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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Category: Middle East
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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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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Kuwait amends censorship law for books, but many questions remain unanswered
Prior to the new law a 12-member censors committee met twice a month and decided which books would...
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No Kuwait International Book Fair this November, but an online version may replace it
With the Covid-19 pandemic showing no sign of abating, the Kuwaiti Information Minister, Mohammad...
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Online book and ebook store Al Manhal launches in UAE with 90,000 titles. “The world’s largest Arabic online bookstore”
There’s room for confusion with the launch of a new online bookstore in the UAE, which claims to...
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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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International Publishers Association – Arab Publishers Association Debate: “Publishing in the Arab World during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Live on YouTube Monday 13 July
International Publishers Association Secretary General José Borghino will be talking with Bachar...
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