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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Taschenbuch von Nadia Wassef
Sprache: Englisch

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'Fascinating and enlightening'

Choice Magazine

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.

Frank, fresh and very funny, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward a revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to bring us home.

'A unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time. As a bookstore owner I found this fascinating. As a reader I found it fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny'
Jenny Lawson, author of Broken (in the best possible way)

'Fascinating and enlightening'

Choice Magazine

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.

Frank, fresh and very funny, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward a revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to bring us home.

'A unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time. As a bookstore owner I found this fascinating. As a reader I found it fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny'
Jenny Lawson, author of Broken (in the best possible way)

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472156853
ISBN-10: 1472156854
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 852849
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wassef, Nadia
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Corsair
Maße: 197 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Nadia Wassef
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,192 kg
Artikel-ID: 120336951
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472156853
ISBN-10: 1472156854
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 852849
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wassef, Nadia
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Corsair
Maße: 197 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Nadia Wassef
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,192 kg
Artikel-ID: 120336951
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