June 2011 In This Issue Dear Reader, » AUC Press Book, Art, & Music Festival @ ‘s Already June! And what a year!

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The Egyptian revolution. » In with Mia

Gröndahl The 50th anniversary of the » Karima Khalil‘s revolution AUC Press.

message The centennial of ‘s Nobel » Amr Khadr‘s book cover laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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In the fall the AUC Press will be celebrating on various occasions » The Naguib Mahfouz and with many activities the centenary of the birth of Naguib Centennial Library… Mahfouz. We are proud to announce the forthcoming publication of

» What to read this summer? a one-time-only limited edition of the Naguib Mahfouz Centennial Library, a definitive collection of 20 hardbound editions featuring all thirty-five of Mahfouz‘s novels, three collections of his short stories, and his autobiographical writings.

Last week, books like Tahrir Square: The Heart of the Egyptian Revolution (AUC Press, 2011) and Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt‘s Revolution (AUC Press, 2011) and their authors—Mia Gröndahl, in the presence of correspondent for English Ayman Mohyeldin, who wrote the foreword of her book, and Karima Khalil—were honored at the AUC Press annual Book, Art, & Music Festival celebrated this year at the Cairo Opera House.

Summer is here. Vacation is in the air. For some it is the time to catch up on reading and discover new authors. We have put together a suggested reading list. We look forward to seeing you in September. It promises to be a busy and exciting month with many new books and events.

Mark Linz Director The in Cairo Press Cairo - New York

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Current Book of the Month – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores AUC Press Events

Messages from Tahrir: Exhibitions Egyptian Still Signs from Egypt's Lifes & Celebrating Egypt Mixed media and oil paintings Revolution of previously unseen works Edited by Karima Khalil by Margo Veillon The Margo Veillon Gallery of "The signs were changing all Modern Egyptian Art the time in the midan AUC Tahrir Campus depending on what was 2:00 to 6:00 pm daily except happening in Tahrir,‖ said Friday Karima Khalil, who was in (Valid photo ID required) the square during the Until August 31 Revolution. For the making

of this marvellous fully illustrated bestseller, she selected 36 Celebrating the Egyptian photographers who each contributed images of the striking Revolution creativity and eloquence of the signs protesters carried, held, or Photographs from three forthcoming AUC Press wore to express their wrath, determination, humor, and hope. publications: Tahrir Square: The Heart of "Photographs capture fleeting moments and live on, preserving the Egyptian Revolution by truth and human emotion. This book chronicles the 25 January Swedish photographer Mia Revolution without text or theorizing; it presents the reality of what Gröndahl happened, changing Egypt and the whole Arab world." —Alaa Al Messages from Tahrir: Signs Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building from Egypt’s Revolution edited by Karima Khalil To read more and order the book, click here. The Road to Tahrir: Front Line Images by Six Young

Egyptian Photographers by New AUC Press Books – Available at the AUC Press Bookstores Sherif Assaf et al. The AUC Future Gallery AUC Tahrir Campus Religious Politics & Secular 10:00 am to 6:00 pm daily States: Egypt, India, and the except Friday (Valid photo ID required) Until August 31 By Scott W. Hibbard

This volume is a comparative study Celebrating 100 Years of of conservative renderings of Naguib Mahfouz & 50 Years religious traditions in which the of the AUC Press author investigates this new era of The AUC Legacy Gallery AUC Tahrir Campus right-wing religious populism in three 10:00 am to 6:00 pm daily nations—the Islamization of Egypt‘s except Friday politics, the surge of Hindu (Valid photo ID required) nationalism in India, and the Christian right-wing populism in the Until August 31 United States. ―What is at issue in each of these cases is a

struggle not between tradition and modernity but rather between More competing visions of modern social life,‖ writes Hibbard.

To read more and order the book, click here.

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The Concise -English Lexicon of Verbs in Context By Ahmed Taher Hassanein, Kamar Abdou, and Dalal Abo El Seoud

A new revised and expanded edition of this popular learning aid! The 508- page lexicon contains more than 3,500 Arabic verbs from 1,450 verb roots. Students and teachers will find the context sentences, perfect and

imperfect tenses and verbal noun of

each verb, and index of English

definitions very useful.

To read more and order the book, click here.

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» AUC Press Bookstores » AUC Press E-Cards » Read & Laugh » Mailing List AUC Press Books & Authors in the News » Contact Us AUC Press revolution works, festival prompt some skepticism Al Masry Al Youm (online English edition), June 26

After dark winter, Katharine Whittemore writes about Karima Khalil's Messages

from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt’s Revolution (AUC Press, 2011),

Mia Gröndahl's Tahrir Square: The Heart of the Egyptian Revolution (AUC Press, 2011), Alaa Al Aswany's On the State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections (AUC Press, 2011) and The Yacoubian Building (AUC Press. 2006), The Boston Globe, June 26

Six Egyptian Writers You Don‘t Know But You Should

Pauls Toutonghi writes about , Mansoura Ez

Eldin, Bahaa Taher, Muhammad Aladdin, Nawal el-Saadawi, and Khairy Shalaby

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Book reviews of Babylon of Egypt: The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City by Peter Sheehan (AUC Press, 2010): Recapturing Babylon, Jill Kamil, Al Ahram Weekly, June 23 - 29

Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, C. C. Lamberg-

Karlovsky, Harvard University

Iraqi women have paid the price for international sanctions The Egyptian Gazette reviews Yasmin Husein al- Jawaheri's Women in : The Gender Impact of International Sanctions, (distributed by AUC Press, 2008), Caryll Faraldi, June

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Exhibition of photographs from new AUC Press History flashes by publications on the Egyptian The Times's Sally Bland reviews Naguib Mahfouz's The Revolution in AUC Future Final Hour, translated by Roger Allen, (AUC Press, 2010), June Gallery until August 31 - open daily 10:00 am to 6:00 pm 20 except Friday. Pashas and the poor

Al Ahram Weekly reviews Galal Amin's Egypt in the Era of 1981-2011 (AUC Press, 2011), Gamal Nkrumah, June 9 – 15

Alaa Al Aswany‘s On The State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections (AUC Press, 2011), reviewed by Mary Whipple, June 8, marywhipplereviews.com

Messages from Tahrir, revolutionary photography Al Masry Al Youm (online English edition) reviews Karima

Khalil's Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt's Revolution (AUC Press, 2011), Abdel-Rahman Hussein, June 8

‗Baghdad Arts Deco‘

Book review of Baghdad Arts Deco: Architectural Brickwork, 1920–1950 (AUC Press, 2011) by Caecilia Pieri, Arabnews.com,

Lisa Kaaki, June 8

A promised eternity: Some reflections on the influence Egyptian writers wield in a time of revolution

The Egyptian writers include Alaa Al Aswany, author of On The State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections (AUC Press, 2011)

Haaretz, Benny Ziffer, June 7

Creative dissent

Book review of Film in the and North , Creative

Dissidence, edited by Josef Gugler (AUC Press, 2011), The Egyptian Gazette, Dorian Haqmou, June 7

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Al Masry Al Youm (online English edition), Maria Golia, AUC Press author of Cairo: City of Sand (2004) and Photography and Egypt (2009), June 3

Mindful of the masters Gamal Nkrumah encounters the subject matter and twin narrators of Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei by Mona Abaza with Collector's Notes by Sherwet Shafei (AUC Press, 2011), Al Ahram Weekly, 2 - 8 June

Dr. Galal Amin: the current trials are subject to "political adjustments" Al Masry Al Youm (online Arabic edition) speaks with AUC Press author Galal Aminabout the situation in Egypt, Part I, May 27

Economic and social thinker Dr. Galal Amin: Those who started the Revolution did not specify what they want Al Masry Al Youm (online Arabic edition) speaks with AUC Press author Galal Aminabout the situation in Egypt, Part II, May 28

Book reviews of Fadhil al-Azzawi‘s The Traveler and the Innkeeper, translated by William M. Hutchins (AUC Press, 2011): The Complete Review, M. A. Orthofer, 4 June Al Masry Al Youm (online English edition), M. Lynx Qualey, May 22

Backstory to a revolution: Egyptian literary star explains why his country was set to ignite Book review of Alaa Al Aswany's On The State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections (AUC Press, 2011), Postmedia News, Leila Marshy, May 22

Neglected, mismanaged Cairo is also resourceful and forbearing The National's Ursula Lindsey reviews David Sims's book Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control (AUC Press, 2011), May 6

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