Breasted’s Geschichte Aegyptens (History of Egypt, 1936). The two sculpted heads were discovered ... Freud received a copy of the book in 1939 when he was sixteen and newly enrolled in art school. He ...

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...

"A book has become a luxury item here in Egypt. It's not a basic commodity like food and people are saving on luxuries," says Mohammed El-Baaly of Sefsafa Publishing House. He was speaking as the ...

In his new novel, ‘Au soir d’Alexandrie’, the Egyptian author examines his country’s society under the rule of Gamal Abdel ...

When the uprisings began in Egypt, it became evident that youth movements were going to play a large part in the uprisings themselves, as well as the ensuing political and social changes. In this book ...

An authoritarian grandmother overpowers a granddaughter suffering from a guilt trauma in the belief that she was the reason for her mother’s death. The girl has very low self-esteem and so falls ...

When we were younger, my friend Alaa Abd El Fattah and I didn’t know just how intimately prison, and state violence, would shape our lives.

The Prince of Egypt is a sweeping epic of a musical with music and lyrics by Grammy and Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz, a book by Philip LaZebnik, and 10 new songs written by Schwartz, together with ...