Category: Sharjah
As The 2nd Sharjah Literature Festival Readies, A Reminder of How The Centre of Publishing Gravity Shifts Inexorably East
Sharjah Literature Festival 2026 offers UAE publishers a platform to showcase titles, network, and boost exports in a growing market.
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Focal Point 2025: Sharjah’s Art Book Fair Champions Independent Publishing
Focal Point 2025 brings together 60+ independent publishers for three days of art books, workshops, and launches at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Sharjah.
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Building Cultural Legacies: What Publishing Can Learn from World Book Capitals
Sharjah and Athens, former UNESCO World Book Capitals, discuss how the title fosters lasting cultural infrastructure, publishing partnerships, and global literary networks.
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Arabic Poetry Flourishes Across Africa: A Continent’s Literary Revival
Almost everyone here learns Arabic as a second or third language, and often it’s their first written language, but I struggle to find anyone here who sees Arabic as language of the arts.
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Greece Confirmed as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair
Book fair press releases are all too often so flowery you expect them to attract bees as you read, and this one was no exception.
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Harnessing Visual Storytelling to Engage Young Readers: Insights from Janna Morishima at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival
All too often there is a one size fits all approach to bringing children of the world of reading that backfires by not meeting each child where they are.
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Sharjah’s “Warsha” Workshop – Nurturing Arab Illustrators and Cross-Border Creativity
The training combined theoretical discussions, interactive presentations, and collaborative exercises, equipping participants with the tools to develop compelling projects for children’s and young adult books.
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India – Sharjah at the New Delhi World Book Fair
For those that suffered the west-centric history of the world at school – Arab and Indian cultural relations long predate the arrival of the Europeans on the subcontinent.
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Morocco – Sharjah confirmed as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Rabat International Book Fair
The Rabat International Book Fair was traditionally held in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city and cultural hub.
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UAE – Sharjah African Literature Festival: Promoting Reading Culture
As a writer and teacher in Africa, I can only applaud what is being achieved elsewhere on this beautiful continent, and dream that it might one day happen here.
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UAE – Celebrating African Literature: Sharjah Festival
It’s a sad reality that books by African authors are very difficult to find in Africa.
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UAE – 1st Sharjah Literature Festival begins January 17
The festival programme features a diverse array of events themed around literature, children’s literature, history and heritage, essay literature, the Arabic language, science fiction and fantasy, autobiography, thought, and miscellaneous events.
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