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Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo by Tessa Farmer 9781421445489
Booksplease Price: £39.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel by Michael David Lukas 9780399181184
Booksplease Price: £15.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt by Daniel J. Gilman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while... -
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo by Susan Ossman 9780822328964
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Three Faces of Beauty offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a nearly universal institution: the beauty salon. Susan... -
Murder in Cairo: The Killing of David Holden: 2024 Peter Gillman 9781785907029
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPeter Brookes is the political cartoonist for The Times. His many awards include the British Press Awards... -
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9781478031901
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478031901Author Julia ElyacharFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Highlights of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo Zahi Hawass 9781649034533
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.99A superbly illustrated full-color selection of 200 of the museum's most beautiful and important objectsThe National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is the first museum of its kind in Egypt, or... -
Living in Historic Cairo: Past and Present in an Islamic City by Farhad Daftary
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.56The 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... -
The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East by Michael F. Cairo 9780813136721
Booksplease Price: £32.18Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many... -
Routledge Handbook on Cairo: Histories, Representations and Discourses by Nezar AlSayyad 9781032300863
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.Divided into three parts... -
Finding Home: From Cairo to New York by Djenane Nakhle 9798990547728
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990547728Author Djenane NakhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows by Mustafa Banister
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Explores and analyses the Abbasid Caliphate as it was re-imagined in late medieval Cairo Presents different types of source material jurisprudential, historiographical and documentary which... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.621920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all... -
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue by Marina Rustow 9780691156477
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.03A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a... -
The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo: A History by Paul M. Love, Jr 9781009254298
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57Ibadi Muslims, a minority religious community, historically inhabited pockets throughout North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the East African coast. Yet less is known about the community of... -
Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon by 9781649030849
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.99A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in CairoWith the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Cairo lost its position as the capital of the Islamic... -
Shepheard's of Cairo: The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel by Tarek Ibrahim 9783954903689
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £71.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954903689Author Tarek IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Cigarette Number Seven by Nariman Youssef 9789774168505
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Nadia, now a young woman, looks back on her childhood from an uncertain present. Short, succinct chapters slowly draw us into her world: from the ordinary day to day of quiet hours spent cooking with... -
Egypt Inside Out Trevor Naylor 9789774169045
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.29The drama of history and the confluence of geography and climate have made Egypt one of the most sought-after travel destinations in the world. But what is that elusive something that makes it unlike... -
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East David D. Kirkpatrick 9781408898499
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals A FINANCIAL TIMES AND AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This will be the must read on the... -
A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing by Deborah Manley 9789774166129
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Cairo 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... -
City Atlas (new edition) by Federica Magrin 9788854414631
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Take an unforgettable trip to the world's most spectacular cities through this richly illustrated atlas! Did you know that you could board a real aircraft carrier in New York or solve a case like a... -
Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten by Anna Stevens 9789774169823
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.79This informed and richly illustrated guidebook brings the ancient city of Akhetaten alive with a keen archaeological eye, drawing on ongoing archaeological research and the knowledge and insight of... -
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East by C. Brad Faught
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw... -
Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State by Salwa Ismail
Booksplease Price: £27.98Since the 1970s, Cairo has experienced tremendous growth and change. Nearly three million people now live in new urban communities characterized by unregulated housing, informal economic activity,... -
From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments by Renate Smithuis 9780198701538
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198701538Author Renate SmithuisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Raqs in the City: The Belly Dance Landscape of Cairo Heather D. Ward 9781476690308
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.85In the city of Cairo, certain spaces bear strong historical associations with belly dance, belly dancers, and professional entertainment in general. Azbakiyah, Imad al-Din Street, and Muhammad Ali... -
Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience Paul Amar 9781649034366
Booksplease Price: £36.45"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."-Contemporary SociologyA rich... -
The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft by Sam Bowker 9789774168024
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01In the crowded center of Historic Cairo lies a covered market lined with wonderful textiles sewn by hand in brilliant colors and intricate patterns. This is the Street of the Tentmakers, the home of... -
Cairo's Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt's Football Culture by Ronnie Close 9789774169212
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo by Mara Naaman 9780230108653
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Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an... -
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages by Carl F. Petry 9780691614557
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two fifteenth-century biographical dictionaries, Carl... -
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335832
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to... -
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335719
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to... -
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo: Volume 2 by C. Cox 9780461769043
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461769043Author C. CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint -
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray 9783732628407
RRP: £19.90Booksplease Price: £18.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-made Destinies in Cairo by Unni Wikan 9780226898353
Booksplease Price: £33.24"I, without earning a penny, have to be the provider!" Thus Umm Ali sums up the nearly impossible challenge of her daily existence. Living in a poor neighbourhood of Cairo, she has raised eight... -
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo by Homa Hoodfar 9780520208254
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.