Al Kitab has just obtained the special price weekly books from the French -speaking bookstore 2025.
With its Fleuron de Mutuelleville and its brands in Tunis and La Marsa, the Al Kitab bookstore network is at the forefront of book trade.
Founded by Lilia Kabadou Jabbes on Bourguiba avenue, the historic bookstore is almost sixty years old and has been able to renew and develop.
The impulse of Selma Jabbes and now that of her son (and grandson of the founder) has a lot to do with it. Cultural and hub of the French -speaking book, Al Kitab has just distinguished itself by gleaning the special prize for the French -speaking bookstore 2025.
The review Books Hebdo devoted an article to this distinction which salutes a remarkable professional career. We reproduce below an extract from this article signed Apollonia Elia.
“Open in Tunis in 1967, the Al Kitab bookstore was of the particularity of being the first in the Arab world to have been founded by a woman, Lilia Kabadou. Almost sixty years later, it was the founder’s grandson, Skander Jabbes, who took over the business with the ambition to give a second breath to the bookish tradition in the new Tunisian century.
In this perspective, the place combines languages and styles via a rediscovery of the book in all its dimensions and through all eras.
The creation of an art gallery dedicated to the book, located above the bookstore, also allows literature to be sublimated by other forms of expression, by means of pictorial exhibitions and regular events.
If the bookstore throws a literary bridge between France and Tunisia, it also links youth and previous generations to culture from a unifying, innovative and open perspective, which is intended to continue to prosper. »»
