When we review the details of the beautiful events of the 37th Sharjah International Book Fair, this is the largest and most beautiful cultural event in the UAE and the Arab world, which concluded on Saturday, we recognize the greatness and poise of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, , And we also realize that what His Highness wants to achieve before the eyes of the world as a whole, and that his theory that established the relationship between culture and society and development take root in the wings of books and in the gardens of ideas and creative words.
This is what Sultan wants .. To see hundreds of thousands of people every day of different ages, countries and backgrounds, touring the pavilions of the exhibition, asking for the titles of books and the names of authors and new topics, and others I thought no one is asking about, books founded for world culture, schools and ideologies as we know them Today.
His Highness wanted to see people queue up to honor their book by getting their signatures, attending a seminar, a meeting or an artistic presentation, or leaving carts loaded with books to show us that his position in betting on the inherent goodness of the human soul was very accurate and is reflected in the passion Seekers of knowledge, science and facts.
Sultan wanted to tell us that the achievement of the Sharjah International Book Fair, to be the third of the tens of thousands of exhibitions around the world, and to preserve this position over decades, and deepen and give it more dimensions every year; not easy, not bought with money or power, It is the culmination of daily details over dozens of years, and the accumulation of efforts and achievements of all bodies and institutions that work day and night to be the book's sparkle a global lighthouse of knowledge.
This is what Sultan wanted for us, the nation and the whole world .. To be Sharjah and the days of the library of the world and its cultural acceptance and the modern thinkers and creators .. Be a compass holders of the concerns of development and language and history .. The focus of the search for the joint and the renunciation of the band.
This is what Sultan wanted .. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this desire .. Thank you to the writers and publishers for attending their wedding and their great celebration, for their efforts in bringing knowledge from all over the world; to enter every house in the UAE and the Arab world .. Thank you to all those who have participated in the media, technicians and volunteers , And thanks to the readers who give the writer a reason to write, and give the culture justification for its prosperity, and thank the staff of the Sharjah Book Authority for their effort and give them and love in all details of work .. Thank you Sultan of culture and vision and will.
Chairman of the Sharjah Book Authority
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Thanks to writers and publishers for attending their wedding and their effort to bring knowledge from all over the world.