Arts & Leisure

Book review: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller — Nadia Wassef

October 13, 2021

By Jenny Lyons

In 2002, Nadia Wassef, along with four business partners, one of them her sister, opened Diwan Bookstore in Cairo, Egypt, the flagship store of what was to become, and is, a successful chain of bookstores and the leading seller of English and Arabic books in Egypt.

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Jenny Lyons, Nadia Wassef, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller, The Vermont Book Shop, book review