LONDON: On Dec. 31, Lynn Gaspard will lose her home. Not her house, where she lives in London with her family. But when her family’s bookstore on Westbourne Grove closes for the last time, it will be the end of an era for her, and for the generations of London’s Middle Easterners for whom Al-Saqi has been a home from home, a unique cultural oasis and welcoming meeting place
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Situated in a striking former theater in London, Al Saqi Books has been hailed as Europe’s largest Middle Eastern specialist bookseller and is renowned for being a favorite among the intellectual hipster and literary lover sets.
Al Saqi Books in London is closing after 44 years after a rise in the price of Arabic language books and the economic effects of Brexit have made it impossible for the bookstore to remain open. htt.