Category: Middle East
Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a disappointing crowd this year – less than half its peak one million visitors
Disappointing for the organisers, perhaps, but bear in mind that would be a top-level achievement...
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Saudi Arabia clocks 442 million #Booktok views in six months. Saudi book fairs embrace the phenomenon
“a dedicated landing page with content by #BookTok creators from Al-Sharqiya Book Fair,...
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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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“Arabs only read for a few minutes a year” (Not my words!)
Last year the UAE’s Sharjah International Book Fair saw well over 2 million visitors while...
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Arab Publishing 2022 – An overview
Digital can democratise and empower Arab publishing across the entire MENA region in a way the...
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Egypt – the Egyptian General Book Authority has released its 2022 summary
Hopefully we’ll see the EGBA – the most active Arab publishing organisation after the...
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Arabs Don’t Read” Redux – International Book Fair “the biggest cultural event in Kuwait”
But what an opportunity for smaller and more nimble publishers to partner with their Arab partners...
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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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Saudi Arabia – Riyadh Int. Book Fair clocks 1 million+ visitors for third time as the Arab Renaissance rebounds after Covid
As we head into cooler months, and providing Covid behaves this time around, there’s every...
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Saudi Arabia – Riyadh IBF Publishers Conference shows digital embrace
A return to 1 million visitors is unlikely, but other developments are emerging, inc. an $80,000...
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Kobo’s move on the Arab markets could be the game-changer Amazon walked away from. But first Kobo will need to seriously up its own game
What we need to see next is Tamblyn at the Sharjah International Book Fair alongside Bodour al...
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Qatar’s first Ramadan Book Fair underway as Arab book fair season attracts millions in Q1 2022
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
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