AUC Press

 

The American University in Cairo Press, founded in 1960, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Today the leading English-language publishing house in the Middle East, its goals and purposes reflect and support the mission of The American University in Cairo in education, research, and cultural exchange, through professional publishing programs and international bookselling services. The AUC Press publishes annually up to 100 wide-ranging academic texts and general interest books on ancient and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as Arabic literature in translation, for distribution worldwide, and maintains a backlist of more than 1500 high-quality scholarly, literary, and general interest publications. Through its bookstores and distributors in Egypt and abroad, the AUC Press sells more than 500,000 books every year and licenses foreign editions of Arab writers in 40 languages, including the works of the late Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and international bestseller Alaa Al Aswany.

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Collections in this community

  • AUC Press Catalog [12]
    This collection contains issues of the publications catalog from the AUC Press at the American University in Cairo.
  • AUC Press e-Newsletter [33]
    This collection includes issues of the e-newsletter published electronically by the AUC Press at the American University in Cairo.
  • Bibliography [1]
    This collection includes bibliographies of books published by the AUC Press at the American University in Cairo.

Recent Submissions

  • The AUC Press e-newsletter, 2013 March 
    American University in Cairo. AUC Press (American University in Cairo, 2013-04-25)
    In This Issue: Remembering former AUC Press director Mark Linz; AUC Press authors talk on The Stream about Egypt's youth movement; Galal Amin reflects on the impact of Egypt's social mobility today.
  • The AUC Press e-newsletter, 2013 February 
    American University in Cairo. AUC Press (American University in Cairo, 2013-04-25)
    In This Issue: AUC Press remembers Lesley Tweddle; Mia Gröndahl deciphers Egypt’s Revolution Art; M.M. Tawfik speaks about the Cerebellum and his avatar; Humphrey Davies and Roger Allen receive 2012 Banipal translation awards.
  • The AUC Press e-newsletter, 2013 January 
    American University in Cairo. AUC Press (American University in Cairo, 2013-04-25)
    In This Issue: Celebrated Jr. photographer Chester Higgins Jr. speaks about his Ancient Nubia illustrations; Ezzat El Kamhawi awarded the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature; Join this month's AUC Press Book Club ...
  • The AUC Press e-newsletter, 2012 December. 
    American University in Cairo. AUC Press (American University in Cairo, 2013-04-25)
    In This Issue: The AUC Press Bookstores now offer home and hotel delivery; Life of the bazaar in the Islamic world; The AUC Press celebrated with the Turks in Egypt.
  • The AUC Press e-newsletter, 2012 November. 
    American University in Cairo. AUC Press (American University in Cairo, 2013-04-25)
    In This Issue: Commemorating the WWII El Alamein desert war: the symposium, the book, and the exhibition ; AUC Press launches a book club on Facebook ; At the AUC Campus Shop in New Cairo.