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Egyptian architectural historian Mohamed Elshahed, author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide (AUC Press,  2020), has recently been selected as a

  Elizabeth Loudon’s debut novel, A Stranger in Baghdad,  longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, is published by Hoopoe (May

Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to

Tuesday 7 March 2023 7pm Cairo, 5pm London, 12pm EST, 9am PST A Virtual Book Discussion of Zar: Spirit Possession,

Wednesday 15 March 2023 7pm Cairo, 5pm London, 12pm EST, 9am PST A Virtual Book Discussion of Women in Ancient

The award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer Xenia Nikolskaya talked about her book Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition (AUC Press,

“The Naguib Mahfouz award, established by AUC Press, is important because it showcases modern contemporary fiction from the Arab world,”

Photo: Ahmad El-Nemr   The American University in Cairo Press is delighted to welcome its new executive director, Veerle De

Renowned heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub spoke with Khaled Ezzelarab, associate professor of practice, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication,

  On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the

  On December 11, AUC Press announced the award of the 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Egyptian

Sherif Boraie is an editor and publisher based in Cairo. He founded his imprint, Zeitouna, in 1988, under which he has

AUC Press is delighted to announce that its Hoopoe imprint novel, The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author

The prominent Egyptian author and translator passed away on October 27 at the age of 87. Taher wrote short stories

In this short Q&A, we ask Aidan Dodson about the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh

Book Discussion with Xenia Nikolskaya, author of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition (AUC Press, 2022), on February

Dr. Salima Ikram, acclaimed Egyptologist, distinguished university professor, and AUC Press author, gave a virtual talk on June 8 about

The 1799 discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the large, flat, dark stele found by a French officer in the small

AUC Press attended the 2022 London International Book Fair (April 5 to 7)  at the Olympia Exhibition Centre, the first

In March 2022, the Explorers Club (EC50) announced the winners of its second annual Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing

  AUC Press is delighted that Mohamed Elshahed’s Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide (AUC Press, 2020) was shortlisted for

On January 31, Dublin City Council announced the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist of Library. Two Hoopoe novels, A Recipe

The staff at AUC Press mourn the passing of Joseph Mitri, formerly AUC bookstore manager. Joe, as he was affectionately

The winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is Rasha Adly’s novel, Shaghaf, “superbly translated” into English by Sarah

R. Neil Hewison is the author of Fayoum Pottery: Ceramic Arts and Crafts in an Egyptian Oasis (AUC Press, 2021)

The literary world has just lost one of its finest English-Arabic translators. The American University in Cairo Press is deeply

It is with great sadness that AUC Press learned of the passing of Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim, one of Egypt’s foremost

Addressing a captivated audience, internationally acclaimed Egyptologist and author Dr. Bob Brier spoke on October 13 at Cairo’s National Museum

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is professor of history at Sorbonne University, where she teaches on early modern and modern Islam. She is

Mohamed Elshahed’s bestselling Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide (AUC Press, 2020) has been shortlisted for the British Egyptian Society’s

Thanks to a partnership with Konouz Egypt Replica Treasures, AUC Press publications are now on display and available at the

How have doctoral studies evolved in Egypt? What are the actual conditions of knowledge production in the country’s public universities?

The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2022 Submissions are invited for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2022, any time

  Earlier this month, AUC Press, the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey

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

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

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