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A Continuity of Sharia: Political Authority and Homicide in the Nineteenth Century
Brian WrightCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99A challenge to the end of the sharia thesis in Islamic legal historiographyIn the second half of the nineteenth century, states across the Muslim W...
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A Gift of Geology: Ancient Egyptian Landscapes and Monuments
Colin D ReaderCurrent price €28.47Original price €31.99An introduction to the geology of Egypt and its influence on ancient Egyptian cultureWhile much is known about Egypts towering pyramids, mighty obe...
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A Stranger in Baghdad: A Novel
Elizabeth LoudonCurrent price €47.87Original price €56.99NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARDIn beautifully rendered pro...
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A Stranger in Baghdad: A Novel
Elizabeth LoudonCurrent price €16.79Original price €19.99NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARDIn beautifully rendered pro...
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 41: Literature, History, and Historiography
American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99A wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between history and literatureThis issue of Alif explores the relationship between literature and h...
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42: Literature Confronting Mortality
American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99A wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality f...
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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43: Brotherly/Sisterly Relations in Literature and the Arts
American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €76.53Original price €88.99A rich exploration of sibling bonds in literature and the artsThis issue of Alif explores representations of brotherhood/sisterhood in literature a...
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture in Fifteen Monuments
Felix ArnoldCurrent price €74.69Original price €82.99An authoritatively written overview of ancient Egyptian architecture from the point of view of an archaeologist and architectural historianThe monu...
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Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
Simon ConnorCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statu...
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Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions: Illi in Fifty Idioms
Mona Kamel HassanCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, languag...
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Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience
American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €77.18Original price €82.99A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban orderUntil the year...
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Childhood in Ancient Egypt
Amandine MarshallCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of the New KingdomTh...
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Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real
Nezar AlsayyadCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99A history of urban modernity in Cairo through cinema whichmakes us see makes us see the movies in a whole new way (Chris Berry, Kings College Londo...
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Dust: Egypt''s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition
Dr Xenia NikolskayaCurrent price €38.99Original price €49.99A stunning photographic compilation of Egypts abandoned palaces and grand buildingsBetween 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt wit...
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Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles
Dr. Linda HerreraCurrent price €36.26Original price €38.99The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...
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Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles
Dr. Linda HerreraCurrent price €68.81Original price €73.99The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...
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From Ibn Sina to Sindbad: A Guided Reader to Classics of Arabic Literature
David DimeoCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99A unique textbook of guided readings from the great works of Arabic prose for advanced level students of Classical Arabic literature ...
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Here Is a Body: A Novel
Basma Abdel AzizCurrent price €14.99Original price €18.50An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage.Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseMysterious m...
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Here Is a Body: A Novel
Basma Abdel AzizCurrent price €41.30Original price €50.99An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage.Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseMysterious m...
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History of Ash: A Novel
Khadija MarouaziCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50A BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)A NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOK OF 2023 (BRITTLE PAPER)An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, bruta...
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I Do Not Sleep: A Novel
Ihsan Abdel KouddousCurrent price €40.79Original price €50.99A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esq...
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I Do Not Sleep: A Novel
Ihsan Abdel KouddousCurrent price €15.99Original price €19.99A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esq...
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Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil
Safaruk ChowdhuryCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, wh...
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It''s Not Your Fault (Arabic edition): Five New Plays on Sexual Harassment in Egypt
Dina AminCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A collection of original short plays that focus on sexual harassment and assault in Egypt, by debut Egyptian playwrightsThese five original short p...
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