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Neelwafurat.com
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. OverviewThe company was founded and launched in 1998,[1][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 the specific letter waw, and furat means "Euphrates"). This is a reference to the Amazon.com connection with the Amazon River.[citation needed] 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 Saudi 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
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