Catalog: North American New Book Catalog Spring/Summer 2008
Company/Brand: International Publishers Marketing
summer scholars in North American New Book Catalog Spring/Summer 2008 by International Publishers Marketing
2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:05 am page 20 the american university in cairo press selections from our fall catalog the american university in cairo press is recognized as the leading english-language publisher in the middle east and publishes a wide range of scholarly monographs reference works and general interest books on ancient and modern egypt and the middle east as well as arabic literature in translation most notably the works of egypt s nobel laureate naguib mahfouz the auc press also publishes books in architecture and the arts history and biography language studies politics economics ...
three decades in the company of writers scholars artists and egyptologists her ... north american new book catalog spring/summer 2008 page 21 ...
2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:05 am page 24 the american university in cairo press new titles arab women writers new titles july 2008 new a critical reference guide 18731999 edited by radwa ashour ferial j ghazoul hasna reda-mekdashi translated by mandy mcclure an invaluable new reference source and critical review of arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth arab women s writing in the modern age began with `a isha al-taymuriya warda al-yaziji zaynab fawwaz and other nineteenth-century pioneers in egypt and the levant this unique study first published ...
2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:05 am page 28 the american university in cairo press new titles march june 2008 naguib mahfouz his life and times rasheed el-enany new new titles the illustrated biography of the nobel laureate by a leading scholar of arabic literature naguib mahfouz 19112006 is the only arab writer to have been awarded the nobel prize for literature in its citation for the nobel prize the swedish academy of letters noted through works rich in nuance now clear-sightedly realistic now evocatively ambiguous has formed an arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind the ...
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2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:06 am page 30 the american university in cairo press new titles april may 2008 cell block five fadhil al-azzawi a modern arabic novel translated by william m hutchins new new titles the first iraqi prison novel from the author of the last of the angels being plucked from a baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for aziz the novel s hero and narrator a young man who has been living on automatic pilot as if he were a guest visiting his own life and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit ...
history that will interest students and scholars of art history coptic studies or ... north american new book catalog spring/summer 2008 page 33 ...
and are the work of worldrenowned scholars whose concerns address diverse but ... presented here boasts a wide range of scholarship from the arabic-speaking world as well ...
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2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:06 am page 36 the american university in cairo press new titles february march 2008 new titles christianity and monasticism in upper egypt volume i akhmim and sohag edited by gawdat gabra and hany takla new new studies in the development and spread of early christianity in the sohag region of southern egypt christianity and monasticism have flourished along the nile valley in the sohag region of upper egypt from as early as the fourth century until the present day the contributors to this volume international specialists in coptology from around the world ...
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2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:08 am page 78 atf press new titles march april 2008 bioethics when the challenges of life become too difficult gareth jones new new titles are scientists playing god are the artificial reproductive technologies helpful or hazardous should human embryos ever be used for research how do we cope with people who are mentally ill is someone in a persistent vegetative state still alive how should we treat those with dementia questions like these are all around us they affect ordinary people who often feel ill equipped to respond to them no one seems to have adequate ...
by a systematic theologian biblical scholars pastoral caregivers and a church ... north american new book catalog spring/summer 2008 page 79 ...
