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A Morocco Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by Martin Rose (Editor)
Category: Travel | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much traveled though, and much written about in many languages. Positioned at the entrance to Africa'or the entrance to Europe'it has seen deep cultural cross-fertilization and the emergence of a very distinct culture at the threshold of two worlds. Its h ...Show more
Amarna Sunset - Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (Revised Edition) by Aidan Dodson
Category: History | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner o ...Show more
Egyptian Cooking - And Other Middle Eastern Recipes by Samia Abdennour
Category: Food & Wine | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Since its original publication twenty years ago, Samia Abdennour's Egyptian Cooking has become a true classic a must-have cookbook for anyone who wants to eat as the Egyptians do. From hearty staples like foul midammis (stewed fava beans) and kushari (a mix of pasta, rice, and lentils under a rich tomat ...Show more
Fun Things to Do with Dead Animals by Salima Ikram; Eden Unger Bowditch
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Life can be a challenge when your mother gives your friends dead mice in your birthday goody bags and offers to mummify your class pet bunny. Amun Ra (yes, like the Egyptian god) shares the story of his endlessly embarrassing and unconventional life with his Mummy, the famous Egyptologist Amilas Marquis ...Show more
Neslishah - The Last Ottoman Princess by Murat Bardakçi; Meyzi Baran (Translator)
Category: History | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was a ...Show more
The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia by Ippolito Rosellini (Illustrator); Franco Serino (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Following the Napoleonic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe rediscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deepened and amplified knowledge of the country's archaeological monuments, giving birth to a new science, Egyptology, which is still very active. In 1828, Charle ...Show more
Tutankhamun - in My Own Hieroglyphs by Leena Pekkalainen
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Tutankhamun: In My Own Hieroglyphs tells the story, for older children, of the life and afterlife of the famous young pharaoh in his own words. Tutankhamun tells us about the trouble he got into as a child in Akhenaten's palace in the new city of Akhetaten, and how he became a boy pharaoh. As we learn, ...Show more
Women Travelers in Egypt - From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Deborah Manley (Editor)
Category: History | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth cen ...Show more
Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology by Deborah Manley (Editor)
Category: Travel Literature | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their ex ...Show more
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