Peder Mortensens fotodokumentar Eyes on a Street in Cairo  er en fotobog med omkring 80 s/h foto med forord, indledning om gaden Shari´ al-Mu´izz li Din Allah og billedtekster. Bogen formidler en egenartet dokumentation af én og samme gade under 10 dages konstante ophold i 1991. Bogen dokumenter[...]

This present volume is dedicated to Gawdat Gabra, the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo and now Professor of Coptology at the University of Claremont in the USA. Dr. Gabra is one of the pioneers of Coptic studies in modern times and the author and editor of many valuable and highly regar[...]

"Three Ladies in Cairo" is the fictionalised true story of how three Swedish women - grandmother Hilda, mother Ingrid, and the author Anne Edelstam, herself, residing in Egypt for three generations ... discover the land of the Nile throughout the twentieth century's social changes, up to the Egyp[...]

Small in size, big in content and color, this handy guidebook offers a compact glimpse and memento of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Its 100-plus images takes you on journey 9771720708through the hallowed halls of ancient Egypt.[...]

Cairo's Egyptian Museum houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Some 150,000 pieces are exhibited, and another 30,000 are held in storerooms. This book carries full-color illustrations of many of the masterpieces of ancient art in the museum from the decorated vases, flin[...]

This book offers an evocative photographic documentation of Cairo's few remaining public bathhouses. In the twelfth century, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi affirmed that the Egyptian baths were 'the most beautiful in the East, the most practical, and the best located.' Nine centuries later, forgotten by t[...]

Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art houses one of the richest collections of artifacts from all periods of Islamic history and all parts of the Islamic world. Structured as a guide, but fully illustrated with superb color photographs, this book suggests a simple but comprehensive itinerary through one of [...]

Updated and expanded for 2011, Cairo: The Practical Guide Maps includes all the principal areas of metropolitan Cairo and Giza, including for the first time the major developing district of Shaykh Zayed and 6th October City. The easy-to-use format and clear, uncluttered cartographic style make findi[...]

This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but [...]

Cairo has for centuries been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and this anthology brings together travelers' descriptions of it over the centuries-from the comments of Herodotus to those of Julian Huxley. Perhaps more than anything else in the city, the wonderful mosques with their[...]

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the Arabian Nights, whose atmosphere is palpable still for the visitor wandering thro[...]