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The 10 day long Assemblies concluded on 17 July with WIPO welcoming its 194th Member State, the Federated States of Micronesia, and reporting on progress...
In 2024, Dar Al Adab published Hoda Barakat’s novel Hind, which later went on to win the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literature...
Attacks in mid-June destroyed the Ukrainian Priority Publishing House and attacks on the night of 3rd July reduced the warehouse of Ukrainian PEN to rubble....
The IPA organises the International Publishers Congress every two years in cooperation with the IPA member in the host country. The Congress offers an unrivalled...
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and culture, is now accepting submissions across its ten categories...
Reacting to the news that Boualem Sansal’s 5 year prison sentence will stand, Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said:...
IPA will have a full programme of open and invite-only meetings at Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Note this is a provisional schedule. All dates,...
In June, two expected judgements were delivered by the United States District Court Northern District of California relating to Generative AI training and copyright....
The president of the Brazilian Publishers Association (SNEL), Dante Cid, hailed the Rio Book Biennial 2025 as a triumph of culture and optimism, as the...