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    Cover of Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Non­fic­tion
    Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Elio Zarmati
    Cover of The Midwives' Escape: From Egypt to Jericho
    Fic­tion
    The Mid­wives’ Escape: From Egypt to Jericho
    Mag­gie Anton
    Essay

    Mid­wives and Med­i­cine in Ancient Egypt: Writ­ing His­tor­i­cal Fiction

    Mag­gie Anton
    March 3, 2025
    Essay

    The Mak­ing of Dias­po­ra in the Ancient World

    Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
    December 30, 2024
    Cover of Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
    Non­fic­tion
    Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jew­ish Life and Her­itage in Mod­ern Cairo
    Yoram Meital
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    Roman Year: A Memoir
    André Aci­man
    Cover of When Bible Meets History: Ancient Voices Tell Their Version
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    When Bible Meets His­to­ry: Ancient Voic­es Tell Their Version
    Stephen Lee Crane
    Cover of Schlepping Across The Nile: Collected Stories
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    Schlep­ping Across The Nile: Col­lect­ed Stories
    Aaron Zevy
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    The Human Rights Haggadah
    Shlo­mo Levin
    Essay

    Invent­ing Zacharias: Writ­ing Mizrahi Stories

    Jas­min Attia
    July 10, 2023
    Cover of Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
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    Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
    Oded Zinger
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    A Jew­ish Child­hood in the Mus­lim Mediterranean
    Leïla Sebbar, cur.; Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds.; Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson, trans.
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    The Plagues of Pharaoh
    David Shaw
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    Pic­ture in the Sand
    Peter Blauner
    Essay

    A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

    Joyce Zonana
    June 14, 2021
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    A Land Like You
    Tobie Nathan; Joyce Zonana, trans.
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