Damascus-SANA
The importance of providing the book and delivering it to all social segments with quality content and content at an appropriate price through institutions that publish and support it.
During the meeting, the head of the Arab Writers Union, Dr. Muhammad Al-Hourani, spoke about the impact of conspiracies and war on the cultural reality and the need for intellectuals and institutions of all kinds to bear the responsibility of supporting culture and presenting the book in a way that the reader can purchase.
He stressed the need for publishing houses to bear the responsibility of improving the status of books, especially paper, according to the continuous coordination between them and other institutions, and striving to print books capable of creating a real culture in which institutions cooperate with the Union without neglecting the role of the media in accomplishing this work.
Haitham Al-Hafiz, head of the Syrian Publishers Association, referred to the implementation of plans to support writers in Syria and to publish books at prices that are supposed to be acceptable in order to enable the existence of a generation of readers and educated people by relying on the paper book due to the methodology of the documents it contains.
And he indicated the importance of cooperating with the Arab Writers Union in providing valuable books of intellectual and cognitive content at prices that suit everyone.
In turn, the media researcher, Deeb Ali Hassan, stated that it is necessary to work to spread the culture of reading first in the family, school and university, and to support writers, and then cultural strategies must be developed in cooperation between the concerned ministries, such as: Education, Culture, Education, Media, the Arab Writers Union and the Publishers Union .. and work to establish a book market Old and new versions at affordable prices.
The media figure, Faten Daaboul, who moderated the session, pointed out the difficulties and challenges facing the book industry, the first of which is the high cost of it, explaining that the goal of today's session is to reach a common agreement between cultural institutions to encourage reading and going to libraries and benefiting from the experiences of countries in establishing book markets or reviving some of the markets that were known, in addition. To activate the publication of the pocket book to be accessible to all.
The session included interventions by a number of writers, researchers and media professionals, who discussed the need to support the publication of the book due to its importance in the development of culture and society.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr
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