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A cappuccino on a wooden table, next to an open book.

Cairo · Maadi

Kotob Khan

An independent bookshop and publisher, with a café where people work all afternoon.

€€ Mid-range

One of Cairo's liveliest bookshops: a demanding Arabic catalogue, author events, and a café room that serves as an office for half of Maadi. It is also a publisher, which explains the shelves.

The extra bit

Check the events programme: talks are in Arabic, but you meet the current literary scene there.

Know before you go

Maadi is far from the centre: allow for the journey, or combine it with a walk in the district's tree-lined streets.

Directions

Street 12, Maadi, Cairo

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