عامر مؤيد
تصوير: وسام العقيلي
On the fifth day of the Iraq International Book Fair in the session of Absent Tohme Farman and the icon of beauty “The Palm and the Neighbors”, we approached the books once and our guests the pioneers of Arab culture again.
Like every day of the International Fair, students flocked and the numbers increased, approaching books and having little hope, to break the monotony of the days, and renew energies, and then in the evening seminars and cultural sessions that have no limits, with a wide public presence.
At noon, the open atmosphere of the exhibition is a place for expatriates, where they can enjoy the taste of coffee provided by cultural cafes, as it is a special break for those coming to the exhibition “The Palm and the Neighbors”.
In the schedule of seminars, the beginning was with a session in which the prevalence of popular songs and their impact on public taste was discussed, and it hosted writer Adam Makkawi and the head of the cinema department at the Faculty of Fine Arts Hikmat Al-Baidani and Talal Ali, and the session was moderated by critic Samer Al-Meshaal.
In another seminar, the title was “Absent and the Woman”, in which the researcher Hague Abdul Hussein and the writer Shuja Al-Ani spoke in a session moderated by journalist Rifaat Abdul Razzaq.
Then followed by a session entitled Iraq and neighboring countries, in which the thinker Ghaleb Al-Shabandar and the writer Muhammad Al-Haj Hammoud and the session was moderated by political science professor Amer Hassan Al-Fayyad.
Finally, modern Iraqi architecture and visual distortion, where the architect and advisor to Prime Minister Maysoon Al-Damluji and academic Moataz Enad Ghazwan in a session moderated by Muhammad Al-Sufi.