The UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY) recently hosted four jury members of the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in a panel discussion organised at the ongoing 40th edition of Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), to evaluate the submissions and winning entries ofthe 13th edition of the Award. The participants included Dr Bushra […]

Travel writers should ‘live the now’ and ‘expose their five senses to everything ’which will help them to notice things differently, advised Emirati poet Talal Salem at a panel discussion titled ‘The Peculiarity of Travel Literature’, held last night at the ongoing Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2021. Moderated by Dr Lamya Tawfik, the panel […]

The 3rd “Adventure & Camping 2021” exhibition will kick off tomorrow, Tuesday, at Expo Al Dhaid and runs until 13 November. The five-day event is organized by Expo Al Dhaid with the support of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and under the supervision of the Expo Center Sharjah. A considerable number of […]

Why do some social media channels that only disseminate important or useful information have no takers? Why do scientific and cultural videos often fall on the wayside with frivolous videos garnering millions of hits and views? At a discussion titled ‘Purposeful and entertaining content’, the Social Media station at the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair […]

Thirty-eight publishing companies with offices registered in Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone (SPC Free Zone), the world’s first specialised book printing and publishing free zone that also supports businesses from other sectors, is participating in the ongoing milestone 40th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2021), which runs from November 3 – 13, in Expo Centre […]

Harsh Mariwala, founder and chairman of Fortune India 500 company Marico, and founder of Kaya Limited, unveiled his new book, ‘Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico’, at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), on 7 November at 8:30 PM at the Intellectual Hall. Invited by the SIBF to speak exclusively at one of its sessions […]

Wham! The balloons burst one after the other in the hands of the children assembled at the ‘Alice in Scienceland’ workshop at the ongoing 40th edition of Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). Each young attendee was given a balloon, which they had to blow into as much as possible. Then they were asked to squeeze […]

Combining the limitless potential of technology and magic, Icelone, a brilliant young magician from Malaysia, put on an incredible spectacle with an immersive ‘Interactive Illusion’ performance at the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair at Expo Centre Sharjah. Imagination, illusion, reality, and technology intertwined to breathe new life into book themes, graphics, and animations as the […]