
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
''A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going'' Harvard Review
In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose founded a fiercely independent bookstore. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Cairo. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and boo...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
''A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going'' Harvard Review
In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose founded a fiercely independent bookstore. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Cairo. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and boo...