective July 1, 2020, based out of the Cairo

Waleed Almusharaf is a translator, writer, and academic, with a PhD from SOAS, University of London. He currently lives in

“[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

  We deliver to your home everywhere in Egypt. To ask for a quotation on delivery fees to Cairo and

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

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

“My love is for the people of the alleys, not only the old alleys of Cairo but the alleys of

Today, August 26, AUC Press author and university professor Shereen Abouelnaga is talking at the University of Sydney about her

Love a duck! Is this slang really still alive? So asked Neil Hewison, former AUC Press associate director for editorial

In their recent review of Bled Dry, a Moroccan novel by Abdelilah Hamdouchi, Wawa Book Review praises the texture of

Are you celebrating with your family and friends,  holding summer parties, or invited to a picnic, but just don’t know

By Nigel Fletcher-Jones When Giovanni Battista Belzoni entered the Great Temple at Abu Simbel on 1 August, 1817—as recorded in

In Egypt these are an essential component of the Muslim Eid el-Fitr, the feast after Ramadan. The shortbread is so

In January of this year, when Omani author Jokha Alharthi’s novel Celestial Bodies, translated into English by Marilyn Booth, was

This month Ruqaya Izzidien’s The Watermelon Boys (Hoopoe, 2018) was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize and Awards. The book

AUC Press is deeply saddened by the passing of Hani Shukrallah. He was much more than one of Egypt’s most

The jury members of this year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature are Ibrahim Nasrallah, acclaimed writer, novelist, and literary critic;

During his talk “Are We Even Translating?: Reflections on Working Between Arabic and a Standard Average European Language” at AUC

Urban development expert and AUC Press author David Sims spoke last month to a packed Oriental Hall about Egypt’s urban

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 Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel, Andrew Humphreys describes Classic Egyptian Movies: 101 Must-see Films by

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

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

“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

The acclaimed Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator Sinan Antoon was born and raised in Baghdad. In 1991 after

The AUC Press is sad to note the passing of one of its most distinguished authors, the pioneering medical historian

The Financial Times selected No Knives in the Kitchen of this City as one of the top three best Fiction

Trevor Naylor is the author of the recently published book Cairo Inside Out (AUC Press, 2017), the co-author of A