Cairo Top Tours
Cairo Top Tours

Latest Articles

  • Egypt Aswan Governorate Aswan

    Aswan Governerate in Egypt

    One of Egypt's southern governorates is Aswan Governorate. The city of Aswan serves as its capital. At a latitude of 22 north of the equator (also known as the Tropic of Cancer), it is bounded to the north by the Qena Governorate, to the east by the Red Sea Governorate, to the west by the New Valley Governorate, and to the south by the Republic of Sudan.

  • Things to Do in Luxor

    Luxor Governorate Egypt

    The capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt is Luxor City, which was once known as "Thebes City" because it served as Egypt's capital during the Pharaonic era. It is situated in the South Upper Egypt region, approximately 670 kilometers from the capital Cairo from the south. It is bordered on the north by Qena Governorate, on the south by Aswan Governorate, on the east by Red Sea Governorate, and on the west by New Valley Governorate.

  • kafr El Sheikh Governorate | kafr El Sheikh Governorate History

    History of kafr El Sheikh Governorate

    Kafr El Sheikh Governorate is an Egyptian governorate, located in the northernmost part of Egypt in the Nile Delta, with Kafr El Sheikh as its capital. It had a population of 3,172,753 in 2015 and an area of 3,748 km². Its entire area is located north of the delta and overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. The main economic activity of the residents of the governorate is agriculture and fishing, especially the southern lands of the governorate and the lands overlooking the Nile River - Rosetta Branch.

  • Egypt's New Administrative Capital City

    Egypt's New Administrative Capital

    The New Administrative Capital is located between the Cairo-Suez and Cairo-Ain Sokhna roads, 60 km from Cairo and the same distance from Ain Sokhna and Suez. The New Administrative Capital is located on the border of Badr City, in the area between the Cairo-Suez and Cairo-Ain Sokhna roads, just after New Cairo, Mostakbal City and Madinaty.

  • Historical Importance of Al Gharbia

    Al Gharbia Governorate

    Gharbia Governorate is one of the governorates full of archaeological sites, whether they are places or facilities (mosques, churches), as the governorate is a destination for visitors to these places throughout the year, whether they are Egyptians from the different governorates.

  • Marsa Alam City

    Hamata Islands (Qulaan Archipelago) in Marsa Alam

    The Hamata area, south of Marsa Alam in the Red Sea, is one of the most important parts of the Wadi El Gemal Reserve, whether in the desert or the sea. It was named after the sorrel plant, which was distorted to Hamata.

Book Lovers Day  | Read a Book Day

Details about Book Lovers Day | Read a Book Day

  • 05 16, 2023

National Book Lovers Day 

There’s no arguing that books are the best means of escape. They can transport you to any age, geography, or society. So, to observe the National Book Lovers Day on August 9, it is a day when we kept our smart devices aside and simply enjoyed reading a nice book. (Alright, an audio book would suffice as well.) Literature for ages has been crucial the preservation of civilization’s, people’s education and culture and their stories. Everything from clay tablets to current e-books.

While present-day books are made with binder paper, in the olden days, books were either in the form of disks, scrolls, or engravings, long before binding paper was invented. Every society had its distinct methods of recording data. Around 3500 B.C, the Mesopotamians began to write on clay tablets using an instrument resembling a sharpened reed stem called a calamus.

The engravings on moist clay were referred to as “wedge-shaped”. Close to twenty thousand such wedges have been unearthed in contemporary Iraq. In the first century AD, paper was first invented in China. Ts’ai Lun helped create the earliest forms of paper by making use of linen rags, fish nets and mulberry trees. Eventually, block printing on wood became the most popular book reproduction technique in China.

The first ‘books’ are thought to be ancient scripts from the 4th century before Christ, however, the oldest compiled book according to modern interpretation is ‘The Diamond Sutra’ that was published in china on 11th May, 868.

Entering the 20th Century, the publishing trade was dominated by the hard cover books which were also quite respectable in terms of prestige. Nevertheless from 1937 onward, more and more people started to embrace paperbacks which later on opened room for digests, pulp fiction as well as small size books. World Book Day is observed on April 23 each year. What is the meaning of National Book Month? Every October National Book Month is celebrated. The entire month is dedicated to the significance of reading, writing and literature.

Activities to Celebrate National Book Lover's Day Go to your local public library. The public libraries have their historical records dating back to the medieval times. Though at those times, books were mostly secured on display cases through chains so as to avoid them from being stolen. Surplus how many windows on the avemect make holiday revolves eo our hobby by going to the local library in observance of national book lovers day anya. Extra points if you take a book from the shelf, find a couch in the library and read it on that couch instead.

Tags:
Share On Social Media:

Egypt Tours FAQ

Read top Egypt tours FAQs

Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9th every year. It is an internationally recognized observance where readers across the globe participate in various activities such as book exchanges, book club meetings, library visits, or simply spending quality time with a good book.

It's all too simple to disregard reading as a hobby in this day of growing digitalization. We should take this day to remind ourselves how pleasant it is to curl up with a good book and read in silence. One frame to talk about with kids may be this one. Reading is an activity, not merely something we learn from.

;

Cairo Top Tours Partners

Check out our partners

EgyptAir
Fairmont
Sonesta
the oberoi