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The committee unanimously decided to nominate the city of antwerp belgium as world book capital 2004 because of the excellence of the programme submitted, including a number of aspects of book promotion, like book sales, books and reading, literature, services, crafts, books for the youths, books and cultural diversity and books and cultural minorities. Sharjah it has become a major cultural hub, drawing in huge crowds to its literary festivals, and on tuesday sharjah achieved global recognition as it was named world book capital by unesco. Stay up to speed on all we have to offerplus activities, crafts, and blogs for parents and educators in our newsletter. Arab novel booms as beirut named world book capital as beirut prepared to don the mantle on thursday of unesco world book capital city 2009, arabic novels are enjoying an unprecedented boom across. Sharjah was chosen for its efforts to make books accessible to its entire population. The primary world bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officiallyrecognized international sources. The first world book capital chosen prior to the adoption of 31 cresolution 29 was madrid, in 2001. The island of taiwan, formally known as the republic of china, meets the requirements for an independent country or state status. The idea for world book capital originally came from the mind of. The ash reached the maximum height of 6 km above sea level and approximately 8000 people were evacuated from around the volcano after an explosive eruption of galeras on 14th february 2009. First stop in the new world is a streetlevel panorama of mexico city, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the spanishspeaking world. Most importantly, our books are not only educative they are informative as well.
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Amsterdam 2008, beirut 2009, ljubljana 2010, buenos aires 2011, erevan. Salient highlights sharjah was selected to underline the efforts taken by it to make books accessible for reading to as many people as possible, especially the marginalised populations. Amsterdam 2008, beirut 2009, ljubljana 2010 and buenos aires. Incheon republic of korea named world book capital 2015. World book capital 2012 ifla president ingrid parent speaking at the world book capital 2012 celebration in a festive celebration two days ago in armenia, ifla president ingrid parent witnessed the official hand over of the world book capital for the year 2012 to the city of yerevan armenia. Conakrys tenure as world book capital city will go a long way to delivering this. In recent years, somalias capital city, mogadishu, has witnessed the development of the citys first gas stations, supermarkets, and airline flights to turkey since the collapse of central authority in 1991. However, all but a handful of nations refuse to recognize taiwan as an independent nation. The world book capital city celebrates literature, publishing, and reading. The first unesco world book capital designated prior to the adoption of 31 cresolution 29 was madrid spain in 2001. Beirut world book 2009 strategy organizational plan. Ifla will be represented by secretary general gerald leitner. The capital entry under government is where visitors to the world factbook will find information related to time. When a c123k military cargo plane crashed in nicaragua on october 5, 1986 with weapons and cia employees on board, it was discovered that the plane and its contents came from the mena airport.
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World book capital unesco names sharjah world book capital 2019 the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization unesco has named sharjah its world book capital 2019, in recognition of the emirates initiatives to further reading, literacy and book publishing. Africafocus bulletin may 14, 2009 090514 reposted from sources cited below editors note this issue of africafocus features brief notices of 15 books published so far in 2009 that i think africafocus readers are likely to be interested in. Athens named world book capital 2018 the bookseller. He is an american lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on wall street. The greek capital was chosen on the recommendation of an advisory committee, comprising. World factbook download 2009 central intelligence agency. Athens has been named world book capital 2018 by the director general of unesco, irina bokova. World book encyclopedia 2009spinescape binding by world. We have different kinds of books and these books cut across different areas.
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