PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781472156853
- Categories 23-03, Biographies and Memoirs, BX, BXOS, NF BIO, Non-Fiction
- Author(s) Nadia Wassef
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Pages 240
- Format Paperback B
- Dimensions 19.6cm x 12.7cm x 2cm
- Weight 0.181 kg
product description
In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose founded a fiercely independent bookstore. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Cairo. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. Over the next decade, these three women would contend with censors, chauvinists, critics, one another and many people who said they would never succeed in establishing Diwan as Cairo's leading bookstore.