'There is much that is fresh and stimulating here, a mixture of fact and interpretation that conveys a considerable amount of information in a generally digestible form, and which, in total, manages to identify the critical moments and enduring themes in Egypt's long history since the Arab invasions of the seventeenth century AD. The book is also admirably up to ... Read moredate, in two senses. First, the coverage continues to around 1995 and the third presidential term of Hosni Murbank, setting the scene for recent research, which often, hardly by chance, is the work of the various contributors themselves. The Cambridge History of Egypt is largely the product of a new generation of Middle East historians and reflects a vitality across the field.' The Times Literary Supplement Show Less