Egypt – 2023 Cairo International Book Fair dates announced
The Cairo International Book Fair is usually the biggest book fair in the world by visitor...
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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,...
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“Best Arab Publisher Award” to debut at Egypt’s Cairo IBF amid a bold digital embrace with holograms, VR and an ebook sales platform
The digital embrace exemplifies a shift in digital mood in the Egyptian publishing sector that...
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Egypt’s hybrid Cairo Int. Book Fair clocks 1.7 million real visitors, 1.6 million online visitors, 225 million online hits, 270,000 virtual tours and 1.5 million online book views
With internet penetration at only 52% it’s easy for publishers to dismiss Egypt as an online...
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Egypt’s Opera Book Fair brings books back to the original venue of the Cairo Int. Book Fair, after 30 years
Today the Cairo event holds the record as the world’s largest book fair, typically attracting...
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The world’s biggest book fair postponed until June-July 2021. Egypt’s Cairo Int. Book Fair, that is
Whether things will be better by summer 2021 remains to be seen, but we can safely say the 2021...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA # 10 is hitting in-boxes about now
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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“Egyptian and Arab publishing was in crisis before the pandemic. Now exacerbated by lockdown”
Said Abdo, head of the Egyptian Publishers Association, said recently that Arab publishing was...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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Amid pandemic, Egypt govt. agrees to allocate additional funds for libraries to purchase books from Egyptian publishers
Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Inas Abdel Dayem and Ahmed Awwad, Head of the General Authority for...
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Egypt’s Alexandria International Book Fair adds 200,000 free ebooks to its website
Despite Egypt leading Africa in coronavirus fatalities (40 dead as this post goes live) and the...
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Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair clocks 600,000 visitors in first four days. Book sales up on 2019
Egypt’s Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem, reported back on the first four days of the 14-day...
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