Registry note
Landmark Talaat Harb Square bookshop; Middle East Eye dates the family newspaper kiosk to 1951 and the landmark store to 1958; house published Sartre/Camus and later banned titles after 1967.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Independent books, maps, manuscripts and paper goods.
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