Al-Ahram Weekly Online   20 - 26 October 2005
Issue No. 765
Books Supplement
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Cairo Review of Books

Cairo Review of Books is a monthly supplement issued by Al-Ahram Weekly and edited by Mona Anis. Review copies should be addressed to: Mona Anis, Al-Ahram Weekly, Al-Ahram Newspaper Building, Galaa St., Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt. Contributionsand letters on subjects raised in the supplement and queries regarding special subscription rates and back issues should be sent to m.anis@ahram.org.eg or faxed to +202 578 6089

Television versions of French Islam
L'Islam imaginaire, la construction médiatique de l'islamophobie en France, 1975 -- 2005 (Imaginary Islam: the Media Construction of Islamophobia in France), Thomas Deltombe, Paris: La Découverte, 2005. pp382
by David Tresilian
Inside the kingdom
Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis, John R. Bradley, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. pp208
by Neil Berry
"The most beautiful part is love"
Limadha faqad horus 'ainah (Why did Horus lose his Eye? A New Reading of Egyptian Thought), Mervat Abdel-Nasser Cairo: Sharqiyat, 2005. pp140
by Rania Khallaf
The ladies protest
Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, Politics, Beth Baron, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp287
by Iman Hamam
A lesson in logic
Goha the Wise Fool, Denys Johnson-Davies, artwork by Hag Hamdy & Hany, New York: Philomel Books, 2005. pp40
by Fayza Hassan
The myriad faces of Islam
Meetings with Remarkable Muslims, ed. Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring, London: Eland, 2005. pp312
by Gamal Nkrumah
Life's last minutes
Mubarirat shakhsiyya (Personal Reasons), Yasser Ibrahim, Cairo: Merit for Publications, 2005. pp231
by Wael Ashry
Nubian salvage, textualized
Nights of Musk: Stories from Old Nubia, Haggag Hassan Oddoul, trans. Anthony Calderbank, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp 123
by Hala Halim
Tale telling
Beirutus: madinatun tahtal-ard (Beirutus: Underground City), Rabie Jabir, Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2005. pp239; Ma'bad yanjah fi Baghdad (Ma'bad Makes it in Baghdad), Rasid al-Daeif, Beirut: Dar Riyad al-Rais, 2005. pp224
by Youssef Rakha
Practice makes perfect
Sculptor's Models: the Study of the Type and Function of a Group of Ancient Egyptian Artefacts, Nadya Samir Tomoum, trans. Brenda Siller, Cairo: SCA Press, 2005. pp265
by Jill Kamil

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