Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a crowd of “only” 706,000 as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF cancelled amid Coronavirus fears

Having attracted a crowd of over 1 million for two years running, the latest Muscat International Book Fair, which wound up yesterday in Oman, managed to pull in only 760,000 this year. That’s an impressive feat in its own right in a country of just 5 million, but will surely be a disappointment to the … Continue reading Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a crowd of “only” 706,000 as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF cancelled amid Coronavirus fears