“Every year, we have been publishing about 60 novels under the Katara Novels project plus other books on Qatari history, culture, heritage and traditions. We wanted to bring all these under one umbrella to make publishing more professional and systematic.”
“Specifically, Arabic is a language that’s somewhat unreachable from the community that we have built so far and we’ve received a number of extremely interesting Arabic submissions since localizing into the Arbaic language. We’re reviewing those now.”
“Rewayat already has access to Kalimat Group’s strong range of distribution channels, one of the major challenges for any new Arabic publishing group.”
“Indeed, the AmazonCrossing website, which was previously English-only, now allows users to submit book proposals in Arabic, in addition to Bengali, German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.”
“Therefore, it is important that future policy actions should focus on enabling support structures and facilities that would allow the publishing and translation of Arabic literature within the Nordic region.”
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“Eighty percent of AUC Press business was settled in one market and overnight we lost it.”
“My dream would be to expand this soon to include writers working in Arabic, too, and work collaboratively with partners and publishers in the region and beyond.”
“[O]nly 0.6% of translations of foreign works into French are from the Arabic.”
“The partnership will see both publishing companies exchange the same number of books to be published in translation each year.”
“They have amazing illustrated books. So we’re going to be launching cookbooks with them.”
“From historical epics, social satire, police procedurals and stories of the future Middle East: we will publish the exciting and the unexpected.”
