Meet the Lebanese expat who sold books to young UAE royals. And a personal memoir involving suitcases of books
As my travel horizons widened I found my suitcases of English-language books could open doors and...
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Category: Abu Dhabi
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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Mapping the New Normal: Sharjah Book Authority launches virtual discussion platform ‘Publishers Club’ in UAE
Sharjah Book Authority uses Zoom to offer a digital platform for Arab publishers as Covid-19...
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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 # 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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Sheikh Zayed Book Award hosts seminar exploring digital publishing and the “the never-before-seen emergence of ‘subscription culture’ in the Arab world”
Titled “Building a Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge”, the seminar was moderated by Saeed Hamdan Al...
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Only 30% of Jordan’s publishers took digital seriously before the pandemic ripped up the MENA book fair calendar. Now digital is too little too late to be a safety net
One message constantly driven home here at TNPS is the way in which, in contrast to “western” book...
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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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Netflix globally releasing 44 Arabic films from MENA. MENA publishers dither over digital and limit reach
Netflix is releasing a catalogue of 44 Arabic films combining cinematic masterpieces with...
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The latest edition of Publish Africa, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for Africa’s publishers, is now live
On hold during the early stages of the pandemic, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter Publish Africa is...
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners to be announced next month despite cancellation of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair
If we needed proof that the coronavirus crisis will not fade simply because of summer’s warmer...
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Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a crowd of “only” 706,000 as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF cancelled amid Coronavirus fears
Having attracted a crowd of over 1 million for two years running, the latest Muscat International...
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