On the IPAF 2019 longlist for ‘Women of the Five Senses,’ Jordanian aeronautical engineer and author Jalal Barjas wins this year for his novel ‘Notebooks of the Bookseller.’

Questions of fidelity to a text and handling ambiguous passages were among topics discussed by Arabic translators Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, and Hamed Al Ghaithi.

From the protection of copyright to censorship, taxes, custom duties, the need for digital acceleration and literacy, the association's president surveys the conditions in which publishers are working.

‘Light in a global darkness’: The award’s secretary-general Dr. Ali Bin Tamim says the program now has honored a total 100 laureates.

A lost novelist, ‘her whispering voice, fleeing depression,’ led Egyptian author Iman Mersal. on her journey of ‘reading the past’—and one of the biggest literary prizes in the world.

The cultural program at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, curated by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, features a strong roster of writers from the Arab world. (Sponsored)