http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Mr ,, Abduallah Alwi Al-safi the owner of the half a centry oldest library in mukalla [The Source: Site Hadhramout Governorate - 21/06/2007] Al-Shaib Book Store: First Under- secretary of Arabi magazine in Hadhramaut which contributed to Mukalla poll  in 1965 with Mr Zabal and Awskar. A dialogue by Sanad Bayashoot

-- Dag people first Under-Arabi magazine's performance, and contributed to a poll Mukalla in 1965 with proper rubbish and Askar.

Dialogue's / bond Bayacot

In our life we are  going to have some benchmarks about whome we are heedless , but if they  disappeared  we wonder how and why? Although it did not exist when he was brought to our attention.

But Alsahib Book Store is  not just a Book Store, but a source of cultural enlightenment for half a century ago. It is  one of the libraries that were able to create «something» in the  heart of mukalla people  specifically. The  image of the  white kaftan man (the owner of the Book Store) remained in memory.

The next dialogue reveals  life experience and generation  memory  .. Such  generation that nurtured the arts , science and   knowledge of the Sultan Book Store , Al-Shai  Book Store and the Book Store of Ahmed Said Haddad ..of them  Mohammad Abdul Kader Bafaqeeh,Mohammed Abdualqader Bamatraf ,, Hussein Bin  Mohamed  Albar,the phototgrapher Ahmed Bajennid  and a group of intellectuals in  Mukalla, which embraces the sea and the mountains.

Abdullah Alsafi and a place story :
 The owner of A'-Shaib Book store Mr Alwi Abdallah Alsafi  says, : I have come to Mukalla from Rubat Baishn when I was  sixteen years old, but my father was from Abyssinia had a sum of money to shop in Al-Mukalla commercially because he was an agent of some Yemenis in foodstuffs, especially maize in the  days famine .    Having studied  in Sudan and married early and I was the first son i, and stayed in Rabat for  four years, then returned to  Abyssinia and then get a company in Saudi Arabia and died there.
As for the opening of hisbook store  in Al-Mukalla ,Mr Abduallah bin Alwi  have said : «The first one who  encouraged me was the late Dr. Mohammad Abdul Kader Bafaqeeh  and  Khaled Abu Bakr Baraheem. it was  was opened in 1957 .. Its  inception was  in  office equipment, then started communications with Egypt and Lebanon and before that,I used to  bring books from Abdualatef Abadi  Book Store in Aden.

> What are the most prominent Arab book stores that you contacted?
--Almuthana Book Store in  Iraq , al-Halabi and  Arab Thought But my major contact was with Lebanon Book store.

> With regard to domestic newspapers?
-- Of course there are Altaliah newspapers,Alraed, Al-jamaheer and Alrai Alam  and certainly the demand of the people in that period was considerable . I addition to newspapers published from Aden such as Anadhah, Fatat Aljazeera, Alayam  and Alraqeeb.

> The current location of the Book Store How did you get it?
-- Sultan Ghalib played a big role in obtaining the land lot of the book  Store  
> Relationship with the offfical frameworks ?
-- I was associated with Mukalla secondary school  and a number of government departments, particularly the Department of Education,to supply them with the books for a minor commission .

> Was it   the first Book Store?
-- Certainly .. Because Mr, Ahmed Said Haddad was selling Egyptian newspapers, and  when opened his office, he  worked on the development of it.

Agent in the Hadramawt .. People's Book Store
I have  been appointed as an agent of the Kuwaiti Arab magazine in Hadramout .. By the way,  Adelegation from Kuwaiti Arab magazine visited Al-Mukalla .. The city was small at that time, in the sixties of last century. We toured  the city of Mukalla.They conducted  a poll in the city. Among them were Mr Alzabaland MrAwskar metry.