Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon announced today that Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books ...

The launch of the Arabic Lessons from Life has seen widespread demand in Emirati bookshops and online outlets. WAM ...

The Arabic Collections Online project has just formed and they are making available 10,000 Arabic ebooks across 6,000 subjects for free. It was established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, and by ...

Arabic language authors don't get many opportunities in the e-book world, whether it's due to a basic lack of support for the language (which reads right-to-left, is written in cursive and includes ...

Reporting from New York — — The publisher was on a rare and delicate mission to translate and mass-market books from America for a part of the world that often rails against American values.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the publishing industry and its digital innovations. A digital library focusing explicitly on Arabic-language books ...

The Arabian Nights (also known as One Thousand and One Nights) is a collection of centuries-old stories originating in the Arab world that has traveled far and wide and had an enduring influence on ...

Montreal Speaks Arabic’, that’s the slogan for the Montreal Arab Book Fair, which is now officially registered as an annual event for many years to come by the Canadian government. Labelled as new ...

As chairman of the Arabic Language Centre in Abu Dhabi (ALC) and secretary-general of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), I am not alone in believing that the diversity and quality of Arabic ...

The Arabic Book Award announced the opening of nominations for its third session, starting from February 23 – through the award’s official website – until May 23. The Arabic Book Award, which has its ...