The houseالبيت

97 rue Tensift, Semlalia. Above the door: DAR SAIDA, دار سعيدة, café littéraire. At the top of the building: مركز الأبحاث والدراسات سعيدة المنبهي (Saïda Menebhi Centre for Research and Studies).

You walk straight into the café: the counter, the wooden tables, the library shelves. Lines of verse are painted on the wall behind the counter. Next to it, the lounge with the red banquette.

288 titles in French, counted by hand on 24 August 2026, and an Arabic library not yet listed online. Everything is read on site.

60 seats. 20 dirhams a half-day, 8 am to 1 pm, 1 pm to 6 pm or 7 pm to 10 pm; with a coffee or a tea, 10 dirhams more.

White wrought-iron railings, and the دار سعيدة sign laser-cut into a gilded wooden panel.

Blue sofas. On the walls, black-and-white photographs and the portrait of Saïda Menebhi.

60 seats, Bose sound, BenQ projector.

At the top of the house: the terrace, the pergola, the covered room and the view over Semlalia.