Friday Links: Events, Literacy Trends, and How Many Books *Are* Translated into Arabic?
Lately, I find the adage “Egypt writes, Lebanon publishes, Iraq reads” gives me a stab in the heart.
Mubtada wa Khabar
If You’re in Kuwait (or Kenya, or Kentucky), How Do You Find Out About Books in…Tunisia?
But even if we could all publish out of Beirut, how would readers find out about all these new books? And what of readers who want to know what’s being published in Tunisia, and publishers who want to know what’s going on in Oman, and parents who want to find the newest children’s literature from Jordan (really, there’s great kid lit in Jordan)?