Egypt – the Egyptian General Book Authority has released its 2022 summary

Hopefully we’ll see the EGBA – the most active Arab publishing organisation after the Sharjah Book Authority – reach further into the global book markets in 2023.

MiddleEast24 has an auto-translated version that is poorly laid out and somewhat long, but well worth perusing to see what the EGBA has been up to this year.

In 2022 the EGBA attended 16 international book fairs, but only five of those were outside the Arab region.

Hopefully we’ll see the EGBA – the most active Arab publishing organisation after the Sharjah Book Authority – reach further into the global book markets in 2023.

Read the full press release, auto-translated from Arabic, here.

The next Cairo International Book Fair is looming, and with Covid-related concerns diminished if not conquered, this should prove to be a spectacular event. In its good years the Cairo IBF is the biggest book fair on the planet by footfall.