Invitation to attend the Ordinary General Assembly of the Arab Publishers` Association
Cairo - Sunday 30/1/2022 AD

Dear colleague
Member of the General Assembly of the Arab Publishers` Association
After Greetings
     The Arab Publishers` Association is pleased to present you with its sincere greetings and appreciation, and we invite you to attend the ordinary general assembly of the Arab Publishers` Association, at nine thirty in the morning, on Sunday, January 30, 2022 AD, at Al-Manara Center, Hall 219 - Egypt International Exhibition Center - Field Marshal Tantawi - Cairo El Jadida - Arab Republic of Egypt.
Attendance is required for the member to have paid his financial obligations to the Arab Publishers` Association before November 30, 2021.

Publishing study in the Arab world 2015-2019
 

Which is a detailed study on the state of publishing in the Arab world, and this study reveals the state of publishing in the Arab world from 2015 to 2019, and clarifies most of the problems facing the Arab publishing industry, such as: forgery, tying laws, continuous violation of intellectual property rights, and heavy customs on Book making tools. It also addresses many problems, such as the problem of paper, digital and audio books, and the problem of marketing it, with the decline in the role of public and university libraries in supporting this industry, as well as the problem of translation from and into the Arabic language.
It also included tables that reveal in detail the publishing movement in the Arab world as a whole, and in each country separately, and included tables that reveal the translation movement in numbers, the nature of the published content, and for the first time a study by numbers of Arab book fairs.
We extend our thanks and appreciation to all colleagues who contributed to answering the inquiries and questionnaires sent to them by the Arab Publishers` Association, and for providing us with the required data and information.

 Media statement on the award of Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mansour
Third session

On the sidelines of the Book Fair in Sharjah this evening, Thursday, the Arab Publishers` Association announced the shortlist for the Kuwaiti Publisher Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mansour Award for the support of publishers in its third session 2021 for short stories.
Haitham Al-Hafiz, the head of the Professional Work Development Committee, stressed in a press conference on the occasion the importance of this award at the Arab level, congratulating the authors of stories and publishing houses that were shortlisted.
Al-Hafiz expressed his thanks to Dr. Al-Mansour, praising the role of the President of Association, Mohammed Rashad, the Secretary-General, Bashar Chebaro, the members of the Board of Directors and the Arbitration Committee.
He said that the short list included from Egypt (Mahi Publishing and Distribution) for the group (The Man in the Black Coat) by Abed Khattab, Dar (Al-Ain) for (Pisces Tower) by Jalila Al-Qadi, and Dar (Al-Farouq for Cultural Investments) for (Twelve Nights) by Abboud Mustafa, from Libya, Dar (Pioneers) on (Woman on the Edge of the World) by Azza Makhour, and from Iraq (Abjad Institution for Translation, Publishing and Distribution) on the group (Tayr al-Wahsha) by Hamid Mukhtar.
For his part, the President of the Association, Mohammed Rashad, considered to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) ten, "This award, despite its relative recentness, and despite the repercussions of the Corona pandemic on the Arab publisher, was able to present a living model of solidarity and fraternity among Arab publishers.

It is an advanced electronic step through which it sought to define, preserve and support copyright and publisher rights, and it is also a step for communication and synergy with publishers, writers, writers and authors to provide a stable and stable environment in order to preserve intellectual property and protect the rights of creators and to serve present and future generations

For those of the Federation who wish to file a complaint regarding an intellectual property dispute, please fill out

The following form and send it to the General Secretariat office by email: nsharif@arab-pa.org