Doha International Book Fair 2026: A Record-Breaking 35th Edition Opens in Qatar
The 35th Doha International Book Fair 2026 opens with record participation, featuring 500+ publishers, 1.85m books, and key Arabic publishing trends.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 15, 2026 | Book Fairs, MENA publishing, Middle East, Qatar | 0 |
The 35th Doha International Book Fair 2026 opens with record participation, featuring 500+ publishers, 1.85m books, and key Arabic publishing trends.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 25, 2026 | Academic and specialist publishing, Arab publishing, MENA publishing, Qatar | 0 |
Qatar University Book Fair 2026 brings 45 publishers, nine international university presses, showcasing Gulf region’s growing academic publishing market opportunities.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 19, 2026 | Arab publishing, Awards, MENA publishing, Qatar | 0 |
Qatar’s Ministry of Culture invites global publishers to compete for eight Doha International Book Fair Awards, sharing a prize purse of 230,000 QAR.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 31, 2025 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, MENA publishing, Qatar | 0 |
Registration for the 35th Doha International Book Fair opens Jan 2026, building on 2025’s record 522 publishers from 43 countries.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 11, 2025 | Arab publishing, Awards, MENA publishing, Middle East, Qatar | 0 |
Seminar at Qatar National Library explores Arab publishing industry challenges with $1m Arab Book Award winners and experts.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 18, 2025 | Book Fairs, Qatar | 0 |
Writing liberated human thought, enabling the preservation of philosophy, literature, and law across generations.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 4, 2025 | Book Fairs, MENA publishing, Middle East, Qatar | 0 |
For the first time, the fair will launch a Professional Literary Exchange Programme, designed to foster international publishing rights deals and translation collaborations.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 27, 2025 | Africa, Book Fairs, Egypt | 0 |
At one time seen as a publishing backwater and mere “public-facing” book fair by most western publishing industry players, Cairo is fast becoming a key arena for global participation.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 24, 2024 | Libraries, MENA publishing, Middle East, Qatar | 1 |
Most of history’s civilisations rose, flourished and fell without a book in sight, and when books finally became a thing, many books were a means to oppress and deliver destruction, not to build. “Mein Kampf”, anyone?
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 21, 2023 | Book Fairs, Middle East, Qatar | 0 |
As I write this, we don’t know the detail of the #DIBF23 programme, and I’d...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 10, 2023 | India, Jordan, Qatar | 0 |
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 28, 2023 | AI, Audiobooks, India, MENA publishing, Middle East, Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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