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20 Egyptian Songs to Learn: An Easy Way to Learn Egyptian Arabic
Bahaa Ed-Din OssamaCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Songs are a great way to learn a language, and popular songs can reveal much about the culture and traditions of a country where the language is sp...
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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me: A Novel
Youssef FadelCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Hassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco's rulers. Yet whe...
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A Beirut Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Beirut has seen many armies and empires come and go, but the legacy of this long history is not so much in surviving monuments as in the quintessen...
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A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Cairo has long been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and many travelers have recorded their descriptions of it over the centurie...
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A Dog with No Tail
Hamdi Abu GolayyelCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales o...
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A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo
Humphrey DaviesCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and b...
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A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99This cohesive account of Egypts millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypts past, from the mysterious predynast...
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A Jerusalem Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the old stones of th...
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A Morocco Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much traveled though, and much written about in many languages. Positioned at the entrance to Afri...
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A Nile Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient tim...
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A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel
Youssef FadelCurrent price €12.95Original price €15.99It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten ...
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A Roving Eye: Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions
Mona AteekCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99No matter where we come from, we all have our unique local expressions and proverbs that raise confused eyebrows when translated literally. These p...
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A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me: A Novel
Youssef FadelCurrent price €14.57Original price €17.99In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, ...
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Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim: An Architecture of Collective Memory
James SteeleCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99Since 1945, the globalization of education and the professionalization of architects and engineers, as well as the conceptualization and production...
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Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples: A New Traveler''s Companion
Nigel Fletcher-JonesCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are alm...
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Abu Simbel Chinese Edition: A Short Guide to the Temples
Nigel Fletcher-JonesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 196...
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Abu Simbel Spanish Edition: A Short Guide to the Temples
Nigel Fletcher-JonesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are alm...
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Abu Simbel: A Short Guide to the Temples
Nigel Fletcher-JonesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are alm...
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Abusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun
Miroslav VernerCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby vill...
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Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance ()
Aidan DodsonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...
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Akhenaten: A Historian''s View
Ronald T. RidleyCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (`the Amarna Period') than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast range of ...
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Al-Murshid: A Guide to Modern Standard Arabic Grammar for the Intermediate Level
Iman SaadCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99This grammar book is intended for intermediate learners of Modern Standard Arabic. It covers the main points that they need to master at this level...
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Alif 36: Friendship: Representations and Cultural Variations
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Friendship, though esteemed, has not been central in critical studies. It has been overshadowed by other bonding relationships. However, it figures...
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Alif 37: Literature and Journalism
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99The articles in Alif 37 address the intersection of literature and journalism, in a wide variety of Arabophone, Francophone, Anglophone, and Latin ...
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