The region’s largest and most diverse art book fair, the event is going to take place from December 9 to 11 at Sharjah Art Foundation’s Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square.

One of the prominent events of the region, Sharjah Art Foundation’s upcoming book fair ‘Focal Point,’ has announced the program and exhibitors for the fourth edition.

The region’s largest and most diverse art book fair, the book fair is going to take place from December 9 to 11, 2021 at Sharjah Art Foundation’s Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square, from 4 PM to 10 PM.

The fair brings together bibliophiles and people alike from the MEASA (Middle East, Africa, South Asia) region that is going to feature 120 publishers, magazines, artists, editors, authors, and makers from the UAE.

One of the prominent affairs, this year would have a day-long talks’ programme at the iconic Flying Saucer Art Centre about new books that have been released from the Foundation, The Africa Institute and publications supporters of the fair.

The event is set to bring together publishers, distributors, art professionals, knowledge producers, graphic designers, writers, journalists, and editors to get to know about books and publications.

Among the various launches at the fair, book lovers can look forward to the monograph on the New York-based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi titled ‘Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination,’ published by Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute, and Skira.

Comic lovers can look forward to Corniche 3 —a SAF Community publication project which brings together artists specialising in comics and illustrations based in the UAE and broader region.

The Africa Institute will launch Selene Wendt’s latest book Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art. Through this, colonialism in contemporary art as well as the memoirs of Ibrahim El-Salahi, At Home in the World, tracing his life and career from Khartoum to Doha to São Paulo to New York will be explored.