TripoliShopping

Book shopping in Tripoli

  1. A

    Fergiani's Bookshop

    This terrific bookshop has an excellent selection of Arabic- and English-language books, coffee-table books, fascinating travel literature, modern studies of Libya, a smaller number of books in French and Italian and excellent postcards. This is a good place to pick up your copy of The Green Book.

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  2. B

    Tripolitania Bookshop

    The friendly Mukhtar runs this eclectic shop of bric-a-brac and second-hand books, but he juggles it with other projects and hence it can be a challenge to find the shop open. When you find him, Mukhtar has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the medina and is a loquacious host.

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  3. C

    Fergiani 2 Bookshop

    Fergiani's is such an institution in Libya that it's opened a second branch with a similar selection to its sister shop around the corner and plenty of language-learning materials. The knowledgeable staff can point you in the right direction.

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  4. D

    Maktaba Dar al-Mukhtar

    This stationery and bookstore is one of the few places in Libya to stock a few international newspapers and magazines (including the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and Newsweek).

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