Nadia Wassef

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

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Produktbeschreibung

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781472156822
• ISBN-10: 147215682X
• Artikelnr.: 62221306

Autorenporträt

Nadia Wassef is an owner of Diwan, Egypt's first modern bookstore, which she co-founded in 2002 with her sister, Hind. She received an MFA from Birkbeck College at the University of London; a Master in Social Anthropology from the University of London; and a Master in English from American University in Cairo. Before Diwan, she worked in research and advocacy for the Female Genital Mutilation Taskforce and in the Women and Memory Forum. Featured on the Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the Middle East in 2014, 2015, and 2016, Wassef's work has been covered in Time, Monocle, Business Monthly, and elsewhere. She lives in London with her two daughters.