Activities of Aswan University Book Fair launches on Dec. 24

CAIRO – 22 December 2020: The activities of the Aswan University Book Fair will start on December 24, at the university's headquarters, and will continue until the December 31.

All sectors of the Ministry of Culture  will participate in the activities of the book fair, in addition to the Academy of Arts, the House of Knowledge [Dar al-Maaref], Al-Ahram, and major academic and languages publishing houses and youth publishing houses.

The book fair will receive its visitors daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The book fair is held inside the university campus. The area of ​​the pavilions ranges from 9 to 12 meters. The book fair’s total area is from 250 to 300 square meters.

Discounts will be offered by publishing houses to motivate students to acquire books, based on the instructions of Inas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture.

Participation in the book fair was made free-of-charge to the publishing houses and institutions involved, in support of the publishing industry in Egypt, and to open new markets for publishers.

The book fair includes hundreds of titles in various  fields of general knowledge, arts and literature at reduced prices and subsidized by the state, in order to spread culture among university students, in addition to providing books and scientific references that students need in studying and preparing various researches.