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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 11 book, music and video shops
Best book, music and video shops in Cairo
The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Cairo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Shorouk Bookstores
1 Talaat Harb
428 m from Sadat, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.293, percentile 100 of 11
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2
Abdelzahers Atelier
Behind masjid, 31 Mohammed Abdou
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.279, percentile 90 of 11
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3
AUC Bookstore
113 Al Kasr Al Aini
194 m from Sadat, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.180, percentile 80 of 11
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4
جريدة الجمهورية
95 m from Orabi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.914, percentile 70 of 11
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5
دار الوابل الصيب
10 شارع الإمام الدردير, Khalf Al Fondok
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.879, percentile 60 of 11
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6
AlMasriah Al Lubnaniah Bookstore
أمام كنيسة, 16 شارع محمد ثاقب مبني ايكونيا
545 m from Kit Kat, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.848, percentile 50 of 11
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7
General Egyptian Book Organization
21 شارع 26 يوليو
212 m from Nasser, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.774, percentile 40 of 11
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8
Dawen Bookstore
عمارة رقم ٣٨ شارع السنترال من شارع ٩ الرئيسي الشارع المقابل لنادي مصر للتأمين، المكتبة أمام كافيه غليون القاهرة، المقطم القاهرة
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.750, percentile 30 of 11
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9
Lehnert And Landrock Bookshop
3 Taha Hussein, Mohammed Mazhar, Zamalek
222 m from Safaa Hegazy, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.727, percentile 20 of 11
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10
Diwan Bookstore
159 26th of July Corridor
368 m from Safaa Hegazy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.129, percentile 10 of 11
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).