{"id":25602,"date":"2013-01-23T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=25602"},"modified":"2013-01-23T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:36:34","slug":"the-elusive-morsi-president-avoids-writer-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/the-elusive-morsi-president-avoids-writer-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Elusive Morsi’: President Avoids Writer Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cairo International Book Fair opened today, inaugurated by Pres. Mohammad Morsi, with the country still unsettled by train accidents, home collapses, and with a possible verdict in the Port Said football massacre looming.<\/i><\/p>\n

Prior to 2011, it was Hosni Mubarak\u2019s tradition to open the fair by holding a meeting with some of Egypt\u2019s most famous writers.<\/p>\n

According to Ahram Online,\u00a0<\/i>culture minister Saber Arab said that Morsi will not meet with writers at this year\u2019s fair inauguration, but instead will hold a meeting with publishers. The inauguration ceremony is set happen at 10 a.m., and the fair will be open to the public at 3 in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Writer Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, whose new book Alexandria in a Cloud\u00a0<\/i>is due out at this year\u2019s fair,\u00a0told Ahram Online<\/i> that \u201cMorsi was seeking to spare himself embarrassing questions, which the writers would have sought to ask him, especially as he has not considered any of the things he agreed to with the intellectuals at their meeting at the presidential palace last September.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abdel Meguid told AO:\u00a0<\/i>\u201cThe only question I would have for him if I attended such a meeting would be: Why you are being an elusive president?\u201d<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Jaquette will be covering parts of the fair for ArabLit; if you\u2019re interested in contributing coverage, please let us know. Also,\u00a0Ahram Online\u00a0<\/i>has done an excellent job thus far of previewing what\u2019s to happen at the fair.<\/p>\n

More:<\/b><\/p>\n

AO:\u00a0New book releases for Cairo book fair<\/a><\/p>\n

AO:\u00a0Morsi won\u2019t meet writers at Cairo book fair opening<\/a><\/p>\n

AO: Cairo International Book Fair 2013 Cultural Agenda?<\/a><\/p>\n

AO: Cairo International Book Fair: History and challenges<\/a><\/p>\n

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M. LYNX-QUALEY: President Morsi decided to give the traditional author meeting a miss at the opening of the Cairo Book Fair. What’s he afraid of? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,154,124,235,482,5],"tags":[2693,6394,16553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}