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October 24, 2015
AUC Press Books at the Aboudi Bookshop in Luxor!
A Facebook friend just went to the Aboudi Bookshop in Luxor and picked up some AUC Press books including the AUC Press Nature Foldouts!
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AUC Press partners with Diwan Bookstores in Zamalek!
The AUC Press is very happy to announce its new partnership with Diwan Bookstores in Egypt. As a result of this new arrangement, the range of AUC Press titles and new books already featured across the Diwan Bookstores will increase significantly.
In the Diwan Zamalek branch, situated on 26th of July, customers will soon find a dedicated area for the AUC Press titles, with new titles immediately available, and a variety of promotional displays, including our popular first Saturday of the Month 20% discount.
AUC Press Nature Foldouts are available both in the store and on their website: https://www.diwanegypt.com
Please sign up for the AUC Press e-Newsletter to find out what we publishand when!
This exciting new collaboration between the AUC Press and Diwan Bookstores comes following the permanent closure of the AUC Zamalek Bookstore this summer.
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October 18, 2015
AUC Press Tahrir Bookstore Grand Reopening
(AUC Press Nature Foldouts featured on the table along with other fantastic Press Publications)
AUC Tahrir Bookstore Grand Reopening
On Sunday 18 October, the AUC Tahrir Bookstore on the AUC Tahrir Square Campus celebrates its grand reopening.
The entrance to the Bookstore on Kasr El Aini will open once again, for the first time since it was closed during the Revolution in 2011. Visitors will be able to access the Bookstore directly from Tahrir Square.
“We are very glad because the convenient location of this entrance, right off Tahrir Square, will make it easier for visitors to reach the Bookstore,” says AUC Press director Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones.
The newly reopened Bookstore will feature a wide selection of books not previously available in Egypt, and customers will be able to enjoy a special celebratory 20% discount on all books until 31 October (textbooks excluded).
“The reopening of the AUC Tahrir Bookstore is a long overdue and important event in Cairo’s cultural scene,” said AUC Press associate director for sales and marketing Trevor Naylor. “For forty years this store has been a magnet for locals and visitors alike and its return should really appeal to any book buyer looking for an extensive and varied selection of English-language books, whether general interest books for children and adults, or academic publications for students and scholars.”
The Tahrir Bookstore is located on the corner of Sheikh Rihan and Kasr El Aini Streets, open from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm daily, except Fridays (tel: 2797 5929).
The Qasr al-Aini Street entrance of the American University in Cairo’s Tahrir Square bookstore reopens for the first time since it was closed during the revolution in 2011. The team says the 40-year-old store will contain many books not previously available in Egypt, and that customers will enjoy a special 20 percent discount on all books except textbooks until October 31.
The store, which is almost certainly the best place for English-language books in Egypt, has other branches in Maadi and AUC’s New Cairo campus. It has two floors’ worth of books for both children and adults, including many of its own impressive imprint and many academic publications, from archeology through business to learning Arabic. It also has some good maps.
At the corner of Sheikh Rihan and Qasr al-Aini Streets, open from 9 am to 4 pm daily except Fridays.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
AUC Tahrir Bookstore Grand Reopening
(AUC Press Nature Foldouts featured on the table along with other fantastic Press Publications)
AUC Tahrir Bookstore Grand Reopening
On Sunday 18 October, the AUC Tahrir Bookstore on the AUC Tahrir Square Campus celebrates its grand reopening.
The entrance to the Bookstore on Kasr El Aini will open once again, for the first time since it was closed during the Revolution in 2011. Visitors will be able to access the Bookstore directly from Tahrir Square.
“We are very glad because the convenient location of this entrance, right off Tahrir Square, will make it easier for visitors to reach the Bookstore,” says AUC Press director Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones.
The newly reopened Bookstore will feature a wide selection of books not previously available in Egypt, and customers will be able to enjoy a special celebratory 20% discount on all books until 31 October (textbooks excluded).
“The reopening of the AUC Tahrir Bookstore is a long overdue and important event in Cairo’s cultural scene,” said AUC Press associate director for sales and marketing Trevor Naylor. “For forty years this store has been a magnet for locals and visitors alike and its return should really appeal to any book buyer looking for an extensive and varied selection of English-language books, whether general interest books for children and adults, or academic publications for students and scholars.”
The Tahrir Bookstore is located on the corner of Sheikh Rihan and Kasr El Aini Streets, open from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm daily, except Fridays (tel: 2797 5929).
The Qasr al-Aini Street entrance of the American University in Cairo’s Tahrir Square bookstore reopens for the first time since it was closed during the revolution in 2011. The team says the 40-year-old store will contain many books not previously available in Egypt, and that customers will enjoy a special 20 percent discount on all books except textbooks until October 31.
The store, which is almost certainly the best place for English-language books in Egypt, has other branches in Maadi and AUC’s New Cairo campus. It has two floors’ worth of books for both children and adults, including many of its own impressive imprint and many academic publications, from archeology through business to learning Arabic. It also has some good maps.
At the corner of Sheikh Rihan and Qasr al-Aini Streets, open from 9 am to 4 pm daily except Fridays.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
September 9, 2015
New AUC Press Bookstore Now Open in Maadi, Cairo at the Community Services Association (CSA)
Near the register and just behind the “Art of War”… AUC Press Nature Foldouts!
As of today, The AUC Press Bookstores has officially opened its first off-campus location at Community Services Association (CSA) in Maadi, Cairo! Here’s a map: http://goo.gl/6BL1FR
The bookstore offers a diverse selection of genres, including fiction, classics, current affairs, travel, reference, history (particularly ancient Egypt), children’s books, and plenty of Arabic language textbooks (including the ones you’ll need for your class at CSA)!
Stop by and browse around! 9:00am – 7:00pm daily (closed Friday).
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New AUC Press Book Shop Now Open in Marsa Alam on the Red Sea of Egypt!
This summer, an AUC Press Partner Book Shop was opened at the Port Ghalib Resort in Marsa Alam on Egypt’s beautiful Red Sea coast.
It carries the complete AUC Press stocklist, in addition to the AUC Press Nature Foldouts and a wide selection of titles on the Red Sea marine life, as well as diving and snorkeling guides by other publishers, in different languages, including English, German, Italian, French, and Russian. 
Working hours:
10:00 am – 11:00 pm daily
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
New AUC Press Bookstore Now Open in Marsa Alam on the Red Sea of Egypt!
This summer, an AUC Press Partner Bookstore was opened at the Port Ghalib Resort in Marsa Alam on Egypt’s beautiful Red Sea coast.
It carries the complete AUC Press stocklist, in addition to a wide selection of titles on the Red Sea marine life, as well as diving and snorkeling guides by other publishers, in different languages, including English, German, Italian, French, and Russian.
Working hours:
10:00 am – 11:00 pm daily
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
August 8, 2015
Fundup Hamam (Pigeon Hotel)
The Arabic word “hamam” translates to dove or pigeon. These were purchased from a souq in Upper Egypt, and therefore we can perhaps assume they are bred domestic pigeons, Columba livia domestica.
Pigeons are one of the world’s oldest domesticated birds, described in 5,000 year old Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
While pigeons have a rather poor reputation in many parts of the world—thought of as rats with wings—in many places they are still historically and deservedly appreciated. Many homes throughout Egypt, including on the rooftops of buildings in cities like Cairo, include little quarters specifically designed just for pigeons, or as I like to call them Fundup Hamam: Pigeon Hotel.
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The Khamsin خمسين Sand Storms of Egypt
The khamasin, خمسين, blows in from the Sahara between March and May, announcing the heat of summer. In Luxor, on the few occasions when I have observed it, the sand wind will blow in quickly transforming a blue sky into a dim, claustrophobic aquarium of dust. Sometimes it stays for days, and sometimes just a few hours. This one I photographed came and went within a matter of minutes, hiding the qebel (mountains) and revealing it again. It is an odd feeling one has in the midst of it, a sudden since of isolation and apocalyptic fear: you can’t help but wonder, what if I never see the sky again?
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June 21, 2015
Saturn in the Sky! and Thoughts on Dark Skies
I Photoshopped this image of Saturn to approximate what I saw last night through a pretty strong telescope, during a summer solstice fundraiser event to support Dark Skies.
Even the Cassini Division—a black gap in the rings around Saturn—was visible! I’ve seen the craters of the moon through binoculars, followed the comet Hale-Bopp through the skies of ’97, and am always in awe of shooting stars and falling meteors, but this was by far one of my favorite sights.
Speaking of Dark Skies, on a recent stay on the west bank of Luxor, I happened to be in town on the main road when the lights went out all through the area, including the village of Al Barat. This is a common occurrence, unfortunately, but it was unusual for me to be headed home in the darkness and gave me opportunity to see the gebel (mountains) and sky as it once was throughout Upper Egypt, as though traveling back (only a few decades) in time. The gebel are usually illuminated with high-powered lights cast upward to highlight the dramatic cliffs and hollows, while each temple entrance is also lit so that the mountains look like a beehive of openings.
But the blackout effected the mountain lights as well, this night. How beautiful and rare it was to see the gebel cast in the midnight shadows, a dark but pale ghost against the black starred sky. It seemed even grander then I’d ever seen it before, day or night.
It also reminded me of the night paintings captured by Lockwood De Forest some hundred years earlier here in Luxor, of full moons over landscapes of darkness.
Indeed, I learned to enjoy the blackouts as an opportunity to see things which would otherwise be difficult, for the lights of Egypt continue to grow more powerful and blinding (like the rest of the world), and all the sky and its stars are endangered from ever being enjoyed again save for those remote areas so difficult to reach. It was only during such blackouts that I saw falling stars cross the sky. And with no lights in my home and no electric distractions, where else to look but up for the evenings entertainment?
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