Ameer Hamad wins Palestine's Qattan Short-story Award, Co-Wins Poetry Prize
Not having had the privilege of learning Arabic (I’m British – my generation were brought up...
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Author: Mark Williams
SprinNG launches new $275 prize for female Nigerian authors – not to publish, but to promote, distribute and buy an already published book
First off, let’s get the financials out of the way. $275 may not seem like a lot in the USA or...
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January 2020 Book Fair Snapshot. 8-10 million people spending millions of dollars on books in countries widely regarded as publishing backwaters
2020 is off to a great start on the global book fair front, but what follows should be seen as...
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Video streaming service StarzPlay partners with Asiacell to target the lucrative Iraq market. Can Storytel Arabia, Booklava, Dhad and Kitab Sawti be far behind?
When it comes to the Arab digital books market the field is surprisingly competitive, with Dhad,...
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Çukurova opens the 2020 Turkish book fair season. Over 2 million will visit book fairs in Turkey this year
Turkey’s first book fair of the year expects more than 360,000 visitors. It’s by no...
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