Events & Book Releases
Letters from Cairo: A Roundtable Discussion
March 12, 2022, 11:00 am–12:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link
On the release of our third book in the Blueprint Series, Letters from Cairo, join Joel Beinin, Annie DeVries, Alia Mossallam, and the editor, Laura Dolp, for a wide-ranging conversation about the complex riches of urban experience in Cairo during the mid-twentieth century.
So… Press Release
Adventure. Transformation. Friendship. Dive into the quirky, seductive world of So…, where a simple circle spins a yarn about encountering the unknown. So… is a wordless illustrated book that follows the journey of a simple circle traveling through vibrant landscapes. Told through lush batik fabric
Book of Hours Press Release
Breathing new life into the form of the devotional text, Book of Hours is a powerful meditation on the conditions of place, gaze, and being. This pocket-sized collection of original drawings and poems in English animates visual and textual poetics around the mythology of place.
Letters from Cairo Press Release
Letters from Cairo is a vivid memoir of American experience of Nasser’s Egypt, seen through the eyes of two expat academics who navigate the epiphanies, adventures, and paradoxes of a country at a critical turning point. On the eve of the Six-Day War, a young