Kaph Books
Kaph Books describes itself as the leading publishing house in the Arab world specialising in visual arts and photography. Its About page says that it operates in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon and, in the Arabic text, that it was established in 2015 in Beirut, with its main office later moved to Dubai and a branch opened in Saudi Arabia. Its catalogue includes photography and art books on Lebanon and the Gulf, among them a book on the early history of photography in the region and an annotated history of an Arab photographic foundation, several of them co-editions with museums such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
- Also publishes
- Art
- Books in Spine Index
- 15, years 2016 – 2025
- Link
- kaphbooks.com
Start with
- Fouad Elkoury, Cinema Cairo Palace: A Journey into Egyptian Cinema 1985-1996 (2024)
- Nadim Asfar, Hyper Images (2018)
- Akram Zaatari, Against Photography (2018)
- Ayla Hibri, A Palm Tree Bows to the Moon (2019)
Latest additions
- Rania Matar, Where Do I Go? (2025)
- Tala Hajjar, There is No Urgency Here (2025)
- Various Authors, Remember: Photography against Alzheimer (2025)
- Various Authors, Photographs 1842-1896: An Early Album of the World (2019)
Recurring authors
- Fouad Elkoury (2)
- Nadim Asfar (2)
Shares authors with
- Steidl (1)
Books in the archive
- Ayla Hibri, A Palm Tree Bows to the Moon (2019)
- Gregory Buchakjian, Abandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut (2018)
- Ziad Antar, After Images (2016)
- Akram Zaatari, Against Photography (2018)
- Guillaume de Sardes, Beirut Round Trips (2016)
- Fouad Elkoury, Cinema Cairo Palace: A Journey into Egyptian Cinema 1985-1996 (2024)
- Various Authors, Essays & Stories on Photography in Lebanon (2018)
- Nadim Asfar, Habiter le Jour (2018)
- Nadim Asfar, Hyper Images (2018)
- Various Authors, When the Fog Whispers (2025)
- Fouad Elkoury, Passing Time (2017)
- Various Authors, Photographs 1842-1896: An Early Album of the World (2019)
- Various Authors, Remember: Photography against Alzheimer (2025)
- Tala Hajjar, There is No Urgency Here (2025)
- Rania Matar, Where Do I Go? (2025)
