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Khul-Khaal - Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories מאת Nayra Atiya A sory as told by five (5) Egyptian women from middle to lower class regarding cultural attitude regarding women's acheivement or lack of it, due to restraints in their social environment....

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The Connectors in Modern Standard Arabic מאת Nariman Al-Warraki Most Arabic textbooks concentrate on morphology and syntax, but while these provide the indispensable structural base, students still find there is a wide gap between their theoretical knowledge and their practical ability to write connected prose. This unique textbook concentrates on the connectors...

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Atlas of Egyptian Art מאת E. Prisse D'Avennes This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d Avennes s monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts....

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The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story מאת Denys Johnson-Davies Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story, just as Mahfouz is considered the father of the Arabic novel. Idris studied medicine and practiced as a docto...

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Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News מאת Alaa Elgibali In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic in academia, governments, NGOs, and business, Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this important global region firsthand. Media Arabic introduces the language of the news...

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The Mirage: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Novels) מאת Naguib Mahfouz A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru'ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with life's challenges. The internal torment and angst that dog him throughout his life and the tragic, ironi...

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Desert Songs: A Woman Explorer in Egypt and Sudan מאת Arita Baaijens This is the extraordinary story of one woman's lone quest in the harsh but beautiful desert. Arita Baaijens gave up her job as an environmentalist nearly twenty years ago, and has been exploring the deserts of Egypt and Sudan with her small camel caravan ever since. In 'Desert Songs' she recounts he...

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As Doha Said (Modern Arabic Novels) מאת Bahaa Taher In Egypt a new era has dawned, but the dawn has taken an ominous turn. President Gamal Abdel Nasser has just proclaimed the first in a series of nationalization decrees, the stock exchange has shut down, and its parking attendant, Sayyid, is staring at penury. Across the street, the office of the Mi...

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Khan al-Khalili: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Novels) מאת Naguib Mahfouz The completion of Khan al-Khalili in 1945 marked a turning point in Naguib Mahfouz s career. Departing from the traditional themes drawn from Egyptian antiquity that characterize the author s earlier works, Khan al-Khalili reflects instead a deep concern with the lives and problems of contemporary E...

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Before the Throne: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Novels) מאת Naguib Mahfouz In this extraordinary drama-in-dialogue, Naguib Mahfouz reveals his love for all of Egypt's extensive history and his deep knowledge of it. In Before the Throne, he summons nearly sixty of Egypt's rulers to the afterlife Court of Osiris, from a king who unified Egypt for the first time, around 3000 ...

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Political and Social Protest in Egypt: Cairo Papers; Vol 29, No. 2 (Cairo Papers in Social Science) מאת Nicholas S. Hopkins Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and indu...

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The Legacy of Tutankhamun: History and Art מאת Mey Zaki The spectacular treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun have been admired by millions of visitors to museum exhibitions around the world; this book places these masterpieces in the context of Egyptian art history. In this book, the author shines the light on the history, the art and the Aton re...

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Kallimni 'Arabi Mazboot: An Early Advanced Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 4 מאת Samia Louis Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor and course developer, Samia Louis has used a functional approach to create a bright, innovative coursebook for the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic - the spoken dialect most frequently studied and most widely understood in the Arab world....

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Creswell Photographs Re-examined: New Perspectives on Islamic Architecture מאת Bernard O'Kane The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architecture, mainly in Cairo, but also including buildings in other important cities such as Córdoba and Baghdad. Creswell's own photographs constitute the maj...

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Karnak Cafe מאת Naguib Mahfouz At a Cairo café, a cross-section of Egyptian society, young and old, rich and poor, are drawn together by the quality of its coffee and the allure of its owner, legendary former dancer Qurunfula. When three of the young patrons disappear for prolonged periods, the older customers display varying ...

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The Hedgehog: A Modern Arabic Novella and Short Stories (Modern Arbic Literature) מאת Zakaria Tamer 'My mother went to visit our neighbor, Umm Bahaa, but refused to take me with her, on the pretext that women visit women and men visit men. So she left me alone, promising not to be gone more than a few minutes. I told my cat I was going to strangle her, but she paid no attention and continued groom...

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Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times מאת Rasheed El- Elnany Naguib Mahfouz (1911 2006) is the only Arab writer to have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. In its citation for the Nobel prize, the Swedish Academy of Letters noted "through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabic narrative ...

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Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt: A Study of Spirit Possession מאת Hans Alexander Winkler This book offers a classic anthropological case study from the 1930s, translated into English for the first time. In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named Abdel Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. Abdel Radi was periodically possessed by t...

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Old Kingdom Pottery from Giza מאת Zahi Hawass This publication discusses the pottery that was discovered by Zahi Hawass’s excavations at Giza, including the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders, the Western Cemetery, and the settlement beneath the modern suburb of Nazlet el-Samman. It is a comprehensive study of Old Kingdom pottery that includes ...

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The Lodging House: A Modern Arabic Novel מאת Khairy Shalaby A young man's dreams for a better future as a student in the Teachers' Institute are shattered after he assaults one of his instructors for discriminating against him. From then on, he begins his descent into the underworld. Penniless, he seeks refuge in Wikalat 'Atiya, a historic but now completely...

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The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization מאת Bahgat Korany The first edition of The Foreign Policies of Arab States was praised as 'a milestone for present and future research on Arab and Third World foreign policies' (American Political Science Review), and 'an indispensable aid for those studying or teaching the foreign policies of the contemporary Middle...

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Silent Images: Women in Pharanoic Egypt מאת Zahi Hawass This beautifully produced new paperback edition of 'Silent Images' explores a puzzling contradiction: Despite the multitude of artifacts and texts that have come to us from ancient Egypt, much still remains obscure regarding the lives of women. Women were, from the historical perspective, silent - b...

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Luxor Illustrated: With Aswan, Abu Simbel, and the Nile מאת Michael Haag Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt's opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the Nile, and on the west bank the vast necropolis, which includes the Colossi of Memnon, the famed Ramesseum, Queen Hatshepsut's magnificen...

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Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Akhmim and Sohag מאת Gawdat Gabra Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilizati...

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Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi מאת Camille Mansour This book offers a collective look at aspects of the historical background to the continuing Palestinian question. This collection of essays addresses, from varying perspectives, issues that have preoccupied Middle East scholars as well as twentieth-century Arab intellectuals: debates and struggles ...

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The al-Kitab al-asasi Lexicon מאת Abdellatif Abid This is a fully revised and expanded new edition of the favorite Modern Standard Arabic study series. This supplementary lexicon gives a complete key to the vocabulary of all three books in four languages: English, French, German, and Spanish....

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Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage מאת Ann Parker This book offers a visual celebration of the Islamic pilgrimage on house facades all over Egypt. Since the seventh century, the Hajj, or Great Pilgrimage to Mecca, has been a lifelong goal of devout Muslims throughout the world. Egyptian pilgrims traditionally celebrate their sacred journey by commi...

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Al-kitab Al-asasi Volume I: A Basic Course for Teaching Arabic to Non-native Speakers (Arabic Edition) מאת El-said Badawi This three-part course in Modern Standard Arabic for non-native speakers approaches the language through a series of themed topicsâdaily life in the Arab world, politics and governance, literature and the arts, science and medicine, astronomyâconcentrates principally on listening and s...

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Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation מאת Aidan Dodson This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten’s religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime’s high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king’s...

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Cairo: The Practical Guide Maps מאת The American University in Cairo Press Updated and expanded for 2008, Cairo: The Practical Guide Maps includes all the principal areas of metropolitan Cairo and Giza, including for the first time the major developing district of New Cairo. The easy-to-use format and clear, uncluttered cartographic style make finding where you want to go ...

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From Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy מאת Barbara Ibrahim Persistent societal problems and wealth creation in the Arab region are driving a new generation of actors to commit their resources for the greater public welfare. Widely known as philanthropy, voluntary contributions to causes that serve a public good are a longstanding and important aspect of cul...

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Living with Heritage in Cairo: Area Conservation in the ArabIslamic City מאת Ahmed Sedky The Arab Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulne...

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Cairo Swan Song: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) מאת Mekkawi Said Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions - but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth and among the monuments that the tourists flock to see. Mustafa, a former student radical who never believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their s...

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Moon Over Samarqand (Modern Arabic Literature) מאת Mohamed Al-mansi Qandil A journey through Central Asia and beyond, Moon over Samarqand is the story of one Egyptian's quest for the truth. Seeking explanations to his troubled past through a long-lost friend in Samarqand, Ali's travel brings him into encounters with the Uzbekistan of today, yesterday, and once upon a time....

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Kallimni Arabi Aktar: An Upper Intermediate Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic (Book & Audio CD) מאת Samia Louis Aimed at the growing number of students studying Arabic worldwide, Kallimni Arabi Aktar takes an innovative, functional approach to the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic the spoken dialect most frequently studied and most widely understood in the Arab world. Picking up where the previous title in ...

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Murder in the Tower of Happiness מאת M. M. Tawfik 'When the first armchair smashed into the asphalt, Sergeant Ashmouni was at his usual spot on the median of the Nile Corniche, trapped by the road's twin currents turbulently flowing forth to Maadi and back to Old Cairo. He was wiping the sweat away from his eyes with his worn out sleeve - and in th...

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The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorers Handbook, Revised Edition מאת Cassandra Vivian Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers. Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and pl...

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The Last Hammams of Cairo: A Disappearing Bathhouse Culture מאת May Telmissany This book offers an evocative photographic documentation of Cairo's few remaining public bathhouses. In the twelfth century, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi affirmed that the Egyptian baths were 'the most beautiful in the East, the most practical, and the best located.' Nine centuries later, forgotten by t...

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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity מאת Diane Singerman This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but ...

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Living Sufism: Sufi Rituals in the Middle East and the Balkans מאת Nicolaas Biegman This book offers intimate and moving portraits of Sufism as practiced in five countries. Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, is as far from the strident and often violent fundamentalist strain of the religion that has so captured world attention as it is possible to be. Sufis in all parts of th...

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Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 מאת Radwa Ashour This book is an invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and ...

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The Final Bet מאת Abdelilah Hamdouchi Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with fancy cars, expensive clothes, ...

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Popular Culture In The Arab World מאת Andrew Hammond Over the last fifty years the Arab world has witnessed two seemingly contradictory trends: governments have failed to unite the region politically but at the same time a vibrant popular culture has blossomed, strengthening the sense of a shared Arab identity. Egyptian soap operas, Arab pop stars, al...

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Artists in the Old Kingdom: Techniques and Achievements מאת Naguib Kanawati This book explores the role of the artists who created the magnificent tomb paintings of Egypt's Old Kingdom. Challenging the idea that the artists of ancient Egypt were anonymous craftsmen who labored in obscurity to create masterpieces of funerary art, the authors of this volume have produced a th...

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The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle מאת Peter Jeffreys The English novelist E.M.Forster and the Greek Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's relentless d...

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Clamor of the Lake: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) מאת Mohamed El-Bisatie An old fisherman of unknown origin arrives in a black boat. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman and her twin boys. While he gives away nothing about his past, his undemanding companionship prompts the woman to narrate her turbulent life. Meanwhile, in a nearby village by the lake, Gomaa and ...

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al-Kitab al-asasi: A Basic Course for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers, Volume II מאת El-Said Badawi This three-part course in Modern Standard Arabic for non-native speakers approaches the language through a series of themed topics—daily life in the Arab world, politics and governance, literature and the arts, science and medicine, astronomy—concentrates principally on listening and speaking sk...

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A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt מאת Richard Hoath This is a new flexibound edition of the only complete guide to Egypt's mammals. From gazelle to gerbil, from hyena to hyrax, every mammal species recorded in Egypt is described here in detail, with identification features, status, habitat, and habits, and with comparisons to similar species. A map i...

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Twilight Visions in Egypt's Nile Delta מאת Ann Parker This book contains haunting and lyrical photographs of the theater of rural Egyptian life.In this beautiful art book, award-winning American photographer Ann Parker records and celebrates life as it passes along a road through a typical village in the Egyptian Nile Delta in the early twenty-first ce...

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Papa Sartre: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) מאת Ali Bader After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by his physical resemblance to the ph...

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Kallimni 'Arabi Fi Kull Haaga: A Higher Advanced Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 5 מאת Samia Louis Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor and course developer, Samia Louis has used a functional approach to create a bright, innovative coursebook for the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic - the spoken dialect most frequently studied and most widely understood in the Arab world....

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Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide מאת Caroline Williams This is a new edition of the popular guide to Cairo's monuments. Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural developmen...

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A Dog With No Tail: A Modern Arabic Novel מאת Hamdi Abu Golayyel In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act... This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an as...

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The Theocrat (Modern Arabic Literature) מאת Bensalem Himmich The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ('the ruler by order of God'), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as ...

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Global Dreams: Class, Gender, and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo מאת Anouk de Koning This book offers a look at the new face of Cairo after economic liberalization. At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving c...

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Cairo: The Practical Guide מאת Lesley Lababidi The guide described by The New York Times as 'indispensable', revised and updated for 2008, fills a vital niche for expatriates and Cairenes alike who need a helping hand to organize-and enjoy the challenges of a sojourn in Cairo. The basics of daily life finding a flat, transporting personal goods,...

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Egypt's Labor Market Revisited מאת Ragui Assaad This book offers a ground-breaking research methodology applied to an analysis of labor issues in Egypt. This volume is a sequel to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its true significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to ...

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Judges and Political Reform in Egypt מאת Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron If justice in the Arab world is often marked by a lack of autonomy of the judiciary toward the executive power, one of the characteristic features of the Egyptian judiciary lies in its strength and activism in the defense of democratic values. Judges have been struggling for years to enhance their i...