Hundreds of the celebrators of the Ninth International Cultural Martyrdom Spring Festival took part with the Secretariats-General of the Imam Hussein and EL-Abbas holy shrines in inaugurating the book fair which is one of the activities of the festival. The head of the festival Sayed Muyaser El-Hekeem confirmed that 400 publishing houses had already applied for participating in the festival, and 190 ones had been approved of. The 190 publishing houses are from 13 countries. 77 publishing houses from Lebanon, 34 ones from Egypt, 25 ones from Iran, 13 ones from Syria, 6 ones from Jordan, 5 ones from Britain, 2 ones from America and Saudi Arabia, in addition to some others such as Algeria, India, Bahrain, UAE. It has been mentioned that the diameter of the book fair is 3440 square meters which is larger than the previous one. Translated by: Mohammed Jasim
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