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It is the turn of the twentieth century and a British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of the age, arrives in Egypt to embark on the project of a …

This is the first comprehensive survey of the political and economic history of the Sudan from the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in 1898 until 1934. Based mainly …

This volume of the report on excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates's Island, which is located on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, publishes the local and …

Kanekrøniken har inntatt bestselgerlistene verden over og har alle de gode ingrediensene leserne fant i Percy Jackson-serien: Actiondrevet handling og morsomme karakterer, samtidig …

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and …

Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions, into the structure of formal rules (e.g., polity, …

A decade on from the Arab uprisings, debates continue to reiterate exceptionalist discourses about the region and its peoples which tend to deny individual agency. They also …

Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated …

En usedvanlig sterk fortelling om en sønns leting etter sin far og om hjemkomsten til et land han trodde han hadde forlatt for alltid.I 1990 da Hisham Matar bodde i London, ble …

A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present.This book shows how the modern-day Sudan has been haunted by the distant past and presents the voices of two …