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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together students, writers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate and explore the themes of resistance literature.
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A total prize pool of $650,000 is on offer, with main prize standing at $200,000.
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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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“Fourteen books by Arab women — written by women from across the Maghreb and Mashreq,...
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Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
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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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The partnership creates “a pairing uniquely positioned to deliver the optimum experience for...
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Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
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The 4th Iraq International Book Fair runs February 14 through 24 this year. Details are sparse at...
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This year at TNPS we’re going to try shed some light on the international rights deals happening where the English-language sun doesn’t shine.
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A 50-minute televised literary platform hosted by Alia Ali Mansouri. Produced in cooperation with...
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