| Registration for Trade visitors open!
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Every year, the ADIBF welcomes more than 100 trade visitors. Publishers, agents, distributors, authors, printer and service providers, government delegation – all members of the book chain get something out of this visit. For only US$50, we assist you with your visa and well prized accommodation, you get free access to our! Check out our service and offers for trade visitors here.
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| International Collective @ ADIBF – be part of it!
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Rent cost-effective, fully-furnished stands or panels where you can showcase titles to the MENA market and beyond. There is experienced staff manning the stand and we guarantee prime location at the fair. Exhibition packages include rates for a consigned shipment from New York to Abu Dhabi.
Have a look at more details and make sure to register soon – closing deadline for the International Collective is 25 Jan!
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| Swimming in Digital Dreams?
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| The 2012 Professional Programme will feature 2 news sessions in 2012 to give you more information on how to take your business to the next level. The roundtable on “The Status of Digital Publishing in the Arab Region” will introduce you to some of the initiatives in this part of the world and talk about where the market is headed. If you want to look into new channels of distribution, why not join the session on “How to increase your sales through eCommerce” and learn of the new websites and initiatives with whom you can partner to take advantage of the internet.
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| To register to attend these sessions, please send the name of the session you wish to attend, your name, company details and contact information to:dalsarraj@kitab.ae
For more information, keep checking our webpage
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| UK as Country Focus in 2012 | FROM THE UK TO THE UAE
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| Look out for an upcoming wave of British wit, humour and sharp observations! As country guest of honor, the UK will have a strong presence in our cultural: among others, Marina Lewycka, whose debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival (www.marinalewycka.com); Jasper Fforde, known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, creator of two series aimed at the young adult readership: The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey (www.jasperfforde.com); the traveler writer and resident of Sana’ Tim Mackintosh-Smith; and Robert Irwin, the Middle East editor for the Times Literary Supplement whose six novels include The Arabian Nightmare and The Mysteries of Algiers. He published 10 works of non-fiction, among which The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Islamic Art, Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. His latest publication, Camel, is being translated in Arabic by Kalima.
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| Arabic Literature And The International Prize For Arabic Fiction 2012
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| With the shortlist released last week, Arabic literature is on the front stage once again! We’ll have the honor of hosting the IPAF winner, selected among six distinguished authors: Habib Selmi , Bashir Mufti, Rabee’ Jaber, Jabbour Al Douaihy, Nasser Iraq and Ezzedine Choukri Fishere.
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| We are pleased to welcome two other remarkable writers: the Algerian poet, novelist, essayist and playwright Rachid Boudjedra, hailed as the leader of a new movement of experimental fiction, whose latest book, Les Figuiers de Barbarie (2010) was awarded the Prix du Roman Arabe; and Ibrahim Nasrallah, the Palestinian writer, poet, photographer, painter and film critic whose book The Time of White Horses was shortlisted for the IPAF in 2008.
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| You’ll find more on contemporary Arabic literature in our publication: ‘Background Information on the Arab Book Market’
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