The Cairo International Book Fair
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The Cairo International Book Fair will give you an opportunity to promote your books and other printed matter to the Egyptian market. Egyptians are amongst the largest book purchasers, per capita, in the world.Being at the Cairo Book Fair will enable you to meet your fellow publishers and other members of the industry from all over the world.
Many People always love and wait for the same time of the year. On January 23, President Mubarak opened the 40th Cairo International Book Fair, where other 28 countries participated with books from over 743 Arab and foreign press houses, in addition to other side cultural events. |
Egyptian Loggers surely didn’t forget to have their say on such event, as well as the books it brought and their visit to the fair.
The People used to regard the Book fair as my festival. I'd save the money and care to write down my wish list from year to year. As time went by and the prices increased, things changed a little. However, my passion for the fair stayed the same .
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The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina is dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is much more than a library. It contains:
- A Library that can hold millions of books.
- An Internet Archive
- Six specialized libraries for (i) Arts, multimedia and audio-visual materials, (ii) the visually impaired, (iii) children, (iv) the young, (v) microforms, and (vi) rare books and special collections
- Three Museums for (i) Antiquities, (ii) Manuscripts, and (iii) the History of Science
- A Planetarium
An Exploratorium for children’s exposure to science (ALEXploratorium)
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Culturama: a cultural panorama over nine screens, the first ever patented 9-projector interactive system. Winner of many awards, the Culturama, developed by CULTNAT, allows the presentation of a wealth of data layers, where the presenter can click on an item and go to a new level of detail. It is a remarkably informative and attractive multi-media presentation of Egypt’s heritage across 5000 years of history to these modern times, with highlights and examples of Ancient Egyptian and Coptic/Muslim heritage.
VISTA (The Virtual Immersive Science and Technology Applications system) is an interactive Virtual Reality environment, allowing researchers to transform two-dimensional data sets into 3-D simulations, and to step inside them. A practical tool of visualization during research, VISTA helps researchers to simulate the behavior of natural or human-engineered systems, instead of merely observing a system or building a physical model.
Seven academic research centers: (i) Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex-Med), (ii) Arts Center, (iii) Calligraphy Center, (iv) Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP), (v) International School of Information Studies (ISIS), (vi) Manuscript Center, and (vii) Center for the Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CultNat, located in Cairo)
Nine permanent exhibitions covering (i) Impressions of Alexandria: The Awad Collection, (ii) The World of Shadi Abdel Salam, (iii) Arabic Calligraphy, (iv) The History of Printing, (v) The Artist’s Book, (vi) Arab-Muslim Medieval Instruments of Astronomy and Science, (vii) Mohie El Din Hussein: A Creative Journey, (viii) Abdel Salam Eid, and (ix) Raaya El-Nimr and Abdel-Ghani Abou El-Enein.
Four art galleries for temporary exhibitions
A Conference Center for thousands of persons
A Dialogue Forum which provides opportunities for the meeting of, and discussions with thinkers, authors and writers to discuss various salient issues affecting modern societies. The Arab Reform Forum was the product of the first Arab Reform Conference organized in 2004.
The New Library of Alexandria also hosts a number of institutions :
The Academia Bibliotheca Alexandrinae (ABA)
Arabic Society for Ethics in Science & Technology (ASEST)
The Anna Lindh Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures, the first Euro–Med foundation based outside Europe
The Institute for Peace Studies (IPS) of the Suzanne Mubarak Women for Peace Movement
The HCM Medical Research project (located in Shallalat premises)
The Jean-Rene Dupuy Center for Law and Development
The Arab Regional Office of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (ARO-TWAS)
The International Federation for Library Associations (IFLA) Regional Office
The Secretariat of the Arab National Commissions of UNESCO
The Middle Eastern and North African Network for Environmental Economics (MENANEE)
The number is growing and the Library of Alexandria is becoming the nerve center of many international and regional networks.
Soor El-Azbakeya
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ElAzbakeya is one of the districts of Cairo, Egypt which is located in the centre of Cairo, and contains many historically important establishments. One of these is the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Azbakeya), which was inaugurated by Pope Mark VIII in 1800. and served as the seat of the Coptic Pope in Cairo from 1800 to 1971. Abakeya was the place were the first Cairo Opera House was established, until it was burnt in 1970.
The Soor El-Azbackaya zone is a little known bookseller area in Attaba near downtown Cairo. Almost all subjects in all languages can be found within the hundreds of ceiling-high stacks of books inside the small metal shacks run by various used booksellers.
The site stretches over 200 meters of paved concrete right in the heart of the Attaba discount shopping area.
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Upon this concrete plateau are perhaps 90 or so metal kiosks each containing a unique and specialized collection of books, newspapers and magazines.
The site is a little known area in Cairo where foreigners and Egyptians find used, rare, hard-to-get or specialized printed material. all at their usual below market discounted prices. As well, many of the shops feature top magazines (fashion, travel, music, business, etc) from all over the world
the Soor El-Azbackaya area will probably fill your needs. The site is also a gold mine for rare and hard-to-get books in many languages, including old Arabic newspapers covering prominent Egyptian events from decades past.
One of this shops, has the first issue of the public newspaper " AL Ahram" and sells it for 50 Egyptian pounds .
The American University in Cairo
(AUC) Bookshop
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You'll find the widest range of foreign fiction here, as well as books from the University Press -- local and regional fiction and scholarly works -- that are far more interesting than their covers. |
Egyptian Anglo-Bookstore
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In the St. David building, this has a pleasant search-through-the-stacks ambience.
The selection of books here is excellent, especially nonfiction. |
Zamalek Bookshop
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19 Shar'a Shagaret al-Dor, Zamalek
Tel: +20 (2) 736 9197
Wide range of books on Egypt, with photos and albums. |
Madbouly Bookshop
http://www.madboulybooks.com/
Adam Book Shop
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Adam Bookshop is amongst the leading private libraries that render specific care to children books in an unparalleled range:
Educational, Supportive, Kids Stories and Picture Books in various formats, Hard Books and Multimedia Maadi Grand Mall-Shop No (124) – Degla Maadi. Cairo Egypt
Tel: 002 - 02-5195351
http://www.adambookshop.com |
 
  
 
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