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A crowded bookshop, books piled on the tables and up to the shelves at the back.

Cairo · Downtown

Oum El Dounia

Bookshop and crafts on the first floor of a Talaat Harb building, facing the Egyptian Museum.

€€ Mid-range

A flat turned shop: books on Egypt in French and English, maps, fabrics, pottery, jewellery. The address for a good book on archaeology or the city before going home, with staff who know their stock.

The extra bit

Go up: the entrance is a building corridor with no window display, and many walk past it.

Know before you go

Closes earlier than street shops: it keeps office hours.

Directions

Talaat Harb street, Downtown, Cairo

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