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Samar Abdel-Rahman
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era

An exploration of male stardom in Egyptian cinema produced during the rule of Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the Free Officers' coup of July 1952, the new regime under Gamal Abdel Nasser sought to construct …

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Salman Abu Sitta
Mapping My Return

"Abu Sitta's memoir conveys a still burning sense of outrage at the injustice of the dispossession of the Palestinians and the denial of their rights---a personal and collective Nakba without end.&qu…

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Omaima Al-Khamis,
The Book Smuggler

"'I am Majid al-Hanafi of Najd, I was not an honorable man.' So goes this epic tale, written in the vein of the great Arab explorers and travel writers. Scribe and bookseller Mazid al-Hanafi journeys…

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Abbas Al-Tonsi, Mahmoud Al-Ashiri
From Reading to Writing, Volume 2

The second volume in our flagship series designed for heritage students and advanced learners of Arabic offers a comprehensive approach to teaching reading and writing skillsFrom Reading to Writing is a c…

lieferbar ab 23.12.2025.

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Mohammad T. Alhawary
Modern Standard Arabic Grammar, Revised and Updated

This comprehensive guide to Arabic grammar is an essential resource for the first five years of language learning and beyond, now in a revised editionThorough and carefully organized, this book covers all…

lieferbar ab 25.11.2025.

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Zahran Alqasmi,
Honey Hunger

"Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her…

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Zahran Alqasmi,
Honey Hunger

"Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her…

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Radwa Ashour,
Granada

"It is 1492, and the keys to Granada, the last Muslim state in the Spanish Peninsula, have been handed over to the Christian king and queen: the final vestiges of Islamic rule in Europe are swept awa…

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Paulina Banas
Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

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Leila Temime Blili,
The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 1666-1922

A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman historyThe Tunisian historiography of the modern era has broadly centered on a narrative of thre…

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Safaruk Chowdhury
Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil

A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology, new in paperbackLike their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merc…

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Aidan Dodson,
The Libyan Pharaohs of Egypt

During the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, Egypt was ruled by a series of pharaohs of Libyan ancestry. The Libyans had hitherto been enemies of the Egyptians, with conflicts going back into the th…

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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Dyna Eldaief
The Taste of Egypt

"A modern approach to one of the world's oldest cuisines. Combining mouthwatering recipes with a fresh, contemporary design, The Taste of Egypt brings the sophisticated colors and flavors of Egyptian…

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Armgard Goo-Grauer
Colors of Nubia

"Colors of Nubia by Armgard Goo Grauer presents house decoration, wall painting, and their cultural context in the Egyptian part of Nubia before 1964. It recalls the astonishing yet relatively little…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Zahi Hawass
Discovering Tutankhamun

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedP…

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

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Nubar Hovsepian
Edward Said

Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete's temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab--Is…

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Taha Hussein,
The Days

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficu…

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Yahya Kharrat
Arabic for the Qur'an, Book One

A new, comprehensive book to introduce students to the Arabic of the Qur'an, from an expert in his fieldDesigned as a thirteen-week course for beginners in the Arabic language, this textbook allows studen…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

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Malek Khouri
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema

A rigorous examination of the work of Egypt's best-known filmmaker, new in paperbackThis book presents a comprehensive study of the work of Youssef Chahine. Its methodological approach, and more precisely…

lieferbar ab 3.3.2026.

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