Sharjah Looks East: SBA Courts China’s Educational Publishers
Sharjah Book Authority hosts 13 Chinese publishing officials to explore educational publishing, rights exchange and SIBF participation in the UAE.
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Category: Sharjah
Sharjah’s BookXcess Deal Has a Six-Year Backstory, and the West Still Isn’t Watching
Sharjah has secured exclusive rights to operate BookXcess across the Middle East and Africa. TNPS traces the deal back to a 2019 pledge — and asks why Western trade press missed it.
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Sharjah’s Malaysia Triple-Play – Not Just There for the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair
The Sharjah Book Authority visited Kuala Lumpur two weeks before KLIBF, meeting Big Bad Wolf, BookXcess and Kota Buku. TNPS analyses what it means for the emerging south-south publishing corridor.
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Warsaw International Book Fair – A New Chapter for Central Europe’s Biggest Literary Marketplace
The 2026 Warsaw International Book Fair runs 28–31 May at PGE Narodowy, with Sharjah as Guest of Honour and 1,200+ industry events.
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Arab Publishing’s AI Transformation Accelerates While Western Publishers Dither
Sharjah’s Onshur fund receives 94 AI and digital technology submissions from 17 countries for Arab publishing industry transformation, with Egypt and UAE leading participation.
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Triz Becomes First Brazilian Publisher to Establish UAE Presence
Grupo Editorial Triz launches Soul Next imprint in Sharjah Publishing City, becoming first Brazilian house with UAE presence. Arabic, English, Hindi titles target 17-country market from Q3 2026.
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As The 2nd Sharjah Literature Festival Readies, A Reminder of How The Centre of Publishing Gravity Shifts Inexorably East
Sharjah Literature Festival 2026 offers UAE publishers a platform to showcase titles, network, and boost exports in a growing market.
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Focal Point 2025: Sharjah’s Art Book Fair Champions Independent Publishing
Focal Point 2025 brings together 60+ independent publishers for three days of art books, workshops, and launches at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Sharjah.
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Building Cultural Legacies: What Publishing Can Learn from World Book Capitals
Sharjah and Athens, former UNESCO World Book Capitals, discuss how the title fosters lasting cultural infrastructure, publishing partnerships, and global literary networks.
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Arabic Poetry Flourishes Across Africa: A Continent’s Literary Revival
Almost everyone here learns Arabic as a second or third language, and often it’s their first written language, but I struggle to find anyone here who sees Arabic as language of the arts.
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Greece Confirmed as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair
Book fair press releases are all too often so flowery you expect them to attract bees as you read, and this one was no exception.
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Harnessing Visual Storytelling to Engage Young Readers: Insights from Janna Morishima at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival
All too often there is a one size fits all approach to bringing children of the world of reading that backfires by not meeting each child where they are.
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