Mesopotamia Book Fair underway
No, no stone tablets and cuneiform. This is modern day Mesopotamia. Running December 16-24, the...
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Category: Kurdistan
Foreign books sales in Romania; the origins of Vietnam’s alphabet; invisible book fairs in China and Kurdistan
We Start The Day Global today in Romania, where BooksExpress.Ro, a Romania book store specialising...
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s 14th Erbil International Book Fair closes with 400,000 visitors as another MENA book fair record tumbles
With one million titles on offer it was always going to be a big attraction, but even so the...
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14th Erbil Book Fair underway in Iraq’s Kurdistan. 100,000 visitors expected
Iraq is probably on few authors or publishers lists as a place to sell books, and no question the...
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“A voiceless nation, too busy staying alive to create literary pieces in foreign languages”
In what is believed to be a first, a Kurdish woman will be publishing a novel written in English....
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Kurdistan’s 13th Erbil Int. Book Fair reminds us censorship is a balancing act, not a line in the sand
38 books have been prevented from sale at the 13th Erbil International Book Fair in Iraq’s...
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