‘Bareed Al Layl’ (The Night Mail) by Paris-based Lebanese author Hoda was selected from among 6 shortlisted titles to the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for 2019. The novel,…

Kalimat, a subsidiary of Kalimat Group, a Sharjah-based publishing house specialising in publishing children and young adult books, has announced the release of its six new titles at the 11th…

Music serves as the universal language of communication, dialogue and understanding between peoples across the world, said H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah,…

Ben Okri, Saroo Brierley and Ziauddin Yousafzai are among the authors set to attend the capital's book fair The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair is one of the capital's biggest…

The Queen of Soul is the first woman to be awarded the special citation prize since 1930 Let's give a little respect to Aretha Franklin, who was on Monday posthumously…

The artist was a pioneering women's rights activist, and today would have been her 95th birthday Egyptian artist and activist Inji Aflatoun (sometimes written as Efflatoun) was born into an…

A new book explores the impact 87 artists from the Arab world have made in transforming the region's art scene “Very few in the art community imagined how over the…

In a major archaeological discovery, Egypt on Saturday unveiled the tomb of a Fifth Dynasty official adorned with colourful reliefs and well preserved inscriptions. The tomb, near Saqqara, a vast…

This is the first time in the history of the book fair that a Guest of Honour has been selected Sharjah has been announced as the first Special Guest of…