Have you heard of Mashallah?

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.

For those of you who have contacted me regarding the Beirut Book Fair 2010, thank you! And below, a few precisions.

The 17th edition of the Beirut Francophone book fair, organized by the Lebanese syndicate of book importers, will be taking place from October 29th through November 7th, at the BIEL expo center.

The Sharjah International Book Fair will be taking place from October 26th to November 6th, 2010.

As a literary agent specialized in representing Arabic literature for world translation rights, I am often asked how visible Arabic literature is on the international scene. This question most of the time translates into: ‘how many copies do books translated from the Arabic sell?’