“Arabs only read for a few minutes a year” (Not my words!)
Last year the UAE’s Sharjah International Book Fair saw well over 2 million visitors while...
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Tag: Arab Book Market
Arab Publishing 2022 – An overview
Digital can democratise and empower Arab publishing across the entire MENA region in a way the...
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Arabs Don’t Read” Redux – International Book Fair “the biggest cultural event in Kuwait”
But what an opportunity for smaller and more nimble publishers to partner with their Arab partners...
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UAE – Manassah Gateway to the Arabic Book offers distribution and services for publishers
The Arab Literary Renaissance is real and palpable…but needs to be inclusive of all the Arab...
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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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Tunisia – 37th Tunis International Book Fair cancelled for 2022, but no, not because of Covid
The 37th FILT will embrace a “new vision” at a new venue at the heart of the Tunisian capital....
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Jordan’s 20th Amman International Book Fair underway
This year the fair is part of the nation’s centenary celebrations as Jordan marks one hundred...
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Only 30% of Jordan’s publishers took digital seriously before the pandemic ripped up the MENA book fair calendar. Now digital is too little too late to be a safety net
One message constantly driven home here at TNPS is the way in which, in contrast to “western” book...
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South Sudanese novel wins PEN Translates Award. Almost two thirds of awarded books by women writers, over half translated by women
When we think MENA literature we often don’t get past a handful of key North African and Middle...
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2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, often called the Arab Nobel Prize, is actually nine awards, each...
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Morocco’s Casablanca International Book Fair saw a half million visitors for third year in succession, yet still we’re told Arabs don’t read
It’s a central part of global publishing’s urban mythology. Arabs don’t read. Or rather, they do,...
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Bodour Al Qasimi to deliver keynote speech to open debate on Arab book market data tracking at UAE’s Emirates Airlines LitFest
Taking place at Al Amwaj, InterContinental, in Dubai Festival City, Event No. 110 on Thursday 6...
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