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Cairo Chronicles of a Bookshop Owner

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Cairo Chronicles of a Bookshop Owner
14.99 €
In 2002, Nadia Wassef, her sister Nihal and friend Hind founded Diwan, the first independent bookstore in Cairo. They were young and fearless, they had no business plan, but neither did they have any fear. Nadia, Nihal and Hind did not yet know the challenges they would face. Over the next few years, the three experienced all the hardships of doing business in a patriarchal country: navigating their way through harassment and discrimination, wooing oppressive bureaucrats, and learning the rules of Egyptian censorship as they went along. And when Diwan finally succeeds (ten branches, over a hundred employees, and many fans), a revolution breaks out in Egypt. This book is a frank memoir and a daring business novel, a fascinating account of modern Egypt and an unusual guide to Cairo, but above all an inspiring story about overcoming any obstacles out of love for a lifelong endeavor.
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