Running since 1981, the Abu Dhabi fair is one of the two senior publishing events of the Arab world alongside Sharjah's, with a professional rights programme, a guest of honour country each year, and a public floor that fills in the evenings.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
Arabic publishing operates under constraints a European fair does not, and the rights business done here — translation into and out of Arabic — is the fair's real function.
The month is late April or May and has moved. The Sharjah fair in November is the larger of the two by visitor numbers and the more public in character; Abu Dhabi is the more professional.
PlanningA late-April or May window at ADNEC; a working rights fair as well as a public one.
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Computed from the recurrence rule we record for this entry, not copied from a listing. A date marked ~ comes from a calendar conversion and the observance may fall a day or two either side.