Baghdad – WAA – Fatima Rahma
Photography – Rizgar Barzanji
Writer Ghaleb Al-Shabandar confirmed today, Thursday, that the 25th session of the Baghdad International Book Fair was distinguished by its lively attendance.
Al-Shabandar told the (INA): “The current session (the twenty-fifth) of the Baghdad International Book Fair was distinguished by the lively presence that brought together the elite and the public in a high aesthetic melting pot.”
He added, “The reasons for the decline of the paper book are its high price, lack of time, and laziness in searching in libraries. Individuals are preoccupied with technology, so the paper book has become too heavy for them, and it has begun to become like a museum, and only researchers seek it.”
Regarding the writer Mustafa Mahmoud, Al-Shabandar pointed out that “the writer has solid experience and expertise that he has nourished with studies that serve the youth, stressing that “Mustafa Mahmoud’s writings are diverse, easy and simple, far from complications. He traveled the entire world and extracted books that contribute to raising generations; therefore, I advise the youth to search for Mustafa Mahmoud’s books among the exhibition’s pavilions and to acquire them and read them carefully. The man who died at the age of one hundred and five years, his ideas still reveal the future.”