Bodour Al Qasimi opens the doors of global publishing to Tunisian and Moroccan publishers

Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi during her meeting with representatives of the Moroccan Publishers Union.

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During her visit to Tunisia and Morocco, Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association, met with representatives of the Tunisian Publishers Union and the Moroccan Publishers Union, in two separate meetings, during which they discussed many issues related to enhancing interaction with the international publishing community, as part of its efforts to advance the industry Publishing at the global level, and enabling Arab publishers to benefit more from the opportunities available in this sector.

At the beginning of her visit to the Tunisian capital, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi met with representatives of the Tunisian Publishers Association, who welcomed the keenness of the International Publishers Association to provide them with the opportunity to learn about its initiatives and projects, discuss ways of cooperation with them, and facilitate their access to other markets, especially the areas near them, where the publisher owns Al-Tunisi has the advantage of easy communication with a large number of regional markets in the Mediterranean and Southern Europe.

During her visit to Tunisia, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi met with the Director General of the Arab Organization for Education and Culture (ALECSO), Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ould Amar, at the organization's headquarters in the Tunisian capital, where a number of issues related to the book industry were reviewed, foremost of which are the challenges arising from the pandemic. Corona”, and ways of cooperation between the Federation and the Organization in the areas of freedom of publication, intellectual property, and training of publishers.

During her visit to the Moroccan city of Casablanca, whose annual book fair is the largest in the region, and the city is home to the most prominent local publishing houses, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi met with a group of Moroccan publishers, who expressed their happiness with this interest by the International Publishers Association, to learn about their needs, Standing on the challenges they are going through, and trying to find solutions to them, at the same time listening to their opinions about the reality and future of the publishing market in Morocco and the region.

The President of the International Federation of Publishers reviewed before the members of the Tunisian and Moroccan Publishers Union the initiatives and projects launched by the union to support the publishing sector’s recovery efforts from the impact of the “Corona” pandemic, to help member publishers develop and innovate mechanisms to maintain their stability and develop their businesses, and take advantage of the opportunities that the next stage brings.

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