This year's 8th Thessaloniki International Book Fair opens on Thursday at the HELLEXPO installations,
running through Sunday, with the participation of almost all of the city's cultural agencies.The Book Fair is part of the Culture Ministry's programme "Crossroads of Cultures", which concerns Thessaloniki exclusively, and will include a special dedication to the Middle East this year titled "When the ideas rise up".
Participating in the dedication, which through a "historic conjuncture" coincided with the ideological and political uprising in the countries of North Africa, are people of literature and writers from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia as well as Pakistan, Ethiopia, Turkey and others.
The Book Fair will host 500 publishers and firms, 190 writers from Greece and 23 other countries, 170 scheduled book presentations, an international conference on the theme "Books and Education" and the dedication to the Middle East.
