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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Category: Egypt
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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Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina holds virtual literature seminar while other MENA publishing stakeholders dither over digital
Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina held a virtual seminar at end June, titled “Fantasy...
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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 Africa #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Africa’s authors and...
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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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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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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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The biggest book fair in the world is an Arab event in Africa. 3.5 million visitors at Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair. Publishers look the other way
Not that you’d know it reading the western publishing industry trade journals, but the Cairo...
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