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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Fostering creativity, literacy and collaboration is a theme, if not perhaps in those exact words, that recurs again and again in the top-level Arab markets, and we (in western publishing) would all do well to take a step back and compare our own measures of success.
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Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
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No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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The global audiobook market is expected to exceed $35 million by 2023, with audiobooks projected...
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Never underestimate the publishing opportunity in the Arab markets. Some of the largest book fairs...
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The UAE continues to expand its mission as a global hub for the creative industries. “The...
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Sharjah wasn’t the biggest book fair by visitors this year – that honour went to Madrid – but it...
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Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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As my travel horizons widened I found my suitcases of English-language books could open doors and...
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The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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