Sharjah, ONA) - Sharjah International Book Fair, in its 39th session, will host the Omani writer and academic Dr. Saeed Al-Siyabi, as part of the exhibition's cultural program, which includes lectures and seminars in which a group of Arab and international writers, intellectuals and thinkers participate.

Al-Siyabi had recently released a novel entitled “Al-Sirah Tells”. He also published many stories including, “Masha ... Kik” (two editions, 2019 and 2020), “The Sharpener and the Pen” (2017), “Jibrin Washa Al-Hawa” (2016), “Dreams of the Light Signal” (2015) and Black Loaf (2015). He also published “Questions of the Script, Answers of the Show in the Omani and Gulf Theatre” (2018), “The Other in the Omani Theatre” (jointly with Dr. Kamilah Al-Hinai, 2013), and “The Employment of Popular Literature in the Gulf Theatrical Script” (2006), and The Omani Theatre Dictionary: Texts and Performances (jointly with Dr. Muhammad bin Saif Al Habsi, 2006).

Al-Siyabi wrote many radio dramas produced on the Sultanate of Oman Radio, including, “Raheel” (2008), “Moza will not sing” (2012), and the Bedouin series “Riah Al Hob” (2013).

The next session of the exhibition, organized by the Sharjah Book Authority, will be held from 4 to 14 November at the Expo Centre Sharjah, under the slogan “The World Reads from Sharjah”.

The exhibition will organize all activities online, through the “Sharjah Reads” platform, in line with the precautionary measures to limit the spread of the novel Corona virus. Meanwhile, the exhibition doors will remain open to the public.

Among the guests of the exhibition this year, Algerian novelist Wasseni Al-Araj, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Murad, Egyptian writer Mansoura Ezz El-Din, Kuwaiti writer Ahmed Al-Rifai, Bahraini writer Dalal Abdullah Youssef, and Emirati novelist Sultan Al-Amimi.

The exhibition will also host the Canadian writer Jan Martell, the author of the novel “Life of Bey” which won the Man Booker Prize (2002), the French novelist Gilbert Sinoy who has published more than 30 books, the most prominent of which are “Ibn Sina and The Road to Isfahan", and the British author Ian Rankin, who is one of the best-selling crime fiction writers around the world.

Among those invited to enrich the program of cultural exhibition are also: New Zealand poet and novelist Lang Lev, Canadian poet of Lebanese descent, Najwa Theban, Canadian writer Neil Basrisha, American author and publisher Michael Anderley, and Russian orientalist Gennady Goryachkin.

(ONA)