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      • Masr El Arabia for Publishing and Distribution

        We are Masr El Arabia for Publishing and Distribution, an Egyptian publishing house located in Cairo – Egypt. Established in 1977 with a focus on distribution and few but carefully selected titles. In 2007 we decided to shift more to publishing and started with academic books then lately we added a new line which is translated literature, we care most about the quality of the work and we managed to present many foreign authors for the first time to the Arab readers such as Goncalo Tavares, Immanuel Mifsud, Reiner Englemann, Julian Fuks, Kelly James Clark and others, also we managed to publish the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich (Chernobyl Prayer) 2015, Jo Nesbo and many others during the past few years. We would like to mention that prior to the publishing house, we established Al Thaqafa Al Jadeeda Bookshop in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) which was one of the first book shops in the country. We participate in almost all the Arab book fairs, and we have our books distributed in every Arab country through the major bookshop chains and local distributors.

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      • Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc.

        Arab Scientific Publishers (ASP) publishes award winning books that cater to all ages and interests. The subject matter is wide ranging from drawing and cooking books, to Mayo Clinic references, Microsoft Training Kits, and bestselling novels, targeting children, teenagers, students, adults, and professionals.  A r a b S c i e n t i f i c P u b l i s h e r s (ASP) is a fully consolidated commercial Printing and Publishing powerhouse. The company is involved in all activities along the value chain from concept creation to distribution.   The company’s proven track record in delivering first-rate publishing and printing services will serve as a catalyst to grow the company into a global digital enterprise. Our vision is that ASP will become a strategic holding structure with international subsidiaries all around the globe.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Syria and the chemical weapons taboo

        Exploiting the forbidden

        by Michelle Bentley

        This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known as the chemical taboo. On the surface, this would seem to be an appropriate reaction: these are nasty weapons and eradicating them would ostensibly comprise a 'good' move. But this book reveals two new aspects of the taboo that challenge this prevailing view. First, actors use the taboo strategically to advance their own self-interested policy objectives. Second, that applying the taboo to Syria has actually exacerbated the crisis. As such, this book not only provides a timely analysis of Syria, but also a major and original rethink of the chemical taboo, as well as international norms more widely.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories

        by Aymenn Al-Tamimi

        This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2023

        Arab youths

        by Laurent Bonnefoy, Myriam Catusse

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

        by Eleanor Dobson

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        Egypt of the Saite pharaohs, 664–525 BC

        by Roger Forshaw

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2016

        Zionism in Arab discourses

        by Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2024

        Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism

        Political ecology, power and the crisis of legitimacy

        by Maria Gloria Polimeno

        Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism focuses on the struggle of the post-2013 political authorities for internal political legitimacy after the crisis following the 2013 coup d'état. It explores the microstructural and macro-systemic dynamics of leadership, power, protests and the authority-making process in political systems. These cannot simply be defined as structural, political, social and economic projections of the authoritarianism of the past, but rather as a rupture with that past. The book offers a complex, ground-breaking socio-political and economic analysis into how the forging of an internal political legitimacy claim has eventually modified the regime in Egypt along the authoritarian spectrum, turning into a fluid autocracy closer to a non-exclusivist personalist regime. This shift had implications that resonated both politically and economically.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2016

        Zionism in Arab discourses

        by Ofir Winter, Uriya Shavit

        Zionism in Arab discourses presents a ground-breaking study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late-nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played a dual function of an enemy and a mentor. Islamists and liberals alike discovered, respectively, in Zionism and in Israeli society qualities they sought to implement in their sown homelands. Focusing on Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian political discourses, this study uncovers fascinating and unexpected Arab points of views on different aspects of Zionism; from the first Zionist Congress to the First Lebanon War; from gardening in the early years of Tel Aviv to women's service in the Israeli Defence Forces; from the role of religion in the creation of the state to the role of democracy in its preservation. This study presents the debates between and within contesting Arab ideological trends on a conflict that has shaped, and is certain to continue and shape, one of the most complicated regions in the world. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        The Gulf monarchies after the Arab Spring

        by Cinzia Bianco

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2025

        Urbicide in Syria

        A postcolonial understanding of civil war

        by Gabriel Garroum Pla

        This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between violence, urban space, and political subjectivity in Syria. It does so through an exploration of how urbicide, the violent destruction and alteration of the urban fabric, becomes a tool for the regime's governmental and sovereign exercise of power, decisively redefining state-society dynamics and cementing political loyalty in Syria. Adopting a critical and postcolonial perspective, and through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo, the volume presents a unique perspective on the civil war by examining socio-material changes in everyday political spaces and processes, from mundane destruction to urban development and reconstruction efforts, and how these are experienced by local communities. Featuring rich data collection through interviews, archival research, and aesthetic sources, the book ultimately foregrounds Syrians' political agency and creativity despite ruination.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2026

        Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq

        by Zena Kamash

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2016

        The Model Arab League manual

        A guide to preparation and performance

        by Philip D’Agati, Holly Jordan

        This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Model Arab League (MAL) programme for first time and returning students. Drawing on over fourteen years of combined experience in successfully leading award-winning MAL delegations, Philip D'Agati and Holly A. Jordan provide students with an introduction to being a delegate and tips on effective research techniques as well as simplifying the complex process of taking on the identity of a state and then representing it effectively in a MAL debate. ;

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        November 2018

        Ein Land und zwei Völker

        Zur jüdisch-arabischen Frage

        by Martin Buber, Paul Mendes-Flohr

        »Es besteht für mich kein Zweifel daran, daß es die Schicksalsfrage des Nahen Ostens ist, ob eine Verständigung zwischen Israel und den arabischen Völkern zustande kommt, solange noch eine Möglichkeit dazu besteht. Damit ein so großes, fast präzedenzloses Werk gelingt, ist unerläßliche Voraussetzung, daß geistige Vertreter der beiden Völker miteinander in ein echtes Gespräch kommen, in dem sich gegenseitige Aufrichtigkeit und gegenseitige Anerkennung verbinden. Die geistigen Vertreter müssen in vollem Sinne des Wortes unabhängige Menschen sein, Menschen also, die durch keinerlei Rücksicht gehindert werden, der Sache, die sie als wahr und gerecht erkannt haben, rückhaltlos zu dienen.«Diese Sätze Martin Bubers (1878-1965) sind von ungebrochener Aktualität. Unter dem programmatischen Titel Ein Land und zwei Völker vereinigt der vorliegende Band die politischen Schriften des bedeutenden Religionsphilosophen. In ihnen wird deutlich, wie sehr ein grundlegendes, am nicht zerstörbaren Wert aller Menschen orientiertes sittliches Bewußtsein, das auf Versöhnung zielt, der Politik eine vernünftige Selbstbestimmung ermöglicht, ohne die konkreten Erfordernisse in Konflikten aus den Augen zu verlieren. Martin Buber geht es um das ›Miteinander‹, nicht um die Konfrontation, so wie er in seiner Philosophie des Dialogs bemüht war, ›Ich‹ und ›Du‹ in ihrer menschlichen Eigenständigkeit zusammenzubringen. Dabei erörtert er Fragen, die damals wie heute auf die drängenden und ungelösten Probleme im Zusammenleben von Juden und Arabern, von Israelis und Palästinensern hinweisen. »Haben wir einen eigenen Weg?« – »Falsche Propheten« – »Ein Judenstaat mit Kanonen, Flaggen und Orden?« – »Zwei Völker in Palästina« – »Wir brauchen die Araber, die Araber brauchen uns« sind Themen, die Buber in diesem Band behandelt. In seinem erweiterten Vorwort geht der Herausgeber Paul Mendes-Flohr auf die aktuelle politische Situation im Nahen Osten ein.Martin Bubers politische Schriften sind ein Dokument kritischer Vernunft und menschlicher Integrität, das aus seinem Geschichtsbewußtsein die normative Kraft für ein Leben in Frieden bezieht. Für Bubers Humanismus gilt ein Wort von Gustav Landauer, das heute so aktuell ist wie eh und je: »Frieden ist möglich, weil er notwendig ist.«

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Surviving repression

        The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 coup

        by Lucia Ardovini

        Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 2013 coup d'état in Egypt. The Brotherhood gained legal recognition and quickly rose to power after the 2011 Arab uprisings, but its subsequent removal from office marked the beginning of the harshest repression of its troubled history. Forced into exile, the Brotherhood and its members are now faced with a monumental task as they rebuild this fragmented organisation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with current and former members of the Brotherhood, the book explores this new era in the movement's history, emphasising first-hand experiences, perspectives and emotions to better understand how individual responses to repression are affecting the movement as a whole. Surviving repression offers a unique insight into the main strategic, ideological and organizational debates dividing the Brotherhood.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2026

        Revolutionary anxieties

        Defending privilege in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

        by Liina Mustonen

        Revolutionary anxieties sheds light on an unexplored dimension of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: the anxieties experienced by Cairo-based liberal elite, socialites, and cultural actors who opposed the rise of the new political actors, the Muslim Brotherhood. This book provides fresh insights into the failure of the Egyptian revolution by examining the perspectives of those who had a vested interest in maintaining the status-quo. It engages with post-colonial theory and examines the elite milieu in Cairo through the lenses of gender and race. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in various elite locations such as the Cairo Opera House, an Egyptian-European film festival, and an elite sporting club in Cairo, the book illustrates how members of Egyptian liberal upper class insisted on their privilege in a moment when the country's class hierarchies were challenged. By revealing the prevalence of counter-revolutionary sentiment among Cairo's liberal and affluent elite, the book tells an untold story of the Arab Spring.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2024

        Coup in Damascus

        Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule

        by Carl Rihan

        Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.

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