Egypt + North Africa

Book Reviews

• Galal Amin: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?
  Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
• Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building
  - a novel of violence and corruption in Cairo
• Ralph A. Austen: Trans-Saharan Africa in World History
  - Maghreb, Sudan and Sahara; Islam, empires and trade
• Mohamed Choukri: For Bread Alone
  - a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
• Sergio Donadoni: The Egyptians
  - the social history of ancient Egypt
• John L. Foster: Love Songs of the New Kingdom*
  - ancient Egyptian love poems
• S.D. Goitein: A Mediterranean Society
  - the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
• Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim: Egypt: An Economic Geography
  - a broad-ranging survey
• Annette Imhausen: Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
  A Contextual History
• Robert Irwin: The Arabian Nightmare
  - a novel of dream and story in medieval Cairo
• Tahar ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light*
  - surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
• Yasmina Khadra: Dead Man's Share
  - dark secrets from the Algerian War of Independence
• Naguib Mahfouz: Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
  - a novel of ancient Egypt
• Naguib Mahfouz: Respected Sir; Wedding Song; The Search*
  - three short novels by the great Egyptian writer
• Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
  - from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
• David Reimer: Count Like An Egyptian
  A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
• Karim Sadr: The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
  - a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
• Tayeb Salih: Season of Migration to the North
  - a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan

See also: Africa | Arabic literature | Israel + Palestine