Category: Sharjah
Inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature – Once Again Sharjah Leads The Way In The Globalisation Of The International Book Markets
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.
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TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
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.
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“See you in Sharjah!”
Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
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Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone unveils exclusive packages for publishers as SIBF comes of age
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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Sharjah – 140 publishers learn strategies for global market access
The global audiobook market is expected to exceed $35 million by 2023, with audiobooks projected...
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Arab Renaissance: Millions descend on MENA book fairs as the 2023-24 season kicks off, starting with Riyadh
Never underestimate the publishing opportunity in the Arab markets. Some of the largest book fairs...
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UAE – The first-ever Sharjah Animation Conference attracted more than 5,000 attendees
The UAE continues to expand its mission as a global hub for the creative industries. “The...
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UAE – Arabs don’t read? Sharjah International Book Fair clocks 2.17 million visitors as western book fairs struggle to attract pre-Covid footfall
Sharjah wasn’t the biggest book fair by visitors this year – that honour went to Madrid – but it...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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Meet the Lebanese expat who sold books to young UAE royals. And a personal memoir involving suitcases of books
As my travel horizons widened I found my suitcases of English-language books could open doors and...
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Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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From Pandemic Panic to Pandemic Accommodation – global book fairs adjust to the New New Normal as Sharjah becomes world’s largest book fair
Sharjah this month eclipsed the mighty Buchmesse as the world’s largest book fair, taking the...
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