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The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris by Jean-Baptiste Apollinaire Lebas
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.07The 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... -
Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath by Christine M. Şahin 9780197613634
Booksplease Price: $45.63Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turbulent aftermath of the January 25, 2011 revolution... -
Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo's Old Quarters by Gehan Selim 9781138601680
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo's urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of... -
Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath by Christine M. Şahin 9780197613627
Booksplease Price: $174.84Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turbulent aftermath of the January 25, 2011 revolution... -
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Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo by Susan Ossman 9780822328810 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $11.35Three 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... -
The Corporatization of Student Affairs: Serving Students in Neoliberal Times by Daniel K. Cairo 9783030881276
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Heart of the Night by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.22Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperbackJaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, "let life be... -
THE COFFEEHOUSE by 9789774163517
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.09On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator,... -
Drawing Egypt: From the Artistic Legacy Collection at the American University in Cairo by Bruno Ronfard 9789774165757
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $53.80Born in 1907, Margo Veillon was one of Egypt's best-loved artists. Presented here is a sampling of her work spanning seventy-five years of her productive career, in a variety of graphic media-pen and... -
The Founder of Cairo: The Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Mu'izz and his Era by Shainool Jiwa 9781780765280
Booksplease Price: $101.32The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (341-365/953-975), marks a watershed in the transformation of the Fatimid state from a regional North African... -
Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo Yoram Meital 9781512830491
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of... -
Here Is a Body by Basma Abdel Aziz 9781617970931
Booksplease Price: $80.67"An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage."-Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseMysterious men are rounding up street children and enrolling... -
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1) by S. A. Chakraborty
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88Discover this spellbinding debut from S.A. Chakraborty. 'An extravagant feast of a book - spicy and bloody, dizzyingly magical, and still, somehow,... -
Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages by John Lash Meloy
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.61This new paperback is a Revised Edition with new preface. When scholars of Middle Eastern and Islamic history consider Mecca or its region, the Hijaz, they tend to focus on either the first century... -
The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think Alberto Cairo (University of Miami) 9781119797395
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $45.84Learn how expert data visualization designers reason about their craft In The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think, renowned visualization designer and educator Alberto Cairo, in... -
Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo by Yoram Meital 9781512825886
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.07Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of... -
![Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335832 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5827508/5904576/9780822335832__37852.1726832534.jpg?c=1 "Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335832 [USED COPY]")
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335832 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $12.64What 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 Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 2) by S. A. Chakraborty
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88Return to Daevabad in the spellbinding sequel to THE CITY OF BRASS. In Daevabad, where djinn can summon flames with a snap of their fingers, where rivers run deep... -
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Development, Change and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household by Diane Singerman 9780253210494 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $2.44"...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... -
Alif 40: Mapping New Directions in the Humanities by Ferial Ghazoul 9781617979668
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $121.43This issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to redefine and reorient the humanities in light of global institutional and intellectual realities. "Mapping" is construed in several ways: the more... -
The Food Question in the Middle East: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 4 by Malak S. Rouchdy 9781649032348
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.88A new collection of essays on food production and distribution in the Arab world and their sociocultural and political implicationsIn recent years, the food question has been a central concern for... -
Africa Solo: My World Record Race from Cairo to Cape Town by Mark Beaumont
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARIn the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world record attempt - solo, the length of Africa,... -
Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Professor Yossef Rapoport 9780226540887
Booksplease Price: $104.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226540887Author Professor Yossef RapoportFormat HardbackPage Count 368< -
Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo's Lost War Horses by Grant Hayter-Menzies 9781612347691
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $50.99Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Brooke, recipient of the Distinguished Service... -
Life Histories of Theban Tombs: Transdisciplinary Investigations of a Cluster of Rock-cut Tombs at Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs 9781617979910
Booksplease Price: $138.22A thorough transdisciplinary archaeological study of the ancient Egyptian Theban rock-cut tombs at Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna In recent years, archeological research has undergone major changes. The... -
Zikrayat: Eight Jewish Women Remember Egypt by Nayra Atiya 9789774169557
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.21Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypt's 75,000-strong Jewish population left the country, compelled by growing hostility to them... -
The Architecture of Home in Cairo: Socio-Spatial Practice of the Hawari's Everyday Life by Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $94.54The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD. Until early in the C20th, they made up the... -
Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real Dr. Nezar AlSayyad 9781649031334
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $81.86A history of urban modernity in Cairo through cinema which"makes us see makes us see the movies in a whole new way" (Chris Berry, King's College London)The relationship between the city and cinema is... -
City of Love and Ashes by Yusuf Idris 9789774246999
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.32A classic novel from one of the great contemporary writers of Egypt and the Middle EastCairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the... -
Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910 by Joseph Ben Prestel 9780198797562
Booksplease Price: $219.08Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed... -
Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad by Ali Humayun Akhtar 9781316633090
Booksplease Price: $62.63What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali... -
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881 by Jason Thompson
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.88The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure,... -
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881–1914 by Jason Thompson
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.88The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure,... -
From Cairo to Christ: How One Muslim's Faith Journey Shows the Way for Others by Abu Atallah
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845095Author Abu AtallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad by Ali Humayun Akhtar 9781107182011
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $168.56What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali... -
A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection Stefan Reif 9780700713127
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $109.47Explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two... -
The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang by Ronald Heiferman 9780786448043
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20For four days in November 1943, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the future of the war in the China-Burma-India Theater... -
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 9780008381387
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient... -
The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.19The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed... -
Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul by Sarah El-Kazaz 9781478020493
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $132.64In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing...