Category: Arab Literature (in English)
Women Dominate the 20th Anniversary Banipal Prize Shortlist
Discover the 2025 Banipal Prize shortlist marking 20 years of Arabic literary translation and key industry trends for publishers.
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14 Books by Arab Women for 2024’s Women in Translation Month
“Fourteen books by Arab women — written by women from across the Maghreb and Mashreq,...
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Authors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria make the shortlist for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
The Arabic Literature in English site ArabLit has revealed its short list of five blind-selected...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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Debut children’s author from Qatar makes shortlist for international indie book award
Published by Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and written by debut author...
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As Sharjah takes centre-stage, Kuwait’s Almultaqa Prize Announces 5-book Pan-Arab Shortlist for 2018
With the Sharjah International Book Fair underway in the United Arab Emirates you could be...
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Start The Day Global – 5 October 2018
We Start The Day Global today with e-visits to Botswana, India, Brazil, Kuwait and the UK. First,...
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So many stories slide across my desk that I’ve commented on briefly elsewhere, usually with the self-publishing audience in mind, but that haven’t warranted full TNPS posts. Here’s a selection. + + + If...
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Arabic Literature in Translation Seminar in New York follows Sharjah’s New Orleans Library Association presence. The Arab Renaissance gets into second gear
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) will be running a seminar at the New York Public Library...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 4 April 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories...
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Bahrain International Book Fair bucks the trend for global growth thanks to bad timing and a cramped venue
At a time when book events around the world are reaching new heights, as social media drives...
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Ten not to be missed World Poetry Day stories from around the globe
World Poetry Day has been celebrated on March 21 since 1999, and every year it seems more and more...
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