Prizes
Press release on the Best Arab Publisher Award 2025
Within the closing activities of the Cairo International Book Fair in its fifty-sixth session, whose slogan
was "Read... Today, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the award for the best Arab publisher in its fourth edition was announced, which was attended by a group of writers, publishers and media professionals.
Following the evaluation of the work of the various participating houses in accordance with the criteria of the competition, the committee decided to award the award for the best Arab publisher for the year 2025, equally between "Dar Nama for Research and Studies - Egypt" and "Takween Publications - Kuwait".
Dr. Ahmed Bahey El-Din Al-Asassassi (Chairman of the General Book Authority), Mr. Mohamed 
Rashad (President of the Arab Publishers` Association), Dr. George Nubar and Dr. Zain Abdel Hadi handed over the prizes of the competition.
Competition Participants
In this fourth edition, 17 Arab publishing houses were nominated for the Best Arab Publisher Award, including ten Egyptian publishing houses, two Syrian publishing houses, two Saudi publishing houses, and one publishing house each for Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan.
Award Criteria
Referring to the judging speech of the Best Arab Publisher Award, the main criterion in evaluating the work of competing publishing houses was the quality of the content and commitment to intellectual property rights, and the diversity of publications in various fields of knowledge, capable of attracting different audiences, was taken into account.
As for the technical criteria, they focused on the quality of production and printing, the design of the covers and their suitability with the titles, taking into account the ability of designs to express the spirit of the content, in addition to the diversity of design ideas and their relationship to the diversity of content.
The benefit of participating publishers from digital publishing formats and the use of the digital environment to reach out to audiences and disseminate content were also assessed.
All congratulations to the winners and our wishes of success and excellence to the rest of the publishing houses in the coming editions.
Dr. Mohammed Saleh Al-Maalij
Chairman of the Media and Public Relations Committee