UAE
UAE: 11-day Sharjah Book Fair received 382,000 visitors
Sharjah’s cultural project received an unprecedented attestation with the successful 11-day run of the 39th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), which ran from November 4 to 15.
The hybrid offline — online model of SIBF 2020 themed ‘The World Reads from Sharjah’ and organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), offered 1,024 publishers from 73 nations a much-needed opportunity to showcase millions of titles including 80,000 new releases to a physical audience of 382,000 people who visited the book fair.
