4 stars
This is a fascinating inside look at the inception and evolution of a bookstore in Cairo, Egypt. The author, along with two others, opened Diwan bookstore in Cairo. Here, she explores the bookstore, section by section, as she also discusses the tangles with bureaucracy, the people who worked there, running a business and her own personal life. I have read bookseller chronicles from the UK and US but never from Egypt. I was fortunate enough to receive a digital and audio version via NetGalley. I liked listening to the narrator of the audio version and preferred to listen to this one.
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