{"id":61493,"date":"2025-04-22T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=61493"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:33:10","slug":"abu-dhabi-international-book-fair-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/abu-dhabi-international-book-fair-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi International Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s ADIBF \u2013 remarkably, it\u2019s the 34th edition \u2013 has the theme \u2018Knowledge Illuminates our Community\u2019, a sentiment which brooks no argument. There are 90 participating countries, the &#8216;Focus Personality\u2019 is Avicenna (Ibn Sina), the \u2018Book of the World\u2019 is <em>One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>, and the guest of honour, usually a single nation, is Culture of the Caribbean Basin.<\/p>\n<p>Last year there were more than 230,000 visitors, 1,350 exhibitors, and reportedly in excess of 1.5 million books sold. All those numbers should be beaten this time around; ADIBF is a genuine force in the booming regional publishing field, and some clever extras \u2013 like a much-expanded \u2018Podcast from Abu Dhabi\u2018 programme, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award ceremony, and a famously busy schedule of something like 2,000 lectures, panel discussions, specialised workshops and other activities \u2013 make it a good bet for the reader as well as the publishing professional.<\/p>\n<p>The book fair has been extended to ten days this year; it runs 9am to 10pm from 26 April to 5 May. Admission is free, but you\u2019ll need to pre-register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This year\u2019s ADIBF \u2013 remarkably, it\u2019s the 34th edition \u2013 has the theme \u2018Knowledge Illuminates our Community\u2019, a sentiment which brooks no argument. There are 90 participating countries, the &#8216;Focus Personality\u2019 is Avicenna (Ibn Sina), the \u2018Book of the World\u2019 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/abu-dhabi-international-book-fair-3\/\" title=\"Abu Dhabi International Book Fair\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[178],"class_list":["post-61493","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-book-fair","cat_book-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61493"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=61493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}