Welcome to International Language Bookshop
"All Publishers under one roof"
Our Vision
Develop into the premium pillar of cultural and intellectual diffusion in Egypt and the MENA region.
Our Mission
Deliver high-quality educational and cultural products to meet the needs of all learners in Egypt and the MENA region.
Customer Orientation
We are committed to provide superior products and services at the highest level of quality and professionalism. We believe in using the latest publishing technology to deliver quality products and services for our customers and partners.
Innovation & Technology
We promote a culture of innovation, which helps the development of new technologies, and ensures a high-quality product and customer satisfaction.
Partnership
We believe in the power of partnership with our customers and suppliers to attain our common goals.
International Language Bookshop, was founded in 1975 for the prime purpose of supplying and distributing books, to meet the rising demand of procuring and delivering latest books from leading publishers worldwide. Since then, International Language Bookshop tradition of quality and excellence in this field has been nurtured by the vision, integrity and dedication of the company’s management.
With over than 120 employees, operating a chain of retail bookshops along with branches in Cairo, Giza, and Alexandria. ILB has a well-deserved reputation for quality as the oldest distributor and the largest importer of English language books and educational resources in Egypt. ILB also offers unrivalled range of books for all learners from Pre-school students to post graduates. It has, throughout the years, emphasized its image among customers and publishers. With about five decades of publishing experience, we understand the needs of authors, librarians and book distributors, and we are doing our best to provide the highest level of products and services.
We have exclusivity rights for several publishers and educational suppliers, and a long standing business cooperation with many key publishers worldwide such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill Education, National Geographic Learning, Richmond, Letterland, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Evan Moor, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, RIC, Marshall Cavendish, University of Dayton Press, Choice Maker LTD, B Small, Vishv, CJ Fallons, Educate.ie, Singapore Asia Publishing (SAP) Pte Ltd, Learning Can Be Fun ….etc.
We are one of the main distributors for McGraw Hill in Egypt. With their mission to accelerate learning they create education solutions that are nimble and powerful enough to meet the ever-changing needs of students and teachers worldwide. They are one of the largest three educational publishers that provide intuitive, engaging, efficient, and effective learning that help millions of students succeed from childhood through adulthood.
ILB is one of the major distributors for HMH in Egypt. HMH is always keen to deliver great outcomes for the students, teachers, readers, and learning communities. They help their partners create the fullest expression of what learning can be—and support thousands of individual learning moments across the world every day.
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers throughout 40 years has provided educators with practical, creative, and engaging PreK–8 materials to support and enrich the core curriculum. Their goal is to produce educational materials that are aligned with current standards and best educational practices that would meet the student’s interests urge their motivations. They create products that not only build and reinforce basic and complex skills, but that develop a curiosity about the subjects in which those skills are taught.
University of Dayton Publishing
We are the sole agent for Dayton in the Middle East. Their mission is to expand the horizons and opportunities available to students. They provide tailor-made solutions to the specific needs of students in the areas of curriculum design, transitioning to CLIL methodology, and evaluation, among other areas. They also provide creative and engaging blended-learning solutions of excellent quality which support and motivate students both in the classroom and at home.
National Geographic Learning
We are one of the main distributors for National Geographic Learning. National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage Learning, is a leading educational publisher of PreK–12 School and English Language Teaching. They design their materials with a highly interactive storytelling approach which is a great way to invoke these connections. Through their learning programs, learners experience the excitement and joy of learning that National Geographic explorers, scientists, writers and photographers experience. They share real stories from National Geographic that increase learners’ knowledge of the world and everything in it. We have a long outstanding dealing with the American University in Cairo.
Richmond Publishing
We are the sole agent for Richmond Publishing in the Middle East. Richmond is one the ELT publishing companies which have become familiar to millions around the world. They offer a complete range of ELT resources for young learners, teenagers and adults. They are keen to develop the appropriate, dynamic and innovative teaching materials. Richmond’s team of education specialists closely monitor the ever-changing challenges and opportunities that crop up in all types of classrooms.
Letterland
ILB is the sole agent for Letterland in Egypt . Letterland has been bringing literacy to life for over 50 years. We’ve published hundreds of titles that makes the children enjoy the books and develop a love of reading that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Their mission has always been to ensure that as many young children as possible have fun learning to read, write and spell.
CJ Fallon
CJ Fallon one of Ireland’s longest established and most respected educational publishers, has been leading the way in Primary and Post Primary publishing since 1927. They are committed to providing teachers with the highest quality teaching resources in print and digital. They believe in providing students with the best results-driven learning tools, developed to the highest educational and academic standards.
Marshall Cavendish
ILB is the sole agent for Marshall Cavendish in Egypt. Their bestselling titles are the Math and Science that are accredited by Cambridge University Press. The Marshall Cavendish holistic approach to learning and teaching is fundamentally changing math education in the United States, by providing teachers with the same pedagogy, curriculum, supplemental and digital resources that have put Singapore students at the top of all global math performance studies.
Vishv Books
We are the sole agent for Vishv in the Middle East. Vishv is one of the leading publishers in India, they strive to bring out good quality of books that appeal to learners worldwide. They have numerous award-winning books in different categories in school books and general books.
E-Media Publishing
We are the sole agent of E-Media Publishing. E-Media is a partner of a wide range of publishers in the Middle East, it tailors the international publishers’ books to cope with the uniqueness of each country and culture in the Middle East needs in learning process.
Our Services
Blended Learning
We adopt a diversified approach of teaching the English language by providing creative and engaging blended-learning solutions of excellent quality. We provide a variety of books for different publishers that support and motivate students both in English language classes and other areas such as music and arts and crafts.
Book Supply
We provide educational organizations with course books, readers and supplementary materials.
School libraries
We help in establishing school libraries.
All Under One roof
We deal with top publishers to present not only the best sellers of the time, but the best deals for all types of books in different fields
Special Orders
We offer a search and order service for customer seeking to find rare books
Training Services
We organize seminars, workshops and training sessions for teachers all over Egypt
General Books
We offer general books in different fields as decoration, cooking, music, and others.
Alf Sora
We are the only distributor for Panini stickers’ collections in Egypt through our partner company Alf Sora
Our Products
Our Events
ILB has been the platinum sponsor for the Annual Nile TESOL Conference held in collaboration with the American University in Cairo, beside other different important events for the British Council and various publishers, as seminars and training workshops.
Nile TESOL conference 2019
McGraw Hill - Intercontinental City Stars Sept 2019
HMH - Kempenski- Cairo Sept 2019
Contact Us
Proud to serve you
We aspire to have an essential role in building our cultured future generations through the diverse products in our retail stores. We provide course books, STEM sets, children books, fiction, non-fiction, novels, classics, dictionaries, encyclopedias, cooking books, self-help books, and much more.
Head Office
16 El Badia Street , off El Thawra Street
Heliopolis - Cairo- Egypt
Tel: + (202) 2417 8623 - 2417 8625 - 2418 7943
Mobile : + (2) 012 2491 6655
Fax: + (202) 24178627
E-mail : ilb@ilbegypt.com
Heliopolis Retail (Cairo)
28 Tag El Din Elsoubki Street
Ard El Golf, Heliopolis
Cairo - Egypt
Tel: +(202) 2419 0420 - 2417 0162 - 2414 4539
E-mail : retail@ilbegypt.com
Alexandria Retail
18 Abd El Hameid Pasha El Deeb Street
Tharwat , El Raml
Tel: +(03) 5826 388 - 5826 389
Mobile : + (02) 012 2499 9742
Fax: +(03) 5824 099
E-mail: alex@ilbegypt.com