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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Category: MENA publishing
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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“Read to Triumph” – Overshadowed by Sharjah, the Algiers International Book Fair is underway amid claims of censorship
The reality is that every country censors at some level (try publishing a book advocating terrorism or paedophilia), and that supposedly democratic countries like the US are among the repeat offenders when it comes to book bans.
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Qatar seems to wilfully misunderstand books and technology. They work together, not against one another
Most of history’s civilisations rose, flourished and fell without a book in sight, and when books finally became a thing, many books were a means to oppress and deliver destruction, not to build. “Mein Kampf”, anyone?
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Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh International Book Fair hopes for another million-visitor event next week
Kudos to Dr Mohammed Alwan for not only embracing and promoting reading for pleasure, but also embracing and promoting technology and digital solutions.
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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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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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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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The 4th Iraq International Book Fair is underway
The 4th Iraq International Book Fair runs February 14 through 24 this year. Details are sparse at...
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UAE – Sharjah TV’s book programme Fikr Wa Qalam (Thought and Pen) starts its 4th season
A 50-minute televised literary platform hosted by Alia Ali Mansouri. Produced in cooperation with...
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Tunisia – Tunis International Book Fair 2024 dates announced
This year, 2023, the event was mired in controversy, not because of its first ever female director, Zahia Jouirou, Director of the Translation Institute, but due to books being seized by the authorities, and security issues.
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