In Egypt calls grow to boycott world’s largest book fair. Cairo Int. Book Fair Director steps up to explain the CIBF’s unpopular relocation
At the best of times the logistics of setting up the world’s biggest book fair are problematic....
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Author: Mark Williams
The Lebanese National Library will reopen in Beirut in January, forty years after the Lebanese Civil War saw its destruction
When conflict erupted in Beirut in 1975 the Lebanese National Library was an inevitable casualty,...
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India’s oldest pavement bookseller turns his final page, but the Chennai street bookstore goes on
If you’re a booklover and you’ve ever been to India’s Chennai then chances are you’ve seen, and...
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Ghana’s Accra International Book Festival announces 2018 Awards shortlist
The Accra International Book Festival has announced its shortlist for two awards today: the 2018...
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Vietnamese children’s book debuts as a Broadway-style musical at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House this weekend
Diary of a Cricket, as the English translations of De men phieu luu ky runs, is a 1941 children’s...
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