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Self in absentia?
Taraf Gha'ib Yumkin an Yab'ath fina Al-Amal (An Absent Party Capable of Inspiring Hope), Alaa Khaled, Alexandria: Amkena, 2003. pp148

Cairene carnival
Salwa Bakr. Sawaqi Al-Waqt (Streams of Time). Cairo: Dar Al-Hilal, 2003. pp137

The state and human rights
The National Budget and Human Rights, Abdel-Khaleq Farouq, Cairo: The Society for Human Rights Legal Aid, September 2002.

Algiers 1830: beginnings of colonialism
Hamdan Khodja, Le Miroir, aperçu historique et statistique sur le régence d'Alger (The Mirror: An Historical and Statistical Account of the Regency of Algiers), Paris: Actes sud, 2003. pp319

Egypt's example
Translated from Hamdan Khodja, Le Miroir, aperçu historique et statistique sur la régence d'Alger [1833], Paris: Actes sud, 2003, pp260 -- 263

Talk like an Egyptian
From Pharaoh's Lips: Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today, Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef, Introduction by Fayza Haikal, Illustrations by Golo, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2003. pp129

At a glance
A shorthand guide to recent publications compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani


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