TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wassef,Nadia
TI  - Shelf life: chronicles of a Cairo bookseller 
SN  - 9780374600181
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Wassef, Nadia.
KW  - Diwan (Bookstore : Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt)
KW  - Booksellers and bookselling
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bookstores
N1  - The Café -- Egypt Essentials -- Cookery -- Business and Management -- Pregnancy and Parenting -- The Classics -- Art and Design -- Self-Help -- Epilogue
N2  - "The warm and winning story of starting a bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles and triumphs as founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan"--; Cairo, 2002. with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, Wassef founded Diwan, a fiercely independent bookstore. They were three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose. At the time, culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. Ten years later, Diwan had become a rousing success, with ten locations, 150 employees, and a fervent fan base. Here she tells the story of this journey, her impassioned regulars, and the many people, who said Diwan would never work. -- adapted from jacket
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