Muscat International Book Fair dates announced

T TV Wednesday 13/February/2019 18:11 PM
By: Times News Service

The 24th Muscat International Book Fair will be open to public starting 21 February, 2019, the Ministry of Information has announced.
According to officials, the book fair will take place at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre from 21 February to 2 March, 2019.
"882 publishing houses from 30 countries will be participating in the exhibition. For the first time, China, Canada, Sri Lanka and Bulgaria will all attend [the event]." - Dr Abdul Monim bin Mansour Al Hassani, Minister of Information
This edition of the book fair will see a total of 523,000 books on display, 35 per cent of which are new publications.