Guests (like us!) invited to the Sharjah Book Fair through social media encounters! « 10 Days in Sharjah

There are tons of authors and scholars that are part of the enormous (30th Anniversary) Sharjah International Book Fair. Below is a list of those invited as guests of @shjintlbookfair who were met online through various social media. For us it was 100 Thousand Poets for Change that caught #shjibf’s attention. (Thanks for noticing us!) As a result, there was a wonderful event in Sharjah for 100 TPC run with @ArabicBookClub, under the patronage of @Bodour.

We are very honored and thrilled to be guests of the Book Fair. Looking forward to meeting all the interesting people and browsing through themassive map of booksellers that are at the fair!  The Catalogue of books available is 344 pages long! And the Sharjah Book Fair gets about 400,000 people passing through during its 10 day stretch. It is going to be amazing. Here is the Schedule, which does not officially include everything that will be going on…and check the official Sharjah Book Fair Blog for happenings and updates…stay tuned here for my own take on this trippy trip. There will be daily photos (I hope) so come back often.

الإسم	نبذة عن المؤلف	الموقع الألكتروني	Bio	Name
سارة شيريدان	كاتبة أسكتلندية: معظم كتاباتها روايات تاريخية. مهتمة بالكتب والأفلام والتاريخ. تُكرس حياتها للكلمات، صحفية أحيانا ومدونة.	http://www.sarasheridan.com	Scottish writer: mostly historical novelist. Curious about books, films & history. Dedicated word nerd (a big swot). Occasional journalist & blogger. Jammy.	Sara Sheridan
آنا بيركي	أديبة مقاتلة،تسعى لإنقاذ العالم باستخدام مناهج إبداعية للفنون والثقافة. مولعة بالأحذية والسفن واختام الشمع، ومؤسسة@EdinCityofLit	http://www.AnnaBurkey.com	Literary Ninja, saving the world with creative approaches to arts & culture. Fond of shoes & ships & sealing wax; set up@EdinCityofLit.	Anna Burkey
أنيتا سيثي	صحفية وكاتبة تقوم بالتغريد من جميع أنحاء العالم	http://www.anitasethi.co.uk	journalist & writer, tweeting from around the world	Anita Sethi
مايكل روثينبرج	ناشر ومحرر بيج بريدج ومؤسس 100 الف شاعر من أجل التغيير	http://www.100tpc.org	Publisher and editor of Big Bridge and founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change	Michael Rothenberg
ثيريسا كاريون	مولودة في نيويورك لأم من جاليسيا وأب من كوبا. مؤسسة مشاركة لـ 100 ألف شاعر من أجل التغيير و محررة مشاركة ومصممة لموقع BigBridge.org	http://www.100TPC.org	Conceived in Venezuela, born in New York to a Galician mother & Cuban father, co-founder 100 Thousand Poets for Change, co-editor/visual designer BigBridge.org.	Theresa Carrion
ستيوارت كلارك	فلكي وصحفي ومؤلف ومتحدث رسمي. مؤلف ثلاثية ملوك الشمس ومتاهة السماء المظلمة والتي حولت تاريخ علم الفلك إلى دراما حية	http://www.stuartclark.com	Astronomer, journalist, author and speaker. Author of The Sun Kings and The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth trilogy, the history of astronomy – dramatised!	Stuart Clark
ليزا ديميستر	مديرة مهرجان الكُتاب الناشئين ومؤلفة كتاب Neon Pilgrim، تتنقل بالدراجة ونباتية	http://www.lisadempster.com.au	Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Author of Neon Pilgrim. Gets around by bike. Vegan.	Lisa Dempster
فاطمة فخري	إيرانية-أمريكية، مسلمة، تنادي بحقوق المرأة، ليبرالية، كل ذلك في نفس الوقت! مؤسسة مسلمة ميديا ووتش (@ mmwtweets) ، ومؤلفة.	http://fatemehfakhraie.com	Iranian-American. Muslim. Feminist. Super liberal. All at the same time! Deal with it. I’m the founder of Muslimah Media Watch (@mmwtweets) and an author.	Fatemeh Fakhraie
صوفي كوك	روائية ومؤلفةكل من رواية البيت الزجاجي، وتحت الجبل : التي نشرتها دار راندوم هاوس، كاتبة قصة قصيرة ، شاعرة، ومصورة، ونادلة روكابيلي		Novelist (The Glass House; Under The Mountain: pub. Random House), Short Story Writer, Poet, Photographer, Rockabilly Barmaid	Sophie Cooke
سارة ماري جرادي	مماطلة عفوية. تحب الكتب، والعمل في مجال الفنون ومهوسة قليلا بالخَبز.		I am a spontaneous procrastinator. I love books, work in the arts and baking is a minor obsession.	Sara Marie Grady
بيجي هيوز	نحلة عاملة في خلية أدب ادنبرة وتقوم بالتغريد لـ@byleaveswelive، مديرة مشاركة في@wpbookfestival, ومحررة مشاركة في@anonpoetry وتحب شرب الشاي	http://www.anonpoetry.co.uk	I’m a worker bee in Edinburgh’s literary hive. I tweet for@byleaveswelive, co-direct@wpbookfestival, co-edit@anonpoetry and love tea.	Peggy Hughes
هانا ميجيل	ناقدة أفلام وكاتبة و تظهر أحيانا في البرامج التليفزيونية وعلى الراديو. يمكن قراءة بعض القصص ومعرفة المزيد عنها من خلال زيارة مدونتها	http://mcgillness.blogspot.com/	Film critic, writer, occasionally allowed on the radio and television. If you go to the blog you can read some stories I done.	Hannah Mcgill
بول ديفيد بيران	مدير مركز التوعية بجامعة هارفارد والذي يعتمد على تشجيع المجتمع في الجامعة على الفهم النقدي لمنطقة الشرق الأوسط وذلك للمعلميين وعامة الناس	http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach	The Outreach Center draws on the Harvard community to promote a critical understanding of the Middle East region for educators and the general public.	Paul David Beran
آنا اميليا ماد		http://drawmedy.wordpress.com		Anna Amelia Mudd
نديم نمير دملوجي	مسافر في جميع أنحاء العالم من خلال منحة لدراسة الآثار الاستعمارية لمغامرات تان تان.	http://tintintravels.tumblr.com	I am travelling around the world with a grant to study the colonial implications of The Adventures of Tintin.	Nadim Namir Damluji
يحيى سمير لبابيدي	شاعر مصري، وكاتب مقالات، مؤلف كل من كتاب Signposts to Elsewhere (2008) Trial by Ink (2010) Fever Dreams (2011)	http://www.pw.org/content/yahia_lababidi http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/Y/Yahia-Lababidi.html	Egyptian poet, essayist, aphorist & author of: Signposts to Elsewhere (2008) Trial by Ink (2010) Fever Dreams (2011)	Yahia Samir Lababidi
مهدي فليفل (مهدي محمد سعيد فليفل)	كاتب ومخرج	www.mahdifleifel.com	Writer and Director	Mahdi Fleifel (Mehdi Mohamad Said Fleifel)
محمد علي محمد الشناوي		http://toktokmag.com/home.htm	Artist	Mohammed Ali Mohammed El Shennawy
باراق ريما		http://barrackrimaa.blogspot.com/	Artist	Barrack RIMA
جنا طرابُلسي			Artist	Jana TRABOULSI
محمد السيد توفيق توفيق	فنان	http://www.tawfi2.com	Artist	Mohamed Elsayed Tawfik Tawfik
نضال منجد نظيف الخيري		http://nidalelkhairy.blogspot.com	Artist	Nidal Munjed Nazif El-Khairy
مجدي محمد عبد الستار سعود الشافعي	فنان قصص مصورة وكاتب من القاهرة		Comics artist/writer from Cairo.	MAGDI MOHAMED AbdelSattar Seoud El-Shafei
اباراجيتى نينان			Artist	Aparajita Ninan
دوراج باي			Artist	Durga Bai
سوباش سينج			Artist	Subhash Singh
مارسي لينكس كوالي	تعيش في القاهرة بمصر حيث تكتب عن الأدب العربي باللغة الإنجليزية	http://arablit.wordpress.com	M. Lynx Qualey lives in Cairo, Egypt, where she writes about Arabic literature (in English).	Marcia Lynx Qualey
س.أناند	مؤسس مشارك لدار نشر نافايانا	http://navayana.org/	Co-founder of Navayana publishing house	S. Anand

Coming up: Sharjah International Book Fair – we’ll be there! | R A Y A | agency for Arabic literature

For the 30th year, Sharjah is getting ready to welcome its international book exhibit. Starting on November 16th through the 26th, readers in the Emirates will be able to attend talks, events, and buy books from all over the Arab world and more.

This year, the fair’s international flavor is enhanced. An important delegation of publishers from non Arab countries is invited to meet with Arab publishers and agents (including RAYA!) during three days before the fair. Clearly, Sharjah’s ambition is to become the meeting point for the promotion of Arabic literature.

Along these lines, the creation of a subvention program for translating Arabic literature was announced. The details of the program, which will be presented during the fair next week, are awaited with great excitement!

Driving East | Jar of Juice (Most of drive was through Emirate of Sharjah)

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Eid Al Adha’s timing was perfect: my sister was out of town, I was off from college and from work, I had no pending freelance photography to do, no family commitments, friends all busy with their families — it was the perfect opportunity to sit, relax, and do absolutely nothing for once. Even my exam, due on the 14th, has been put on hold because I really needed the break.

After spending the first day sick in bed and the consecutive days uneventful (but wonderful in being so), the clouds rolled in and thundered their way into the Emirates overnight. Early morning, I woke up to the gloomy skies and damp air. True to the weather reports, it was going to be a rainy day.

I had a few errands to run that day — little things like laundry, cleaning, and some other “item fetching” from several malls and places — but decided to take the opportunity to set out on a journey to the Eastern Regions that I have been planning for quite a while now. I visited the area a few years ago during summer, but have since loved to go again in the cooler months. I knew that the sky would make the trip much more memorable, and so I packed in some sandwiches and some water, armed myself with my camera (which I did not use) and my phone camera (which I extensively used) and headed east.

When I stopped by the gas station to fuel up, I thought of documenting this trip — why not? It was a ride of contemplation; I thought about many things on my way and enjoyed the ride. When I arrived at the mountainous areas, I felt I was in heaven; living in flat-Dubai makes you truly appreciate other forms of landscapes. Even the desert was different, with dunes dwarfing the Land Cruisers trying to conquer them.

It has been a refreshing journey — one I have been looking forward to for months. My soul felt refreshed; I really needed this. The whole journey took me around eight hours before I headed to Ajman to visit my best friend, after which I headed back to Dubai for a well deserved sleep!

Here are the tweets and some more photos — enjoy! (might take a bit to load, and if it doesn’t, refresh!)

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الفعاليات الثقافية لليوم الثاني لمعرض الشارقة الدولي للكتاب 

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Midas PR - Excitement builds for SIBF's International Author Programme

9th November 2011

Excitement in mounting for the Sharjah International Book Fair, which begins next week. The 30th Book Fair includes an exceptional line-up of international authors who will discuss everything from statesmanship through the ages to the nature of memory.

Wednesday 16 November

7-8pm Insights into world leaders through the ages- the human face of our international politicians.

Vayalar Ravi (tbc), George Goodwin, Andrew Rawnsley, Roland White

Chair: Sultan Souood Al Qassemi (tbc)

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8.30-9.30pm Finding the truth. How we allow our memories to play tricks - bestselling novelists debate the difference between fact, fiction and scientific truth.

Peter James, Sunetra Gupta, Ms Suaad, Mr Ahmed
Chair: Mohamed Alhosani

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Thursday 17 November

11am Various readings from stories

Sally Gardener and Taghreed Al Najjar (author and publisher AlSalwa Books)

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5 pm How to achieve success - the role self-esteem plays in business achievement, how to make the changes you need to succeed.

Robert Kelsey, Dominic Prince, Yasser Hareb
Chair: Mishaal Gergawi

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6-7pm Promoting Understanding Across Cultures - how literature plays a vital role

Xinran, Rashid (KWB), Greg Mosse and Suleiman Mleihat

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7-8pm The woman's voice in fiction - global perspectives

Xinran, Kate Mosse, Shobhaa De, Omaima Abdullah al-Khamis (KSA), Adaf Soueif,
Chair: Mounia Bournat

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Friday 18 November

6pm Various readings from stories - Children 4

Sally Gardener and Maytha Khayat

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6.30-7.30pm Various readings

Alex Scarrow, David Whitley and Jamal Shehhi

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7-8pm The changing facets of Arab politics, history in the making

Robert Lacey, Maha Hasan
Chair: Turki Al Dakheel

Sharjah International Book Festival 2010 - a set on Flickr

Click through headline above to view @LisaDempster's photographs from #shjibf 2010