The Egyptian Publishers Association has announced it is planning to organise a book fair by the end of November or early December at the Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nasr City, Cairo.
The fair will feature Egyptian, Saudi, Emirati and Bahraini publishers in particular, as well as other international Arab publishers.
The event will see discounts of up to 70% on all books in a move to support publishers’ budgets in 2018.
Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper. Set in Co Mayo, the novel is a dark comedy which tells the story of a small Irish town through absurdist crime caper, while also describing a pitch-black story about the callous criminal underworld. It has been longlisted […]
Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Cengage have moved to intervene in a class action lawsuit against Google, the Bookseller reports. The case was first brought in 2023 by writers and illustrators accusing the company of copyright infringement by using their books to build and train its AI system Gemini. The publishers said Google had […]
The 57th edition of the Cairo International Book Fair opens on 21 January and runs until 3 February 2026, inviting cultural audiences to what is set to be the largest edition in the fair’s history. Organised by the General Egyptian Book Organization in collaboration with the Egyptian Publishers Association and the Arab Publishers Association, the […]
Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Cengage have moved to intervene in a class action lawsuit against Google, the Bookseller reports. The case was first brought in 2023 by writers and illustrators accusing the company of copyright infringement by using their books to build...
The 57th edition of the Cairo International Book Fair opens on 21 January and runs until 3 February 2026, inviting cultural audiences to what is set to be the largest edition in the fair’s history. Organised by the General Egyptian Book Organization in collaboration...
An Australian writers’ festival is facing backlash after it announced it had removed an Australian-Palestinian author from its lineup over concerns her inclusion would “not be culturally sensitive” in the wake of the Bondi massacre. The Adelaide festival has pulled...