Sentences with phrase «arab world»

It has long focused on Egypt but also follows broader issues in the Arab world, US policy in the Middle East, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, and cultural developments throughout the region.
Abu Dhabi is one of the best destinations in the Arab world for solo female travel, so enjoy!
«We are increasingly attracting leisure and business travellers from the Arab world as we develop five - star products and services that really matter to guests from the region, including large interior - designed suites and connecting rooms which accommodate multiple family members travelling together.
«At a time when Sir Rocco Forte's European hotels are experiencing record numbers of guests from the Arab world, ATM 2011 provides us with a platform to further highlight the customised luxury services that we offer travellers from the region,» said Anna Martin, group communications director, Rocco Forte Hotels.
Our tutors are experienced native speakers from all over the Arab world.
Whenever it does open, it will become the first new museum outside France to bear the name of the venerable Paris institution, and the first universal art museum in the Arab world.
The 20th century gave us «specialists:» Freya Stark in the Arab world, Norman Douglas in Italy, Gerald Brenan in Spain, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell in Greece.
However, the real turning point in her career came with the massive hit from her the third album, «Ya Salam» in 2003 which won the hearts of people from all ages and nationalities and earned Nancy her reputation as the «Arab World's Sweetheart».
2011 was a year of rebellion — more pointedly in the Arab world, late to Russia and China, and lazy in the US.
The Arab world is also slowing in population growth.
It's recognized as the leading prize for literary fiction in the Arab world and is run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) in the UAE.
Recognized as the leading literary prize in the Arab world, the program honors prose fiction and is supported by the Booker Prize Foundation in London.
For the literary world, the outstanding element of this prize program is that it provides funding for English translation of its winners so that new work from the Arab world reaches the world industry.
As reported by Publishing Perspectives, the prize program also supports a workshop program for emerging writers in the Arab world — a nadwa, as it's called — sponsored in part in 2017 by the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation.
Storytel aims to participate and drive the growth of the audiobook industry in the Arab World.
A date has been set for an end to net neutrality rules, Open Library launches an embed feature for bloggers, and Amazon considers expansion into the Arab world.
«There's a lot to celebrate about publishing in the Arab world,» Rees said in our conversation, which started at the fair's Business Center and continued during the fair week, «as you can see in the range of titles and numbers of publishers and publishing associations represented at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and Sharjah Children's Reading Festival,» which had its 10th edition April 18 to 28.
Publishers are long accustomed to chicken - and - egg issues, but you find a very robust one as soon as you ask about literary agents in the Arab world.
Culturally, the show's array of literature from the Arab world this year has been enriched by the focus of the Year of Zayed program, on the centenary of the birth of the United Arab Emirates» founder, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who died in 2004.
Flora Rees of the Emirates Literature Foundation talks about the editor - author relationship and the role of literary agents in publishing across the Arab world.
One of the interesting people I met at the Salzburg Seminar last week was Ruediger Wischenbart, who now runs a consulting firm, analyzes the global publishing market, and is working with Three Percent favorite Lance Fensterman on developing the program for the Arab World to be Guest of Honor at this year's BEA.
At the 2018 Abu Dhabi Book Fair, Flora Rees of the Emirates Literature Foundation talks about the editor - author relationship and the role of literary agents in publishing across the Arab world.
The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks in part to an arrangement with the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Twenty - percent of the population of the Arab world is illiterate.
The book is titled Revolution in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, and the Unmaking of an Era.
Her «fireplace talk» with conference director Rüdiger Wischenbart is titled Publishing in the Arab World: Opportunities and Challenges, Encounters and Controversies.
A 2009 report by ALECSO, the Arab League's Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, revealed an overall illiteracy rate of 35.6 percent in the Arab world compared with a global rate of 18 percent.
There was certainly a degree of altruism behind the move as it was in part influenced by a desire to tackle the high levels of adult illiteracy in the Arab world.
And yet this has been the tradition for so long, Bodour says, that many readers in the Arab world simply accept it, reading books not only with the inevitable typos but also without the benefit of developmental or structural editing, considered fundamental to literary success in the West, of course.
Dan Brown's talk at the Sharjah Book Fair, his first fair appearance outside the US, will be televised throughout the Arab world.
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.
The Map of Salt and Stars presents an Arab world in full possession of its immense historical and cultural biography, marred by its modern tragedies but not exclusively defined by them.
Following World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Allied nations carved up the Middle East, redrawing the political map of the Arab world into mandated territories which they then reorganized into states.
From then until 1975, Lebanon was a relatively calm and prosperous region, known as the «Paris of the Middle East» and the banking capital of the Arab world.
Revolution in the Arab World, a timely e-book published by Foreign Policy Magazine, DOES come in a Kindle edition, as well as PDF.
It is obvious, for example, that many novelists from all over the Arab world, Mashriq and Maghreb, belong to the same literary current across regional barriers.
The report offers a status on the US and UK markets as well as close ups on ebook markets as they take shape across Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and in the Arab world.
«As we continue our mission to spread knowledge and information throughout the Arab World we are pleased to join with CourseSmart to provide digital course materials to students and institutions throughout this region,» said Eng.
The city of Baghdad was built in the 8th century and, for five centuries, was the leading city of the Arab world until it was sacked in the 13th century.
«We are delighted to join with Naseej in the common goal of increasing educational access and improving learning outcomes for students in the Arab world,» said Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart.
For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux.
In a Publishing Perspectives exclusive, Bodour Al Qasimi reacts to the International Publishers Association's recent membership controversy and looks at the Arab world's industry in globalization.
Content — Foreign Policy Magazine has published a special and timely $ 4.99 e-book in PDF format titled Revolution in the Arab World.
The book industry is shaped by imports from the Arab world, as well as from English and non-English or Arab - speaking markets (especially from South Asia).
Travels with My Hat is about my adventures and misadventures as a solo woman writer and photographer working in the Arab world.
Book market study by Samar Abou - Zeid (former senior editor at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation and former Fellow of the Frankfurt Book Fair) Lebanon's book market - A strong partner for licensing to the Arab world
This year, for the first time, the winners — nominated by publishers, literary critics, and readers across the Arab world and internationally, and selected by a panel of eminent Arab writers, academics, and journalists — will be published together in a one - of - a-kind anthology.
An exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty - nine writers under thirty - nine.
Tunisia's ISLAMeBooks, one of several new digital start - ups in the Arab world, is looking to help explain Islamic practice and theology to a wider readership.
The Chinese publishing industry, valued at [US] $ 8 billion a year, is second only to the United States, and Saudi Arabia is the Arab world's largest publishing market.
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