Here is an article from al-Fanar Media on Ketabook, an online Maghreb-centered bookstore, a real treasure.
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Mohamed El Mansour has retired from teaching history at Mohamed V University in Rabat, but he keeps himself busy. He writes books and articles on historical subjects, and he runs a unique online business, Ketabook, which assists foreign libraries and scholars in finding books from the Maghreb.
The first challenge is simply to be aware of what is being published in Morocco and neighboring countries—no simple task.
The Maghreb book market remains very unstructured and informal, El Mansour told me when we met for a coffee in Rabat, and distribution is weak. Because of this, he and his team “work on a small scale, on the basis of personal relations. You have to go knock at the [bookstores’] door.”
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Moroccan Academic Plays Matchmaker Between Books and Readers
The first challenge is simply to be aware of what is being published in Morocco and neighboring countries—no simple task.
The Maghreb book market remains very unstructured and informal, El Mansour told me when we met for a coffee in Rabat, and distribution is weak. Because of this, he and his team “work on a small scale, on the basis of personal relations. You have to go knock at the [bookstores’] door.”
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