Egypt’s Luxor Festival Celebrates a Decade of Poetic Excellence
The 10th Luxor Arabic Poetry Festival marks a decade of UAE-Egypt cultural partnership, publishing 50+ books and nurturing 3,000 poets from underserved regions.
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Category: Egypt
Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina Launches Second Grand Reading Prize
Egyptian library launches major reading prize with EGP 1m+ fund targeting youth readers. Winners announced at July 2026 Alexandria Book Fair.
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Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair Sets New Footfall Record: 5.5 million.
But here just a reminder: the biggest book fair in the world is in Africa.
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Egypt – Dubai International Program for Writing at the Cairo International Book Fair
it would be fascinating to know how the DIWP workshops handle the AI angle, which simultaneously gives lazier writers the chance to coast, and gives serious writers the opportunity to take their art to new levels.
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Egypt – Cairo International Book Fair Hit 3.5 million Visitors As Of Friday. A New Record Likely!
Just take a moment to try even imagine almost five million people attending a book fair.
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Egypt – Abu Dhabi at the Cairo International Book Fair
Increasingly at these book fairs, the line is being blurred between “public facing” and “professional”, and in increasing numbers the industry names and faces we are all used to seeing at the big western publishing events are lining up to be at these emerging market events, at the same time as regional players are upping their game.
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Egypt – Dubai at the Cairo International Book Fair
Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation engagement at Cairo underscores CIBF’s growing significance as a hub for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and industry advancement.
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Egypt – Cairo International Book Fair clocked 400,000 visitors on opening day
CIBF 2025 could beat the 4.7 million visitor record set in 2024.
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Egypt – TNPS suggests the Land of the Pharaohs leverage its rich history to become a powerhouse on the international publishing stage
While Sharjah has a head-start, I fully expect Egypt to become a major player on the international publishing circuit as this decade unfolds.
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Cairo International Book Fair Spotlight: Qatar in Egypt
At one time seen as a publishing backwater and mere “public-facing” book fair by most western publishing industry players, Cairo is fast becoming a key arena for global participation.
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Egypt gets its own digital reading app at the Cairo International Book Fair
The app’s second version will include audiobooks, and a similar app for the Egyptian Music Library is in development. Artificial Intelligence will be used to translate more books,
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Egypt – Saudi Arabia’s Participation in the 56th Cairo International Book Fair
Whatever the future holds for the fossil fuel economies, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich nations all understand they need to diversify, that cultural sectors like publishing can be both lucrative and rewarding
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