Doha International Book Fair 2026: A Record-Breaking 35th Edition Opens in Qatar
The 35th Doha International Book Fair 2026 opens with record participation, featuring 500+ publishers, 1.85m books, and key Arabic publishing trends.
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Category: Qatar
Qatar University Book Fair Expands Academic Publishing Reach
Qatar University Book Fair 2026 brings 45 publishers, nine international university presses, showcasing Gulf region’s growing academic publishing market opportunities.
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Qatar – New Doha Prizes Put Arabic Publishing In The Spotlight
Qatar’s Ministry of Culture invites global publishers to compete for eight Doha International Book Fair Awards, sharing a prize purse of 230,000 QAR.
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Qatar – Doha International Book Fair 2026: Registration Opens as Event Builds on Record-Breaking Year
Registration for the 35th Doha International Book Fair opens Jan 2026, building on 2025’s record 522 publishers from 43 countries.
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Arab Book Award hosts $1m publishing industry seminar in Qatar
Seminar at Qatar National Library explores Arab publishing industry challenges with $1m Arab Book Award winners and experts.
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Print-on-Demand and Unified Platforms: Seeking Solutions to Arab Publishers’ Distribution Challenges
Shabaro confirmed that print-on-demand has become a viable solution for Arab publishers struggling to reach dispersed readers across the region.
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The Evolution of Writing and Publishing: Insights from the Doha International Book Fair
Writing liberated human thought, enabling the preservation of philosophy, literature, and law across generations.
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What is “western publishing”, anyway?
Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the “west” that is playing catch-up and copy-cat.
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Qatar’s Doha International Book Fair: To Be Largest Ever. Premiering Professional Literary Exchange Programme
For the first time, the fair will launch a Professional Literary Exchange Programme, designed to foster international publishing rights deals and translation collaborations.
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Qatar seems to wilfully misunderstand books and technology. They work together, not against one another
Most of history’s civilisations rose, flourished and fell without a book in sight, and when books finally became a thing, many books were a means to oppress and deliver destruction, not to build. “Mein Kampf”, anyone?
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Qatar – Doha International Book Fair clocks 300,000 visitors – 10% of the population – inc. 15,000 children
For comparison, Frankfurt would need to pull in 8.4 million visitors and London 6.8 million...
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Qatar – 32nd Doha International Book Fair set for June 12-21. But will it be fun?
As I write this, we don’t know the detail of the #DIBF23 programme, and I’d...
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