Category: Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan – Zakho International Book Fair Marks New Chapter for Kurdish Publishing
Zakho’s inaugural international book fair opens 1-6 Dec 2025, showcasing 20,000+ titles from 50+ publishers across 10 countries in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
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Overshadowed by Sharjah, Iraq’s 17th Erbil International Book Fair Launches With Theme “The World Speaks Kurdish”
But all the talk of the Arab Literary Renaissance becomes a bit one-sided in the western publishing arena when it’s the usual suspects – Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – grabbing all the attention while the grassroots events like Iraq’s Erbil fair, Morocco’s Rabat fair, et al, are relegated to footnotes, if they are noticed at all.
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Mesopotamia Book Fair underway
No, no stone tablets and cuneiform. This is modern day Mesopotamia. Running December 16-24, the...
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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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