KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan is preparing to host a new session of the Khartoum International Book Fair, the first since former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir stepped down last April.
The 15th edition of the exhibition will be held from 17 to 29 this year with the participation of 200 publishing houses from inside and outside Sudan offering 200 thousand book titles.
Participating countries include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, China and South Sudan.
"The current session represents a continuation of a long and valuable march with the message that Sudan is now laying the foundations of a modern democratic state, and is in a state of real change embodied in the full openness of the programs accompanying the exhibition and the participation of attractive figures for the first time," Minister of Culture and Information Faisal Mohammed Saleh told a news conference. Once".
He added, "We were faced with two options in relation to the country's circumstances, either to proceed with the exhibition or to apologize.
He pointed to the lack of restrictions on political books in the exhibition, and dealing with freedom of thought without abuse. The management of the exhibition chose the professor of political science and Islamic studies Muddathir Abdul Rahim Tayeb «personality of the session».