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The Visitors to the 53rd Cairo International Book Fair
The 53rd edition of the book fair witnessed the participation of more than 1,000 publishers, with holograms highlighting this year.
About The Exhibition
The Cairo International Book Fair is the largest and oldest book fair in the Arab world, held every year in the last week of January in Cairo, Egypt, at Egypt International Exhibitions Center in New Cairo, it is organised by the General Egyptian Book Organisation.
- The first session of the Cairo International Fair was held in 1969.
- In 2006 it was considered the second largest fair after the International Traveling Book Fair.
- The exhibition is visited by about 4 million visitors in one session and is currently considered the largest public exhibition in the world.
The Writer and researcher Suhair Al-Qalamawi was the first to supervise the establishment of the first book fair. That is why the 2008 edition celebrated Qalamawi's Person of the Year.
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Find out more »Our Writers
Hafez Ibrahim
Nile Poet
The Egyptian poet Muhammad Hafez Ibrahim was born in Assiut Governorate from February 24, 1872 to June 21, 1932 AD. He was a well-known poet, holding the title of the poet of the Nile and also the title of the poet of the people.
Ahmad Shawqi
writer
Ahmed Shawky Ali Ahmed Shawky Bey (October 16, 1868 - October 14, 1932), an Egyptian writer and poet, is considered the greatest Arab poet of modern times. He is nicknamed "Prince of Poets".
Ibrahim al-Fiqi
Author
Ibrahim Mohamed El-Sayed El-Feki, expert in human development and neuro-linguistic programming. He has several books translated into three languages (English, French and Arabic). He trained more than 600,000 people in his lectures around the world.
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik
Doctor
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik was an Egyptian physician, writer, author, and translator. He is considered the first Arab writer in the field of horror literature. And the most famous in the field of youth literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Nicknamed "The Godfather". His literary journey began with the writing of the Paranormal series
Ihsan Abdel Quddous
Fiction writer
Ihsan Abdel Quddous was an Egyptian writer and novelist. One of the first Arab novelists to deal with love in their stories, and most of his stories were turned into movies. The literature of Ihsan Abdel Quddous represents a distinguished qualitative leap in the Arabic novel.
Egyptian literature
Egyptian literature is one of the ancient literatures, and Egypt is considered the gateway to Islamic culture in the modern era from the beginning of the nineteenth century in Egyptian literature in all its forms, as literature rose in it and literary schools appeared in Egypt that were the loss and collapse of poetry. Ahmed Shawky, the poet of the Nile, Hafez Ibrahim, and the struggling poet Abdel Aziz Maslouh, and there were many schools after that, including the Diwan School.
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Yahya Haqi
An Egyptian writer, novelist, and a pioneer of the short story, he was born in Cairo to a family with Turkish roots. He studied law and worked as a lawyer, the diplomatic corps and journalistic work. He is considered a landmark in the history of literature and cinema and is considered one of the great Egyptian writers. In his literary field, he published four collections of short stories, and one of his most famous novels is Qandil Um Hashim, and he wrote many articles and other short stories. He won the State Appreciation Award in Literature, and the French government awarded him the Knight Medal of the First Class in 1983. He was among those who received the King Faisal International Award. Yahya Hakki passed away at the age of 87, after immortalizing a great legacy of thought and literature.
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