Book shopping in Cairo
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Abd El Zaher
Cairo's last working bookbinder also makes beautiful leather- and oil-paper-bound blank books, photo albums and diaries. Free gold monogramming is included in the prices, which are heartbreakingly low, considering the work that goes into them. Getting your own book bound starts around £E15 and takes a few days.
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Oum El Dounia
At a great central location, Oum El Dounia sells an attractive range of locally made glassware, Bedouin jewellery, cotton clothes, bags, embroidered shawls and light fittings. It also stocks a small range of maps, postcards and English- and French-language books about Cairo and Egypt, as well as CDs.
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Souq al-Fustat
A new market built for tourists, this is nonetheless a nice collection of shops, with vendors of antique carpets, modern ceramics, richly embroidered galabiyyas and wooden toys along with a branch of Sami Amin. Sales pressure is pleasantly low.
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Lehnert & Landrock
A good place for maps, books about Cairo and Egypt (some secondhand), vintage postcards and reprints of old photographs. There are branches opposite the Egyptian Museum and outside the Sphinx-side entrance to the Pyramids.
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American University in Cairo (AUC) Bookshop
The best English-language bookshop in Egypt, with stacks of material on the politics, sociology and history of Cairo, Egypt and the Middle East. Plenty of guidebooks and some fiction.
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L’Orientale
This is a great outlet for rare books on Egypt and the Middle East, as well as lithographs, maps and engravings. Another branch (L’Orientaliste) is on Sharia Qasr el-Nil.
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Diwan
Fabulous: English, French and German titles, from novels to travel guides to coffee-table books. It also has a kids’ section, large music wing and a small cafe.
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Ezbekiyya Book Market
The 50 or so stalls here have the occasional treasures, but browsing the messy piles can be a chore.
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Zamalek Bookshop
Small but packed with magazines, English-language crime fiction and airport-style novels.
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Shorouk
Find Arabic and English bestsellers, plus a lot of magazines at this two-storey shop.
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