Kategoria BISAC: History >> Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)

The volume is focused on the struggle between the caliph 'Ali and his rival and eventual...

Assmann takes special care to distinguish between the "implicit" theology of Egyptian polytheism and the...

Assmann takes special care to distinguish between the "implicit" theology of Egyptian polytheism and the...

Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed, why did kings engage in diplomacy at all? How did the great powers maintain international peace and order?

In Amarna Diplomacy, Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook have brought together a team of specialists, both social scientists and ancient historians, to explore the world of ancient Near Eastern statecraft portrayed...

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences--anthropology, human geography, and demography--in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research--"the article."

Omnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates...

Infertility and Patriarchy explores the lives of infertile women whose personal stories depict their daily struggles to resist disempowerment and stigmatization. Marcia C. Inhorn has produced a unique study of gender, politics, and family life in contemporary Egypt.

"This important book rescues Egypt s migrant workers, the tarahil, from their usual neglect. It follows them from the fields into the urban labor market to argue that, in spite of the weakness of their position, they played a significant political and economic role in the turbulent years of the Sadat presidency and beyond."--Roger Owen, Harvard University

Analyzing the role of rural workers in Egypt s economy, James Toth provides a bottom-up account of the country s recent history, including the 1961 agricultural crisis that undermined Nasser s Arab socialism, the 1965-66...

In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys," who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. "The Lost Boys of Sudan" focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America.

Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in...