jan 1, 1950 - First modern commercial libraries

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Dabbos Library: the first modern commercial libraries in Jeddah 1950
Established by Dabbos & Co., a foreign investor from Lebanon, in the footsteps of modern libraries in Lebanon and Europe, to begin for the first time in the history of the country by the organized import of Arabic books and Arabic and foreign newspapers and magazines.

Source: "The social history of art, beauty and modern culture" by Mahmoud Abdul Ghani Sabbagh

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