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  • Essays of the Sadat Era

    The Non-Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II

    Translated by Aran Byrne, Russell Harris ...
    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series series The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz
    This volume of articles written by Naguib Mahfouz between 1971 and 1981 serves as a portrait of a volatile period in Egypt’s history, which began with the Corrective Revolution and the Yom Kippur War with Israel and ended with the assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat.In these essays of the Sadat era, published in the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, Mahfouz seems an unreliable narrator. The ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • East-West Divan

    In Memory of Werner Mark Linz

    Edited by Aran Byrne ...
    This collection of scholarly essays on Egyptian culture, history, society, archeology, literature, art, and conservation is published in memory of Werner Mark Linz, who spent much of the latter part of his professional life as the Director of the American University in Cairo Press. East-West Divan is the first volume of the Gingko Library, a publishing project that embraces scholarship from both ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Essays on Literature and Philosophy: The Non-Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz

    Volume I

    by Naguib Mahfouz, Aran Byrne ...
    Translated by Aran Byrne ...
    Series series The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz
    The nonfiction writing of Naguib Mahfouz, presented in English for the first time.The first Arabic language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, helped bring Arabic writing to an international readership. This collection of his early writing, from his time as a philosophy student, reveals the intellectual ferment of the young author, grappling with two millennia of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Democracy is the Answer

    Egypt's Years of Revolution

    by Alaa Al Aswany ...
    Translated by Russell Harris, Paul Naylor, Aran Byrne ...
    As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it—and try to push it in productive directions—than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolution’s ideals and to confront ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • An Account of Egypt

    by By Herodotus ...
    Herodotus's Account of Egypt is the second book of the Histories, which contains descriptions of the marvels of the south: the size of the land, the wonders of the Nile, the religious ceremonies which will be as fascinating to the modern reader as it was to the ancient. From the priests at Memphis, Heliopolis, and the Egyptian Thebes he learned what he reports of the size of the country, the ... Read more

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  • Harpoon

    Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters

    by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Samuel M. Katz ...
    A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels.ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the global war on terror overlooked financial warfare as an offensive strategy. "Harpoon," the creation of Mossad legend ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Underground to Palestine

    And Other Writing on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series Book 14 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post–World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone's frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948–49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. GuttenplanIn the spring of 1946, American journalist I. F. Stone embarked on an incredible adventure, ... Read more

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  • A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Anthony R. Ferris ...
    Passionate and spiritual writings uncovering the philosophical foundations of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkersKahlil Gibran's works are known throughout the world for their lyrical grandeur, wisdom, and insights drawn from the everyday sufferings of man. This nine-book collection captures one of modern history's titanic literary figures at his best. Texts such as "The Secret of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Six Day War 1967

    Sinai

    by Simon Dunstan ...
    Series Book 212 - Campaign
    A fully illustrated account of Israel's campaign against Egypt that began the Six Day War.In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Anthony R. Ferris ...
    Works on joy and sorrow, life and love, by Kahlil Gibran, one of the most celebrated modern philosophersIn this magnificent volume, Gibran's writings have been translated from their native Arabic to English by Anthony Rizcallah Ferris. The collection includes The Broken Wings, an exquisitely tender, poetic love story; The Voice of the Master, a remarkable study of life; and Thoughts and ... Read more

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  • Israel, Palestine and Peace

    Essays

    by Amos Oz ...
    "Powerful" essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution ( Library Journal).The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." — Washington Post Book WorldAmos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a founding member of the Peace Now movement, Oz has spent over ... Read more

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  • Horemheb: The Forgotten Pharaoh

    The Forgotten Pharaoh

    by Charlotte Booth ...
    Horemheb ruled Egypt after Tutankhamun, and was fundamental in bringing Egypt back to the rich and powerful nation it was before Akhenaten took the throne. Rather than simply clearing up the mess left behind after the Amarna period, he lay the foundations for the kings who were to come, and his choice of heir to the throne, led eventually to the rule of Ramses II, one of the most famous kings in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD