Have you heard of Mashallah?

If you’re in Beirut for the book fair, do not miss Jabbour Douaihy’s conference on December 13th, at 7:00 pm, room#1 at the BIEL conference center.

Samar Yazbek, Syrian author of “Cinnamon” and “Clay” has recently published a novel in Beirut, “In her mirrors”.

It is with great excitement that I discovered the existence of the Palestinian Festival of Literature -although I also found out the Festival has been on since 2009 and had received a huge press coverage.

According to Ahmad Bin Rakad Al Amri, Sharjah Book Fair’s director, the 12 day long exhibition received 500,000 visitors this year

During a meeting with an Emirati young free-lance journalist, it struck me as being potentially true: Arabic language is threatened by the weakness of its presence and usefulness on the web.