Official Catalogue: The Egyptian Museum Cairo

Von, Zahern

AUC Press

For centuries, Egyptian civilization and its antiquities have inspired passionate interest. Archaeologists, engineers, astronomers, poets, painters, people of different cultures, and travelers have been riveted by Egypt’s ancient monuments. How much do we really know about these awe-inspiring wonders of the ancient world? This publication provides an up-todate account of archaeology in the land of the pharaohs, including new discoveries and recent studies. This authoritative volume remains the definitive source for the findings of the various archaeological excavations undertaken in Egypt. For more than a hundred years, the Annales du Service has been studied by Egyptologists, students, and laypersons alike. Published under the auspices of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, its contributors include some of the most well-known Egyptologists in the world covering a broad range of archaeological disciplines and spectrums.

Annales Du Service Des Antiquites de L'Egypte: Volume LXXX

History

The Supreme Council of Antiquities

Ancient Civilizations

Being Abbas El Abd

'What is madness?' asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy’s jittery, funny, and angry new novel, Being Abbas el Abd. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo: in and out of minibuses,malls, and crash pads. Despite sniper fire from multiple sources (traffic cops, buxom but inaccessible co-eds, minibus barkers drumming belly-dance rhythms on the paneling of their vehicles, and others) the narrator navigates the city’s pinball machine of social life with tolerable efficiency, and is ever ready with a withering response.In the interstices of his grouchy, chain-smoking, pharmaceutically-oriented, twenty-something life, however, lurk characters such as his elusive Uncle Awni, a well-known psychiatrist now on an ever-extending visit to America. And then there’s Abbas, the narrator’s best friend who,while delivering mordant homilies on life and society ("We will survive only when we’ve turned our museums into public lavatories"), surfaces at critical moments to drive our hero into uncontrollably multiplying difficulties. For instance, there’s the ticklish situation with thesimultaneous blind-dates Abbas has set up for him in coffee-shops on different levels of a Cairo mall with two girls both called Hind. With friends like Abbas, what paranoiac needs enemies?Sharing the intensity of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and the hip sensibility of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, Ahmed Alaidy’s work pushes the limits of written Arabic, developing privatemeanings and personal rhythms that mirror the weft and warp of the narrator’s mind and revel in every linguistic register from ironic high Classical Arabic to the ingenious abuse of the streets viathe hip colloquial of Egypt’s 'what-have-I-got-to-lose' generation. A literary sensation in its original Arabic edition, Being Abbas el Abd heralds the arrival of a major new voice in Arabic literature.

Literature & Fiction

Ahmed Alaidy

Humor & Satire

Addressing the nexus of tourism, sexuality, and poverty, Beach Politics explores sexual interactions between Egyptian men and foreign women in Dahab and South Sinai. Analyzing their constructions of sexuality, risk, and reproductive health, it examines these interactions in the light of globalization, tourism, and the hegemonic demands of family and gender within Egyptian society. Central to Abdalla’s analysis are the ways in which working-class Egyptian men living in Dahab rely on their sexuality as a survival strategy in the face of an increasingly globalized economy. Abdalla shows that in a context of tourism and class struggle, ‘urfi marriage and sexuality emerge as counter-cultural strategies for surviving poverty. In Dahab, foreign women negotiate their sexuality as both class-privileged tourists and targets of Egyptian patriarchy, while Egyptian men confront the violences of globalization in their sexualized encounters with foreign women.

Beach Politics: Gender and Sexuality in Dahab (Cairo Papers in Social Science) (Cairo Papers in Social Science)

Mustafa Abdella

FAYOUM PRACTICAL GUIDE

Travel

Africa

CAIRO PRACTICAL GUIDE 5TH ED

Cowley

SURVEY OF ARAB HISTORY

Weiß

Middle East

FIRST AMERICAN UNIVERSITY in CAIRO PRESS EDITION. 1990 trade paperback, Joseph J. Hobbs (World Regional Geography). Between the Nile River and the Red Sea, in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert, live the Bedouins of the Ma'aza tribe. Joseph Hobbs lived with the Khushmaan Ma'aza clan for almost two years, gathering information for a study of traditional Bedouin life and culture. The resulting work, Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness, is the first modern ethnographic portrait of the Ma'aza Bedouins. - Google Books

BEDOUIN LIFE IN THE EGYPTIAN WILD

Hobbs, Joseph J.

With more than 6,500 words, this fully revised and expanded dictionary will enable you to converse in no time without struggling to learn the Arabic alphabet.

A Pocket Dictionary of The Spoken Arabic of Cairo, English-Arabic

Reference

Virginia Stevens

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Title: ISLAMIC MONUMENTS (P)

Wiliams

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