Category: Middle East
Big Bad Wolf to debut in Sharjah, UAE, in partnership with SBA
Big Bad Wolf is no stranger to the United Arab Emirates, but its previous in-person visits were to...
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The Kuwait Virtual Book Fair is underway, with its own online bookstore
Kuwait’s International Book Fair was put on hold during the summer as the pandemic wrought...
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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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The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation announces shortlist
The five-book shortlist “covers the full span of the Arab world, from Morocco to Iraq” and a “a...
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Iraq’s Baghdad International Book Fair set for December 9, but little chance of matching the 1 million visitors seen in 2019
In 2019 the Baghdad International Book Fair presented 2 million books and attracted a record one...
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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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Shortlist announced for 12th Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
With 221 submissions from 22 countries, the judging panel for 12th edition of the Etisalat Award...
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Mapping the New Normal: Palestine Writes Literature Festival will be online in December
The full program for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival will be announced in November, but...
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Authors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria make the shortlist for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
The Arabic Literature in English site ArabLit has revealed its short list of five blind-selected...
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Sharjah Publishers Club shows Arab publishers the power of social media to engage audiences and advance book sales
The focus is on getting Arab publishers to widely recognise what an elite few already know – that...
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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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Storytel acquires Hebrew audiobook outfit iCast. To launch in Israel in Q1 2021
Storytel confirms Israel as its third new target market, along with Indonesia and Thailand, as it...
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