Egypt

The history of Cairo is usually presented in terms of periods and dynasties such as the Fatimid or Ayyubid. The modern history of Egypt is generally held to begin in the last decades of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a new, modern city,...

An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar, new in paperbackIn Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of "apostolicity,...

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

A fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egypt through the history of an affluent Cairo suburb, MaadiIn the early years of the twentieth century, a group of Egypt's real-estate and transportation moguls embarked on the...

Wish you had time to re-read and enjoy that daunting stack of Charles Dickens novels? Take heart: Dickens enthusiast Gina Dalfonzo has done the heavy lifting for you. In short, readable excerpts she presents the essence of the great novelist's...

A biography of the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema-the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society. Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her...

Herewith an historical journey from the third century to the multiethnic metropolis of the twentieth century, bringing together two diverse histories of the city. Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Ptolemies who in thirty years completed the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916402508Author Chrissie ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Chrissie ParkerPublisher Chrissie ParkerWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626178427Author Amy RechnerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the...

Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued...

Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and...

This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today's readers. New historical data on eigh teenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian...

The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive...

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944212063Author Bill RandlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint World Ahead PressPublisher World Ahead PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460976111Author Steven MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

This essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers' coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and observers of the events, Nasser's Blessed Movement shows how the officers' belief in a quick reformation by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970021024Author Peter Adwok NyabaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Fountain BooksPublisher Fountain BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717582Author Harry AdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604245882Author S Churchill Winston S ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants-scientists, engineers, and artists-his aim being not just conquest, but the rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062104984Author Bruce FeilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed...

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...

From the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, Greeks comprised one of the largest and most influential minority groups in Egyptian society, yet barely two thousand remain there today. This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914153013Author Mogg MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint MandrakePublisher MandrakeWeight(grams) 210g

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both...

The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. Yet this ancient tradition is now under threat from social and...

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558765160Format PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Markus Wiener Publishing IncPublisher Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

In these essays Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mubarak became President in 1981.Book InformationISBN 9781909942134Author Naguib MahfouzFormat HardbackPage...

Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens - an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of British success across the Middle East and North...

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...

Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226540887Author Professor Yossef RapoportFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958244Author Mogg MorganPage Count 148Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 74g

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...