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In categorizing the stones the ancient Egyptians used, author James A. Harrell unites geology, archeology and cultural history in one monumental reference.

By tracing ritual instead of commerce, anthropologist Ute Röschenthaler shows that the story of tea in West Africa involves multidirectional routes and local agency.

Safdar Nensey invites readers into one of the world's oldest and most sacred annual expeditions: the Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah.

Author Vadim S. Jigoulov’s The Phoenicians reveals that Phoenicia’s seafaring city-states bound the Mediterranean world via trade rather than conquest.

A bold reframing of how Ottoman governance shaped European ideals before Europe claimed them.

Author Giulia Paoletti’s Portrait and Place puts historical Senegalese photography in a fresh global context.

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman trace mango’s cultural and culinary significance around the world.

From Cairo to Khartoum to Casablanca, this volume traces how African artists have shaped—and reshaped—modern art over the past century.

From Mali to Tanzania, historian Stéphane Pradines traces a thousand years of Islamic architecture that forces us to rethink what we know about Africa’s past.

When George Reisner died in 1942, he did so surrounded by ghosts—not just the pharaohs he’d unearthed but the stacks of unpublished notes that entombed his legacy.

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 classic is given new life, as Abirached’s graphic novel blends Lebanese artistry with the late author’s timeless wisdom.

Known for her all-female kitchen at London’s Darjeeling Express, Asma Khan transforms her new cookbook into a memoir, steeped in nostalgia.