Category: United Arab Emirates
IPA acquires “Exclusive Global Transport Partner” in Emirates Airlines as Setzer and Al-Qasimi reposition the IPA as the champion of the emerging book markets
Emirates Airlines has today become the official partner of the International Publishers...
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Sharjah International Book Fair sets new visitor record – 2.52 million – as Algiers Int. Book Fair footfall declines to “only” 1.1 million
s Given Sharjah is also the UNESCO World Book Capital this year it perhaps won’t come as a...
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Sharjah International Book Fair sets new Guinness world record – for book-signings
Back in 2010 a world record was set in Turkey when 1,423 authors signed copies of their own books...
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UNESCO says Arabs read for just 6 minutes a year. So why will more than 4 million Arabs be heading for MENA book fairs next week?
This year Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, is UNESCO World Book Capital. Which means the...
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Germany to be Guest of Honour at 2021 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
As the biggest trade event in the world, the Frankfurt Book Fair has had so much happening it’s...
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Emirates Publishing Association global networking brings the Arab Renaissance to the world
When it comes to identifying the leading forces in the international reach of the Arab Renaissance...
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Big Bad Wolf Dubai finished today. Dubai Cares was its charity partner
Big Bad Wolf has been in Dubai for its second year, bringing 3 million (not a typo!) mostly...
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“Digital publishing is the future, and we seek to embrace it wholeheartedly” – 2020 Abu Dhabi Int. Book Fair adds digital and audio to its Spotlight On Rights programme
If 2019 has been a year of powerful developments in the Arab publishing world, the new decade...
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“The future of knowledge creation” is the focus of an Educational Publishing Seminar in the UAE
With the IPA Middle East Seminar still fresh, and Frankfurt about to kick off, comes news of a UAE...
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“A crackle of promise in the air” – Reflections on the IPA Amman Seminar
“A crackle of promise in the air” was how IPA blogger Ben Steward described the just closed Middle...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #4 is hitting inboxes this weekend
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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Big Bad Wolf returns to Dubai in October, with 3 million books
Very few details available right now, but with one month to go it’s now official that Big...
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