The AUC Press was established in 1960 and reorganized in 1984. It is the Middle East’s largest English language publishing house. Its goal is to support the cultural exchange mission of its parent university.

Its publishing program currently offers up to 80 new books annually and maintains a backlist of some 800 titles for distribution worldwide. Its catalogue has scholarly, literary and general interest titles on Egypt and other Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The AUC Press sells more than 300,000 books every year. In addition to its English publications, it licenses foreign editions of Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...

 and other Arab writers in 40 languages. The catalogue includes works of fiction by Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Idris originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the University of Cairo...

, Ibrahim Al-Koni

Ibrahim Al-Koni

Ibrahim Al-Koni is a Libyan writer and one of the most prolific Arabic novelists.Born in 1948 in the Fezzan Region, Ibrahim al-Koni was brought up on the tradition of the Tuareg, popularly known as "the veiled men" or "the blue men." Mythological elements, spiritual quest and existential...

, Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh is a Palestinian writer born in 1942 in Nablus of the West Bank. After studying at the University of Birzeit, in the Palestinian occupied territories, she received a Fulbright scholarship and went to continue her studies in the US...

, Ali Bader

Ali Bader

Ali Bader is an award winning Arabic novelist And a Film producer, author of eleven works of fiction, and several works of non-fiction, he has also worked as war correspondent covering the Middle East. He rose to prominence in the Arab world in the last decade. In addition to his work as an...

, Ghada al-Samman

Ghada al-Samman

Ghada al-Samman is an Arab Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family, she is remotely related to Nizar Qabbani the famous poet. Her father was Dr. Ahmed al-Samman, PhD, a president of the Syrian University...

, Ben Salem Himmich

Ben Salem Himmich

Ben Salem Himmich is a novelist, poet and philosopher who teaches at the Mohammed V University, Rabat in Morocco....

, Alaa Al Aswany

Alaa Al Aswany

Alaa al-Aswany is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.-Biography:Alaa Al Aswany studied to be a dentist, first in Egypt, and then later Chicago....

 and Sonallah Ibrahim

Sonallah Ibrahim

Son'allah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work...

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