AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology ...

The Tab sat down with Edinburgh University's very own Madeline Potter, to discuss her new book, 'The Roma: A Travelling ...

A Palestinian novelist, who wrote an award-winning book while in an Israeli prison, has been freed after 21 years.

In this Ahram Online interview, Persa Koumoutsi, a prominent Greek–Egyptian writer and literary translator, discusses her ...

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...

The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The late Middle AgesA lamb, unleavened ...

Trump has devoted that attention to ending the war between Israel and Hamas. In addition to his own meetings with key Middle ...

Written by Madeline Potter, a scholar of 19th century Gothic literature, the new book recounts how members of the group long ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

It might be spooky season, but young readers need not fear, because new installments to favorite series promise that beloved ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...