{"id":128877,"date":"2020-01-22T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/22\/cairo-international-book-fair-turns-away-jailed-publishers-company\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:55:22","slug":"cairo-international-book-fair-turns-away-jailed-publishers-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128877","title":{"rendered":"Cairo international book fair turns away jailed publisher&#039;s company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khaled Lotfy, whose firm Tanmia published a new edition of a book about Egyptian double agent Ashraf Marwan, has been sentenced to five yearsCairo international book fair has excluded imprisoned publisher Khaled Lotfy\u2019s firm from the event citing \u201csecurity reasons\u201d, the International Publishers Association (IPA) has said.Lotfy was sentenced to five years in prison last April for \u201cspreading rumours and revealing military secrets\u201d by publishing a cheap Egyptian edition of Uri Bar-Joseph\u2019s The Angel, a biography of Ashraf Marwan, the Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel. The book has been adapted into the Netflix film The Angel. Egypt denies that Marwan betrayed his country, with former president Hosni Mubarak saying: \u201cI do not doubt his loyalty.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jan\/22\/cairo-international-book-fair-turns-away-jailed-publishers-company\" target=\"_blank\">Cairo international book fair turns away jailed publisher&#039;s company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khaled Lotfy, whose firm Tanmia published a new edition of a book about Egyptian double agent Ashraf Marwan, has been sentenced to five yearsCairo international book fair has excluded imprisoned publisher Khaled Lotfy\u2019s firm from the event citing \u201csecurity reasons\u201d, the International Publishers Association (IPA) has said.Lotfy was sentenced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}