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Modern Egypt Reviews:

Taha Hussein

Taha Hussein

The Days (pt. 1)
The Days (pt. 2)
The Days (pt. 3)

The Sufferers

 

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

Midaq Alley

 

Leila Ahmed

A Border Passage (1)
A Border Passage (2)

 

Egyptian Movies

A Man in Our House (1961)

Princess Aziza (1960)

The Open Door (1963)

A Struggle on the Nile (1959)

 

Modern Novels

The Yacoubian Building

 

Egyptian Culture

The Fellahin of Upper Egypt
by Winifred S. Blackman



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The 19th Century Cairo Bookshelf

The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, by Edward William Lane
volume 1, volume 2

Cairo: Sketches of Its History, Monuments, and Social Life, Stanley Lane-Poole
volume

The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from
Cairo
, by Sophia Lane Poole
volume 1, volume 2

Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Meccah and Medina, by Richard Burton
volume

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, by Amelia Edwards
volume 1

Egypt: Handbook for Travelers (1902), Karl Baedeker
volume

Pen Sketches, by Finley Acker
volume

Egypt, by James Carlyle McCoan
volume

John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Egypt (see pgs. 227-334)
volume

From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier, by Henry Duff Traill
volume

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, by John L. Stephens
volume 1


Links for Cairo:

 

Arabic Links for Egypt:

Cairo University

 

History of Cairo

Translations and Commentary
on al-Maqrizi's Khitat

Introduction to the Khitat (coming soon)

Chapter on the Pyramids