The American University in Cairo Press

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50 Years of Publishing Excellence

The American University in Cairo Press, founded in 1960, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Today the leading English-language publishing house in the Middle East, its goals and purposes reflect and support the mission of The American University in Cairo in education, research, and cultural exchange, through professional publishing programs and international bookselling services.

AUC Press Publishing Programs

The AUC Press publishes annually up to 100 wide-ranging academic texts and general interest books on ancient and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as Arabic literature in translation, for distribution worldwide, and maintains a backlist of more than 1200 high-quality scholarly, literary, and general interest publications, including e-books. Through its bookstores and distributors in Egypt and abroad, the AUC Press sells more than 500,000 books every year and licenses foreign editions of Arab writers in 40 languages.

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