Mega Book Sale / March 2-7
February 20, 2019
The AUC Bookstores are holding a Mega Book Sale. You will find 10,000 TEXTBOOKS at CRAZY PRICES From 2-7 March Hours are 10:00am-7:00pm daily AUC New Cairo Campus, in Bartlett… READ MORE
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Meet the Editor – May Hawas
February 3, 2019
May Hawas is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Alexandria University, and associate editor of the Journal of World Literature. She received her PhD in literature from Leuven… READ MORE
AUC Press wins Art History prize at 2019 PROSE Awards
January 31, 2019
AUC Press proudly announces that Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920 by James Parry (AUC Press, 2018) won the Art History and Criticism / Humanities category of… READ MORE
AUC Christmas Book Fair Nov. 30 – Dec. 1
January 12, 2019
Books make perfect gifts! The AUC Bookstores is holding its AUC Christmas Book Fair in the AUC Tahrir Bookstore, from November 30 to 1 Dec 2019. You will find discounts… READ MORE
MESA Annual Meeting 2018 // November 15 – 18
November 30, 2018
AUC Press attended the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting, on November 15 – 18, in San Antonio, Texas. Since 1967, MESA has held an annual meeting in the fall… READ MORE
Saudi writer Omaima Al-Khamis awarded the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
November 12, 2018
The AUC Press announced today the award of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Saudi Arabian writer Omaima Al-Khamis for her novel Masra al-Gharaniq fi Mudun al-‘Aqiq… READ MORE
Meet Paola Caridi, author of “Jerusalem without God”
November 3, 2018
Her blog Invisiblearabs centers around Arab popular culture and politics. In fact it is dedicated to all those “real Arabs” who were “often misunderstood” and “invisible to the majority of… READ MORE
Khalid Ikram’s ‘Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt’ is an “outstanding book”
October 31, 2018
In a review for the Foreign Affairs magazine (November / December 2018 issue) John Waterbury describes Khalid Ikram’s The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking since 1952… READ MORE
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature // December 11
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature will be held on Tuesday 11 December 2018, at 6:00pm in Oriental Hall, on the AUC Tahrir Campus. The Mahfouz Medal is awarded for… READ MORE
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“This certainly was true of my first sip [of the Nile] in December 1962”
October 27, 2018
It has been said that “he who drinks from the waters of the Nile shall return,” and this certainly was true of my first sip in December 1962. On Christmas… READ MORE
