Egypt

The book focuses on three main themes:overpopulation associated with low productivity, unemployment, persistent poverty and weak savings and investment capacitythe post-1950 development strategies and their outcomesthe institutional structures that are...

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When his writings were first published a half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology. ...

Both a symbol of the Mubarak government's power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime's overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state,...

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531582Author Dr. Wafik MoustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2017AMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2017Millions of Egyptian men, women, and children first experienced industrial work, urban life, and the transition from...

Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam...

Cairo has long been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and many travelers have recorded their descriptions of it over the centuries--from the early eye-witness account of Herodotus to the reflections of Sir Richard Burton, Florence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692680278Author Miles R JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Institute for Accelerated Learning, Inc.Publisher Institute for Accelerated Learning,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447062008Author Bentley LaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 545Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 953g

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional...

This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284...

This study of modern Egypt opens the debate regarding new terms and methods for understanding the Middle East and Islamic societies. Amira el-Azhary Sonbol has produced an analytical history of Egypt from the time before Muhammad Ali to the present day...

Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 2013 coup d'etat in Egypt. The Brotherhood gained legal recognition and quickly rose to power after the 2011 Arab uprisings, but its subsequent removal from office marked the...

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024515Author Mansour KhalidFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 873g

Drawing on little-used sources in Syriac, once the lingua franca of the Middle East, Philip Wood examines how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Christianity carried with it new foundation myths for the peoples of the Near East that transformed their...

Ahmed Aboul Gheit served as Egypt's minister of foreign affairs under President Hosni Mubarak from 2004 until 2011. In this compelling memoir, he takes us inside the momentous years of his time in office, revealing the complexities and challenges of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946980Author Alaa Al AswanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

As David Lesch writes in his Preface, "Historians are a kind of secular priesthood, seemingly endowed with the power and means to select what is and what is not important for the rest of us." In A History of the Middle East Since the Rise of Islam, Lesch...

This work is an exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. "Cities" explores the city's "raison d'etre", functions and forms, its achievements and problems,...

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship formed between the industry and the people's uprising. Both...

What happens to policies when a president dies in office? Do they get replaced by the new president, or do advisers carry on with the status quo? In November 1963, these were important questions for a Kennedy-turned-Johnson administration. Among these...

Lyndon B. Johnson has been called an 'accidental president.' From his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, he inherited an administration full of bright, energetic, and ivy-league educated people - dubbed by one historian as 'the best and the brightest.' Among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674280380Author Raymond William BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 603g

This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994346421Author Susan BalderstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Poppy Press Australia (Reg. Business Name)Publisher Poppy Press Australia (Reg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984571512Author Kazembe Olugbala BediakoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint ShepsentchaasPublisher ShepsentchaasWeight(grams) 229g

Among the few surviving archaeological sites from the medieval Christian kingdom of Nubia-located in present day Sudan-Qasr Ibrim is unique in a number of ways. It is the only site in Lower Nubia that remained above water after the completion of the...

Western media has consistently focused on the extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive moderate religious movement that is currently transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, No God But God opens up previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069665Author Haji a BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069672Author Haji a BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674280427Author Raymond William BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 721g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998147758Author Hussein ShabkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 816g

Welch discusses the special difficulties of ruling Egypt, such as the anomalous administration, foreign interference, and national dissent, as well as the men who ruled and their perceptions of those they governed. Despite the many complexities that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837182339Author Keith WheelockFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship formed between the industry and the people's uprising. Both...

A luminous portrait of the now-vanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries,...

"...the quality of each of these essays is excellent, and the book warrants extensive reading by political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars of the contemporary Middle East. -American Journal of Sociology "This book's ethnographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610230087Author Frederick Michael MondersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Sumon PublishersPublisher Sumon PublishersWeight(grams) 998g