Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Over Half Million Visitors at Cairo Int'l Book Fair in its First Week


Thu 03 Feb 2022 | 01:30 AM
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On Wednesday, the Higher Committee of the Cairo International Book Fair, headed by Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem expressed their great happiness at the public attendance on the seventh day of the 53rd session of the Cairo International Book Fair, saying that more than half-million visitors were recorded throughout the last week.

She added that the number of visitors reflected their serious desire for knowledge, pointing out that the e-platform of the exhibition has received huge interaction as well.

The Head of the General Egyptian Book Organization, Haitham al-Hajj Ali, announced that the digital platform of the book fair recorded about 44.5 million visits from various countries in the world.

Top visits, in order, were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UAE, Kuwait, the UK, Germany, Qatar, Jordan, and Oman.

The number of registered visitors on the platform reached nearly 300,000, and the number of virtual tour visits to the exhibition reached 3,247, while the number of tickets booked on the e-platform was nearly 40,000. The number of book views on the platform for publishing houses participating in the exhibition was more than 26,500 views.

The number of pavilions in the exhibition is 879.

The 53rd session of the Cairo International Book Fair is being held under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly. It will be held at the Egypt International Exhibition Center – EIEC in New Cairo and will continue until February 7, 2022.

The exhibition is considered one of the largest actual gatherings of publishers in the world, with 1,063 Egyptian, Arab and foreign publishers representing 51 countries taking part. Greece is this year’s guest of honor country.

The 53rd book fair edition will see the launch of the digital project of books of the General Egyptian Book Authority.