Several times a year KITAB, the organization behind the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and the Center for Publishing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, hold professional training courses for publishers on the campus of NYU Abu Dhabi.
Salwa Shakhshir of Al Salwa Books, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan is documenting her experiences here throughout the week. Read yesterday’s post on Day One of the Publishers Training event (or take a look at her coverage of last year’s event).
In our second day with …read more >
Several times a year KITAB, the organization behind the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and the Center for Publishing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, hold professional training courses for publishers on the campus of NYU Abu Dhabi.
Salwa Shakhshir of Al Salwa Books, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan is documenting her experiences here throughout the week. Read yesterday’s post on Day One of the Publishers Training event (or take a look at her coverage of last year’s event).
By Salwa Shakhshir
The …read more >
Several times a year KITAB, the organization behind the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and the Center for Publishing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, hold professional training courses for publishers on the campus of NYU Abu Dhabi.
Salwa Shakhshir of Al Salwa Books, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan is documenting her experiences here throughout the week. Read yesterday’s post on Day One of the Publishers Training event (or take a look at her coverage of last year’s event).
By Salwa Shakhshir
Day 2 …read more >
Tonight, on Friday the 18th, the great Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was celebrated in a panel at the Discussion Forum at the Fair. For an hour, literary and film agent and producer Anna-Soler Pont (Spain), film producer Annemarie Jacir (Lebanon), and Philip Kennedy (UK), professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, talked about Mahfouz’ writings and the movies based on them. The event was hosted by Peter Scarlet (USA), film director and Director of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
It was great to see such passionate people talking about Naguib Mahfouz. In fact, Phil Kennedy’s very first phrase was: “I love Mahfouz”. And according to Anna-Soler, Mahfouz changed her life.
“Mahfouz changed my life when I went to Cairo. He told me: ‘I’m no one important. You should meet some really important people.’ He introduced me to some writers that used to have coffee with him and I got back to Europe with a few authors I could represent as a literary agent, and ever …read more >
I love book-fairs! Well, I work for one so I guess I have a bias here. But seriously, if one frequents book-fairs there is certain emotional bonding one feels to the stacks of books on shelves across huge halls that call out to you. What is even more thrilling is the breakfast room in whatever hotel you might be and bumping into friends from all over the world.
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair is even more special in that sense for it happens a time when the weather here is perfect, people are having a great mood! The last few days of the fair I have bumped into some old friends, made some new ones, heard some interesting discussions and seen some rather happy faces of publishers busy signing deals, networking and partying.
There is something magical about this place where you don’t encounter the madness of millions of people milling about; where you can grab a cup of coffee and talk about that book a bit longer than usual; where you discuss issues of urgency with more time and …read more >
Salwa Shakhshir, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan, attended the second annual Publishers Training program organized by KITAB and The Center for Publishing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies in Abu Dhabi. She’s documented her experiences for Publishing Perspectives. Read coverage of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
By Salwa Shakhshir
Our final day of training focused on the importance of quality control and how important it was to not only check the content of the e-books to make sure it has the right content, but to also check it on different devices to see how content looks and flows on each.
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Salwa Shakhshir, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan, is attending the second annual Publishers Training program organized by KITAB and The Center for Publishing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies in Abu Dhabi. She’s documenting her experiences for Publishing Perspectives. Read coverage of Day 1 and Day 2.
Day 3, Publishers Training, Abu Dhabi
Ok … I seriously don’t know where to begin! All I know is that I left the classroom today with a cloud on top of my head, and the only thing I could think of was … I have SOOOOO much work to do when I get back home! It’s great… I am not complaining at all …it’s just a LOT of information to digest all at once and I am so …read more >
This week Salwa Shakhshir, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan, is attending the second annual Publishers Training program organized by KITAB in Abu Dhabi, UAE. (You can read our coverage of last year’s program here.)
It is the first year the program is being run in partnership with New York University, with several professors and instructors flown in from the US for the occasion. Salwa by documenting her experiences for throughout the week.
Read coverage of day 1 here.
Day 2 of Publishers Training in Abu Dhabi by Salwa Shakhshir
From the minute I read about this lecture I knew I was going to learn so much
This week Salwa Shakhshir, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan, is attending the second annual Publishers Training program organized by KITAB in Abu Dhabi, UAE. (You can read our coverage of last year’s program here.)
It is the first year the program is being run in partnership with New York University, with several professors and instructors flown in from the US for the occasion. Salwa will be documenting her experiences for throughout the week.
What a great day! I had been eagerly anticipating this program for months now, and walking from our hotel to the NYU campus felt so good! With my new notebook in hand, I felt like a student again, but this time much more eager to learn, not only because the topic is now my choice of career, but also because of the …read more >
There’s a lot to be overwhelmed with on your first trip to Abu Dhabi (or the UAE in general). The sense of space, the clearness of the sky, the sun, heat, distances. The camel beauty pageants. The buildings, the Grand Mosque, the Emirates Palace. Not to mention the culture, the myriad events, and the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which was the reason why I was there in the first place.
To provide a bit of background: I run Open Letter, a publishing house in Rochester, NY that’s dedicated to publishing only literature in translation. We’re one of the few presses in America that’s concerned with international literature, and since our inception in 2007, we’ve been trying to find books from all corners of the globe that we can publish. Europe, South America, Russia—all taken care of in the first year. But we’ve had a much harder time identifying Arabic titles to translate and publish in English.
There are many reasons for this—the …read more >
