This year Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, is UNESCO World Book Capital. Which means the Sharjah International Book Fair, a major literary event in any year, is going to be even more spectacular in 2019. UNESCO of course is one of the world’s great cultural institutions, but occasionally it can be the inadvertent … Continue reading UNESCO says Arabs read for just 6 minutes a year. So why will more than 4 million Arabs be heading for MENA book fairs next week?