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Neelwafurat.com 
Type e-commerce Founded 1998 Headquarters Beirut, Lebanon Area served Middle East Industry Retail Products Books, Music, DVDs, Gifts. Website Neelwafurat.com Alexa rank 26,309[1] Type of site e-commerce Available in Arabic Launched 1998 Neelwafurat.com (Arabic نيل و فرات.كوم) is an Internet e-commerce website, similar to amazon.com, which serves primarily the Middle East and Arab World. The company sells books, magazines, films and software. It was founded and launched in 1998,[2] and was part of a large boom in Arab World use of e-commerce.[3] The name Neelwafurat is a term referring to the Nile and Euphrates rivers (neel means "Nile", "wa" is a phonetic spelling of a the specific letter waw, and furat means "Euphrates"). This is a reference to the Amazon.com connection with the Amazon River.
Neelwafurat's headquarters is located in Beirut, Lebanon. There is an additional branch in Egypt.[4]
In 2004, the two best-selling novels on Neelwafurat were Cities of Salt by Abdul-Rahman Munif and The Insane Asylum by Ghazi al-Gosaibi, however both of these books were banned in Saudia Arabia.[5] The web retailer is seen as a primary part of Lebanon's New Economy, and is a major outlet for independent publishers.[6]
Neelwafurat's primary competitors are adabwafan.com and e-kotob.com.[7]
References
- ^ "neelwafurat.com - Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/neelwafurat.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ^ staff (December 21, 1998). "Software Center introduces the first commercial Arabic library on the Internet.". M2 Presswire.
- ^ Nasser, Zeid (July 1, 1999). "Arabs go e-shopping". The Star (Jordan).
- ^ "About the Company". Neelwafurat.com. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neelwafurat.com%2F. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ Saleh Ambah, Faiza (April 8, 2004). "Banned Saudi novels thrive abroad - and at home". Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0408/p05s01-wome.html. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ AKAŞ, CEM (Ju;y 28, 2006). "Beyrut'un kitapları" (in Turkish). Radikal. http://www.radikal.com.tr/ek_haber.php?ek=ktp&haberno=5449. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ Tresilian, David (July 26, 2006). "Publish or perish". Al-Ahram. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/804/cu2.htm. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
External links
Categories:- Book selling websites
- Companies of Lebanon
- Retail companies established in 1998
- Dot-com
- Arab media
- Internet properties established in 1998
- Online companies
- Online music stores
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