Cairo Book Fair remains a mirror of the Egyptian situation, its ups and downs, says Mohamed ElBaradei. He says the festival in which the issues of the threatened publishing industry are dominated by noise.
The fair got rid of many of its old impurities, he says, but its effects remain that ignore the issue of context. El Baradei: I have an old relationship with the book fair, before I entered it in the first year of secondary school in January 1982, the school announced a trip to the exhibition.