Job posting -- Director, American Univ. of Cairo Press

 The American University in Cairo Press https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.aucpress.com&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C893b3651510b4498ad2d08d77b8fecaa%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637113730423301816&sdata=zzLjzgHAU0UPdyY9H3vwMwV7OesOZKQBhnIX3OZr55Q%3D&reserved=0 (AUCP), the
leading English-language academic publisher in the Middle East, is seeking
a Director for the executive management of the global publishing programs
and the bookselling services of the AUC Press in Egypt.

Located in central Cairo, AUCP has a distinguished 60-year history of
publishing leading-edge scholarship and high-quality trade publications on
the region. It currently offers a backlist of some 800 publications and
annually publishes 60-80 academic texts and general interest books on
ancient and modern Egypt, the wider Middle East, and North Africa. AUCP is
also well-known for its influential Arabic literature in translation
imprint, Hoopoe Fiction, and as the publisher of the Nobel Laureate Naguib
Mahfouz.

AUC attracts scholars and leaders from throughout the region and the world,
and the Press plays a vital role in its intellectual life as a major forum
for the exchange of ideas about the Middle East at this critical time in
history. The Director will work to sustain the areas of excellence while
working in concert with ambitious university-wide initiatives to make full
use of the new media in representing the teaching and research interests of
the university.

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