UAE – Kanz Al Jeel Award 2025: Submissions Now Open
The Kanz Al Jeel Award is part of the broader efforts by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre to promote Arabic literature and culture.
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Tag: UAE book market
Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre signs MoUs with music streaming platform Anghami and audiobook provider Iqraaly
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
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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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UAE’s Month of Reading: Three expats launch online library renting physical books
The initiative is designed to “keep people, especially children, away from unwanted screen...
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UAE – Arabs don’t read? Sharjah International Book Fair clocks 2.17 million visitors as western book fairs struggle to attract pre-Covid footfall
Sharjah wasn’t the biggest book fair by visitors this year – that honour went to Madrid – but it...
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UAE – Manassah Gateway to the Arabic Book offers distribution and services for publishers
The Arab Literary Renaissance is real and palpable…but needs to be inclusive of all the Arab...
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Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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Big Bad Wolf UAE online book sale extended due to “overwhelmingly successful first days”
Big Bad Wolf has already run several successful online book sales in its other markets, and the...
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UAE’s Sharjah Art Foundation’s 3rd Focal Point art book fair to go ahead this December
A platform for printed matter by artists, writers, scholars, and independent and established...
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Abu Dhabi Media partners with magazine subscription service Magzter to expand digital reach in the Arab markets
Abu Dhabi Media is focussed on innovating traditional formats with digital and video-first content...
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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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2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, often called the Arab Nobel Prize, is actually nine awards, each...
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