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Sharjah

A view of the opening ceremony of the UNESCO's World Book Capital for 2019 is seen in Sharjah, April 23. (Sharjah World Book 2019 via AFP)

UAE’s Sharjah named 2019 World Book Capital

Baghdad International Book Fair

Visitors tour sections of the Erbil International Book Fair. (Twitter)

Arab publishing showcased at Erbil International Book Fair

Warid Badr al-Salem

Tunis

Visitors look at books at the 35th International Book Fair in Tunis, April 7. (Tunis International Book Fair)

Tunis International Book Fair highlights principles of individual rights, equality

culture

President of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities Shaikha Mai Bint Mohammed al-Khalifa (C) at the opening of the Riyadh International Book Fair. (SPA)

Riyadh International Book Fair showcases more than 900 publishers

Egypt

Culture beats terror. Books on display at the renovated National Library in Egypt. (Ahmed Megahid)

Egypt’s oldest library renovated after terrorist devastation

Morocco

Still striving for quality. A visitor browses through a book at the 25th edition of Casablanca’s International Book Fair. (Saad Guerraoui)

Casablanca book fair showcases Spanish culture

India

Cover of Sumantra Bose’s “Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism.”

Why Turkey’s authoritarian drift is unlikely in India

Iraqi

Cover of Samuel Helfont’s “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq.”

Studying Saddam’s ‘compulsion in religion’

Cairo

Cover of L.L. Wynn’s “Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt.”

L.L. Wynn’s ‘Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt’

Dunia El-Zobaidi