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For art's sake
Beauty in Arabic Culture, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Princeton, New Jersey:Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000. pp.220
Everybody's Orient
L'Egypte Illustrée par les peintres du XIX siècle, Azza Heikal ,Ed. Max Group, 2000. pp 330
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"Folk drawings and tales", Cairo, 1996
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www.virtuallyislamic.com
Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication and Cyber Islamic Environments,Gary Bunt, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. pp.189
The true father of Egyptology
Description of Egypt. Edward William Lane, edited and with an introduction by Jason Thompson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. pp588
How not to do it
A Middle East Mosaic. Fragments of Life, Letters and History, Bernard Lewis,New York: Random House, 2000. pp512
The beauty of truth
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, London: Bloomsbury, 2000.pp311
At a glance
A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani
To the editor
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