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SHARE For the past few years, the month of March has been officially dedicated to literary pursuits in the UAE. It all started in 2017, following the Year of Reading in 2016. In October of that year, the President, Sheikh Khalifa announced a Reading Law that obliged schools to encourage reading among pupils, in addition to promoting a respect for books. He also launched the Arab Reading Challenge, the largest Arab knowledge initiative in the world, in 2015. That love of literature has only arguably become stronger since many of us have spent more time than ever at home with our noses in books during the pandemic. ....
Centuries of fascination for ‘The One Thousand and One Nights’ were examined by two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award this weekend, touching on contemporary interpretation and challenges. A detail from the cover of Richard van Leeuwen’s ‘The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings.’ Image: Brill ‘Part of the DNA of Western Literature’ The two most recent winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages category on Sunday (February 7) talked about the singular place of The Thousand and One Nights in literature and wider culture. On hand was Richard van Leeuwen, a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam and author of several books on ....