Represented by a distinguished number of established and rising publishing homes, the Emirates Publishers Affiliation (EPA) is taking part within the 2025 version of the Beijing Worldwide Guide Truthful, shining a highlight on the UAE’s expertise in growing its publishing trade—notably within the fields of youngsters’s literature and progressive instructional content material.
This participation in Asia’s largest copyrights change platform—and the second largest e book truthful on the planet—displays the EPA’s ongoing dedication to empowering Emirati publishers, increasing alternatives for worldwide collaboration, and strengthening the UAE’s presence on the worldwide publishing stage.
Showcasing Variety and Imaginative and prescient
The EPA’s stand on the truthful serves as a vibrant window into the UAE’s dynamic publishing panorama, showcasing a singular mix of seasoned experience and rising voices in youngsters’s literature and academic publishing. Among the many individuals are publishers who graduated from the “Onshur” programme—an initiative launched to empower the following technology of publishing entrepreneurs within the UAE by empowering them with skilled and technical assist.
Featured publishers embrace Hamda Al Baloushi, Supervisor of Aalamkom Publishing and Distribution, and Treasurer and Board Member of the EPA, Salim Abdulrahman, Managing Director of AlRewaya Publishing, and Ghassan Rabih, consultant of Dar Rabie Publishing.
Representing the “Onshur” graduates are Dr. Asmaa Emara, Founding father of Dal for Publishing, a publishing home devoted to progressive approaches to Arabic language training, and Fatema Al Hammadi, Founding father of Sohub Publishing and Distribution, which specialises in instructional content material for individuals of dedication and college students with autism.
Bridging Tradition By means of Publishing
Operating from 18 to 22 June, the Affiliation’s programme on the truthful includes a collection of high-level occasions uniting content material creators and publishing professionals from the UAE and China. A key occasion on the agenda is the 2025 World Youngsters’s Guide Discussion board, centred on the theme “Built-in Innovation in Youngsters’s Books Amid New Realities.” By means of this platform, the Affiliation highlighted UAE’s pioneering contributions to the worldwide e book trade, notably in advancing youngsters’s publishing and fostering a tradition of studying amongst younger minds.
The occasion agenda additionally includes a panel dialogue titled “Nurturing Younger Minds: Youngsters’s Publishing Priorities within the UAE and China,” with participation from publishers, Hamda Al Baloushi and Ghassan Rabih, alongside a bunch of distinguished Chinese language youngsters’s publishers.
World Messages with a Native Spirit
Commenting on the Affiliation’s participation, His Excellency Rashid Al Kous, Government Director of the EPA, emphasised that the EPA’s presence at main worldwide e book gala’s represents a strategic alternative for copyrights change, increasing skilled networks, and exploring new markets for Emirati and Arabic content material. He acknowledged:
“This yr, we positioned particular concentrate on the UAE’s expertise in youngsters’s publishing—a discipline that conveys common messages with a distinctly native spirit, led by younger publishers who possess clear imaginative and prescient and real ardour. By empowering them, we’re laying the muse for a brand new technology that embodies innovation and authenticity.”
His Excellency additional famous: “Our participation within the Beijing Worldwide Guide Truthful is an extension of the UAE’s broader imaginative and prescient to assist inventive industries—notably publishing—as an important software for data dissemination and cultural dialogue. Every worldwide platform is a chance to undertaking our cultural voice globally and to showcase the wealth of inventive potential that the UAE holds. The presence of ‘Onshur’ graduates at an occasion of this calibre sends a transparent message: the youth are a robust drive shaping the way forward for Emirati publishing.”
Writer Hamda Al Baloushi described her participation as a major milestone in her skilled journey, highlighting the chance it supplied for engagement and change with publishers from world wide. She added that it had opened new avenues for collaboration and copyrights change, notably within the Asian market.
She stated: “Our presence right here not solely displays the standard of Emirati content material, but additionally the outstanding standing that the UAE publishing sector has achieved on the worldwide stage. I’m proud to be a part of this motion and to symbolize the UAE at one of many world’s most essential cultural occasions.”
Ongoing Efforts
By means of its energetic presence at prestigious worldwide cultural occasions reminiscent of this, the EPA continues to advance its long-term strategic targets—chief amongst them being the event of the UAE’s publishing ecosystem. That is achieved by connecting Emirati publishers with world networks, encouraging content material export, and reinforcing the UAE’s place as a dynamic hub within the worldwide publishing trade.