The Egyptian General Book Organization was established in 1971 by a decision of the Egyptian government with the aim of highlighting Egypt's cultural role and introducing its ancient and modern civilization.
The organization established the project to export translated Arab thought. Its translation publications include the following:
- Seventy-five titles within the Contemporary Arabic Literature Series.
- Forty-four titles within the International Award-Winning Works Series.
- Twenty titles within the Exporting Arab Thought Series.
- Four hundred and six titles within the Second Thousand Books Series.
- The organization has authored and translated cultural books at the national and international levels.
- It prints, publishes, and markets Egyptian books at all levels.
- The organization organizes and participates in a number of local, regional, and international exhibitions, such as the Cairo International Book Fair, the Alexandria Arab Book Fair, and the Cairo International Children's Book Fair.
- The organization provides all necessary facilities to promote intellectual production.
- The “Exporting Egyptian Thought in Translation” project, which has produced twenty works, aims to achieve the slogan “Translation from Arabic into other languages: an attempt to communicate Egyptian and Arab thought.”