{"id":3907,"date":"2017-03-09T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/atabat\/3907-najaf-international-book-fair-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:08:54","slug":"najaf-international-book-fair-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/atabat\/3907-najaf-international-book-fair-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Najaf International Book Fair kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretariat of Imam Ali Holy Shrine has kicked off the Ninth Najaf International Book Fair.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretariat of Imam Ali Holy Shrine has kicked off the Ninth Najaf International Book Fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony witnessed the attendance of representatives of holy shrines and high-ranking officials as well as a large crowd of Ahlulbayt followers.<\/p>\n<p>The supervising committee announced that some 210 local, Arabic, Islamic and international publishing houses are participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Isa al-Kharsan, head of the fair, said that, \u201cToday we have launched the ninth edition of Najaf International Book Fair with over 200 publishing houses from around the world and with various religious and educational subjects,\u201d pointing out to this year\u2019s special partition specified for children\u2019s publications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Najaf International Book Fair of Imam Ali Holy Shrine will continue until March 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretariat of Imam Ali Holy Shrine has kicked off the Ninth Najaf International Book Fair. \u00a0 \u00a0 The General Secretariat of Imam Ali Holy Shrine has kicked off the Ninth Najaf International Book Fair.\u00a0 The opening ceremony witnessed the attendance of representatives of holy shrines and high-ranking officials as well as a large &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,64,49],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atabat","tag-book","tag-imam-ali-holy-shrine","tag-najaf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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