Prime Minister Najib Mikati sponsored the opening ceremony of the Beirut Arab International Book Fair in its 63rd edition, where he stressed that "challenges do not frighten us, but rather increase our determination to confront and stand in the face of difficulties to solve them," noting that "it is not new for Beirut to embrace the Arab book, as it was and still is the capital of Arab culture, and it was the starting point of the revolutions, and the starting point of the intellectual revolutions in the Arab world.”