Michael Haag

Camille Fox is a painter in Sydney, Australia, but as she says 'I come from an ancient land'. She was born in Alexandria when it w...

The following resume of the life of Ahmed Hassanein is from the Introduction by Michael Haag to the American University in Cairo Press...

Michael Haag: 'Uno storico, vorrei aggiungere, dotato di una penna dalle notevoli capacità letterarie. La città di parole è infatti una ...

The secret tunnel of the Templars at Acre ran beneath their fortress and the city and out into the sea. After the fall of Acre in 1291 th...

'It is good news and fitting that in the year of Lawrence Durrell’s centenary the International Lawrence Durrell Society’s On Miracle Gr...

A welcome event in Alexandria has been the dedication of C P Cavafy Street. Constantine Cavafy lived at 10 Rue Lepsius but the address was ...

The Liquid Continent project at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is afloat again after the recent events. Michael Haag will be participating in...

The low white buildings among the palms are The American University in Cairo where The AUC Press has its offices. In the immediate foregrou...

The Municipality building on Sharia Horreya in Alexandria has been burnt down during the insurrection. Sharia Horreya, the former Rue Fua...

Information from Alexandria is that every police station in the city has been torched. The photograph below shows the police headquarters a...

It wouldn't have lasted long anyway - years of experience make that clear. But Fate did put an end to it a bit abruptly. It was soon ove...

The scene above was shot from the Cecil Hotel in Alexandria during the insurrectionary protests of the last few days. The camera looks acro...

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, photograph by Michael Haag In 2011 the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new library at Ale...

The Templars: History and Myth is now available as an ebook on both sides of the Atlantic. Profile Books in Britain have published it as a...

Os Templários: História e Mito has been published in Brazil by Editora Prumo. Esta é a primeira obra lançada após a aguardada publicação do...

Michael Haag's Many Alexandrias is an article that appears in Arion, a Journal of Humanities and the Classics. 'Michael Haag offers...

The American University in Cairo Press is now publishing Michael Haag's Egypt and his Cairo, Luxor and Aswan travel guides for the Mid...

For an interview with Michael Haag in The Los Angeles Times about his book The Templars , click here .

Luxor Illustrated has now been published by The American University in Cairo Press. Though concentrating on Luxor, it also includes all maj...

The Templars has now been published as an ebook by Harper Collins in the United States. It can be downloaded directly from the publishers ...

Rose de Menasce at the Sporting Club, 1914. She was a friend of Constantine Cavafy in the 1920s and of Lawrence Durrell in the 1940s. This ...

The Templars: History and Myth is going into paperback in Britain early this summer. Profile Books, publishers of the hardback edition, wil...

Cadogan Guides are publishing their fourth edition of Michael Haag's Egypt in August. The cover shows the Temple of Isis at Philae, a ...

Cadogan Guides are publishing the third edition of Michael Haag's Cairo Luxor and Aswan in October. The cover shows a relief at the Te...

Harper Collins, who are publishing The Templars: The History and the Myth in the United States this autumn, have now designed the cover for...

In its 1 January 2009 issue The London Review of Books ran this photograph of Eve Durrell, Lawrence Durrell's second wife and the model...

Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City 1860-1960 , compiled and written by Michael Haag. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo ...

The Templars: History and Myth , by Michael Haag, is published in hardback by Profile Books, London, 2008. 'Here at long last is a histo...

Michael Haag has written an extensive introduction to this new edition of the 1925 classic of desert exploration, The Lost Oases by Ahmed H...

Alexandria: City of Memory is written by Michael Haag and is published by Yale University Press, London and New Haven, and by The American ...