Sherif Bakr

General Manager

Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing

Sherif Bakr has worked in publishing since 1997. Worked in Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing for 27 years now.

Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing was founded in 1975, in the last 14 years Al Arabi started a series #Different_Books with over 500 titles from 68 countries.

He worked as General Secretary of the Egyptian Publishing Association where he was responsible for the Development and e-publishing committee for 4 years. Bakr is also elected Four times as a member of the Freedom to Publish committee in the International Publishing Association, and a member of the Book and Publication Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo, also a member of the higher committee for culture program for the Cairo International Book Fair, and part of the Egyptian Export Council for Printing, Packaging, Paper, Literary and Artistic Works. Member of the Faculty of Languages and Applied Languages Council at King Salman University.
Leading the invitation program Cairo Calling for CIBF, Coordinator of the Project Arab Voices that aim to introduce Arabic authors to be translated to other languages.