{"id":173068,"date":"2019-09-11T08:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=173068"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:53:06","slug":"237-publishing-houses-to-participate-in-31st-book-fair-with-50-thousand-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=173068","title":{"rendered":"237 publishing houses to participate in 31st Book Fair with 50 thousand titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- \u00a0Under the title &#8220;Book is a Building of Mind&#8221;, next Thursday the 31<sup>st<\/sup> Book Fair will start activities at the national al-Assad Library as 237 publishing houses from Syria and Arab and foreign states will take part in the fair with 50 thousand titles, according to Culture Minister Mohammad al-Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>Minister al-Ahmad&#8217;s remarks came during a press conference held Tuesday at the building of the Culture Ministry\u00a0 to announce the Fair&#8217;s program and the accompanying cultural activities as al-Ahmad affirmed that the number of the participating publishing houses has been the largest ever till now.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahmad affirmed the Culture Ministry&#8217;s keenness on the success of the Book Fair and to make its current edition distinguished in comparison with the previous ones.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the program of the Fair is very rich this year as it includes holding symposiums, poetry evenings \u00a0and lectures to honor a number of elite authors, in addition to screening a number of films and showcasing a bunch of the unique scripts.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also referred to the huge pressures which have been imposed on the Syrian publishers throughout the terrorist war waged against their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- \u00a0Under the title &#8220;Book is a Building of Mind&#8221;, next Thursday the 31st Book Fair will start activities at the national al-Assad Library as 237 publishing houses from Syria and Arab and foreign states will take part in the fair with 50 thousand titles, according to Culture Minister Mohammad al-Ahmad. Minister al-Ahmad&#8217;s remarks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":173069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6987,115],"tags":[20414,8489,5362,18762,20415],"class_list":["post-173068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-latest-news","category-local","tag-20414","tag-book","tag-fair","tag-houses","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}