Al Maadi Used Books occupies a building garage on Road 9 and has filled it with an estimated 120,000 to 130,000 titles in English, Arabic, French, and other languages, organised across narrow, overstuffed shelves. Customers can trade in books for others of equivalent value, which keeps the stock turning over and the prices low.
It's a rare find in a city not otherwise known for secondhand bookshops, and worth the half hour it takes to dig through the shelves.