Celebrating the centennial!
December 10, 2022
This year is all about King Tutankhamun! November 4 will mark the centenary of the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, by the British… READ MORE
December 10, 2022
This year is all about King Tutankhamun! November 4 will mark the centenary of the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, by the British… READ MORE
December 9, 2022
Xenia Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer currently based in Cairo. She is the author of The House My Grandfather Built, which won the 2021 Swedish Photobook Award. Her book Dust:… READ MORE
December 5, 2022
Sherif Boraie is an editor and publisher based in Cairo. He founded his imprint, Zeitouna, in 1988, under which he has published forty highly illustrated books on Egyptian history, from the… READ MORE
December 1, 2022
The winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is Rasha Adly’s novel, Shaghaf, “superbly translated” into English by Sarah Enany as The Girl with Braided Hair, published by Hoopoe… READ MORE
November 25, 2022
“Western readers will be rewarded with insights into the rise of Islam” About The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim al-Koni, translated by Nancy Roberts (Hoopoe, 2022). Historical Novels Review, G.J…. READ MORE
November 4, 2022
AUC Press attended the 2022 London International Book Fair (April 5 to 7) at the Olympia Exhibition Centre, the first in-person London Book Fair since 2019, displaying its books at… READ MORE
October 19, 2022
In this short Q&A, we ask Aidan Dodson about the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, by the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, on… READ MORE
October 4, 2022
In March 2022, the Explorers Club (EC50) announced the winners of its second annual Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World that the World Needs to Know About. The EC50… READ MORE
September 1, 2022
R. Neil Hewison is the author of Fayoum Pottery: Ceramic Arts and Crafts in an Egyptian Oasis (AUC Press, 2021) and The Fayoum: History and Guide (AUC Press, revised edition,… READ MORE
August 9, 2022
British historian and journalist Jonathan Downs, author of Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt (AUC Press, paperback, 2020) will give a virtual talk on September 27 at 6pm Cairo Time. Click… READ MORE