Arab book fair and book festival visitor numbers easily exceeds 10 million in an unexpectedly quiet year. Who says Arabs don’t read?
“The Western reader devotes 200 hours of his time each year to reading, while the Arab...
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Tag: Arab book fairs
Turin is the latest book fair to blur the line between trade and public-facing publishing events
Last year Frankfurt trade visitors missed being eclipsed by public visitors by a paltry 6,000....
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s 14th Erbil International Book Fair closes with 400,000 visitors as another MENA book fair record tumbles
With one million titles on offer it was always going to be a big attraction, but even so the...
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Another book fair record falls as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh International Book Fair clocks 1 million visitors
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was at the Paris Book Fair this past week, marking the seventh year in...
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Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair clocks over 1 million visitors for second year running
When Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair scraped across the magical one million visitors mark in...
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Can Oman's Muscat International Book Fair this month beat its 2018 record of 1 million visitors?
Now be honest. If we think of the Arab book markets at all, the Gulf state of Oman is probably not...
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Saudi Arabia's 4th Jeddah International Book Fair set for 13 days over western Christmas and New Year
Yet another reminder that the global book markets care nothing for the idiosyncrasies of the...
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80,000 titles, 1.6 million books, 1,874 publishers, 77 countries and a message of intercultural tolerance. Sharjah prepares to break its 2017 record
The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) held a press conference this week to mark the countdown to the...
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