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Last Revision: 28th June 2010

Articles on Arabic children's literature (in English)

• UAEBBY to organise Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children's Literature (eyeofdubai.com)
• International Board on Books for Young People officially launches UAE chapter (about the membership of the United Arab Emirates in IBBY, eyeofdubai.com)
• An animated life with David Habchy (interview with the illustrator David Habchy, dia magazine)
• We Don't Translate Any Old Trash (interview with Mustafa al-Slaiman about the Kalima Foundation, qantara.de)
• Drive to bring the joy of reading to Arab children of the world (about the launch of the Sharjah International Children’s Book Forum , by Yasin Kakande, thenational.ae)
• Oxford hosts Sheikh Zayed Book Award annual lecture (Award-winning authors Ammar Ali Hasan and Qais Sedki give talks at Oxford University, middle-east-online.com)
• Gold Ring: the UAE's first manga (interview with the author and publisher Qais Sedki, by Oliver Good, thenational.ae)
• By hook or by book (about the author and publisher Nadine Touma, thenational.ae)
• Bridging differences through children’s literature (an interview with Sabah Aisawi, who took part in the 19th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, by Hassna’a Mokhtar, arabnews.com)
• Arab World (by Nadia El Kholy, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, mywire.com)
• The Qur'an in Children's Literature (by Sabeur Mdallel, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, mywire.com)
• Kamel Kilani (about one of the pioneers of children's literature in the Arab world, by Sabeur Mdallel, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, mywire.com)
• Arab children need a ‘Hannah Montana’(by Nour Samaha, thenational.ae)
• Books For A New World (by Arthur Clark, saudiaramcoworld.com)
• Women know - Rania Khallaf looks into the increasing female presence in the publishing industry (weekly.ahram.org.eg)
• Give them books (about a ban on importing Arabic children's books into Israel from Arab countries, by Avirama Golan, haaretz.com)
• Publishers dismayed by DICF cancellation (about the cancellation of the Dubai International Children's Book Fair 2010, by Catherine Neilan, thebookseller.com)
• Dubai Children’s Book Fair Postponed (publishersweekly.com)
• You Don't Have a Chance, so Take it! - Publishers in the Arab World (about a workshop in Abu Dhabi for Arab publishers, by Gabriele Rubner, qantara.de)
• Dh1m for children’s book prize winners (about the winners of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature, Nabeeha Muheidli, Nadine Saidani and Dar Al Hadaeq, by Anna Seaman, thenational.ae)
• AED 1 million Etisalat Prize for Arab Childrens Literature announced (eyeofdubai.com)
• Fair deal for children at Sharjah Book Fair (by Shadiah Abdullah, arabnews,com)
• Healthy reading: Bringing up a bookworm (by Louisa Wilkins, gulfnews.com)
• A mission to inculcate love for Arabic among children (about the publishing house Kalimat, by Fatma Salem, gulfnews.com )
• Visual Foreign Correspondents: Lena Merhej (by Annet Dekker, visualcorrespondents.com)
• Bloomsbury's Arabian Gruffalo (about children's literature at the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, thebookseller.com)
• Arab Youth Venture Foundation teams with Jerboa Books (ameinfo.com)
• Fellow 2009 Sherif Bakr (about the publisher of Al Arabi Publishing and Distribution, book-fair.com)
• Literature Festival in Mantova (with the Jordanian writer Taghrid Al Najjar and the Lebanese writer Rania Zaghir, alsalwabooks.com)
• Lebanese get lesson on domestic workers from Mimi (about a series of books launched in Lebanon to sensitise population to foreign domestic workers, middle-east-online.com)
• Lofty ideas behind books for little ones (by Hala Khalaf, thenational.ae)
• Carnegie Mellon Qatar alumna garners position as Top 30 under 30: Jinanne Tabra is identified as part of the next generation of Arab leaders according to CEO Middle East (about the founder of araboh.com, an article by Al Afifi, cmu.edu)
• Dubai International Children's Book Fair draws significant interest from top global publishers at London Book Fair (ameinfo.com)
• Children's books in Arabic are a sad tale (by Alice Johnson, gulfnews.com)
• Beirut Book Fair (On the 52nd Beirut Book Fair 2008, with special focus at younger readers, by Souad Habka, tadamon.ca, first published at The Daily Star)
• Interview with Mazen Mehio from the Lebanese publishing house Dar Al-Mareef and the Arab Children’s Books Publishers Association (frankfurt-book-fair.com)
• Literary Publishers in Cairo, A Special Form of Modern Publishing (Axel von Ernst, with infos about the publishing house Al Balsam, qantara.de)
• Sarah's World (about the book Sarah's Mirror: A Young Girl's Journey Through Time with a Talking Mirror by Maha Al-Faisal and Maryam A. Sharief, an article by Liza Kaaki, arabnews.com)
• World's Biggest Children's Book Prize Launched At BEA (about the Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children's Literature from Sharjah, booktrade.info)
• Tamer Institute in Ramallah Wins Astrid Lindgren Literary Prize (by Niklas Magnusson, bloomberg.com)
• Publishers for children's literature are rare in the region (by Mariam M. Al Serkal, gulfnews.com)
• If things could talk (about the novel King of Things by Tarek Abdel-Bary, an article by Rania Khallaf, ahram.org)
• Interview with Nadine Touma, Dar Onboz, Lebanon, participant of Frankfurt Book Fair’s Invitation Programme for small publishing companies (book-fair.com)
• Publishing Children's Books in Lebanon: The Experience(by Shereen Kreidieh, Asala, creativeconomy.org.uk)
• The Arab Education Forum (AEF): Building on what is beautiful, inspiring, healthy, and abundant in the Arab world (has projects with Arabic children's literature, by Munir Fasheh, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)
• Notaila Ibrahim Rashed (Mama Lobna) (about a pioneer of Egyptian children’s literature, by Hartwig Klappert, literaturfestival.com )
• The Almost Complete Lack of the Element of "Futureness", Science Fiction in Arabic Literature(Achmed A. W. Khammas, heise.de)
• Pioneer of Children's Literature(about Kamel Keilany, arabicnews.com)
• Muslim Superheroes, The Arab Hulks (by Sonja Zekri, qantara.de)
• Reading for Life - Evaluation of Swedish Support to Children's Literature on the West Bank and Gaza for the Period 1995 -2003 (by Britt Isaksson, Sida Evaluation 04/26)
• The story makers (about the Children's Book Fair in Cairo and the publishing house Dar El-Shorouk, by Manal el-Jesri, Egypt Today)
• Where is the music? (about music for children in Egypt and the writer Amal Farah, by Rania Khallaf, al-Ahram)
• It's a Chick, Not a Dog (a story for children by Jar al-Nabi al-Hilw with illustrations by Hilmi el-Touni, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth, Words Without Borders)
• Abdel-Tawwab Youssef: An older child (Interview with the Egyptian author Abdel-Tawwab Youssef, by Youssef Rakha, al-Ahram)
• Ali Mandalawi: The Movements on an Artist's Brain (about the Kurdish artist Ali Mandalawi, by Suzan Quitaz, KurdishMedia.com )
• The Language and Translation of Arab Folktales (by Srpko Lestaric, ATA cronicle)
• An Illustrator's Dream (about the Saudi comic book illustrator Muhannad Shono, by Namir Alirez, Arab News)
• Fighting illiteracy and aliteracy - Author aims to make standard Arabic fun for children (by Linda Dahdah, The Daily Star, Lebanonwire)
• The Story of Al Salwa Publishing House (English version of an article published in German in Literatur Nachrichten, by Taghreed A. Najjar)
• Local authors are extremely important (abour Magrudy’s bookshop in Dubai, by Philippa Kennedy, alsalwabooks.com)
• "We're trapped ... books free our minds" (The Observer Book Aid Appeal for the Palestinian publishing house Tamer Institute, by Conal Urquhart, The Observer)
• Euro-Arab Neighbourhood - Student magazines in the Arab States and Europe (a UNESCO project for the exchange between young people of European and Arab states)
• Arab Fairy Tales in Disney Times: A Comparative Socio-Literary Approach (1) (by Magdi Youssef, Art in Society)
• Translating Children's Literature in the Arab World - The State of the Art (by Sabeur Mdallel, Meta)
• The Sociology of Children's Literature in the Arab World (by Sabeur Mdallel, Alice's Academy)
• Bringing the Arabic language to life in children's books (Interview with the Lebanese publisher and author Samah Idriss, by Samia Nassar Melki, The Daily Star, Lebanonwire)
• Once upon a book (Interview with Amira Aboulmagd, publishing manager of Dar al-Shorouq, by Amina Elbendary, al-Ahram)
• Helmi El-Touni: Message in a Fish (Portrait of the famous Egyptian illustrator Helmi El-Touni, by Amira Howeidy, al-Ahram)
• The right to read (about the Cairo Child Book Fair (CCBF) 2004, by Dina Ezzat, al-Ahram)
• An industry overview (about the Seventh Euro-Arab Book Fair in Paris, by David Tresilian. al-Ahram)
• Freeing the imagination (about Arabic children's magazines, by Rania Khallaf, al-Ahram)
• Taking on Mideast bad guys - with super powers (by Paul Schemm, San Franciso Cronicle)
• Spiderman? Who 's that? Zein the Last Pharao is more like it! - AK Comics usher in the era of the homegrown Middle Eastern superhero (by Issandr El Amrani, The Daily Star, Lebanonwire)
• Comics to Battle for Truth, Justice and the Islamic Way (interview with the Kuwaiti author Naif al-Mutawa about the Comic The 99, by Hassan M. Fattah, New York Times)
• In the eyes of a child (about the National Museum for Children's Art (NMCA) in Zeitoun, Egypt, by Rania Khallaf, al-Ahram)
• Indispensable beginnings (about the visit to Cairo of Eden Lipson, children's book editor of the New York Times, by Rania Khallaf, al-Ahram)
• The Arab/Muslim World: How It Looks in Books for American Children(by Elsa Marston, Alice's Academy)

Articles on Arabic children's literature (in German)

Articles on Arabic children's literature (in French)

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