Algerian publishers to boycott Cairo book fair | Bikya Masr
CAIRO: Maybe the war between Algeria and Egypt is not quite finished. The Cairo International Book Fair, to be held this January, has already experienced the fallout of the recent football row that saw Egyptians and Algerians attack one another in the street. Publishers are pulling out of the region’s largest book fair.
The Algerian National Union of Book Publishers has decided, after the meeting of the Executive Board in its regular session held December 17 last, to boycott the Cairo International Book Fair to be held in January.
The union said in a statement that the decision was taken after long discussions and debates between the officers and also correspondences between the office and the Union of Arab Publishers, after the media campaign which was conducted by the Egyptian institutions against Algeria.
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