Iran begins to tentatively re-open its bookstores, but will consumers be ready to visit?
China, Italy, Denmark, Germany and now Iran are among the countries tentatively allowing...
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Category: Middle East
Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners announced. Will receive their awards via livestream April 16
Literary awards don’t get much bigger than the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Each winner will collect...
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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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UAE’s Sharjah Public Libraries to give 3 months free global access to 6 million digital titles as world locks down
Details are sparse as this post goes live but Sharjah Public Libraries in the United Arab Emirates...
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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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UAE’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair cancelled. Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF now cancellations waiting to happen
The United Arab Emirates had already take the decision to close its nursery schools, but has now...
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Morocco’s Casablanca International Book Fair saw a half million visitors for third year in succession, yet still we’re told Arabs don’t read
It’s a central part of global publishing’s urban mythology. Arabs don’t read. Or rather, they do,...
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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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Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair clocks 600,000 visitors in first four days. Book sales up on 2019
Egypt’s Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem, reported back on the first four days of the 14-day...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 19-25
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Translated fiction by women of colour; 12 women writers at Emirates Airlines LitFest; Philippines comics; an interview with Gabriel Rodriguez
Start The Day Global today is all over the place with our first item, a look at global literature...
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