Internet analyst Mamoun Tazi, of investment bank Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, said investors in e-commerce stocks were nervous about online security.
The state-run house, Dar al Mamoun, which in its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s brought out 30 translations of foreign works each year, now puts out three or four.
And then there are the gardens, eight glorious acres that were first designed for Moroccan Prince Mamoun in the 18th century, though some of the olive trees and graceful palms are far older than that.