Category: Arab publishing
TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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Saudi Arabia – Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Has Just Concluded
Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrated the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas, lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren’t too many of those on the Peninsula).
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UAE – Al Dhafra Book Festival: A Hub for Cultural Exchange and Publishing Innovation
The Al Dhafra Book Festival has a history of success, with each edition building on the achievements of the previous ones.
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Saudi Arabia – Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Is Underway
Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrating the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas , lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren’t too many of those on the Peninsula).
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Saudi Arabia – 3rd Madinah Book Fair saw visitors numbers rise 22% to 170,000
The 170,000 visitor turnout, while impressive for a regional fair, is dwarfed by the Jeddah book fair’s typical 500,000 visitor count, while the main event of the year, the Riyadh International Book Fair, routinely attracts more than one million visitors each year.
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Syria’s Qasioun Creative Literary Festival
together students, writers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate and explore the themes of resistance literature.
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In Qatar, Moroccan literature stands out at the 10th Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction
A total prize pool of $650,000 is on offer, with main prize standing at $200,000.
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Turkey – The 9th International Arab Book Fair set for August 10-18 in Istanbul
The 9th International Arab Book Fair will take place in Istanbul from August 10 to 18, under the theme “The Book is the Future.”
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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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Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre signs MoUs with music streaming platform Anghami and audiobook provider Iqraaly
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
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Morocco confirmed as Sharjah International Book Fair Guest of Honour
The Sharjah International Book Fair can attract over 2 million visitors in a good year, and is one of the few Arabic book fairs that gets wide international coverage, so being a SIBF Guest of Honour is a coveted prize.
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Arabookverse-Beat partnership takes the globalisation of Arab literature to a new level
The partnership creates “a pairing uniquely positioned to deliver the optimum experience for...
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