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The technological capabilities of the ancient world have long fascinated scholars and the general public alike, though scholarly debate has often seen material culture not as the development of tech……続きを見る

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from Middle……続きを見る

On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgroundsーurban and rural, working class and upper classーcame out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the co……続きを見る

Zainab al-Ghazali was falsely accused and imprisoned for conspiring to kill Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir the president of Egypt in 1965. While awaiting trial she was subjected to torture. This book presents ……続きを見る

Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time……続きを見る

The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local……続きを見る

Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military s……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubar……続きを見る

The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertainーit created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion an……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlan……続きを見る

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise……続きを見る

The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectualsーteachers,……続きを見る

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciencesーanthropology, human geography, and demographyーin late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual an……続きを見る

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms ……続きを見る

On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led ……続きを見る

In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth centu……続きを見る

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guir……続きを見る

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself ……続きを見る

Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gend……続きを見る

America's schizoaffective writer (the name given for his writing of short works), writes a short work on Hatshepsut. 続きを見る

THE story of Cleopatra is a story of crime. It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love. In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most com……続きを見る

This volume reflects the most recent state of research on ancient Egypt presented and discussed at the international conference Current Research on Egyptology XVII, May 2016. Nine papers are arrange……続きを見る

Dating back to the land before time,Egypt continues to be a land of mystery and intrigue. Many Egyptians are still farming and earning a living today much the same way they did in ancient Egypt, alm……続きを見る

埃及，就在你眼前 幽幽流淌的尼羅河，在五千年前孕育出神秘的埃及文明，埃及在母親河的支持下，曾經豎立過不可思議的金字塔，建築起巨大的神廟；也曾經使得農業興盛、富甲一方，進而出兵威震西亞……悠長的尼羅河也……続きを見る

Let’s skip the little historical details and focus on the major ones instead. Tackling major milestones will help establish event relationships so there’s a fluid flow from one event to another. You……続きを見る

It’s amazing to see wonders that are natural and man-made. It’s thrilling to know that these wonders exist in our world. How would you feel if you were given the chance to explore the Great Pyramid ……続きを見る

First published in 1931, this book by archaeologist David Randall-MacIver provides a detailed description of Greek architectural sites in southern Italy and Sicily, together with narratives on the c……続きを見る

Dating from the beginning of historical memory, the obelisks of ancient Egyptーthose tall, tapering shafts typically weighing from 200 to 500 tonsーwere carved from a single block of solid stone to ……続きを見る

In 1921, author David Randall-MacIver moved to Rome in order to focus on Italian archaeology, the result of which is this is this fascinating and detailed study of the history of the Etruscans, firs……続きを見る

There are rumors that the tomb of King Tut is cursed. Where did that talk come from? What stories were born from it? Debunking myths is one of the most rewarding experiences anyone could have. It fe……続きを見る