Qatar’s first Ramadan Book Fair underway as Arab book fair season attracts millions in Q1 2022
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
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Tag: Arab book markets
Confusion at Bologna over Arabic language and digital books compatibility amid a wider piracy problem
It was one year ago this month that Amazon launched in Poland, amusingly selling Kindle devices...
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Egypt’s “High-Tech” Cairo Int. Book Fair clocked 91,000 visitors and 44.5 million online hits on first day
This year the Cairo event finally embraced digital fully, with a hybrid in-person and online fair,...
Read MoreSaudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance
“It is a very exciting time for the kingdom and the literary and publishing sector. The theme for this year’s event, “New Destination, New Chapter”, reflects Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to elevate the...
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Kuwait amends censorship law for books, but many questions remain unanswered
Prior to the new law a 12-member censors committee met twice a month and decided which books would...
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International Publishers Association – Arab Publishers Association Debate: “Publishing in the Arab World during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Live on YouTube Monday 13 July
International Publishers Association Secretary General José Borghino will be talking with Bachar...
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Italy: Giunti’s Int. Sales Officer talks Arab book markets. “Intimacy and direct interaction connect the audience with the publishing house”
While not free of the Covid-19 virus, Italy has gone from one of the hardest hit countries to one...
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India and Asia “realising the wealth of opportunities available in the Arab World”
The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT Abu Dhabi) participated in the 28th New Delhi...
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Publish MENA #6 is out. The latest news and insights into Arab publishing
Issue #6 of the bi-weekly StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter Publish MENA is hitting subscriber inboxes...
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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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