In This Issue June 2013

» Your summer reading at Dear Reader, AUC Bookstores This year summer has come » Author of Copts at The Crossroads to speak at early in Cairo. To help you Oxford prepare for your forthcoming

» First-ever Translation holidays, we invite you to visit Slam the AUC Bookstores to shop for your summer reading. The » Historian Stefan Reif reflects on Jewish heritage in AUC Press is offering three novels for the price of two from its list of new Arabic literature titles.

This month you will also find on the shelf Mariz Tadros‘s book Copts

at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt, a timely examination of Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt before and since the 2011 Revolution. The Egyptian author, a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, is giving a lecture entitled "Revolt to Sectarian Ruptures: the Challenges of building an inclusive Society in Post-Revolutionary Egypt and Syria‖ at the University of Oxford on June 8.

Another important new book you may also wish to pick up is the already much-praised Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution by Adel Iskandar, a media professor and a frequent commentator on BBC, Al-Jazeera, and CNN, who cautions: ―The lessons of Egypt‘s unfinished revolution are plenty. Do not celebrate

preemptively. Do not valorize and glamorize the personhood of political leadership. Do not trust state authority to reform state institutions…. Always question pragmatic realist politics…. Always question identity-based populism even if it seems convenient or makes sense in a moment of false epiphany.‖

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AUC Press Events And for your outdoors trips and excursions, the AUC Press is publishing this month two more beautifully illustrated Nature Foldouts: Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife by Dominique Navarro and Salima Ikram, about the country‘s birds, and animals, and plants on tomb and temple walls; and Egypt’s Prehistoric Fauna by Dominique Navarro and Matthew Lamanna, a similar water-proof, compact guide, on Egypt‘s extinct and surviving animals from prehistoric times.

Have a lovely summer! Saturday, June 8 Lecture Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones "From Revolt to Sectarian AUC Press Director Ruptures: The challenges of building an inclusive Society in Post-Revolutionary Egypt and Syria‖ Book of the Month – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores By Mariz Tadros, author of the new book Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of The Dreams Building Inclusive Democracy in By Naguib Mahfouz Egypt (AUC Press, 2013) Translated by Raymond Stock The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St

Antony‘s College, UK 2.30 pm The Dreams are a unique and haunting mixture of the deceptively quotidian, the Her lecture is part of a two-day seductively lyrical, and the savagely conference on ―The Future of nightmarish—the richly condensed sum Religious Minorities in the , and of more than nine decades of artistic the Two Sudans,‖ organized by genius and everyday experience. the University of Oxford St Antony's College Middle East ―…fun and fascinating, and Mahfouz is a master of form, Centre. regardless the form. All serious fiction collections should consider To view the complete program this.‖ —Library Journal of the conference, click here. To read more about Mariz To read more and order this book, click here. Tadros, click here.

Check the website regularly for other upcoming events.

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New AUC Press Books – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt By Miroslav Verner Translated by Anna Bryson-Gustová

This new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar, currently directing the Czech archaeological excavations in Abusir, answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine the spiritual, economic, and political aspects of these institutions and the dominant roles they played.

This 624-page hardbound book includes over 200 illustrations and an extensive glossary.

To read more about this book, click here.

Karnak Café

By Naguib Mahfouz

Translated by Roger Allen

Exposing the dark underbelly of ideology, and delving into the idea of Quick Links the ‗necessary evils‘ of social upheaval, » e-Newsletter Archive Karnak Café remains one of the Nobel » AUC Press Catalog laureate‘s most pointedly critical works, » Calendar of Events as relevant and incisive today as it was when it was first » AUC Press Home published in 1971. » AUC Press Bookstores » AUC Press E-Cards ―This short story ... is up to the author‘s reputation.‖—The Global » Read & Laugh Ministries » Mailing List » Contact Us To read more about this paperback edition, click here.

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AUC Press Books & Authors in the News The History Beneath History ―The book is unique in that Kahlifeh brings together an unusually diverse cast of characters," writes Marcia Lynx Qualey in her review of Sahar Khalifeh‘s Palestinian novel Of Noble Origin,

translated by Aida Bamia (AUC Press, 2012) Looking for books to buy for Women's Review of Books, May/June 2013 your holiday? Get three books for the price of two. Click here to view the offer. ―Graffiti is redefining public spaces in post-revolutionary Cairo,‖ writes Nicholas Casey after speaking with Mia Gröndahl, author of Revolution Graffiti: Street Art of the New Egypt (AUC Press, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal blog, May 26

Where Are the Women in (Arabic) Translation? Arablit blog, Marcia Lynx Qualey, May 17, 2013

―A brilliant anthropological fieldwork study, a triumph in recording the life of a vibrant community as it faces destruction‖ are the words Peter A. Clayton uses to describe Kees van der Spek‘s The Modern Neighbors of Tutankhamun: History, Life, and Work in the Villages of the Theban West Bank (AUC Press, 2011) Minerva January/February 2013

The American Research Centre in Egypt (ARCE) ―Qurna Overview‖ makes reference to Kees van der Spek‘s The Modern Neighbors of Tutankhamun: History, Life, and Work in the Villages of the Theban West Bank (AUC Press, 2011)

"We must thank Andrew Humphreys for providing a real treat for his readers," writes Deborah Manley in her review of Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2012) ASTENE Bulletin Nr. 51 Spring 2012, page 19

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