Morocco – Sharjah confirmed as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Rabat International Book Fair
The Rabat International Book Fair was traditionally held in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city and cultural hub.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 10, 2025 | Africa, Book Fairs, MENA publishing, Morocco, Sharjah | 0 |
The Rabat International Book Fair was traditionally held in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city and cultural hub.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 31, 2025 | Africa, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
As a writer and teacher in Africa, I can only applaud what is being achieved elsewhere on this beautiful continent, and dream that it might one day happen here.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 22, 2025 | Africa, Sharjah | 0 |
It’s a sad reality that books by African authors are very difficult to find in Africa.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 12, 2025 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Middle East, Sharjah | 0 |
The festival programme features a diverse array of events themed around literature, children’s literature, history and heritage, essay literature, the Arabic language, science fiction and fantasy, autobiography, thought, and miscellaneous events.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | Africa, Sharjah | 0 |
Fostering creativity, literacy and collaboration is a theme, if not perhaps in those exact words, that recurs again and again in the top-level Arab markets, and we (in western publishing) would all do well to take a step back and compare our own measures of success.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 24, 2024 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Children's Books, Middle East, Morocco, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 1, 2024 | Book Fairs, Publishing Brief, Sharjah | 0 |
Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 6, 2023 | Book Fairs, Germany, Global Publishing, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2023 | Book Fairs, Middle East, Sharjah | 0 |
The global audiobook market is expected to exceed $35 million by 2023, with audiobooks projected...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 24, 2023 | Abu Dhabi, Algiers International Book Fair, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Sharjah | 0 |
Never underestimate the publishing opportunity in the Arab markets. Some of the largest book fairs...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 9, 2023 | Film & TV, Middle East, Sharjah | 0 |
The UAE continues to expand its mission as a global hub for the creative industries. “The...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 16, 2022 | Book Fairs, Middle East, Sharjah | 0 |
Sharjah wasn’t the biggest book fair by visitors this year – that honour went to Madrid – but it...
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