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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller (Paperback)
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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller (Paperback)
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Price R203
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You Save R167 (45%)
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The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to
prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady
crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the
television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia
Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her sister, Hind,
and their friend, Nihal, she founded Diwan, a fiercely independent
bookstore. They were three young women with no business degrees, no
formal training, and nothing to lose. At the time, nothing like
Diwan existed in Egypt. Culture was languishing under government
mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity.
Ten years later, Diwan had become a rousing success, with ten
locations, 150 employees, and a fervent fan base. Frank, fresh, and
very funny, Nadia Wassef's memoir tells the story of this journey.
Its eclectic cast of characters features Diwan's impassioned
regulars, like the demanding Dr. Medhat; Samir, the driver with CEO
aspirations; meditative and mythical Nihal; silent but deadly Hind;
dictatorial and exacting Nadia, a self-proclaimed bitch to work
with-and the many people, mostly men, who said Diwan would never
work. Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country
hurtling toward revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an
unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of
entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to
bring us home.
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