Ronnie Close is a writer, filmmaker, and assistant professor of visual media at the American University in Cairo. His work
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