Western audiences: Think here celebrity children’s authors that have no clue about how children read and think, and their publishers who rely on parents to buy into the celebrity brand-name and then wonder why the joy off reading is in freefall.
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For those that suffered the west-centric history of the world at school – Arab and Indian cultural relations long predate the arrival of the Europeans on the subcontinent.
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The Rabat International Book Fair was traditionally held in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city and cultural hub.
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But here just a reminder: the biggest book fair in the world is in Africa.
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The anthology features stories from 22 award-winning young authors from the 2024 Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East competition, which I’m dismayed to admit I’ve not previously covered here on TNPS,
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The festival included a comprehensive programme for children, reinforcing a read for pleasure mindset that we in the west, and especially in the UK and US, seem to have lost sight of, as witness the disturbing fall in the number of kids that read for pleasure both sides of the Atlantic.
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together students, writers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate and explore the themes of resistance literature.
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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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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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A 50-minute televised literary platform hosted by Alia Ali Mansouri. Produced in cooperation with...
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The 16th Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature is fast approaching, in 2024 running from 31...
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“The Western reader devotes 200 hours of his time each year to reading, while the Arab...
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