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The American University in Cairo Press
TheThe AmericanAmerican 2009 UniversityUniversity inin Cairo Cairo PressPress Complete Catalog Fall The American University in Cairo Press, recognized “The American University in Cairo Press is the Arab as the leading English-language publisher in the region, world’s top foreign-language publishing house. It has currently offers a backlist of more than 1000 publica- transformed itself into one of the leading players in tions and publishes annually up to 100 wide-ranging the dialog between East and West, and has produced academic texts and general interest books on ancient a canon of Arabic literature in translation unmatched and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in depth and quality by any publishing house in the Arabic literature in translation, most notably the works world.” of Egypt’s Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. —Egypt Today New Publications 9 Marfleet/El Mahdi Egypt: Moment of Change 22 Abdel-Hakim/Manley Traveling through the 10 Masud et al. Islam and Modernity Deserts of Egypt 14 McNamara The Hashemites 28 Abu Golayyel A Dog with No Tail 23 Mehdawy/Hussein The Pharaoh’s Kitchen 31 Alaidy Being Abbas el Abd 15 Moginet Writing Arabic 2 Arnold The Monuments of Egypt 30 Mustafa Contemporary Iraqi Fiction 31 Aslan The Heron 8 Naguib Women, Water, and Memory 29 Bader Papa Sartre 20 O’Kane The Illustrated Guide to the Museum 9 Bayat Life as Politics of Islamic Art 13 al-Berry Life is More Beautiful than Paradise 2 Ratnagar The Timeline History of Ancient Egypt 15 Bloom/Blair Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art 33 Roberts, R.A. -
The American University in Cairo Press Centennial Catalog
The American University in Cairo Press Centennial Catalog New Books 2019 Cover: See The American University in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories, pages 4 and 5 Letter from the Director It gives me great pleasure to join in marking the hundredth anniversary of the founding of our parent institution, the American University in Cairo, with the publication of this celebratory catalog of AUC Press books. Spanning two publication seasons, it features all titles published or forthcoming in 2019 and early 2020, not least The American Uni- versity in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Andrew Humphreys (page 4). This engaging and attractive volume is a fitting tribute to AUC’s legacy and a valuable documentation of the people, history, and events that have helped shape the university. Suitably, this catalog also presents James Steele’s survey of the works and architectural philosophy of the principal architect of the Community Design Collaborative, the firm which led the design and construction of AUC’s New Cairo campus, Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdel- halim: An Architecture of Collective Memory (page 3). Meanwhile Aidan Dodson builds on the success of Sethy I: King of Egypt, His Life and Afterlife (page 16) to bring us the next title in the AUC Press book series on key figures in ancient Egyptian history,Rameses III, King of Egypt, His Life and Afterlife (page 17). This year’s offerings of ancient Egypt titles also include Reg Clark’s Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Security from Prehistory to the Pyramids (page 19), a study of the evolution of this aspect of tomb architecture over more than two millennia; and a wide-ranging collected volume on non- royal elite autobiographical texts and inscriptions, Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt (page 19), edited by Hussein Bassir. -
GERMAN LITERARY FAIRY TALES, 1795-1848 by CLAUDIA MAREIKE
ROMANTICISM, ORIENTALISM, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: GERMAN LITERARY FAIRY TALES, 1795-1848 By CLAUDIA MAREIKE KATRIN SCHWABE A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2012 1 © 2012 Claudia Mareike Katrin Schwabe 2 To my beloved parents Dr. Roman and Cornelia Schwabe 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisory committee chair, Dr. Barbara Mennel, who supported this project with great encouragement, enthusiasm, guidance, solidarity, and outstanding academic scholarship. I am particularly grateful for her dedication and tireless efforts in editing my chapters during the various phases of this dissertation. I could not have asked for a better, more genuine mentor. I also want to express my gratitude to the other committee members, Dr. Will Hasty, Dr. Franz Futterknecht, and Dr. John Cech, for their thoughtful comments and suggestions, invaluable feedback, and for offering me new perspectives. Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge the abundant support and inspiration of my friends and colleagues Anna Rutz, Tim Fangmeyer, and Dr. Keith Bullivant. My heartfelt gratitude goes to my family, particularly my parents, Dr. Roman and Cornelia Schwabe, as well as to my brother Marius and his wife Marina Schwabe. Many thanks also to my dear friends for all their love and their emotional support throughout the years: Silke Noll, Alice Mantey, Lea Hüllen, and Tina Dolge. In addition, Paul and Deborah Watford deserve special mentioning who so graciously and welcomingly invited me into their home and family. Final thanks go to Stephen Geist and his parents who believed in me from the very start. -
Redacted Thesis (PDF, 12Mb)
Victorian Egyptology and the Making of a Colonial Field Science, 1850 – 1906 by Meira Gold Wolfson College Department of History and Philosophy of Science This thesis is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Date of Submission: December 2019 Declaration This thesis is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It is not substantially the same as any that I have submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for a degree or diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. I further state that no substantial part of my thesis has already been submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for any such degree, diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It does not exceed the prescribed word limit for the History and Philosophy of Science Degree Committee. Abstract Victorian Egyptology and the Making of a Colonial Field Science, 1850-1906 Meira Gold This dissertation provides a new account of the origins of archaeological fieldwork in the Nile Delta. It considers how practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds circulated knowledge about the built environment of pharaonic ruins: monuments, architecture, burials, and soil mounds that remained in situ. I trace the development of Egyptology from an activity that could be practiced long-distance through a network of informants to one that required first-hand field experience. -
Download the Spell of Egypt
The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens Etext prepared by Dagny, [email protected] and John Bickers, [email protected] PREPARER'S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1911 edition, published by The Century Co., New York. The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens CONTENTS THE PYRAMIDS THE SPHINX SAKKARA page 1 / 128 ABYDOS THE NILE DENDERAH KARNAK LUXOR COLOSSI OF MEMNON MEDINET-ABU THE RAMESSEUM DEIR-EL-BAHARI THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS EDFU KOM OMBOS PHILAE "PHARAOH'S BED" OLD CAIRO I THE PYRAMIDS Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, grey, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt? The Sphinx will not ask you, will not care. The Pyramids, lifting page 2 / 128 their unnumbered stones to the clear and wonderful skies, have held, still hold, their secrets; but they do not seek for yours. The terrific temples, the hot, mysterious tombs, odorous of the dead desires of men, crouching in and under the immeasurable sands, will muck you with their brooding silence, with their dim and sombre repose. The brown children of the Nile, the toilers who sing their antique songs by the shadoof and the sakieh, the dragomans, the smiling goblin merchants, the Bedouins who lead your camel into the pale recesses of the dunes--these will not trouble themselves about your deep desires, your perhaps yearning hunger of the heart and the imagination. -
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A LAPP GROUP COMPANY REFERENCE LIST ISO 9001, ISO14000, ISO 50001 CERTIFIED COUNTRY DESTINATION PLANT / PROJECT PURCHASER / END USER YEAR Italy Vezzano Power Plant ENEL Trento 1994 Greece Keratsini Keratsini Unit 8 Power Plant ALCATEL/ANSALDO 1995 Indonesia Java Barat Gunung Salak G.P.P. 55 MW ALCATEL/ANSALDO 1995 Singapore Singapore Senoko Power station Ext. of Gas Turb. SIEMENS/POWER GEN. (SENOKO) Pte. Ltd. 1995 Algeria Annata No.2 Furnace Ribuild ITALIMPIANTI SpA/SIDER C. SIDERURGIQUE 1996 China Ningbo NZP Plant FROESCHL/SIEMENS ERLAGEN 1996 China Shanghai Project D68 SINCO ENGINEERING/ CHINAYIZHENG CH. FIBER C 1996 Colombia Covenas Oleoducto Central S.A. Full Field Dev. BOUYGUES OFFSHORE 1996 Egypt Alexandria Alexandria Petroleum Crude Oil Furn. KIRCHNER ITALIA Spa 1996 Italy Augusta (SR) LSADO Project Step 2 ESSO ITALIANA S.p.A. 1996 Italy Civitavecchia Torrevaldaliga N. Plant ENEL- CIVITAVECCHIA 1996 Italy Milazzo Heaters Automation AGIP PETROLI 1996 Italy Milazzo Control Centralization LC-Finer AGIP PETROLI 1996 Italy Pallanza Project CF-762 SINCO ENGINEERING/ITALPET 1996 Italy Priolo Gargallo (Sr) Interconnecting Plant ERG PETROLI 1996 Italy Priolo Gargallo (Sr) Revamping Unit 200 A NHDS ISAB S.p.A. 1996 Italy Priolo Gargallo (Sr) Thermoelectric Power Plant ENEL-Palermo 1996 Italy Sarroch Hydrocracking Plant SARAS Spa 1996 Italy Sarroch Intrinsically-safe Plant HOECHST ITALIA Spa 1996 Pakistan Hub River Hub Power Project 4x323 MW ANSALDO/HUBCO POWER Co 1996 S.Arabia Yanbu Ibn Rushd/PTA Plant Hot Oil Furnace KIRCHNER/TECNIMONT 1996 Belgium Feluy Manufacturing Units TELEREX S.A. / PANTOCHIM 1997 Egypt Suez 10 H-1 Heater Revamp. Project KIRCHNER ITALIA S.p.A./ SUEZ OIL 1997 France St. -
Camera Obscura Vs
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2006 PREPRINT 307 Erna Fiorentini Camera Obscura vs. Camera Lucida – Distinguishing Early Nineteenth Century Modes of Seeing TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Distinguishing Technologies: a Box and a Prism 5 2. Untangling Stories: an Old and a New Device 6 3. Parting Fortunes: the New Eclipses the Old 10 4. Diverging Necessities: Old and New Demands 12 5. Discerning Visual Modalities: Projective vs. Prismatic Seeing 20 5.1. Accuracy and Perceptual Experience: Criteria in Comparison 21 5.1.1. Degrees of ‘Truth to Nature’ 21 5.1.2. Degrees of Perceptual Experience 27 5.2. Projective vs. Prismatic: Optical Principles in Comparison 29 6. An Epilogue: the ‘Prismatic’ as the Camera-Lucida-Mode of Seeing 37 CAMERA OBSCURA VS. CAMERA LUCIDA 1 DISTINGUISHING EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY MODES OF SEEING Erna Fiorentini If we look at Fig. 1, we see a painter holding an inspired pose while beholding and recording the landscape. Although he appears to beindulging in purely aesthetic rapture, he is equipped with optical drawing devices and with many other instruments for observation, tracing and measuring. A Camera Lucida is arrayed on a tripod on the right, surrounded by a telescope, a setsquare, a ruler, a pair of compasses and other devices, while in the background a tent-type Camera Obscura is in use. This motif belonged to Carl Jacob Lindström’s well-known satiric, illustrated book I Stranieri in Italia, printed and distributed in Naples in 1830.2 Moreover, Lindström produced countless further exemplars of this scene in watercolour, engraving and lithography. -
The American University in Cairo Press Centennial Catalog
The American University in Cairo Press Centennial Catalog New Books 2019 Cover: See The American University in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories, pages 4 and 5 Letter from the Director It gives me great pleasure to join in marking the hundredth anniversary of the founding of our parent institution, the American University in Cairo, with the publication of this celebratory catalog of AUC Press books. Spanning two publication seasons, it features all titles published or forthcoming in 2019 and early 2020, not least The American Uni- versity in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Andrew Humphreys (page 4). This engaging and attractive volume is a fitting tribute to AUC’s legacy and a valuable documentation of the people, history, and events that have helped shape the university. Suitably, this catalog also presents James Steele’s survey of the works and architectural philosophy of the principal architect of the Community Design Collaborative, the firm which led the design and construction of AUC’s New Cairo campus, Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdel- halim: An Architecture of Collective Memory (page 3). Meanwhile Aidan Dodson builds on the success of Sethy I: King of Egypt, His Life and Afterlife (page 16) to bring us the next title in the AUC Press book series on key figures in ancient Egyptian history,Rameses III, King of Egypt, His Life and Afterlife (page 17). This year’s offerings of ancient Egypt titles also include Reg Clark’s Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Security from Prehistory to the Pyramids (page 19), a study of the evolution of this aspect of tomb architecture over more than two millennia; and a wide-ranging collected volume on non- royal elite autobiographical texts and inscriptions, Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt (page 19), edited by Hussein Bassir. -
The Case of New Gourna
K. Galal Ahmed & L. El-Gizawy, Int. J. Sus. Dev. Plann. Vol. 5, No. 4 (2010) 407–429 THE DILEMMA OF SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN EGYPT – THE CASE OF NEW GOURNA K. GALAL AHMED1 & L. EL-GIZAWY2 1Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, UAE. 2Department of Architectural Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt. ABSTRACT Gourna, a vernacular village in Upper Egypt, was built over a Pharonic heritage site. During the 1940s, and in order to protect the monuments from theft, the Egyptian government commissioned the renowned Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy to design a new settlement for the Gournii. Despite the great effort exerted by Fathy to design The New Gourna in an environmentally and socially responsive manner, the project had consider- ably failed as most of the residents refused to move to the new village. Recently, the government repeated the attempt but this time the second version of the New Gourna came significantly different. In order to force them to move, the government demolished most of the houses of the residents of Gourna and left only a few houses to be re-used as museums for the vernacular architecture of the village. The main objective of the paper is to investigate if the second version of the New Gourna is going to overcome the sustainability problems associated with Fathy’s New Gourna and if it is going to deal successfully with the sustainable vernacular architecture of the region. In order to undertake this investigation the paper first reviews the vernacular architecture of Gourna and then discusses both Fathy’s approach and the recent New Gourna village’s approach from the sustainabil- ity point of view. -
Edward William Lane (1801-1876)
Tarih Dergisi Turkish Journal of History Tarih Dergisi - Turkish Journal of History, 73 (2021/1): 149-172 DOI: 10.26650/iutd.743219 Araştırma Makalesi / Research Article Bir İngiliz Oryantalistin Portresi: Edward William Lane (1801-1876) Portrait of a British Orientalist: Edward William Lane (1801-1876) Selda Güner Özden* ÖZ Napolyon Bonapart’ın 1798’deki işgali Mısır’ı oryantalizmin temalarından biri haline getirdi ve Avrupa’da “Piramitler Diyarı”na yönelik merak ve seyahatleri tetikledi. Bonapart'dan 27 yıl sonra genç bir İngiliz, Edward Willian Lane (1801- 1876) uzun bir gemi yolculuğundan sonra Temmuz 1825'de Mısır'a gelerek, Kahire'de sıradan Mısırlıların arasında yaşamayı tercih etti. Mısır’a farklı zamanlarda gerçekleştirdiği üç seyahatinin neticesinde eserlerini kaleme almıştır. Eski ve modern Mısır’ın büyük kısmını dolaşan Lane gözlemlerini, halkın inanç, dil, örf ve adetlerini Description of Egypt, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptian, Binbir Gece Masalları ve Arapça- İngilizce Sözlük gibi geniş çapta okunan eserlerde kaydetti. Mısır’a ilk gelişinde Antik Mısır’a dair çalışmalar yaparken, zamanla dikkatini çağdaşı Mısırlıların dil ve kültürleri çekmişti. Bir oryantalist olarak Lane’nin çalışmalarının hususiyeti, “bilimsel” bir yaklaşımla Mısır ve Mısırlıları anlatmaya çalışmasıydı. Bu makale bir şarkiyatçı olarak Edward William Lane’nin Mısır tetkikleri içindeki yerini muhtelif boyutlarıyla incelemeye çalışacaktır. Anahtar sözcükler: Edward William Lane, Mısır, Kahire, Oryantalizm *Doç. Dr., Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Edebiyat ABSTRACT Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion in 1798 made Egypt one of the themes ORCID: S.G.Ö. 0000-0002-0669-8900 of orientalism and sparked curiosity and travels towards the "Land of the Pyramids" in Europe. -
1 Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EGYPTOLOGISTS THE MENA HOUSE OBEROI CAIRO 28 March – 3 April 2000 10.00: OPENING CEREMONY OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EGYPTOLOGISTS Mr. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, Dr. G.A. Gaballa, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Faiza Haikal, President of the International Association of Egyptologists Dr Z. Hawass, General Secretary of the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists followed by an AWARD CEREMONY to honor eminent Egyptologists 11.00: RECEPTION 12.00: FIRST MILLENIUM LECTURE AND DEBATE: D. O’CONNOR, EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Respondent: M. Bietak. Panel: F. Hassan, M. Lehner, K. Mysliwiec, R. Stadelmann, M. Verner 1.00: Lunch 1.30: G. A. Gaballa: The Work of the Supreme Council of Antiquities 2.15: B. Mathieu: Travaux et fouilles recents de l’IFAO 3.00: Break 3.15: G. Dreyer: Recent Activities of the German Institute of Archaeology 4.00: M. Easton: Expeditions and Conservation Projects of the American Research Center in Egypt WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH AM Debate: Zahi Hawass: Site Management Respondent: K Weeks. Panel: M. Jones, C. Leblanc, W. Mayer, F. Saleh WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH AM. ROOM 1 THE DESERTS AND EARLY HISTORY REIMER, Heiko: The Re-conquest of the Great Sand Sea KINDERMANN, Karin: Djara: Prehistoric links between the Desert and the Nile LINSTÄDTER, Jörg: Prehistoric land use systems in the Gilf Kebir HASSAN, F. A: Kafr Hassan Dawood, Preliminary Results of the SCA-UCL Archaeological investigations 1995-1999 FALTINGS, Dina A: Excavations in Buto 1993-1998 WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH AM. ROOM 2 NEW KINGDOM STUDIES PICCIONE, Peter: A Family of Priests Revealed in Theban Tombs No. -
Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus
chapter 2 Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus The rising appeal of Islamic collectibles in Europe findings brought up by digs; Islamic artworks rep- and America set a pattern among those who vis- resented a marginal trade in comparison. Stock ited, or sojourned in, the Middle East: that of pro- of objects from the Islamic period seems indeed curing antiques locally and transporting them more limited in Cairo than in Damascus. As a back home. The sought-after artefacts were mostly matter of fact, established dealers specialising secured through formal trade. From the mid- in Islamic artworks emerged at a later stage in nineteenth century onwards, all indicators are that the Egyptian city. In contrast, the Syrian capital Cairo and Damascus became active market-places housed traders in Islamic curios since at least the for Islamic artworks, although the information is 1850s, and it remained for many decades the most fragmentary and unevenly distributed. Evidence renowned place for the abundance and quality of on antique dealing does exist for fin-de-siècle available antiques, whether arms, ceramics, metal- Egypt, but it mostly covers “Egyptian” objects, by work, or indeed architectural salvage. Most Syrian which are meant the Ancient pieces obtained pri- travelogues include a chapter on the riches of the marily at excavations, but also at the villages clos- bazaars, the lavish objects on display, and the opu- est to the ruins.1 No comparable documentation lence of Damascene merchants.2 Products, old and is available for Islamic artefacts produced under new, ranged from locally-made “silks, and embroi- Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, or Ottoman rule.