01/02/2008

Centenaries and censorship

Mahmoud El-Wardani on the activities of the 40th Cairo International Book Fair
Forty years ago, in January 1968, the late Dr Suheir El-Qalamawi, then- president of the government’s top publishing house, organised the first book fair in Egypt, indeed in the whole region. The initiative was seen by some as a reaction to the 1967 defeat: [...]