Bookseller’s a goofy scheme/project begun by the State Dept to provide western books to Arab readers... I bet a disproportionate number of the books provided at taxpayer’s expense were by leftwing authors, probably not just Obama :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalemat_Arabia
...Or maybe not... one book provided was by this guy:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/michael-oren-obama-muslim-roots-foreign-policy-essay-119282
Wonder if the books were part of a way to ship other things than books into Egypt under diplomatic cover?