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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... -
The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking by 9789774169724
Booksplease Price: £41.36Spanning a century of Egyptian filmmaking, this work weaves together culture, history, politics, and economics to form a narrative of how Egyptian national identity came to be constructed and... -
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. -
Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by 9781845137717
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.93'This magnificent, monumental portrait at a stroke makes all others redundant, and re-establishes Lawrence as one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century' Sunday Times ... -
Palestine in the Arab Dilemma Walid Kazziha (American University in Cairo, Egypt) 9781138904279
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93For a long time the understanding of the Palestinian question has been dominated by the views offered by the Arab governments on the Israeli establishment. But any close examination of the policies... -
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World by Marwan M. Kraidy
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere,... -
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo by Farha Ghannam
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban... -
The Journal of Frederick Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Mourzouk by Frederick Horneman 9781850770312
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850770312Author Frederick HornemanFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint -
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo: Volume 1 by C. Cox 9780461223262
Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461223262Author C. CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint -
A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo by Tanya Treptow 9781614910268
Booksplease Price: £9.95This companion volume to the exhibit examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and... -
Cairo Collages: Everyday Life Practices After the Event by Mona Abaza 9781526145116
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray 9783732628414
RRP: £39.90Booksplease Price: £36.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Writing the History of Mount Lebanon: Church Historians and Maronite Identity by 9781649031259
Booksplease Price: £51.20A meticulous deconstruction of Maronite history writing and the ways in which Lebanese nationalist myths have been invented and perpetuated by historiansAs a frequently contested territory, Mount... -
The Egyptian Trail in Illinois: A History from Chicago to Cairo by James R Wright 9781467154802
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467154802Author James R WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo: Sweetness Under Pressure Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen 9781032356181
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ḍaghṭ, translated... -
The Archive of Aurelius Isidorus: in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the University of Michigan by Arthur Boak 9780472750320
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.64These papyri provide the first secure information, in concrete detail, on the purposes and the effects of the imperial tax reform under Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of... -
Towards a Shi'i Mediterranean Empire: Fatimid Egypt and the Founding of Cairo by Shainool Jiwa 9781845119607
Booksplease Price: £47.28The Imam-caliph al-Mu1izz li-Din Allah (r. 953-975), founder of the city of Cairo, transformed the emergent Fatimid state from a regional power of limited influence to an impressive Mediterranean... -
Sports and Society in the Middle East: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 2 by Nicholas S Hopkins 9781649032324
Booksplease Price: £26.60A set of studies looking at the history, politics, and sociology of sports in the Arab worldThe sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume... -
Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess by Murat Bardakci 9789774169298
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44Twice 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... -
Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue Henry David Ayon 9781951541217
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue, presents an architect's account of visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt's most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban ... -
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo 9780393358421
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.77Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. Although charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us wiser, they can also deceive-intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed... -
Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East by Mark Allen Peterson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular... -
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz 9781857152487
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in... -
A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt by Nancy Reynolds
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.32Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time... -
Workbook for Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Applications by J. M. Cairo 9780323871693
Booksplease Price: £43.25Reinforce your understanding of Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation, 8th Edition with this practical workbook! With chapters corresponding to the textbook by J. M. Cairo, this study tool provides... -
The Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs by Mohammed Tabishat 9780739179796
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The Good Ol' Boys: The Sequel to "The Cairo Connection" by Dennis Conroy 9781425185152
RRP: £7.74Booksplease Price: £6.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo by John A. Jakle
Booksplease Price: £24.32At the outset of the twentieth century the debut of the American picture postcard incited widespread enthusiasm for collecting and sending postcard art that lasted decades. In Picturing Illinois,... -
Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois by Kerry Pimblott 9780813178479
Booksplease Price: £27.93In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. The white authorities ruled the death a suicide, but many members of the African American community... -
A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and Back Again by Clayton Clayton 9780371432457
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371432457Author Clayton ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
The Imam, The Pasha & The Englishman: The Ordeal of Abd Allah ibn Saud Cairo 1818 9781911487982
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62The dramatic encounter between Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam 'Abd Allah, in Cairo in November 1818, marks the symbolic end of the First Saudi... -
The USS Cairo: History and Artifacts of a Civil War Gunboat by Elizabeth Hoxie Joyner 9780786422579
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.73On December 12, 1862, while patrolling Mississippi's Yazoo River, the ironclad USS Cairo struck a Confederate torpedo. Twelve minutes later, the gunboat slipped beneath the surface approximately... -
The Corporatization of Student Affairs: Serving Students in Neoliberal Times by Daniel K. Cairo 9783030881306
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo by Diane Singerman 9780691025681
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives? Contrary to conventional wisdom,... -
Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1 by Ellen R Weis 9781649032317
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expressionThis ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes... -
The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz 9789774169991
Booksplease Price: £13.26Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school... -
The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris by Jean-Baptiste Apollinaire Lebas
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.29The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was...