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Cairo · Downtown
The bookshops of Talaat Harb
Downtown's Arabic bookshop windows, and the second-hand stalls on the pavement.
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Around Talaat Harb square survive several historic bookshops and second-hand sellers who spread their books on the ground. You find cheap Arabic editions, old posters and magazines — one of the last bookshop districts in the Arab world.
The extra bit
The second-hand sellers also carry 1950s Egyptian film posters: the best souvenirs Downtown has.
Know before you go
Most stock is in Arabic: for foreign-language books, try Oum El Dounia or Diwan instead.
