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Obelisk Bookstore

A quick bookish stop to remember your trip to Aswan.

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A very small bookshop beside the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan, occupying a corridor of wall between other shops and stocking Egyptian history, Nubian culture, travel, and illustrated books on pharaonic art, along with vintage photographs. The only location in the record outside the United States.

Neighbourhood
Sheyakhah Oula, Aswan
What it is
Bookstall
Street plan around Obelisk Bookstore
See it on the map

The quick read

Your kind of place?

Go if

you are visiting the Unfinished Obelisk or Philae Temple and want your souvenir to be a good one.

Go elsewhere if

you are looking for a destination bookshop, because this is a stop, and a very good one.

Read the full review from 8 July 2026

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02 / Photographs

Inside the bookshop

Looking into a narrow bookshop beneath an OBELISK BOOKSTORE sign, with books and postcards along both sides and a customer near the back.
Inside
A wooden display headed OBELISK BOOKSTORE ASWAN, with face-out books about Egypt, history and religion.
Staff picks
Floor-to-ceiling wooden cubbies packed with books and wrapped bundles. A customer reads beside tables piled with more books.
What makes it itself

Frames we do not have:

  • Somewhere to sit: We did not photograph a place to sit here, and we would rather leave the gap than show you somebody else's chairs.
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