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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Tag: MENA publishing
Tunisia – Tunis International Book Fair 2024 dates announced
This year, 2023, the event was mired in controversy, not because of its first ever female director, Zahia Jouirou, Director of the Translation Institute, but due to books being seized by the authorities, and security issues.
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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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Libya – 2nd Benghazi International Book Fair just finished
The launch event last year attracted 7,000 visitors, and the organisers were hoping to beat that...
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45th Kuwait International Book Fair is underway. Finishes December 2
Past editions of the Kuwait International Book Fair have been overshadowed by concerns about...
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Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone unveils exclusive packages for publishers as SIBF comes of age
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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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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Palestine International Book Fair underway
“The largest international book fair in the history of Palestine.” Opened September 7...
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Saudi Arabia is developing a regional blockchain-based game publishing platform for MENA
Think back ten years ago to the western industry’s dismissive laughter at the far-eastern...
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