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
“[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
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, 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
“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 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
A Palestinian engineer by profession, Salman Abu Sitta was born in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. For years he
The Egyptian writer Adel Esmat was awarded the 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel Hikayât Yûsuf Tadrus
By David DiMeo One could be forgiven for believing that the age-old struggle of the activist writer to affect his/her
After celebrating noteworthy sales of just under LE 1.5 million at the Cairo International Book Fair, up LE 600,000 from
After she got married, Dyna Eldaief, the daughter of Egyptian immigrants to Australia, realized that she couldn’t reproduce the range
Behind the prison wall Book review of A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me by Youssef Fadel (Hoopoe, 2016) Qantara.de,
“His mistake was that he loved flying” Book review of A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me by Youssef Fadel
The AUC Press and I.B.Tauris, the prominent, independent publishing house, have joined forces in response to ongoing interest in Middle