Néna Rawdah on Special Powers, Corrupting 'em Young and Bookselling in Portland's Fifth Quadrant, an interview by Kristin Thiel
Néna Rawdah’s heritage is Lebanese and she is originally from Texas, but what you hear when she speaks is all books. She’s worked in the Portland book scene for years, and then she and a business partner started St. Johns Booksellers, named after its North Portland neighborhood, in June 2005. Rawdah’s been standing strong the past …