Fearing Corona .. “Arab publishers” are calling for the postponement of the Baghdad exhibition.

The organizers reject Muhammad Salih Al-Muallaj, Chairman of the Arab and International Exhibitions Committee, that with the widening of the map of the spread of the new Corona virus, which included more countries and in front of the cases announced in some sister Arab countries recently, and in the interest of the Arab Publishers Union headed by publisher Muhammad Rashad, on The health of its members, in order to avoid material losses in front of the reluctance of visitors, so contact was made with the director of the Baghdad International Book Fair to postpone the exhibition. Muhammad Salih Al-Healer explained that the request to postpone the exhibition due to its lack of visitors for fear of infection and the current security conditions in Baghdad, but the exhibition director insisted on keeping the exhibition history as it is and emphasized the regular functioning of the exhibition, and for this the Arab Publishers Union will not bear any responsibility for the participation of publishers Those who will be in the exhibition, as he appealed to Arab publishers to manage the Baghdad exhibition in the event of canceling the exhibition will bear the freight charges for the books of publishers back and forth, and also if the exhibition opens and visitors are poor, the rental value of the pavilions is reduced.