Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

While Abu Dhabi pours $27 billion into building five museums, including a Guggenheim designed by Frank Gehry and a Louvre designed by Jean Nouvel, another planned project will help expand Arabic ...

Louisa Ermelino is the Reviews Director at PW and her most recent book, Malafemmena (Sarabande), is a collection of stories, many of them set in the Middle East and Asia. Ermelino shares some of her ...

Initiatives to encourage reading and spreading Arabic seems to be bearing fruit Arabs read for an average of six minutes per year. Can’t be true! That was what we were led to believe. But a new survey ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon announced today that Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books ...

The Arabic Collections Online project has just formed and they are making available 10,000 Arabic ebooks across 6,000 subjects for free. It was established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, and by ...

The Cultural Salon at the 34th Doha International Book Fair (DIBF), “From Inscription to Writing,” hosted a symposium titled “The Arabic Book: Between Reality and Hope.” Professor Hanan al-Fayyad, ...

The Arab Book Award has announced the opening of nominations for its fourth edition, accepting submissions until May 28, 2026, through the award’s website. Launched by Qatar in March 2023, the Arab ...

It has been a big year for Arabic fiction in translation. Two Arabic books were longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International, with the prize going to Omani writer Jokha al-Harthi’s brilliant ...

For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors, fostering a rare cultural link. But in August Israeli authorities suddenly refused to renew his ...

Zahra Hankir’s anthology Our Women on the Ground elevates vital but often overlooked voices from Morocco to Gaza to Yemen. Zahra Hankir. (Daniel Gardiner) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...