Syria’s Qasioun Creative Literary Festival
together students, writers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate and explore the themes of resistance literature.
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Tag: Arab publishing
Turkey – The 9th International Arab Book Fair set for August 10-18 in Istanbul
The 9th International Arab Book Fair will take place in Istanbul from August 10 to 18, under the theme “The Book is the Future.”
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Oman – 28th Muscat IBF attracts almost 400,000 visitors amid a “significant shift towards Arabic children’s literature”
Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
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UAE – Sharjah TV’s book programme Fikr Wa Qalam (Thought and Pen) starts its 4th season
A 50-minute televised literary platform hosted by Alia Ali Mansouri. Produced in cooperation with...
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UAE – Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature lines up astronauts and a Booker prize winner
The 16th Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature is fast approaching, in 2024 running from 31...
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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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Saudi Arabia – Jeddah Book Fair underway
The Jeddah Book Fair concludes the triple-whammy book fair line-up for 2023 that included the...
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“From 1001 Nights to now: Ahlam Bolooki’s quest for Arab literature recognition”
Regular English children’s fiction at the time I was a kid, where it might have a Middle...
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Algeria – Algiers International Book Fair the world’s fourth largest book fair in 2023
The global book market is way bigger than we think. And we only have to look at the 2.7 million...
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Arab Renaissance redux: 1 million visitors at the Riyadh International Book Fair. Revenues substantially up
The global book market is so much bigger than we think. The Riyadh International Book Fair closed...
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“Put down the iPad, pick up a book” is the wrong message for Arab kids as global publishing realigns
What is up with the youth of today? Don’t they understand that reading is something you have to do...
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UAE – The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre has launched the complete “Oyoon Al She’er Al Arabi” Arabic poetry series for World Poetry Day on March 21
The series includes anthologies of Arabic poetry from the pre-Islamic era to the 18th century,...
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