Reading List

The books listed below are taken from our personal collections and are merely a small selection of the extensive number of books available a propos Egypt and related topics.

BIOGRAPHIES AND TRAVEL BOOKS –

Chittock, Lorraine – Cairo Cats

Cooper, Artemis – Cairo in the War 1939 – 1945

Edwards, Amelia B – 1000 Miles up the Nile

Ed. Awad, Mohammed & Hamouda, Saha – The Zoghebs,

An Alexandrian Saga

Ed. Ilbert, Robert et al – Alexandria 1860 – 1960

Keay, Julia – With Passport and Parasol

Lane, E.W. – Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

Lively, Penelope – Oleanda, Jacaranda

MacLeave, Hugh – The Last Pharoah, 10 Faces of Farouk

Mahoney, Rosemary – Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff

Rafaat, Samir – Maadi 1904 – 1962

Rossant, Colette – Apricots  on the Nile : A Memoir with Recipes

Sadat, Anwar – In Search of Identity

Snowdon, Peter – 40 Pyramids of Egypt and their Neighbours

Stadiem, William – Too Rich

Stevens, Lorraine – Spoken Arabic of Cairo

Theroux, Paul – Dark Star Safari

Wissa, Hanna – Assiout, The Saga of an Egyptian Family

Zayan, Jailan – Egypt – Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and

Culture

Cairo A – Z Street Directory

Lonely Planet Guide Books to Cairo and Egypt

Egypt - Eyewitness Travel Guides –DK Publishing

AUC Press – A Practical Guide to Living in Cairo

Lonely Planet Arabic Phrase Book

NOVELS –

Al Aswany, Alaa – The Yacoubian Building: A Novel

Barber, Noel – A Woman of Cairo

Christie, Agatha – Death on the Nile

Durrell, Lawrence – The Alexandria Quartet

Erskine, Barbara – Whispers in the Sand

Mahfouz, Naguib – The Cairo Trilogy

Mahfouz, Naguib – Children of the Alley

Rodenbeck, Max – Cairo – The City Victorious

Souief, Adhaf – Aisha

Souief, Adhaf – In the Eye of the Sun

Souief, Adhaf – The Map of Love: A Novel

Please note – Naguib Mahfouz has written an extensive number of novels based in or around Cairo…all of which make fabulous reading.

HISTORICAL AND ACADEMIC BOOKS –

Afaf Lufti Al-Sayyid Marsot – Egypt in the Reign of Muhammed Ali

Atiya, Nayra – the Khul Khal

Early, Evelyn – Baladi Women of Cairo

Esposito, John L – The Oxford History of Islam

Heikal, Mohammed – Autumn of Fury

Hewson, Neil – The Fayoum, A Guide

Kamil, Jill – Luxor

Lane, Mary Ellen – Guide to the Antiquities of Fayoum

MacLeod, Arlene – Accommodating Protest

Meinardus, Otto – Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts

Nelson, Nina – Mena House Oberoi

Rugh, Andrea B – Family in Contemporary Egypt

Rugh, Andrea B – Reveal and Conceal

Seif, Ola – Khan el Khalili

Sullivan, Earl – Women in Egyptian Public Life

Vatikiotsis, P. J. – The History of Modern Egypt

Vercoutter, Jean – The Search for Ancient Egypt