As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.

This book considers the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them.

Examines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.

With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combine

The contents of this book cover Egypt in the first millennium BC, the historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state, moving beyond despotism, economic plannin