The world’s largest bookfair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, opened its doors last October 16-20, 2024, in Frankfurt, Germany. For worldwide business and trading, it is regarded as the most significant book fair on earth. More than 4,300 exhibitors and an expected 114,000 trade visitors from 131 countries, welcoming rights professionals from a total of 355 agencies and publishers make the Frankfurt Book Fair a place of endless discoveries. On the stages we experienced exciting international voices.
As the Frankfurter Buchmesse celebrates its anniversary for another year of serving the industry, Citi of Books did not miss the chance to join the 76th Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) in Frankfurt, Germany. This spectacular gathering honors fascinating works and their creators.
With a series of activities prepared, one of the most anticipated this year is the chosen country to be the guest of honor, which is Italy. The country will present not just its diverse, unique qualities as an attractive place to travel but also as a country with a rich literary tradition.
Citi of Books is excited to present books written by our distinguished authors. In our assigned booth, a range of books—from fiction to nonfiction—would be on exhibit. A book included in the gallery was “Sons Of Abraham” by Dr. Monif M Matouk.
Dr. Monif Matouk is a practicing physician and surgeon and a preacher of the Gospel. He has been practicing medicine since 2001. He came to the USA in 1979 at 14 years of age to finish his education and start a new life in a country where religious liberty and freedom of speech are protected. He met Jesus Christ in 1980 while reading an Arabic Bible that was given to him by a friend. The sermon on the mount had a particular effect on him as it had on millions of other people. The Nobility and compassion of Jesus and his teachings started him on a spiritual quest that ended up with total surrender to Christ.
He became a street preacher at age 17 and dropped out of high school. After getting married at age 19 to his first love and present wife Nadirah, he went back to school and earned his GED certificate at age 21 and later on went to complete his college education and medical school and residency training. He had served Christ and the church as a pastor and a preacher, published an Arabic Christian magazine, wrote several works in Classical Arabic Poetry as well as a number of plays. He is also a singer and song writer and plays the lute. He has a wife and three children that are the center of his life, and a first grandchild on the way.
In “Sons Of Abraham,” Fadi, a young Lebanese Muslim man, falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Layla, who happens to be a Christian. Caught in the middle of opposing forces, their love is hindered by a religious civil war and a larger conflict involving Israel Palestine and Syria.
As their unlikely love story unfolds, fresh light is shed on the complexity of Christian, Muslim and Jewish relationships in the Middle East. Fadi embarks on a spiritual quest, wrestling with the questions Muslims have about Christianity, and gradually recognizing the unique supremacy of Jesus Christ. Layla faces her own struggles and tests of faith, upon the death of her parents and injured brother.
As circumstances tear them apart, Fadi and Layla are forced to entrust their uncertain future with the God of Abraham. Years later, they both find themselves living in a different country, where they are eventually reunited under a different set of circumstances and challenges that they have to overcome and turn into a glorious victory.