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We are honored to announce that Ketabook is now listed as a recognized vendor on the MELCom International website. MELCom International (the European Association of Middle East Librarians) is the primary professional organization for librarians dedicated to Middle Eastern studies in Europe and beyond.

📚 We are incredibly proud to celebrate 17+ years of dedicated service to the prestigious Bibliothèque Nationale de France! Since 2007, we've been honored to support the BNF's mission by providing essential periodical resources from the Maghreb and North Africa.

Thank you to the BnF for 17 years of trust and collaboration. Here’s to many more years of preserving and sharing knowledge!

Ketabook is proud to announce a new approval plan partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—America's first public university— bringing essential North African scholarly publications to one of the nation's most distinguished research libraries.

Writer Anissa M. Bouziane's heritage in Morocco reflects in her creative output, from her experiences in film to her 2019 novel, Dune Song. We spoke to discuss her influences and her take on "linguistic polyphony," a literary technique that combines the norms, styles and histories of multiple languages to enrich narrative. Bouziane was born in the US state of Tennessee, but she moved to Morocco while still an infant. Her family left again to the US, but soon thereafter again returned to Morocco, where Bouziane completed her primary education. She eventually returned to the US to attend Wellesley College, where she...

RICHARD HENRI Cet écran en pierre percée de la mosquée Ibn Tulun, au Caire, réalisé au IXe siècle de notre ère, présente un motif de feuille biomorphique au centre de chaque étoile à 12 branches. Pour notre prochain voyage dans l'art des motifs islamiques, nous visitons Marrakech, au Maroc, où nous trouvons un superbe motif en stuc sculpté sur un mur du Qasr al-Bahiyah. La conception est encadrée dans une niche surmontée de muqarnas, formes caractéristiques ressemblant à des stalactites qui articulent souvent la transition d'un mur à un dôme, une voûte ou, comme dans ce bel exemple, la travée...