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Cairo proposes stronger publishing exchanges with Dakar

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Nevine El Tohamy, a member of the Union of Egyptian Publishers, has proposed strengthening translation and publishing-rights exchanges with Senegalese publishing houses. She also called on book-industry professionals to train in artificial intelligence at FILDAK in Dakar, according to APS.

Egypt and Senegal want to strengthen cooperation between their publishing houses on translation, the exchange of publishing rights and the integration of new technologies into the book industry, Nevine El Tohamy, a member of the board of the Union of Egyptian Publishers, said in Dakar on Saturday.

Nevine El Tohamy was speaking at a conference on the state of and prospects for publishing in Egypt. The proposal aims in particular to expand rights exchanges between publishers in the two countries, according to APS.

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