Stories told by publishing houses in the exhibition

Books issued after the departure of their authors

On a tour between the corridors of the Sharjah International Book Fair, you encounter strange stories of many books scattered among the shelves of publishing houses participating in the exhibition, including books issued after the departure of their authors, and others that found their way to publication and their writers struggle with disease to leave during the printing process, and books whose authors left after attending the book signing ceremony directly.

The owner of the Mediterranean House from Italy, Khaled Suleiman Al-Nasiri, narrates that the poet Amjad Nasser, whose latest poem is presented in the publications of the modern house entitled "The Kingdom of Adam", was not conscious of life because of his struggle with an incurable disease during the collection process, so that God would die a few days after the book was published. Few.

In the wing of Dar Mahe for Publishing and Distribution from Egypt, the president of the company, Dr. Magdy Abdullah, points out that the Egyptian writer Ibrahim Al-Juwaili, to whom the house was exposed to his latest book entitled "The Other Beach", died last year in a car accident two weeks after attending the signing ceremony of his first book. He talks about the value of love.

Ahmed El-Mouradi, owner of Dar Al-Tawhidi from Morocco, mentions that the house is displaying a book entitled “The Archipelago of Memory” by the late Abdul Rahim Muadin, which includes his literary experience on four trips he made to Cairo, the Netherlands, Paris and China. Al-Mouradi notes that the author died after writing the book manuscript, but he He recommended publishing it, and the house worked to implement his will.

Ali Samawi, an employee of the Center for Arab Unity Studies from Lebanon, reviews the story of the book “The Other Genealogy” by Abdul-Ghani Imad, which is one of the center's most recent publications, indicating that the book was published in March 2020, and the author’s death last August. The author is a university professor and dean. He is a former at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Lebanese University, and has written a lot of research and studies. He has published about 40 books and authors.

Yasmine El Kawakibi, a sales manager at the House of Pathways from Morocco, talks about the book “Political Dialogues” by Malika Malik, saying: “The author is a journalist who presents in this book a set of conversations that she had during her journalistic career with Moroccan political figures, and the book was shown for the first time in Sharjah International Book Fair in its last session, and she died immediately after that.

The poet Amjad Nasser died a few days after the publication of "The Kingdom of Adam".

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