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| Company Name: | THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO PRESS |
| Company Location(s): | New York, NY and Cairo, Egypt |
| Imprints: | AUC Press, Hoopoe |
| Description: | AUC PRESS
Founded in 1960, The American University in Cairo Press is the Middle East’s leading English-language academic book publisher. 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. The AUC Press publishes 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. Through its bookstores and distributors in Egypt and abroad, the AUC Press sells and licenses foreign editions of Arab writers in 40 languages, including the works of the late Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. To learn more, visit www.aucpress.com MISSION AUC Press’s mission is to accurately reflect Egypt and the Middle East to a global readership, in line with the main teaching and research interests of the American University in Cairo, through professional publishing programs and international bookselling services. PUBLISHING PROGRAMS Drawing on an international author and editor community, the AUC Press publishes—in both digital and print formats—reviewed scholarly books, fiction (through a separate imprint hoopoefiction.com), Arabic teaching books, Egypt-focused books, and general interest publications. The Press currently produces up to 50 new books each year and maintains a backlist of some 800 titles mainly for distribution worldwide through Ingram Content Group (North America) and Ingram Publisher Services UK (rest of world, excluding North America). |
| Type(s) of Publisher: | Professional and Scholarly Publishing University Presses |
| Company Website: | www.aucpress.com www.hoopoefiction.com |
| Email: | miriam@aucegypt.edu |
| Phone: | (909) 223 3530 |
