Category: United Arab Emirates
At Morocco’s Rabat International Book Fair: A New Vision for Arabic Children’s Literature. Lessons for western children’s authors and publishers
Western audiences: Think here celebrity children’s authors that have no clue about how children read and think, and their publishers who rely on parents to buy into the celebrity brand-name and then wonder why the joy off reading is in freefall.
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Morocco – Overshadowed by Sharjah, the UAE’s EPA at the Rabat International Book Fair
the EPA’s contributions – particularly its panel discussions – offer valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping the Arab publishing sector.
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UAE – Kanz Al Jeel Award 2025: Submissions Now Open
The Kanz Al Jeel Award is part of the broader efforts by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre to promote Arabic literature and culture.
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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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UAE – Launch of the Fifth Young Voices of Arabia Anthology at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
The anthology features stories from 22 award-winning young authors from the 2024 Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East competition, which I’m dismayed to admit I’ve not previously covered here on TNPS,
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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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The World’s Youngest Female Magazine Columnist
AlDhabi has a fantastic future ahead of her. I hope, like me, she finds career contentment that will last a lifetime.
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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 – Winners of the First Chapter, ELF Seddiqi Writers’ Fellowship Announced
This is a wonderful fellowship story that deserves much wider reportage.
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TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
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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In Saudi Arabia, in the Year of the Camel, the UAE showcases Emirati titles at the Almadinah Book Fair
“”From breed distinctions to artistic representations, the pavilion provides educational content for all ages. Its participation aims to strengthen the profile of the Year of the Camel and underscore the animal’s enduring importance in Saudi Arabian identity.”
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