26TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN BOOK HELD IN ANTELIAS

ANTELIAS, November 23 (Noyan Tapan). The annual exhibition of the
Armenian book was opened in Antelias on November 14. Along with the
different cathedral publishing houses a number of Armenian publishing
houses of Lebanon, foreign publishing houses, as well as individual
authors participated in the exhibition organized by the library
administration of the Mother See Church.

According to the press divan of the Catholicosate of the Great
Cilician House, clergymen, government officials, MPs, intelligentsia,
students, people being at the Cathedral during the liturgy, as well
as journalists were present at the opening of the exhibition. In his
speech Catholicos Aram I emphasized that it is necessary that the
publication and spread of the Armenian book should turn to mission. He
said that as a result of cooperation of the Catholicosate of the Great
Cilician House with Doctor Zaven Yekavian, the Head of the Armenian
Department of the Galust Gyulbenkian institution, many publications
have been released in Antelias up to now. Then the Catholicos, applying
to clergymen, intelligentsia and teachers, said: “Without Armenian
book your way is gloomy, without Armenian book your table is poor,
without Armenian book your heart is empty, without Armenian book you
is parched with thirst. Return to book, take it and read and don’t
forget that those reading books become rich owing to it”.

The students of Dprevank presented the artistic program and performed
with the polyphonic choral singing devoted to the Armenian language and
culture. Then the books of the spiritual, church-study, philosophic
spheres, as well as books for children and youth, books on the study
of literature, musical books and publications of other spheres of
culture were presented to participants.

The exhibition will operate till November 30.