I’ve noticed that most of the popular histories of Ancient Egypt seem to cover mainly the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom; I’m looking for books or articles on the history and culture of Egypt as it came under eras of foreign incursion. Most of the things I’ve read cover the Ptolemaic period but I haven’t found any that cover the Hyksos, Nubian, Libyan and Assyrian rulers or the Persian satrapy. Any good recommendations would be really appreciated!
Start with The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E. by Karol Myśliwiec, which focuses specifically on these time periods.
Most research on the Hyksos and the Second Intermediate Period is published in the form of articles in journals and edited volumes. Charlotte Booth's The Hyksos Period in Egypt is a very concise but decent overview of the SIP, and Bietak's book on Avaris (free PDF) is very useful as well, although it's now about 20 years out of date.
If you read German, Günther Vittmann's Ägypten und die Fremden im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend is an excellent discussion of Egypt and the outside powers, as well as local groups such as Greek and Carian mercenaries.
For the Third Intermediate Period, there's Aidan Dodson's Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance, although he gets a little too bogged down in genealogy at the expense of the overall historical narrative, and Ritner has a good set of translations in The Libyan Anarchy.
The bibliography on the Kushite period is extensive. I recommend starting with the general overviews of Nubia, all of which discuss the Kushite period and the relationship between Egypt and Nubia over time:
The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires by Derek Welsbey
The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers by Robert Morkot
From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt by Donald Redford
Daily Life of the Nubians by Robert Bianchi
The Assyrian period is the subject of Ryholt's fascinating article "The Assyrian Invasion of Egypt in Egyptian Literary Tradition," and UCL has a good page on Kushite-Assyrian relations. Thomasen's article "From Sennacherib's Bronzes to Taharqa's Feet: Conceptions of the Material World at Nineveh" discusses the "Egyptomania" in Assyria in the 8th century BCE.
Achaemenid Egypt has been relatively understudied, but there was a recent dissertation on the topic that's soon to be published.
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