Sharjah Book Authority will host, in the three sessions of the “Readers Club,” Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Cultural Affairs, Omar Saif Ghobash, to talk about his book “Letters to a Young Muslim”, in an open (remote) dialogue with the readers, on the evening of August 12 .
The session, which will be moderated by the Secretary-General of the Sharjah Media Council, media person Hassan Yaqoub Al-Mansouri, comes within a series of dialogue sessions open to the public organized by the “Readers Club” (remote), with the aim of bringing readers and book lovers together with a selection of Arab and foreign writers, within the framework of the Sharjah Book Authority’s message , And its efforts to foster cultural mobility and support the knowledge industry.
The book “Letters to a Young Muslim” includes 27 letters, which address various questions and topics in life affairs. It was published in its English edition by the publishing house “Picador” in the United Kingdom, and it was later translated into six languages.
Omar Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Literary Translation from Arabic into English, is a member of the Board of Trustees and founder of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in cooperation with the Man Booker Prize in London, member of the Acquisition Committee of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi He recently launched an institution focusing on publishing modern Arab novels called "Klim's Books".