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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Author: Mark Williams
Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Awards 2020 shortlist announced
The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has announced its shortlist of authors in line for the 9th...
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Arabic audio subscription service Kitab Sawti sees subscribers double during regional lockdown. Partners with Careem in Saudi Arabia
With 31 million people online the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the second largest Arabic digital...
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Debut children’s author from Qatar makes shortlist for international indie book award
Published by Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and written by debut author...
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Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs
For the purists among us who think that a book isn’t a book unless it was written by hand with a...
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