Amer Moayed
As the gates of the Iraq International Book Fair began to open, the main hall and exhibition courtyard were filled with visitors who were eager to come early and be among the palm and neighbors.
The seventh day is the most popular in terms of attendance, especially with regard to school and kindergarten students who came in dozens, many of whom decided to buy a book that would inspire them to complete the march of life.
The schedule of seminars was also rich and not without important titles, which were discussed with great care and high accuracy by the speakers in order to communicate their opinions and information accurately.
The beginning was with the symposium “Absent and the City”, where the image of Baghdad that did not leave the writer in his novels, as the critic Dr. Jamal Al-Attabi, the critic Dr. Nadia Al-Azzawi, the writer and advisor to the Prime Minister Dr. Hussein Al-Hindawi, while it was moderated by the novelist Hamid Al-Mukhtar.
The seminar that followed was entitled “Narrative is an Update of History” and was lectured by critic Fadel Thamer and critic Dr. Nadia Hanawi and moderated by critic Dr. Ahmed Al-Dhafiri.
Then it was the turn of the book to talk about how “the book won its audience in Iraq and the Arab world, where the poet Fares Haram and the writer Muhammad Ghazi al-Akhras, and under the distinguished management of the writer Khudair Falih al-Zaidi.”
The conclusion of yesterday’s seminars was luxurious, especially as it concerns the elections and the continuous discussions that he engaged in in the feasibility of holding them or not, as the renewed presence of the Prime Minister’s advisor, Dr. Hussein Al-Hindawi, and the former leader of the Iraqi Communist Party, Dr. Jassim Al-Halfi, and managed by Professor of Political Science, Dr. Atheer Al-Jasour.