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Over 700 nominations from 28 countries for Arabic book prize
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, based in Abu Dhabi, has reported that it has received 715 nominations from 28 Arabic-speaking countries for the 2011 prizes.
Scholastic makes inroads into Arabic market
In the past three years, Scholastic has sold 17 million copies of 80 carefully-picked children's titles translated into Arabic.
Abu Dhabi launches pan-Arabic distribution service
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), the authority responsible for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, has announced the establishment of Abu Dhabi Distribution (ADD), a new pr...
Abdo Khan wins 'Arabic Booker'
Saudi novelist Abdo Khan has been announced as the winner of the US$50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, dubbed the Arabic Booker, for She Throws Sparks as Big as Castles, 'a satirical ...
Egypt and Lebanon drive Arabic book market
As part of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair, new figures have been presented on the Arabic book market, showing that the relatively sophisticated and liberal markets of Egypt and Lebanon are leading the way.
Ziedan wins US$50,000 Arabic fiction prize
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan has been announced as the winner of this year's US$50,000 Arabic Fiction Prize, presented as part of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair.
Over 600 publishers at Abu Dhabi
Some 637 publishers from 52 countries exhibited at this year's Abu Dhabi Book Fair.
Are western tastes holding back translations from Arabic?
'The problem with Arabic literature is that there is not enough of it out there which fits the Western tastes for sex, deviance, Arab self-annihilation, and materialism, all of which is acted out by j...
International Prize for Arabic Fiction: shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced.
Abu Dhabi fights piracy
One hundred and twenty publishers known to have infringed copyright were banned from this year's Abu Dhabi Book Fair, in a demonstration of the fair's determination to crack down on piracy and build c...
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