Doctoral candidate Mayssa Hashaad is pursuing a dissertation that examines the representation of trauma, incarceration and resistance in modern Egyptian women's prison narratives.

Since ancient Egypt’s written tradition lasted almost 3,500 years, the book certainly won’t contain everything Egyptians ever etched on papyrus. But it’s a start in the direction of making ...

The Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Al Aswany explains how one word in Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead showed him how literature can help us understand one another.

The class of Ancient Egyptian Literature as Cultural Expression, taught by Fayza Haikal, professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo, br ...

Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Ph.D. Harvard 2013) studies Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, especially the novel, biography, and history. She is particularly interested in interactions ...

Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (University of California Press, 2006) Alan B. Lloyd (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Egypt (Wiley ...

Most of this ancient Egyptian scientific literature has remained untranslated since its donation to the university in 1939, according to the collection's website.