English PEN is holding a weekly vigil outside the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in London in support of activist and blogger Raif Badawi. Badawi was convicted in May 2014 for insulting Islam and founding a liberal website. He received a fine of one million riyals (£175,000) and a 10-year prison sentence, as well as 1,000 lashes. Last Friday (9th January), after morning prayers, Badawi was flogged 50 times. This punishment will continue every Friday until he has received the total 1,000 lashes. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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A global hotelier has scored a Manhattan home near where his company first put down roots.Richard Chiu, founder of the chain Warwick Hotels and Resorts, whose initial acquisition in 1980 was Midtown’s Warwick Hotel, purchased the three-bedroom condo on Columbus Circle for $17.3 million,... Continue reading at Crains New York
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I asked ChatGPT to improve my latest novel and lost no sleep over the results. But I do worry about diverse voices being crowded out This summer two worlds – literature and technology – collided. News stories began appearing about authors suing OpenAI and Meta for using their works to train... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The wide-ranging collection A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing features subjects from her health struggles to Robocop and has been announced a year after the author’s deathA collection of journalistic writing by Hilary Mantel is to be published next month, just over a year after the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-09-07 05:00:18 UTC ]
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After a survey revealed the stresses that authors face when placed in the spotlight for the first time, publishing houses and industry bodies have pledged extra training and pastoral careAuthor and publisher welfare has been a hot topic in the books industry of late. Publishing houses, trade... Continue reading at The Guardian
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A linear city in the desert is a provocative vision of the city of the future—but it’s been tried before. Saudi Arabia’s proposal for a 105-mile-long building called the Line has all the stuff of a science fiction paperback. The stark desert setting. The kingdom in control of vast amounts of one... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2022-08-04 04:30:19 UTC ]
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With Sharjah as London Book Fair’s guest of honour in 2022, the time is nigh – nay, now – for publishers to acquire Arabic titles for translation. But where to start? Unlike other languages such as Korean or Swedish, which have robust agenting infrastructure, very few Arab authors have agents to... Continue reading at British Council global
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The 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners come from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Lebanon. The post UAE: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Its 2021 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Before I spotted Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia on the shelves of a Borders bookstore near my Pennsylvania college, I had never seen a book about a Saudi woman before. Princess, according to its book jacket, which featured a fully veiled woman in high heels, was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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A 12-person committee previously met twice a month to approve or blacklist all books published in the country, for offences including immorality or insulting IslamAfter banning almost 5,000 books in the last seven years, Kuwait’s government has relaxed its book censorship laws in a move that has... Continue reading at The Guardian
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For many, staying indoors is an unsettling experience. It’s been heartening to see the imaginative leaps being taken by many organisations and artists to help us through – sitting-room gigs, free theatre streams, virtual tours of museums and archives and galleries – but given the limitless... Continue reading at British Council global
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English PEN has called for the release of Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif, who was arrested during a protest about the treatment of prisoners during the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ben Hubbard’s biography details the prince’s new brand of “electronic authoritarianism.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
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VANCOUVER, B.C.—Publishers have been taking a hard look at several novel revenue opportunities, some borrowed from other industries but each representing incremental growth potential when spun on a magazine axis. At the recent Content Opportunity Expo, executives from large legacy groups and... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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English PEN has set up a crowdfunding campaign to keep an historic copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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English PEN has named its new director as Daniel Gorman, current executive director of the Shubbak Festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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English PEN is marking the milestone of having supported 250 titles via its Writers in Translation programme, launched in 2006. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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English PEN’s Theodora Danek is joining Tilted Axis Press as co-publisher alongside founder Deborah Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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English PEN is collaborating with BBC Proms on a new outreach project, Brave New Voices. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A look at the matchups for World Cup games Monday: GROUP A SAUDI ARABIA VS. EGYPT Where: Volvograd Time: 7 a.m. PDT TV: FS1, Universo The buzz: Both teams will be going home after this game, making their final match more a matter of pride than points. Saudi Arabia is still looking for its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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