Al-Shabandar: A vibrant audience attended Baghdad International Book Fair's 25th session

Baghdad - INA

Writer Ghaleb Al-Shabandar confirmed, on Thursday, that the 25th session of the Baghdad International Book Fair was characterized by lively attendance.

Al-Shabandar told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The current session (twenty-fifth) of the Baghdad International Book Fair was characterized by lively attendance, which 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; as the individual became preoccupied with technology, so the paper book became heavy on him, which began to approach the museum, and only researchers request it."

Regarding the writer Mustafa Mahmoud, Al-Shabandar indicated that "the writer has solid experience and expertise that he fed 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, so he extracted books that contribute to raising generations; So I advise young people to search for Mustafa Mahmoud’s books among the exhibition’s pavilions, purchase them, and read them carefully. The man who died at the age of one hundred and five years old still has thoughts that illuminate the future.”