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Sharjah International Book Fair at 45: how one ruler’s vision built a nation of readers

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“Sharjah International Book Fair at 45: how one ruler’s vision built a nation of readers”

I wasn’t born when the Sharjah International Book Fair began. I don’t say that to brag about my youthfulness, rather the opposite. My four-decades (plus) reveals how long this cultural magnet has been running for and how one man had a radical vision that has now touched the hearts of several generations. In the early 1980s, when His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, decided Sharjah should have a book fair for the world, I imagine it…

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