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Category Archives: publishing
Bloomsbury-Qatar Children’s Books Half Price?
I discovered, while visiting al-Balsam Bookstore on its first anniversary, that BQFP titles that were once a difficult 60LE (I think I said a little “ouch” when I bought إلغرفول) are now around half as much. Continue reading
Tamer Institute Accepting New Literary Work for Children and Adolescents
According to the Palestine Writing Workshop, the award-winning Tamer Institute—winner of a 2009 Astrid Lindgren award for their efforts with children’s literature—is now accepting submissions. Continue reading
A Little (No, Big!) Literary Triumph
Last year Magrudy’s bookstores announced that the popularity of Arabic books was rising, and claimed that Arabic titles now accounted for “nearly 20 per cent” of its sales in the UAE. The flipside to that statement is, of course, that the vast majority of sales are of foreign-language titles. Reading in Arabic is not, it is fair to say, the region’s favourite pastime. Continue reading
Posted in publishing, recommended
Tagged Al-Balsam, Al-Salwa, Arabic children's literature, Buzoor, Hakawati, Tagreed al-Najjar
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A New Online Resource: ArabChildrensLiterature.Com
The Anna Lindh Foundation’s Arabic Children’s Literature Regional Program (مؤسسة آنا ليند – البرنامج الإقليمي لأدب الأطفال العربي)—or, as they sometimes call themselves, ALF ACLRP—has soft-launched an excellent new online resource for parents, educators, publishers, authors, illustrators, and anyone else interested in Arabic children’s literature. Continue reading
Posted in education, publishing, teaching and learning Arabic
Tagged ArabChildrensLiterature.Com
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ورشة عمل الشبكات الاجتماعية ودورها فى تطوير ادب الطفل
For those who are interested, a post from Heba Ismail at the Anna Lindh Foundation. Yes, certainly, there are a dearth of Arabic blogs that deal with Arabic children’s literature—perhaps Anna Lindh could include one on their new website! And it would be good to see more Arabic children’s-lit blogging at the Buzoor community site. Continue reading
Kalimat Publisher Dareen Charafeddine on the Future of Arabic Children’s Lit
The landscape of publishing in the Arab world has changed much faster than I expected in the last decade and the changes are all for the better. Continue reading
Publisher Dareen Charafeddine on the Origins of Kalimat and How Good Arabic Children’s Literature Will Change the World
Below is Part I of a very fruitful and interesting interview with Dareen Charafeddine, publisher at the UAE’s premier children’s publishing house, Kalimat. Continue reading
Children’s-book Cover Design: The World is Changing
There is plenty of interesting stuff to read in Salwa Shakhshir’s Day 2 post from her Abu Dhabi publishers’ training seminar, but I’ll skip right to what concerns us here: children’s books. Continue reading
Salwa Shakhshir (of Al-Salwa Books) Talks Publishers’ Training in Abu Dhabi
This week, Salwa Shakhshir of Al-Salwa Books (Jordan) is in Abu Dhabi at a publishers’ training course. All week, she promises to share her impressions of the course with the website Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading
