The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation announces shortlist
The five-book shortlist “covers the full span of the Arab world, from Morocco to Iraq” and a “a...
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Author: Mark Williams
Iraq’s Baghdad International Book Fair set for December 9, but little chance of matching the 1 million visitors seen in 2019
In 2019 the Baghdad International Book Fair presented 2 million books and attracted a record one...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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Egypt’s Opera Book Fair brings books back to the original venue of the Cairo Int. Book Fair, after 30 years
Today the Cairo event holds the record as the world’s largest book fair, typically attracting...
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The world’s biggest book fair postponed until June-July 2021. Egypt’s Cairo Int. Book Fair, that is
Whether things will be better by summer 2021 remains to be seen, but we can safely say the 2021...
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