Damascus Shopping

Book shopping in Damascus

  1. A

    Librairie Avicenne

    One block south of Cham Palace, Damascus' best bookshop stocks foreign-language publications with a decent range of Syria guidebooks, coffee-table books on the Middle East, phrase books, and novels in English and French.

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  2. B

    Librairie Universelle

    Just west of Sharia Yousef al-Azmeh, it has a smattering of novels plus Middle East gift books.

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