New BooksFall 2015

Letter from the Director

This season we are proud to be publishing the second part of Jason Thomp-son’s acclaimed history of Egyptology, Wonderful Things (pages 2–3). The first part, published earlier this year, garnered exceptional praise from historians and Egyptologists alike: Jaromir Malek called it “a remarkable achievement,” while Morris Bierbrier hailed it as “the definitive reference tool for anyone interested in the development of this academic discipline.”

Aidan Dodson has revisited and updated his classic account of the ancient rulers of Egypt, to produce a new revised edition of Monarchs of the Nile (page 4), bringing all the most recent research and discoveries to bear on the story. Meanwhile, Donald Reid excavates the politics behind the archaeology in a fascinating look at the intersection between modern nationalism and ancient history in Contesting Antiquity in Egypt (page 7).

As the security struggle in Sinai between insurgents and the Egyptian military continues to fill the daily headlines, Egyptian journalist Mohannad Sabry, who has been reporting on the ground in the peninsula for longer and in more depth than most others, looks at the state of this unique triangle of land in the modern age and its crucial significance for the three regional actors to whom it most matters: Sinai: Egypt’s Linchpin, Gaza’s Lifeline, Isra-el’s Nightmare (page 19).

Ibn Battuta was the medieval world’s greatest traveler, and he left an account of his journeys to West Africa, East Africa, Spain, Russia, India, and China among other places in clear and elegant Classical Arabic. Now, stu-dents of Arabic can explore his world through the original Arabic text with a new structured guided reader, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, by David DiMeo and Inas Hassan (page 27).

In The Traditional Jewelry of Egypt (pages 20–21), world-famous jewelry designer and collector Azza Fahmy tells the story of adornment in Egypt’s deserts, oases, villages, and cities, illustrated with beautiful color photo-graphs of many of the finest pieces from her private collection. This is a special treat for fans and aficionados of ethnic jewelry.

Finally, we present two additions to our series of small but exquisitely elegant readers: A Nile Anthology, edited by Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim (page 23) and An Istanbul Anthology, edited by Kaya Genç (pages 24–25). Both contain gems of early travel writing by such diverse visitors as Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, accompanied by evocative antique engravings and photographs. Both will make perfect gifts for nostalgia seekers in love with Egypt’s great river and with one of the world’s great cities.

Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jonesnigel@aucegypt.edu

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384pp. Hbd. September.978-977-416-692-1. LE250. World.

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are mo-mentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while in-venting it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the second of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, explores the years 1881–1914, a period marked by the institutionalization of Egyptology amid an ever increasing pace of discovery and the opening of vast new vistas into the Egyptian past. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has devel-oped can we truly understand ancient Egypt.

Jason Thompson is the editor of Edward William Lane’s Description of Egypt (AUC Press, 2000) and An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003), and the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Cir-cle, A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present (AUC Press, 2008), and Edward William Lane, 1801–1876 (AUC Press, 2010).

Jason Thompson has written what is by far the best history of Egyptology yet. Filled with fascinating facts and characters, Thompson’s book is comprehensive and eminently readable and certain to become the standard history of the field for many years to come.”—Kent Weeks

At last a definitive history, which does justice not only to the major players but to lesser lights as well. Wonderful Things will be immensely valuable.”—Brian Fagan, author of The Rape of the Nile

‘‘The second part of the first comprehensive history of thestudy and understanding of ancient Egypt, from ancient

times to the twenty-first century

Jason Thompson

Wonderful Things A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881–1914

History of Egyptology

By the same author:

Contents Introduction1. The Golden Age2. Akhenaten Lives!3. The Seven Hathors4. New Horizons5. Greco-Roman Egypt6. Loret’s Interlude7. The Return of Maspero8. New Players in the Game9. The Berlin School and Its Rivals10. Egyptology Comes to America11. The United States Enters the Field12. Attention Turns South13. The Twilight of the Golden Age

‘‘Remarkably thorough and yet refreshingly readable, this action-packed history of Egyptology is driven by some extraordinary characters - mostly men but some notable women - who needed to learn everything they could about the culture, land, and language of ancient Egypt. As much a study of European colonialism in Egypt as well as a historiography of 17th to 19th century scholarship, this volume is an absolute necessity for anybody with an interest in pharaonic Egypt.” —Kara Cooney

This well-researched and authoritative account of the history of Egyptology will become the definitive reference tool for anyoneinterested in the development of this academic discipline.” —Moris Bierbrier

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Praise for volume 1 of Wonderful Things:

For over three thousand years, the ancient Egyptian monarchy lasted in a recognizable form, with the king as its central figure, the supreme head of the administrative, religious, political, and military state. Not merely a worldly leader, he was the chief link between the human and the divine, himself the physical offspring of a divine god. Monarchs of the Nile is a vivid and engag-ing account of the lives and times of some of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian throne, from the unification of the country around 3000 BC to the extinction of native rule just under three millennia later. Some, such as Thutmose III, had a major impact on their time, and were remembered by their own people until the very civilization collapsed. Others, such as Tutankhamun, were soon forgotten by the Egyptians themselves, only to burst into popular culture thousands of years after their deaths, as a result of the la-bors of modern archaeologists. Still more remain unknown outside the small circle of professional archaeologists, but led lives that call out for wider dis-semination. Drawing on two further decades of research since Monarchs of the Nile was first published in 1995, Aidan Dodson provides a mix of all three categories, bringing together in highly readable form a compelling view of Egyptian kings and all their range of achievements.

A new revised edition of this classic accountof the lives and times of the most significant

occupantsof the ancient Egyptian throne

Egyptology

Aidan DodsonMonarchs of the NileNew Revised Edition

248pp. Pbk. 68 illus, 3 maps. September. 978-977-416-716-4. LE150. World.

aidan dodson is a senior research fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, England. He is the author of many articles and books, including a series of historical studies for the AUC Press: Amarna Sunrise (2014), Amarna Sunset (2009), Poisoned Legacy (2012), and Afterglow of Empire (2010).

By the same author:

352pp. Hbd. 154 illus. December.978-977-416-724-9. LE300. World.

The second of three volumes of reports on theexcavations of noblemen’s tombs from a little-known

period of ancient Egyptian history

This volume is the second joint publication of the members of the American–Egyptian archaeological team South Asasif Conservation Project, working un-der the auspices of the Ministry of State for Antiquities and directed by the editor. The Project is dedicated to the clearing, restoration, and reconstruction of the tombs of Karabasken (TT 391) and Karakhamun (TT 223) of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and the tomb of Irtieru (TT 390) of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, on the West Bank of Luxor. This volume will cover the next three seasons of the work of the Project from 2012 to 2014. Essays by the experts involved in the work of the Project concentrate on new archaeological finds, reconstruction of the tombs’ decoration and in-troduction of the high officials who usurped the tombs of Karakhamun and Karabasken in the Twenty Sixth Dynasty. The volume focuses particularly on the reconstruction of the ritual of the Hours of the Day and Night and BD 125 and 32 in the tomb of Karakhamun, the textual program of the tomb of Karabasken, as well as Coptic ostraca, faience objects, pottery, and animal bones found in the necropolis.

Edited by Elena Pischikova Tombs of the South Asasif NecropolisNew Discoveries and Research 2012–2014

ElEna pischikova is the director of the American–Egyptian South Asasif Conservation Project. She is currently a research scholar at the American University in Cairo, and teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She is the editor of Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (AUC Press, 2013).

conTribuTors: Julia Budka, Mansour Bureik, Diethelm Eigner, Erhart Graefe, Kenneth Griffin, Salima Ikram, Mat-thias Müller, Paul Nicholson, Elena Pischikova, Miguel Molinero Polo

Also available: Forthcoming:

Egyptology

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264pp. Flexibound. 556 illus, incl. 514 color. September. 978-977-416-637-2. LE250. World.

Penned by a scholar who was personally involved in research into the en-igmatic young pharaoh, this comprehensive and fully illustrated new study reviews the current state of our knowledge about the life, death, and burial of Tutankhamun in light of the latest investigations and newest technology. Zahi Hawass places the king in the broader context of Egyptian history, unraveling the intricate and much debated relationship between various members of the royal family, and the circumstances surrounding the turbulent Amarna pe-riod. He also succinctly explains the religious background and complex be-liefs in the afterlife that defined and informed many features of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The history of the exploration of the Valley of the Kings is discussed, as well as the background and mutual relationships of the main protagonists.

The tomb and the most important finds are described and illustrated, and the modern X-raying and CT-scanning of the king’s mummy are presented in detail. The description of the latest DNA examination of the mummies of Tutankhamun and members of his family is one of the most absorbing parts of the book and demonstrates that scientific methods may produce results that cannot be paralleled by traditional Egyptology.

A thorough account of what we know and don’t know about the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, from the discovery of his tomb in 1922 to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century

Egyptology

Zahi HawassDiscovering TutankhamunFrom Howard Carter to DNA

By the same author:

Zahi hawass is one of the world’s best known Egyptologists, former Egyptian minister of state for antiquities, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is the author of many books on ancient Egypt, including several on Tutankhamun.

The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun’s tomb, close on the heels of Britain’s declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of ‘pharaonism’—popular interest in ancient Egypt—as an inspiration in the struggle for full independ-ence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser’s revolution in 1952, this compelling follow-up to Whose Pharaohs? looks at the ways in which Egypt developed its own archaeologies—Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman, as well as the more dominant ancient Egyptian. Each of these four archaeologies had given birth to, and grown up around, a major antiquities museum in Egypt. Later, Cairo, Alexandria, and Ain Shams universities joined in shaping these fields. Contesting Antiquity in Egypt brings all four disciples, as well as the closely related history of tourism, together in a single engaging framework. Throughout this semi-colonial era, the British fought a prolonged rearguard action to retain control of the country while the French continued to domi-nate the Antiquities Service, as they had since 1858. Traditional accounts highlight the role of European and American archaeologists in discovering and interpreting Egypt’s long past. Donald Reid redresses the balance by also paying close attention to the lives and careers of often-neglected Egyptian specialists. He draws attention not only to the contests between westerners and Egyptians over the control of antiquities, but also to passionate debates among Egyptians themselves over pharaonism in relation to Islam and Ara-bism during a critical period of nascent nationalism.

The history of the struggles for control overEgypt’s antiquities, and their repercussionsduring a period of intense national ferment

History of Egyptology

Donald Malcolm Reid

Contesting Antiquity in EgyptArchaeologies, Museums, and the Strugglefor Identities from World War I to Nasser

This is a work by a man who passionately loves Egypt’s past and is not afraid of controversy. There is nothing like reading a book that contains first-hand recollections and impressions, bringing to life an exacting academic topic.Dr Hawass does this in masterly fashion.”—Jaromir Malek

‘‘donald malcolm rEid is author of Whose Phar-aohs? Archaeologies, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I and Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt, among other works. He is professor emeritus, Georgia State University, and affiliate professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington.

Reid’s scholarship successfully fills in a major lacuna in the study of modern Egyptian history.”—Jere L. Bacharach, University of Washington

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516pp. Hbd. 92 illus, 1 map. September. 978-977-416-689-1. LE300. World.

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The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of informa-tion about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the wrappings.

Using the latest technology, including Multi-Detector Computed Tomogra-phy and DNA analysis, co-authors Zahi Hawass and Sahar Saleem present the results of the examination of royal mummies of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties. New imaging techniques not only reveal a wealth of information about each mummy, but render amazingly lifelike and detailed images of the remains. In addition, utilizing 3D images, the anatomy of each face has been discerned for a more accurate interpretation of a mummy’s facial features. This latest research has uncovered some surprising results about the geneal-ogy of, and familial relationships between, these ancient individuals, as well as some unexpected medical finds.

Historical information is provided to place the royal mummies in context, and the book with its many illustrations will appeal to Egyptologists, paleo-pathologists, and non-specialists alike, as the authors seek to uncover the secrets of these most fascinating members of the New Kingdom royal families.

A gripping analysis of the results of the groundbreaking imaging technology used to examine the royal mummies

of the New Kingdom, by leading experts in the field

Zahi Hawassand Sahar Saleem

Scanning the PharaohsCT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies

352pp. Hbd. 340 illus. October. 978-977-416-673-0. LE300. World.

sahar salEEm, professor of radiology at Cairo University, is a specialist in advanced MRI tech-nology with an interest in paleopathology.

Zahi hawass is one of the world’s best known Egyptologists, former Egyptian minister of state for antiquities, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is the author of many books on ancient Egypt, including Discovering Tutankhamun: From Howard Carter to DNA (AUC Press, 2013).

New Technology and Egyptology

Contents 1. Radiographic Imaging of Royal Egyptian Mummies:

Previous and Current Studies2. The Story of the Royal Caches3. The Discovery of the Mummy of Queen Hatshepsut,

and Examination of the Mummies of Her Family4. CT Examination of Selected Mid- to Late Eighteenth

Dynasty Mummies5. The CT-scan of the Mummy of Tutankhamun: New

Evidence on the Life and Death of the King6. The Two Fetuses Found in the Tomb of Tutankhamun7. Investigations into King Tutankhamun’s Family8. The Search for the Mummy of Queen Nefertiti9. The Nineteenth Dynasty10. Dynasty Twenty: Ramesses III, Pentawere, and the

Harem Conspiracy11. CT Findings on the Mummification Process of Royal

Ancient Egyptians, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Dynasties

12. Amulets, Funerary Figures, and Other Objects Found on the Mummies

13. Faces of the Royal Mummies

If you can have only one book on mummies on your bookshelf, this is it. This research will be used for the next century by mummy science. Bravo!”—Bob Brier, author of Encyclopedia of Mummies

‘‘“An extraordinary and invaluable study of Egyptian royal mummies, using the most recent technologies and analyses. The book is wonderfully engaging and accessible. A must-have for all Egyptophiles and mummy aficionados.”—Salima Ikram

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265pp. Pbk. 4 illus. October. 978-977-416-677-8. LE100. World.

Koenraad Donker van Heel

Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin, and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life. If Tsenhor were alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and enjoy a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one as-sumes that this happened with the full support of her second husband Psen-ese, who fathered two of her children. She married him when she was in her mid-thirties. Like her father and husband, Tsenhor could be hired to bring offerings to the dead in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and that is how her family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion. But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with Psenese. She seems in many ways to have been a liberated woman, some 2,500 years before the concept was invented. Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of Egypt, and us-ing many sources dealing with ordinary women from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Coptic era, this book aims to forever change the general view on women in ancient Egypt, which is far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra.

An independent woman of ancient Egypt brought to life from obscure papyrus records, by the author of Djekhy & Son

Women in Ancient Egypt

Mrs. TsenhorA Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt

koEnraad donkEr van hEEl is lecturer in Demotic at Leiden University. He is the author of Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt (AUC Press, 2012).

By the same author:

24pp. Spiral. 33x31cm. September.978-161-797-666-7. LE100. World.

This large-format wall calendar boasts twelve stunning aer-ial photographs of Egypt’s spectacular ancient temples and pyramids, from Siwa to Giza and from Luxor to Abu Simbel. Practically designed with plenty of space to write in special events and daily appointments throughout the year.

A bird’s-eye view of Egypt’s pharaonic treasures, month by month

Photographs by Marcello Bertinetti

Calendar

Ancient Egypt from the AirCalendar 2016

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322pp. Hbd. 120 illus. October.978-977-416-691-4. LE300. World.

Ahmad ibn Tulun (835–84), the son of a Turkic slave in the Abbasid court of Baghdad, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of Egypt’s short-lived third capital of the Islamic era, al-Qata’i‘ and its great congregational mosque. After recounting the story of Ibn Tulun and his successors, architectural historian Tarek Swelim presents a topographic survey of al-Qata’i‘, a city lost since its complete destruction in 905. He then provides a detailed architectural analysis of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, which was spared the destruction and is now the oldest surviving mosque in Egypt and Africa, from the time of its completion until today. Rare archival illustrations and early photographs document the changing appear-ance and uses of the mosque in modern times, while extraordinary 3D com-puter renderings take us back in time to recreate its architectural development through its early centuries. Plans, drawings, and maps complement the history, while striking modern color photographs showcase the elegant simplicity of the building’s architecture and decoration. This definitive and generously illustrated book will appeal to scholars and students of Islamic art history, as well as to anyone interested in or inspired by the beauty of early mosque architecture.

TarEk swEilm obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic art and architecture from Harvard in 1994. He leads and lectures to American tour groups from prestigious institutions, and he is the author or co-author of a number of publications on Egypt’s Islamic and Roman architecture. He is a lecturer in Egyptology and Islamic art and architecture and has taught at the American University in Cairo and other universities in the region.

A fully illustrated history of the man, the mosque,and the city by a leading scholar

Tarek Swelim Ibn Tulun His Lost City and Great Mosque

Islamic Art and History

Also available:

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Ahmad Ibn Tulun and His City2. The Sources 3. Ahmad Ibn Tulun and His Successors4. The Lost City of al-Qata’i‘

Part Two: The Mosque of Ibn Tulun5. The Present-Day Mosque6. The Tulunid Period7. The Ikhshidid and Fatimid Period8. The Ayyubid Period9. The Mamluk Period10. The Ottoman Period11. The Muhammad ‘Ali Period12. The Presidential Era13. The Legacy of the Ibn Tulun Mosque

Appendix: The Arabic Inscriptions ofthe Mosque of Ibn Tulun

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240pp. Hbd. December. 978-977-416-717-1. LE250. World.

During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249–50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects of recurrent plagues to changes in inter-national trade routes. Both these challenges and the policies and behaviors of rulers and subjects in response to them left profound impressions on Mamluk state and society, precipitating a degree of social mobility and resulting in new forms of cultural expression. These transformations were also reflected in the frequent reports of protests during this period, and led to a greater diffusion of power and the opening up of spaces for political participation by Mamluk subjects and negotiations of power between ruler and ruled.

Rather than tell the story of this tumultuous century solely from the point of view of the Mamluk dynasty, Crowds and Sultans places the protests within the framework of long-term transformations, arguing for a more nuanced and com-prehensive narrative of Mamluk state and society in late medieval Egypt and Syria. Reports of urban protest and the ways in which alliances between differ-ent groups in Mamluk society were forged allow us glimpses into how some medieval Arab societies negotiated power, showing that rather than stoically endure autocratic governments, populations often resisted and renegotiated their positions in response to threats to their interests.

This rich and thought-provoking study will appeal to specialists in Mamluk history, Islamic studies, and Arab history, as well as to students and scholars of Middle East politics and government and modern history.

An alternative reading of Mamluk politicsand society in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria

Medieval History

Amina ElbendaryCrowds and SultansUrban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

Middle Eastern History

Samson A. Bezabeh

272pp. Hbd. 6 illus. November. 978-977-416-729-4. LE300. World.

Although the Horn of Africa was historically one of the earliest destinations for Yemeni migrants, it has been overlooked by scholars, who have otherwise meticulously documented the Yemeni presence in the Indian Ocean region. Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States draws on rich ethnographic and his-torical research to examine the interaction of the Yemeni diaspora with states and empires in Djibouti and Ethiopia from the early twentieth century, when European powers began to colonize the region. In doing so, it aims to counter a dominant perspective in Indian Ocean studies that regards migrants across the region as by-products of personal networks and local oceanic systems, which according to most scholarship led to cosmopolitan spaces and hybrid cultures. Samson Bezabeh argues that far from being free from the restrictions of state and empire, these migrant communities were constrained, and their agency structured, by their interactions with the institutions and relations of states and empires in the region. Elegantly combining theoretical readings with extensive empirical findings, this study documents a largely forgotten period in the history of Yemeni migration as well as contributing to the wider debates on class, citizenship, and ethnicity in relation to diaspora groups. It will appeal to specialists in Middle East studies and to those who study the Indian Ocean and Horn of Africa regions, as well as to migration and diaspora studies scholars, nongovernmental organizations, and policy makers concerned with the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region.

A compelling revisionist study of diasporaand migration in the Indian Ocean region

Subjects of Empires/Citizens of StatesYemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia

amina ElbEndary is assistant professor of history at the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, the American University in Cairo. Her research interests include Arabic historiography, Mamluk social and cultural history, and Islamic political thought. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

samson a. bEZabEh is a social anthropologist and fellow of the Africa Study Center in Leiden. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and has been affiliated with the University of Bergen, the University of Exeter, and Addis Ababa University. His research interests include diaspora studies, state–society interaction, conflict and conflict management, and issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and class in the Horn of Africa.

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Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt’s rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian–Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in January 2011, Sinai’s armed rebellion was ignored. The regime lost control of the peninsula in a matter of days and, since then, unprecedented chaos has reigned and the Islamist insurgency has gathered pace.

In this crucial analysis, Mohannad Sabry argues that Egypt’s shortsighted security approach has continually proven to be a failure. Decades of flawed policies have exacerbated immense social and economic problems, and maintained a superficial stability under which arms trafficking, the smuggling tunnels, and militancy could silently thrive—and finally prevail following the overthrow of Mubarak.

Sinai is vital reading for scholars, journalists, policy makers, and all those concerned by the plunge of one of the Middle East’s most critical regions into turmoil.

320pp. Hbd. October. 978-977-416-728-7. LE200. World.

mohannad sabry is an Egyptian journalist who has reported extensively from the Sinai Peninsula. He was named a finalist for the 2011 Livingston Award for International Reporting and has been published in The Washington Times, USA Today, Global Post, Al-Monitor, and many other interna-tional publications.

Egypt—International Relations

Mohannad SabrySinaiEgypt’s Linchpin, Gaza’s Lifeline, Israel’s Nightmare

The untold story of Sinai’s Islamistinsurgency and descent into chaos

320pp. Hbd. b/w picture section. November. 978-977-416-730-0. LE250. World.

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beer-sheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from that moment on. In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Brit-ish withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war. Alongside accounts of an idyllic childhood spent on his family’s farm estate Abu Sitta gives a personal and very human face to the dramatic events of 1930s and 1940s Palestine, conveying the acute sense of foreboding felt by Palestinians as Zionist ambi-tions and militarization expanded under the mandate.

Following his family’s flight to Gaza during the 1948 mass exodus of Pal-estinians from their homes, Abu Sitta continued his schooling and university education in Cairo, where he witnessed the heady rise of Arab nationalism after the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952 and the momentous events sur-rounding the Israeli invasion of Sinai and Gaza in 1956. With warmth and humor, he chronicles his peripatetic exile’s existence, as an engineering stu-dent in Nasser’s Egypt, his crucial, formative years in 1960s London, his life as a family man and academic in Canada, and several sojourns in Kuwait, all against the backdrop of seismic political events in the region, including the 1967 and 1973 Arab–Israeli wars, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the 1991 Gulf War.

The only memoir in English by a Palestinian Arabwho grew up in the Beersheba district prior to 1948

Salman Abu Sitta

Palestinian Memoir

salman abu siTTa was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. An engineer by profession, he is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return. He is the author of six books and over 300 articles and papers on Palestine, including The Atlas of Palestine, 1917–1966 (2010). He is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society.

Mapping My ReturnA Palestinian Memoir

Also available:Mohannad Sabry is one of Egypt’s best young writers—and one of the first to understand the new dangers in Sinai. His book has the “ground truth” that can only come from careful, close-up reporting. This is the kind of smart, independent journalism that Egypt needs to build a truly strong future.”—David Ignatius, columnist,The Washington Post

‘‘ For years now, Sabry has been on the ground in the Sinai, seeing and observing a story that so many others have missed…This is an important and timely book filled with field research and reporting that anyone who cares about the future of the Middle East needs to read.”—Charles M. Sennott, founder and executive director of The Ground Truth Project and Middle East correspondent for The Boston Globe.

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aZZa Fahmy was born and raised in Sohag, in Upper Egypt. She graduated in interior design from the Faculty of Fine Arts, became the first female apprentice to several of the best jewelers in Cairo, and studied jewelry craft at the City of London Polytechnic. She now makes and markets her own jewelry internationally.

Egyptian Jewelry

Azza FahmyThe Traditional Jewelry of Egypt

The story of urban, rural, and desert jewelry in modern Egypt, in a beautifully designed new edition

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230pp. Hbd. 200 color illus. September. 978-977-416-720-1. LE300. World.

For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their bank—they wear their wealth in their gold. But jewelry in Egypt is also more than mere assets, and its design and manufacture reveal a great array of styles and a high degree of skill and artistry. In this lavishly illustrated book, Azza Fahmy, herself a world-renowned designer of jewelry based on traditional motifs, lays before us an Aladdin’s cave of jewelry made in all corners of Egypt over the last one hundred years, collected through her extensive travels throughout the country.

From the farms and villages of the Nile Valley and Delta, from the oases of the Western Desert and the mountains and wadis of Sinai and the East-ern Desert, from Nubia in the south, and from the crowded traditional neighborhoods of Cairo is displayed a cornucopia of gold and silver adorn-ment—each area with its own distinctive favored style. Personal seals have been widely employed, and there is even jewelry for special occasions, such as the appeasement of malignant spirits, and for animals.

In this completely redesigned edition of her bestselling book, in a new and elegant format, the author not only documents all these varieties and illustrates them with the finest examples, she also describes the techniques and skills involved in their production and the materials used, and recounts her own journey of learning as she apprenticed with the leading master jewelers to become the best known jeweler in Egypt, whose work is worn by world leaders, royalty, and connoisseurs of jewelry around the globe.

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From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexan-dria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an inter-national elite, more of importance happened in Egypt’s hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west—the earliest adven-turers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists—experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt’s historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard’s, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.

Andrew Humphreys

Egypt—Travel

Grand Hotels of EgyptIn the Golden Age of Travel

A colorfully illustrated celebration of Egypt’s classic era of touring

216pp. Pbk. 274 illus., incl. 110 in color. September.978-977-416-719-5. LE200. World.

andrEw humphrEys is the author of National Geographic Traveler Egypt ( AUC Press, 2009) and On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2015). He lives in London and visits Egypt frequently.

Classic Travel Writing

164pp. Hbd. 27 illus. October.978-977-416-723-2. LE100. World.

A Nile AnthologyTravel Writing through the Centuries

Edited by Deborah Manleyand Sahar Abdel-Hakim

The color and splendor of Upper Egypt in the wordsof those who traveled the shores of the Nile through time

The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world’s first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, while nineteenth-cen-tury travelers were amazed by the magnificent tombs and temples of Upper Egypt.

A Nile Anthology brings together the accounts and reflections of visitors and travelers to the Nile between Luxor and Aswan through the ages, from Herodotus in the fifth century BC, and the Arab geographers of medieval times, to such nineteenth-century luminaries as Amelia Edwards, Florence Nightingale, Jean François Champollion, Edward Lane, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the practicalities of river travel to descriptions of the pharaonic monuments, via the sights, sounds, and smells of the teeming souks, our writ-ers guide us through a world and an age long gone.

By the same author:

dEborah manlEy is the author of a number of books, including a biography of Henry Salt and The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller’s Anthology. sahar abdEl-hakim is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Cairo University and is the author of a number of essays on women travelers to Egypt. They are both founding members of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE). Together they edited Traveling through Egypt: From 450 b.c. to the Twentieth Century (AUC Press, 2004).

This sailing on the moon-lit Nile has an in-expressible charm; every sight is softened, every sound is musical, every air breathes balm. The pyramids, silvered by the moon, tower over the dark palms, and the broken ridges of the Arabian hills stand clearly out from the star-spangled sky.”—Eliot Warburton, 1843

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For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Is-tanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city’s maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested hillsides remain soaked in the vestiges of that imperial past, and it is to that past and to Istanbul’s unearthly moods and waters that so many writers and diarists journeyed in search of escape, knowl-edge, happiness, or sheer wonderment. An Istanbul Anthology takes us on a nostalgic journey through the city with travelers’ accounts of the sights, smells, and sounds of Istanbul’s bazaars and coffeehouses, its grand palaces and gardens, crumbling buildings, and ancient churches and mosques, and the waters that so haunt and define it. With writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Pierre Loti, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and André Gide, we discover and rediscover the many delights of this great city of antiquity, meeting point of East and West, and gateway to peoples and civilizations.

About the series: The elegant, pocket-sized volumes in the AUC Press Anthol-ogy series feature the writings and observations of travel writers and diarists through the centuries. Vivid and evocative travelers’ accounts of some of the world’s great cities and regions are enhanced by the exquisite vintage design in small hardback format that make the books ideal gift books as well as perfect travel companions. Designed on cream paper stock and beautifully illustrated with line drawings and archival photographs.

Edited by Kaya Genç

Classic Travel Writing

An Istanbul AnthologyTravel Writing through the Centuries

The entrancing spirit of the fabled city of Istanbulthrough the eyes of writers and travelers

160pp. Hbd. 24 illus. October. 978-977-416-721-8. LE100. World.

kaya GEnç is a novelist and essayist from Istan-bul. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and New Humanist, and he is a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. He blogs at kayagenc.net.

The Grand Bazaar has something like three thousand separate shops, and it covers a space more than a mile in circuit . . . . The shopkeepers sit cross-legged upon a bit of matting and carelessly smoke their pipes or play with their beads. There is no fixed price for anything, and every pur-chase involves a prolonged linguistic contest. Shopkeepers do not seem at all anxious to sell, and one may spend the whole day at the bazaar sipping coffee, eating sweetmeats, and conversing in a dozen languages. The bazaar, in fact, combines the features of a museum, theatre, and promenade, and its mercantile function seems quite secondary.”—Will Seymour Monroe, 1907

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Turks sit in front of the little coffee houses in the narrow blind-alley streets at all hours, puffing on their bubble-bubble pipes and drinking deusico, the tremendously poison-ous, stomach rotting drink that has a greater kick than absinthe and is so strong that it is never consumed except with an hors d’oeuvre of some sort.”—Ernest Hemingway, 1922

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Bahaa Ed-Din Ossama

180pp. Pbk. 20 illus. September978-977-416-708-9. LE150. World.

One of the best ways to learn a language is by studying the media that native speakers themselves listen to and read, and popular songs can also reveal much about the culture and traditions of a country where the language is spoken. Egypt, as one of the great cultural production centers of the Arab world, enjoys a particularly rich musical scene, with songs in many styles in both Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.

Here, Cairo-based Arabic teacher Bahaa Ed-Din Ossama presents twenty songs in Egyptian Arabic performed by popular singers from Umm Kulthoum to Mohamed Mounir and builds a variety of language lessons around them, with notes on vocabulary, grammar, and usage, and communicative exercises in listening, writing, and speaking. The songs are graded from easiest to most difficult, and each lesson includes a link to a performance of the song on You-Tube, the lyrics of the song, and notes on the songwriter, the composer, and the singer. An illustration by cartoonist Okacha accompanies each song, add-ing not just a touch of humor but an additional departure point for classroom discussions.

Students using this unique book will not only improve their Colloquial Ara-bic skills but will also gain an insight into the cultural landscape of Egypt. The book can be used in the classroom or for self-study.

Arabic Learning through Music

bahaa Ed-din ossama teaches Arabic to foreign learners in Cairo. He has a BA degree in Greek and Latin from Cairo University, and has trans-lated works by Ovid from the Latin to Arabic.

A new approach to learning Egyptian Arabic through the songs of Umm Kulthoum, Mohamed Mounir, and many others

Kilma HilwaEgyptian Arabic through Popular Songs: Intermediate Level

288pp. Pbk. October.978-977-416-715-7. LE200.

The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Reader is a unique Arabic literature and history textbook for students at the High Intermediate to Advanced level. Ibn Battuta was the greatest traveler of the medieval period, and his narrative pro-vides an unmatched view of medieval civilization from Spain to China, and from Russia to Mali. Students will read the authentic descriptions of Ibn Bat-tuta’s encounters with cannibals, desert bandits, Mongol chieftains, and his impressions of wonders from Timbuktu to Constantinople to Quanzhou. This book provides a guided and scaffolded survey of Ibn Battuta’s greatest travels through twenty lessons, each with extensive preparatory, explanatory, and ap-plication exercises, enabling students to read the actual words of the original text without undue difficulty.

While telling a fascinating narrative as a whole, each of the twenty lessons is designed to stand alone for classroom or individual study. Individual sections focus on classical grammar and stylistics, historical and cultural background and critical evaluation of the texts. The book also provides teachers with a wide range of comprehension, composition, interpretation, and research ac-tivities.

A unique and richly engaging approach to teachingArabic at the high intermediate to advanced level

David DiMeoand Inas Hassan

The Travels of Ibn BattutaA Guided Arabic Reader

Arabic Reader

inas hassan has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Arabic lin-guistics from Alexandria University in Egypt and is currently visiting assistant professor of Arabic at Loyola University in Maryland.

david dimEo received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, specializing in Arabic Literature and M.A. from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies. He is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky University.

includEs sonGs by: Ali al-Haggar, Dalida, Farid al-Atrash, Laila Murad, Latifa, Medhat Saleh, Mohamed Abd al-Wahab, Mohamed Fawzi, Mohamed Mounir, Nagat, Riham Abd al-Hakim, Sabah, Samira Said, Shadia, Suad Hosni, and Umm Kulthum.

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Arabic Language Learning Bestsellers

al-Kitab al-asasi fi ta‘limal-lugha al-‘arabiya li-ghayral-natiqin biha: Volume 1978 977 416 231 2 • LE200

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al-Kitab al-asasi: Lexicon978 977 416 234 3

Modern Standard Arabic

Uktub al-’arabiyaBeginners Writing Skillsin Modern Standard Arabic978 977 416 585 6 • LE120

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Mastering Arabic through LiteratureThe Short Storyal-Rubaa Volume 1978 977 416 598 6 • LE180

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Mastering Arabic through Literature: Poetryal-Rubaa Volume 3(Forthcoming)

Lughatuna al-Fusha: A New Course in Modern Standard Arabic: Book One 978 977 416 352 4• LE180

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Egyptian Colloquial Arabic

‘Arabi Liblib: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic for the Advanced Learner1: Adjectives and Descriptions978 977 416 399 9 • LE100

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Kallimni ‘Arabi Bishweesh:A Beginners’ Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 1978 977 416 220 6 • LE150

Kallimni ‘Arabi 2 (Intermediate)978 977 424 977 8

Kallimni ‘Arabi Aktar 3(Upper Intermediate)978 977 416 100 1

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Kalaam GamiilAn Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Volume 1978 977 416 315 9 • LE150

A Pocket Dictionary of the Spoken Arabic of CairoEnglish–Arabic978 977 424 839 9 • LE70W

Umm al-DunyaAdvanced EgyptianColloquial Arabic978 977 416 564 1 • LE180

kullu tamam!An Introduction to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic978 977 424 842 9 • LE150

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Entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged globally as significant drivers for inclusive economic growth, contributing to both job and wealth creation. Especially since Egypt’s 2011 revolution, the need has become pressing for nov-el models that capitalize on the country’s human resources. Half of the Egyptian population is less than 25 years old and almost one quarter is between 18 and 29 years old. More than any other time, an entrepreneurial spirit and innova-tive mindset need to be fostered and encouraged to best rebuild the country’s economy on solid and sustainable foundations.

This important book sheds new light on the promise of entrepreneurship and innovation in restructuring Egypt, and their potential for promoting economic development. It probes the relationship between innovation and economic growth, providing linkages between academic research and applied/industry needs. It also looks at how creativity and innovation can be embedded in the educational system, the challenges facing the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and considers ways to enhance social entrepreneurship.

Covering a lot of ground, the authors propose answers and solutions, as well as laying the groundwork for further research and deliberations—in this field in general and in Egypt, at this juncture of the country’s development, in particular.

Critical multidisciplinary research on entrepreneurship in Egypt

Edited by Nagla Rizkand Hassan Azzazy

Egypt—Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship andInnovation in Egypt

352pp. Hbd. November. 978-977-416-647-1. LE250. World.

Sustainability and Development

One of the most urgent problems facing the world today is environmental sustainability. Current practices of pollution control, waste treatment, and environmental protection are not only hugely expensive and a burden on development but also unsustainable in the long run for their steady depletion of the world’s natural resources. Any solutions must have proven economic benefits, be technologically viable, and meet prevailing environmental and social perspectives.

The main objective of this new set of studies is to describe methods that help to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. This can be achieved by applying the ‘cradle-to-cradle’ concept, which aims to use materials in closed cyclic loops without generating any type of waste or pol-lution. The authors provide the reader with an introduction to basic concepts of sustainable development, describe the mechanisms and benefits of related technologies, and suggest potential uses on a practical level by examining innovations developed in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the American University in Cairo. Particular focus is placed on innovation as a vital means of attaining sustainability.

A timely contribution to the debate on environmentally sustainable prac-tices, this book will be indispensable to environmentalists, scientists, econo-mists, engineers, development specialists, and policy-makers, as well as be-ing of interest to the lay reader.

Protecting the environment and conservingnatural resources by using materials in cyclic loops

Salah M. El-Haggar Foreword by Lisa Anderson

Sustainability and InnovationThe Next Global Industrial Revolution

salah El-haGGar is professor of energy and sus-tainable development in the American University in Cairo’s Mechanical Engineering Department, where he is also currently department chair. With over thirty years’ experience in energy and sustainable development consultancy work and university teaching, El-Haggar is the author of several books as well as nearly 200 scientific pub-lications and more than 50 technical reports.

hassan aZZaZy is professor of chemistry at the American University in Cairo and is the founder of the Novel Diagnostics and Therapeutics Research Group. He has worked with the European Training Foundation to promote the introduction of entrepre-neurial learning in higher education in Egypt, and is the recipient of the Young Innovator Award from Burayda Colleges in Saudi Arabia and the Global Innovator Award from Texas Christian University.

naGla riZk is professor of economics and founding director of the Access to Knowledge for Develop-ment Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business of the American University in Cairo. She is also a faculty associate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

320pp. Pbk. 50 b/w illus. November. 978-977-416-690-7. LE120. World.

viola shaFik studied cinema in Hamburg and is a freelance film scholar, creative consultant, and filmmaker. She has directed several documentaries, most notably My Name Is Not Ali (2011) and Arij: Scent of Revolution (2014). She is also the author of Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation (AUC Press, 2007).

Since it was first published in 1998, Viola Shafik’s Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history—eco-nomic, ideological, and aesthetic—with thought-provoking analysis, Arab Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry’s development from colonial times to the present. It ana-lyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region. Tracing the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and modes of thought, both classi-cal and popular, Shafik shows how indigenous and external factors combine in a dynamic process of “cultural repackaging.”

Now updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last two decades, this revised edi-tion contains a new afterword highlighting the latest developments in popular and in art-house filmmaking, with a special focus on Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf States. While exploring problematic issues such as European co-production for Arab art films, including their relation to cultural identity and their reception in the region and abroad, this new edition introduces readers to some of the most compelling cinematic works of the last decades.

A perennially popular text, now revised and updated

Film

Viola ShafikArab CinemaHistory and Cultural Identity: Revised and Updated Edition

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Business Studies

208pp. Hbd. October.978-977-416-700-3. LE250. World.

A set of studies giving valuable insights into the challenges of launching and sustaining businesses

in the developing economies of the Arab world

El-khaZindar businEss rEsEarch and casE cEnTEr (kcc), in the School of Business at the American University in Cairo, provides high quality case-studies and other educational services offering students outstanding participant-centered learning tools. The center focuses on practical publications, knowledge dissemination, and teaching enhancement, aiming to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

This collection of case-studies showcases the experiences of ten intriguing entrepreneurial ventures from emerging markets in the Arab world (Egypt, the UAE, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia).

Readers will receive an in-depth insight on a variety of localized strate-gic, managerial, marketing, and innovative approaches and practices, which create unique challenges and opportunities in a region undergoing rapid political, social, and economic transformations. The unique case-studies address different stages within the exciting entrepreneurial cycle, from start-up to growth, sustainability, and international expansion.

This casebook is a valuable resource for anyone wanting to know more about launching and sustaining a business within developing Arab econo-mies, as well as being an effective teaching tool for disciplines related to new venture management and entrepreneurship.

El-Khazindar BusinessResearch and Case Center

Entrepreneurship in the Arab WorldTen Case Studies

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352pp. Pbk. 24 b/w illus. November. 978-977-416-745-4. LE150. World.

Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought—according to tradition—by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has proudly maintained its early traditions, and influence from outside has been minimal: the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyp-tian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri. Dr. Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the history of the Coptic Church, here revises, updates, and combines his renowned studies Christian Egypt, Ancient and Modern (AUC Press, 1965, 1977) and Christian Egypt, Faith and Life (AUC Press, 1970) into a new, definitive, one-volume history, surveying the twenty centuries of existence of one of the oldest churches in the world.

A survey of the 20 centuries of existenceof one of the oldest churches in the world

Otto F.A. Meinardus

Religious History

Two Thousand Yearsof Coptic Christianity

oTTom mEinardus (1925–2005) was the author of numerous publications on the history of Christian-ity in Egypt and the Near East, including Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts (AUC Press, 1989), Coptic Saints and Pilgrimages (AUC Press, 2002), and Christians in Egypt: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities Past and Present (AUC Press, 2006).

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History of Religions in Egypt

288pp. Pbk. 300 color illus. November.978-977-416-768-3. LE250. Egypt only.

One GodFaith in Egypt after the Pharaohs

Edited by Cäcilia Fluck, Gisela Helmecke,

Elisabeth R. O’Connell,and Friederike Seyfried

A colorfully illustrated survey of three greatreligious traditions in one country

The first millennium in Egypt saw a transition from an ancient pantheon of pagan gods to the one God of the three Abrahamic faiths. Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities were established in succession and peacefully co-existed for long periods of time periodically interrupted by conflict and violence, each faith responding to pre-existing traditions by either rejecting earlier artistic ideas or by adapting and assimilating them. Due to its arid climate, Egypt preserves a unique range and abundance of evidence providing insights into the emergence and establishment of new re-ligions and their relationship to each other and to the pagan past. Over three hundred objects have been specially selected for this publication, drawing on the significant collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Brit-ish Museum and reflecting the rich cultural diversity of the Nile Valley from the first to the twelfth century AD. Through beautiful works of art, including jewelry, painted panels, textiles, sculpture, calligraphy, manuscripts, glass, and ceramics, we gain a better understanding of the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people in this important period in Egyptian history. The book also reveals the different types of sacred buildings—synagogue, church, and mosque—and explains their architectural history and dissemination in Egypt.

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Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions—but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth and among the monuments that the tourists flock to see. Mustafa, a former student radical who never believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story, but he has to rely on the help of his American girlfriend, Marcia, who he is not sure he can trust. Meanwhile, his former leftist friends are now all either capitalists or Islamists.

Alienated from a corrupt and corrupting society, Mustafa watches as the Cairo he cherishes crumbles around him. The men and women of the city struggle to find lovers worthy of their love and causes worthy of their sacrifice in a country that no longer deserves their loyalty. The children of the streets wait for the adults to take notice. And the foreigners can always leave.

An Egyptian novel shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Mekkawi SaidTranslated by Adam Talib

Fiction in Paperback

Cairo Swan Song

adam Talib is assistant professor in the Depart-ment of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, and is the transla-tor of Khairy Shalaby’s The Hashish Waiter (AUC Press, 2011).

mEkkawi said was born in Cairo in 1955. His first collection of short stories appeared in 1981, and since then he has produced four more. His first novel won the Suad Sabbah Arab Creativity Prize in 1991. Cairo Swan Song, his second novel, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’) in 2008.

incidents described become haunting, visceral, and so compelling . . . ”—Charles R. Larson, Counterpunch‘‘

352pp. Hbd. 90 illus. January. 978-977-416-663-1. LE200. World.

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Middle Egypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeol-ogy, architecture, language, and literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sites in the region is highlighted, attesting to their important legacies.

The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in Middle Egypt from the fourth century to the present day

Religious History

Edited by Gawdat Gabra and Hany Takla

Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt Minya and Asyut

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hany n. Takla is the founding president of the Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society.

GawdaT Gabra is the former director of the Cop-tic Museum and the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on the history and culture of Egyptian Christianity, including The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo (AUC Press, 2013). He is currently visiting professor of Cop-tic studies at Claremont Graduate University, California.

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Fiction in Paperback

Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine rag-ing in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through thirst, disease, lust, and loneliness. Alone in the desert, haunted by the pro-phetic cave paintings of ancient hunting scenes and the cries of jinn in the night, Ukhayyad awaits the arrival of his pursuers and their insatiable hunger for blood and gold. Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference be-tween life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.

A Libyan novel of the Sahara Desert fromthe author of Anubis and The Scarecrow

Ibrahim al-KoniTranslated by Elliott CollaGold Dust

EllioTT colla is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Georgetown University. He has translated a number of Arabic novels, including Ibrahim Aslan’s The Heron and Idris Ali’s Poor (both AUC Press, 2007). He was runner up in the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Liter-ary Translation for his translation of Gold Dust. Original Arabic title: al-Fazza‘

128pp. Pbk. September.978-977-416-744-7. LE100. Middle East only.

The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni’s desert trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community’s leader at the end of the previous novel, The Puppet. They punished him for opposing the use of gold in business transactions—a symptom of a critical break with their nomadic past—and now they must search for a leader who shares their fetishistic love of gold. A desert retreat inspires the group to select a leader at random, but their choice, it appears, is not entirely human. This interloper from the spirit world proves a self-righteous despot, whose intolerance of humanity presages disaster for an oasis besieged by an international alliance. Though al-Koni has repeatedly stressed that he is not a political author, readers may see parallels not only to a former Libyan ruler but to other tyrants—past and present—who appear as hollow as a scarecrow.

A Libyan novel of the Sahara Desertfrom the author of Anubis and Gold Dust

Ibrahim al-KoniTranslated by William M. Hutchins

Fiction in Paperback

The Scarecrow

william m. huTchins, a professor in the Philoso-phy and Religion Department at Appalachian State University, has translated the works of many Arab writers, including Tawfiq al-Hakim, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Ibrahim al-Koni, and Mohammed Khudayyir. He was awarded the 2013 Saif Gho-bash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi al-Ahdal.

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Its lyrical prose exudes the unique breath of de-sert life and a mystical taste of the afterlife.”—Arab News‘‘ ibrahim al-koni was born in Libya in 1948. A

Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his child-hood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He is the author of many novels, including Anubis, Gold Dust, The Puppet, The Seven Veils of Seth, The New Oasis, and The Scarecrow (AUC Press, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015). He was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

Imagine Cormac McCarthy’s savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmer-ising, fable-like novel.”—The Independent

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Original Arabic title: Daqq al-tabul128pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-733-1. LE75. World.

Fiction in Paperback

In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported green-ery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, leaving the coun-try to the care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found freedom?

As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the façade of modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the Emirati team to the hierarchies that un-derpin them, from the luxurious gardens and swimming pools into the darker secrets of the bedroom, from the rigid and inhibiting strictures of the present to a remote age of innocence. Three narratives interweave to form a tight and thought-provoking examination of the psychology of control.

Drumbeat received the Sawiris Foundation Award for Egyptian Literature.

Winner of the Sawiris Foundation Award for Egyptian Literature

Mohamed El-BisatieTranslated by Peter DanielDrumbeat

pETEr daniEl, a freelance translator, has taught Arabic as a foreign language in Cairo for many years. He is the translator of As Doha Said by Bahaa Taher.

mohamEd El-bisaTiE (1937–2012) was the author of a number of novels and short story collec-tions, including A Last Glass of Tea (AUC Press, 1994), Houses behind the Trees (AUC Press, 1997), Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004), and Hunger (AUC Press, 2008). He was awarded the prestigious Oweiss Prize in 2001.

Original Arabic title: Saleh Hesa256pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-738-6. LE100. World.

Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem’s den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the center of the den is the remarkable man who keeps their hashish bowls topped up—Rowdy Salih.

While his former life is a mystery to his loyal clientele of writers, painters, film directors, and even window dressers, each sees himself reflected in Salih; but without his humor, humility, or insight, or his occasional passions fueled by hootch. And when the nation has to face its own demons during the peace initiative of the 1970s, it is Rowdy Salih who speaks for them all.

This is a comic novel with a broken heart very like Salih himself, whose warm rough voice calls out long after we have recovered from the novel’s painful conclusion.

By same author:

A serious comic novel from the award-winningauthor of The Lodging House

Khairy ShalabyTranslated by Adam Talib

Fiction in Paperback

The Hashish Waiter

adam Talib is assistant professor in the Depart-ment of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, and is the transla-tor of Mekkawi Said’s Cairo Swan Song (AUC Press, 2009).

khairy shalaby (1938–2011) was born in Kafr al-Shaykh in Egypt’s Nile Delta. He wrote seventy books, including novels, short stories, historical tales, and critical studies. His novel The Lodging House was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003, and was published in Eng-lish translation by the AUC Press in 2006.

By the same author:

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Original Arabic title: Nabidh ahmar208pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-737-9. LE100. World.

Award Winning Novels

Suzie Mohamad Galal, born in the Egyptian city of Suez during the War of Attrition in the late 1960s, is a woman of inner conflicts, at once a fighter and a lover, who traverses the boundaries of ethnicity and religion. Her whole life is intricately tied to the wars and political events taking place in Egypt. But as she grapples with where to begin her story of personal and national crises, questions of narration arise: which metaphor best serves the layers of mean-ing she wants to communicate, and whose voice is telling the story anyway?

Red Wine is both timely in its attention to the issues of state brutality, reli-gious extremism, and gender, and timeless in the way it deals with the themes of coming of age, guilt, and sadness.

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

Amina ZaydanTranslated by Sally GomaaRed Wine

sally Gomaa currently teaches contemporary global literature and writing at Salve Regina University.

amina Zaydan, born in Suez in 1966, is known for her boldly feminist themes and her fearless scrutiny of gender norms. Red Wine was awarded the 2007 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

Other Mahfouz Medal winning novels:

Original Arabic title: al-Fa‘il160pp. Pbk. September. 978-977-416-736-2. LE75. World.

Award Winning Novels

In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are

the campfire tales of Egypt’s dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights.

Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help.

Bawdy and wistful, tragicomic and bitter, his stories loop and repeat, crack-ling with the frictive energy of colliding worlds and linguistic registers. These are the tales of Cairo’s new Bedouin, men not settled by the state but perma-nently uprooted by it. Like their lives, their stories are dislocated and unplot-ted, mapping out their quest for meaning in the very act of placing brick on brick and word on word.

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

Hamdi Abu GolayyelTranslated by Robin MogerA Dog with No Tail

robin moGEr studied Egyptology and Arabic at Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in 2001. He is the translator of Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy (AUC Press, 2014).

hamdi abu GolayyEl was born in the Fayoum, Egypt, in 1967. He is the author of three short story collections and two novels, the first of which, Thieves in Retirement, was published in English in 2007. A Dog with No Tail was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2008.

Other Mahfouz Medal winning novels:

Amina Zaydan is a robust, mature writer with a highly developed narrative technique.”—Al-Ahram Weekly‘‘

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Original Arabic title: Mithl sayf lan yatakarrar192pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-735-5. LE75. World.

Fiction in Paperback

Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author’s own experiences in Egypt as a Moroc-can student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan in-dependence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time of writ-ing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us to watch a culture in transition over four decades.

Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philo-sophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada’s position as a leading pioneer.

An unusual novel about a Moroccanabroad in Cairo over four decades

Mohamed BerradaTranslated by Christina Phillips

Like a Summer Neverto Be Repeated

chrisTina phillips has a PhD in modern Arabic literature. She lives in London and is currently pursuing postdoctoral research in modern Arabic narrative and poetry. She is the translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Morning and Evening Talk (AUC Press, 2007).

mohammEd bErrada, born in Rabat in 1938, is one of Morocco’s leading writers. He is the author of short stories, novels, and works of literary criti-cism.

Original Arabic title: Mudun bila nakhil100pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-734-8. LE75. World.

In a desperate attempt to save his mother and two sisters from famine and disease, a young man leaves his native village in Sudan and sets out alone to seek work in the city. This is the beginning of Hamza’s long journey. Hun-ger and destitution lead him ever farther from his home: first from Sudan to Egypt, where the lack of work forces him to join a band of smugglers, and finally from Egypt to Europe—Italy, France, Holland—where he experiences first-hand the harsh world of migrant laborers and the bitter realities of life as an illegal immigrant. Tarek Eltayeb’s first novel offers an uncompromising depiction of poverty in both the developed and the developing world. With its simple yet elegant style, Cities without Palms tells of a tragic human life punctuated by moments of true joy.

By same author:

The debut novel from a rising Sudanese writer

Tarek EltayebTranslated by

Kareem James Palmer-Zeid

Fiction in Paperback

Cities without Palms

karEEm JamEs palmEr-ZEid is the translator of Tarek Eltayeb’s The Palm House (AUC Press, 2011). He was runner-up in the 2010 Saif Ghobash–Ban-ipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Cities without Palms.

TarEk ElTayEb was born in Cairo in 1959, the son of Sudanese parents. Since 1984 he has lived in Austria, where he is currently a professor at the International Management Center of the University of Applied Sciences at Krems. He is the author of three novels as well as short stories and poetry.

Berrada’s novel is a richly reward-ing read in terms of its literary and experimental qualities.”—Banipal ‘‘

Once started it is difficult to put down. It is sen-sational, original, and altogether a magnificent literary debut.”—Banipal‘‘

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Original Arabic title: Hikaya tunisiya152pp. Pbk. October. 978-977-416-741-6. LE75. World.

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After ne’er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother’s weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and commits an unspeakable crime. An imaginative and disturbing novel told from the alternating viewpoints of this unrepentant sociopath, as he sits and fumes on death row but willingly guides us through his juvenile exploits and twisted memories, and his murdered mother, who calmly gives an account of her interrupted life from beyond the grave, A Tunisian Tale introduces the nar-rative talents of Hassouna Mosbahi to an English-language audience for the first time, as he confronts both taboos of Tunisian society and the boundaries of conventional storytelling.

An unconventional novel that exploresthe darker side of modern Tunisian society

Hassouna MosbahiTranslated by Max WeissA Tunisian Tale

max wEiss is assistant professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the translator of several Arabic novels.

hassouna mosbahi, was born in Kairouan, Tunisia, in 1950. He received the National Novel Prize (Tunisia) in 1986 and the Tukan Prize (Munich) in 2000. A Tunisian Tale is his first novel to be published in English.

Original Arabic title: Rawa’ih Marie-Claire180pp. Pbk. September.978-977-416-740-9. LE75. World.

This novel from one of Tunisia’s leading writers, the first of his works to be translated into English, narrates a love story in all its stages, in all its glori-ous and inglorious details. Moment by moment we become acquainted with the morning rituals, the desires of the flesh, the turbulence of the spirit, and even a few unattractive personal habits. It is a journey that takes us inside the nuances of what passes between two lovers, from the first glances of attrac-tion to the final words of anger. It is a journey filled with all the hallmarks of the complex relationship between one man and one woman‹the mystery and the ambiguity, the intricacy and the confusion‹which, in the end, serve to expose its fragility. This is an intimate tale that manages to tell not only the story of two individuals, but also that of the collision of two cultures.

A Tunisian novel shortlisted forthe International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Habib SelmiTranslated by Fadwa Al Qasem

Fiction in Paperback

The Scents of Marie-Claire

Fadwa al QasEm, with a B.A. in English literature, is a writer and jewelry designer and the creative director of Tabeer, a content and media services company based in Dubai.

habib sElmi, born in 1951 in Kairouan, Tunisia, is a professor of Arabic literature in Paris and has published seven novels, which have been translated into French, German, and Italian. The Scents of Marie-Claire was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arab Fiction (the Arabic Booker) in 2009.

[A Tunisian Tale] makes for a witty, teasing, and delightful read.”—Egypt Independent‘‘ Those interested in a love story which re-

veals every nuance of a complex relation-ship will find this a fascinating novel. The fact that the reader knows from the early pages of the book that this long-time love will end makes its slow deterioration hyp-notically suspenseful in its own right.”—Mary Whippe, Seeing the World through Books

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Abdel-Hakim, Sahar 23Abu Golayyel, Hamdi 43Abu Sitta, Salman 18Ancient Egypt from the Air 11Anderson, Lisa 30Arab Cinema 33Azzazy, Hassan 31Berrada, Mohamed 44Bertinetti, Marcello 11Bezabeh, Samson A. 16El-Bisatie, Mohamed 40Cairo Swan Song 37Christianity and Monasticism in Middle

Egypt 36Cities without Palms 45Colla, Elliott 38Contesting Antiquity in Egypt 7Crowds and Sultans 17Daniel, Peter 40DiMeo, David 27Discovering Tutankhamun 6Dodson, Aidan 4Dog with No Tail 43Donker van Heel, Koenraad 10Drumbeat 40Elbendary, Amina 17Eltayeb, Tarek 45Entrepreneurship and Innovation in

Egypt 31Entrepreneurship in the Arab World 32Fahmy, Azza 20Fluck, Cäcilia 35Gabra, Gawdat 36Genç, Kaya 24Gold Dust 38Gomaa, Sally 42Grand Hotels of Egypt 22El-Haggar, Salah M. 30Hashish Waiter 41Hassan, Inas 27Hawass, Zahi 6, 8Helmecke, Gisela 35Humphreys, Andrew 22Hutchins, William M. 39Ibn Tulun 14Istanbul Anthology 24El-Khazindar Business Research and

Case Center 32Kilma Hilwa 26

al-Koni, Ibrahim 38, 39Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated

44Manley, Deborah 23Mapping My Return 18Meinardus, Otto F.A. 34Moger, Robin 43Monarchs of the Nile 4Mosbahi, Hassouna 46Mrs. Tsenhor 10Nile Anthology 23O’Connell, Elisabeth R. 35One God 35 Ossama, Bahaa Ed-Din 26Palmer-Zeid, Kareem James 45Phillips, Christina 44Pischikova, Elena 5Al Qasem, Fadwa 47Red Wine 42Reid, Donald Malcolm 7Rizk, Nagla 31Sabry, Mohannad 18Said, Mekkawi 37Saleem, Sahar 8Scanning the Pharaohs 8Scarecrow 39Scents of Marie-Claire 47Selmi, Habib 47Seyfried, Friederike 35Shafik, Viola 33Shalaby, Khairy 41Sinai 18Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States

16Sustainability and Innovation 30Swelim, Tarek 14Takla, Hany 36Talib, Adam 37, 41Thompson, Jason 2Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis 5Traditional Jewelry of Egypt 20Travels of Ibn Battuta 27Tunisian Tale 46Two Thousand Years of Coptic

Christianity 34Weiss, Max 46Wonderful Things 2Zaydan, Amina 42

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