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Last Revision: 25 January 2012
International projects about Arabic children's literature
Temporary projects
-
Developing
Arab Children's Literature, a regional programme to promote children's literature and reading in five Arab
countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. It is financed by the
Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (Sida)
and coordinated by
The Anna Lindh
Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF)
-
The UNESCO nominated
Beirut World Book Capital for
2009. There are lots of book-centered events in 2009, organized by
the Lebanese Ministry of Culture with various partners.
The workshop
Enhancing
Cultural Diversity in Youth Literature is just one example of many
having to do with Arab children's literature.
-
German-Lebanese
Literature Workshops for Children in November 2007. Pairs of
German-Lebanese authors developed creative interpretations with children and
young people on the basis of German and Lebanese children’s
storybooks. The work is documented online. The literature workshops were
being held under the High Patronage of H.E. Dr Tarek Mitri, Minister of
Culture, and were organised by the Goethe-Institut Lebanon, UNESCO Regional
Office Beirut, ASSABIL, Friends of public libraries
association and the Lebanese Ministry of Culture, with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office.
Permanent projects
- The Diary of a Stolen Thought, a free
Arabic copyright handbook for illustrators and writers, from the
Anna Lindh Foundation and Rania Zaghir, the founder of Al Khayyat Al Saghir, a
publisher of Arabic children’s books. See the website of
the Anna
Lindh Foundation and find more material on the blog
there
for design (therefordesign.net).
- Arab Children's Book Publishers'
Forum,
a framework based in Sharjah, UAE, and supervised by the General Department of
Children and Girls Centers. Works under the umbrella of the Arab Publishers'
Association. See
Company
Profile in English (from BEA).
- Children’s Book
Publishers' Association (JNKA), a nonprofit trade association of publishers of
Arabic trade books and related materials for children and young adults.
- mubtada wa khabar, a collaborative
plattform for the arab book indurstry,
supported by Beirut World Book Capital 2009, the Lebanese
ministry of culture and the French Embassy in the context of the ‘FSP’ (Fond
de Solidarité Prioriatire) for reading and youth literature
- National Sections of the
International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
- Access to books for disadvantaged communities in the West Bank and Gaza is
provided by the charity Book Aid
International in partnership with the British Council in Palestine and
the Tamer Institute for Community Education. Book Aid
International increases access to books and supports literacy, education and
development in various countries. It works via donations and a reverse book
club.
- The Dubai International Children’s Book Fair (DICBF) was planned to be a part of the
Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation's reading strategy. In 2010, this project
was
postponed
indefinitely , however.
Blogs on Arabic Children's Literature
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