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Business profile: Matt Cowdery

Publication Date: Tue, 05/03/2013 - 12:22

As territories go, the one that Hachette’s pointman in the Arab world looks after is pretty exotic. Matt Cowdery established Hachette’s office in Dubai in September 2011, and as sales manager for the region his patch stretches “from Morocco to Oman, up to Syria and Iraq and down as far as Yemen”. He makes 20 to 30...

dubai | Hachette | International | Matt Cowdery
Hachette opens Dubai office

Publication Date: Thu, 29/09/2011 - 12:08

Hachette UK is opening a sales and marketing office in Dubai to cover the Middle East, with Matt Cowdery taking on the role of sales manager, Middle East.

Group commercial director Richard Kitson said: "The establishment of an office in the Middle East is part of our long term strategy to develop and manage our sales operations...

Charlotte Williams | dubai | Hachette | Matt Cowdery | moves | People
Publishers dismayed by DICF cancellation

Publication Date: Tue, 22/12/2009 - 07:49

Children’s publishers have said they are dismayed by the cancellation of the Dubai International Children's Fair, but will continue to look for opportunities in the region.

The inaugural event had been due to take place in February, but ...

Catherine Neilan | chidren's | DICF | dubai | Hachette Children's Books | Macmillan Children's Books
Dubai moves on from 2009 with 2010 author line-up

Publication Date: Thu, 25/06/2009 - 07:00

The Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature has unveiled a strong line-up of writers for its second annual event, with fair director Isobel Abulhoul telling The Bookseller that she would "learn" from her experience putting on the 2009 event, which attracted 60 writers but was briefly caught up in a media furore...

dubai | Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature | Geraldine Bedell | Isobel Abulhoul | The Gulf Between Us | Todays Picks | Victoria Gallagher
Dubai set to rival Bologna with new fair

Publication Date: Tue, 21/04/2009 - 07:51

A potential rival to the Bologna Children's Book Fair is being set up by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, which has a stand at the London Book Fair (LBF). The Dubai International Children's Book Fair will promote children's reading and literature in the Arab world and internationally, and is due to take place from 3rd...

Bologna Children's Book Fair | dubai | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation | Victoria Gallagher
Atwood questions festival pull out

Publication Date: Mon, 23/02/2009 - 07:25

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has expressed reservations about her decision to pull out of the Emirates Airline international festival of literature after believing reports that Geraldine Bedell's novel The Gulf Between Us had been "banned" and "censored" for containing—among other thing—the...

dubai | EAIFL | Emirates Airline International Festival | Geraldine Bedell | Home | Isobel Abulhoul | Margaret Atwood | Philip Jones
Horowitz seeks Dubai explanation

Publication Date: Wed, 18/02/2009 - 17:41

Children's writer Anthony Horowitz has joined a growing chorus of outrage at the decision by the Emirates Airline International Festival to prevent a Penguin author from launching a book at the event because of a gay character. Horowitz has written to fair director Isobel Abulhoul saying he cannot be associated with a literary festival that...

Anthony Horowitz | dubai | EAIFL | Emirates Airline International Festival | Isobel Abulhoul | Margaret Atwood | Philip Jones
Atwood drops Dubai festival

Publication Date: Wed, 18/02/2009 - 07:59

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has pulled out of the Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature after the Dubai-based fair's decision to pull a book that refers to a gay relationship.

Penguin, which had planned to launch Geraldine Bedell's The Gulf Between Us at the event, was informed in September it could...

Catherine Neilan | censorship | dubai | EAIFL | Home | Isobel Abulhoul | Penguin | People
Dubai literature festival to d

Publication Date: Wed, 26/03/2008 - 15:26

Dubai will be the venue for the first ever literary festival in the Middle East next year. The inaugural Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature will take place between 25th February and 1st March 2009 and will be launched at this year’s London Book Fair. The festival will be directed by Isobel Abulhoul, director of Magrudy...

Anna Richardson | dubai | festival | Media
Editor (B2B, Financial, Dubai)

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented editor to move to Dubai and work with this leading financial magazine and Events Company. You will enjoy a generous tax free salary and other benefits. The company are offering a good relocation package including accommodation for the first month.

Based in Dubai, this...

dubai | Editor | Financial | sa8056