English Books on Modern Egypt
1. 
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by:
Naguib Mahfouz
4.46 avg rating โ 4,947 ratings 
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The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press
by:
Beth Baron
4.14 avg rating โ 21 ratings 12. 
Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 14)
by:
Nadje Al-Ali
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 6 ratings 12. 
Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control
by:
David Sims
4.31 avg rating โ 90 ratings 
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
by:
Shadi Hamid
3.79 avg rating โ 487 ratings 16. 
Rise : the story of the Egyptian revolution as written shortly before it began
by:
Tarek Shahin
4.24 avg rating โ 33 ratings 
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The literary atlas of Cairo: One Hundred Years on the Streets of the City
by:
Samia Mehrez
3.42 avg rating โ 88 ratings 24. 
Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt 4.16 avg rating โ 19 ratings
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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
by:
Diane Singerman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 15 ratings 26. 
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The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
by:
Michael Gasper
4.20 avg rating โ 5 ratings 28. 
The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 (Soci Econ Hist Mid East
by:
John Chalcraft
3.92 avg rating โ 12 ratings 29. 
Defiance and Compliance: Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo (New Directions in Anthropology, 15) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating โ 3 ratings
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Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882โ1954
by:
Joel Beinin
4.12 avg rating โ 34 ratings 29. 
Political Life in Cairoโs New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State
by:
Salwa Ismail
4.09 avg rating โ 11 ratings 32. 
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Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
by:
Laura Bier
3.62 avg rating โ 37 ratings 34. 
Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
by:
Lisa Pollard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 23 ratings 35. 
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation (Routledge Islamic Studies Series)
by:
Anthony Gorman
3.67 avg rating โ 9 ratings 36. 
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Cambridge Middle East Library, Series Number 7)
by:
Judith E. Tucker
4.15 avg rating โ 13 ratings 36. 
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge Middle East Library, Series Number 4) 3.80 avg rating โ 40 ratings
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Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
by:
Galal Amin
3.94 avg rating โ 4,368 ratings 39. 
Egypt's Incomplete Revolution (Cummings Center
by:
Rami Ginat
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating โ 1 rating 40. 
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century
by:
M.W. Daly
3.94 avg rating โ 17 ratings 
40. 
The Road To Purification: Hustlers, Hassles & Hash
by:
Harry Whitewolf
4.16 avg rating โ 55 ratings 40. 
Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality
by:
Sonia Hasan
3.60 avg rating โ 10 ratings 40. 
All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt
by:
Khaled Fahmy
4.18 avg rating โ 2,713 ratings 
51. 
Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution
by:
Anne Alexander
3.82 avg rating โ 17 ratings 
51. 
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability
by:
L.L. Wynn
4.25 avg rating โ 16 ratings 
51. 
Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
by:
Raphael Cormack
3.96 avg rating โ 393 ratings 60. 
The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
by:
Samia Mehrez
3.42 avg rating โ 88 ratings 
60. 
The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt (Mamur Zapt, #6)
by:
Michael Pearce
3.80 avg rating โ 118 ratings 60. 
ุงูุฌุณุฏ ูุงูุญุฏุงุซุฉ: ุงูุทุจ ูุงููุงููู ูู ู
ุตุฑ ุงูุญุฏูุซุฉ
by:
Khaled Fahmy
4.14 avg rating โ 170 ratings 60. 
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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary 4.20 avg rating โ 5 ratings
67. 
Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
by:
Linda Herrera
3.65 avg rating โ 68 ratings 
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Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State
by:
Omar D. Foda
4.17 avg rating โ 12 ratings 
72. 
Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
by:
Timothy Mitchell
4.34 avg rating โ 414 ratings 72. 
Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence 4.33 avg rating โ 3 ratings
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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring
by:
Bassem Youssef
4.19 avg rating โ 3,014 ratings 
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Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo
by:
Mara Naaman
4.25 avg rating โ 4 ratings 83. 
The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
by:
Beth Baron
4.02 avg rating โ 57 ratings 83. 
Sinai: Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
by:
Mohannad Sabry
4.19 avg rating โ 31 ratings 83. 
Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Bruce Feiler
3.34 avg rating โ 94 ratings 
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Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A'isha Taymur
by:
Mervat F. Hatem
3.50 avg rating โ 2 ratings 88. 
May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt
by:
Marilyn Booth
3.40 avg rating โ 5 ratings 88. 
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
by:
Robert F. Worth
4.24 avg rating โ 1,125 ratings 88. 
Aspects of Egypt : some travels in The United Arab Republic
by:
Ethel Mannin
0.00 avg rating โ 0 ratings 92. 
The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance
by:
Marilyn Booth
3.50 avg rating โ 4 ratings 92. 
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood, Revised and Updated
by:
Tarek Osman
3.79 avg rating โ 312 ratings 95. 
Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt
by:
Niloofar Haeri
3.51 avg rating โ 45 ratings 95. 
Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
by:
Laurie Brand
3.33 avg rating โ 6 ratings 95. 
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East
by:
Nigel West
3.43 avg rating โ 28 ratings 99. 
