Bücher veröffentlicht von The American University in Cairo Press

Unparalleled, comprehensive survey of medical knowledge and practice in ancient Egypt, by the leading authorities on the topicCombines the expertise of an anthropologist, paleopathologist and physician with a deep understanding of Egyptologists of ancient Egyptian language, culture, history, society and religious beliefsContains translations of ancient medical texts as well as medical commentaries, which gives the reader an opportunity to see the originals along with the offered interpretationHas appeal to physicians and review copies will go to medical journalsOf interest to anyone interested in ancient medicine and magic

A courageous young woman from the Gulf must overcome conservatism and oppression from her own family to live and love as she chooses

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina. Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhy's sly psychopomp of a narrator is our guide not only to the teeming cast of pimps, dealers, psychotics, and half-wits and the increasingly baroque chronicles of their exploits, but also to the moral of his tale. Defiant, revolutionary, and patriotic, are the rapists and thieves of Alexandria's crime families deluded maniacs or is their myth of Karantina-their Alexandria reimagined as the once and future capital-what they believe it to be: the revolutionary dream made brick and mortar, flesh and bone?Subversive and hilarious, deft and scalpel-sharp, Eltoukhy's sprawling epic is a masterpiece of modern Egyptian literature. Mahfouz shaken by the tail, a lunatic dream, a future history that is the sanest thing yet written on Egypt's current woes.