About Us

Books Platform | A Knowledge Window to World Cultures

Introduction

The idea of Books Platform emerged as an Arab cultural initiative and an enlightening, pioneering project aimed at keeping pace with global progress in science and knowledge. It seeks to encourage the translation movement and revive reading habits and the concept of culture among Arab audiences.

The Books Platform initiative is an ambitious endeavor that requires extensive efforts and diverse partnerships. It is strongly positioned to become one of the most influential cultural entities in the Arab world. As an institutional project, it embraces qualified talents and effective expertise. Therefore, it remains open to all forms of partnership and support—financial, technical, media-related, and marketing-oriented.

The Platform Concept

The concept of Books Platform is based on launching a website and a mobile application that introduce newly published foreign books which have not yet been translated into Arabic. This is achieved by monitoring global publishing trends, tracking releases from international publishing houses across sciences, arts, literature, and knowledge fields, and providing complete bibliographic data for each book.

All of this content is delivered to the Arab reader to encourage reading and to introduce them to global scientific and cultural production.

Vision

To connect the Arab world with global societies by building a cultural bridge that enhances understanding between civilizations, promotes creativity, and makes global knowledge accessible through translation and innovative digital solutions.

Mission

To support the Arab reader by delivering valuable cultural and scientific content that enriches thought, revives reading habits, raises awareness, and fosters a technologically advanced and knowledge-driven Arab environment.

Objectives

We seek to make Books Platform the leading Arab platform for cultural education and one of the world’s prominent centers for disseminating knowledge, culture, awareness, and intellectual enlightenment.

Policies

We are committed to delivering all our services and activities in a professional and ethical manner, adhering to scientific, legal, and moral standards that safeguard intellectual property rights for all parties.

What Makes the Platform Unique

First: A digital window addressing more than 400 million Arabs, aspiring to create an open cultural climate connected to the world, while offering new and promising opportunities to activate translation efforts and stimulate the Arab book market.

Second: A new cultural and media platform—the first of its kind in the Arab world—serving a wide audience of readers, intellectuals, and researchers interested in staying informed about newly published global books that have not yet been translated into Arabic, across all fields and languages.

Third: Providing innovative cultural and media services through daily news bulletins on new books, as well as producing videos and podcasts highlighting the most important releases, and engaging audiences via the platform’s mobile application and social media channels.

Fourth: A practical means to facilitate coordination and direct communication with writers, authors, researchers, intellectual institutions, and Arab and international publishers.

First: Introducing Arab and international cultural and publishing institutions, as well as influential public figures, to the Books Platform project its objectives, roles, and development phases with the aim of establishing partnership and sponsorship agreements and securing appropriate funding.

Second: Moving toward agreements with Arab national libraries to provide updated, comprehensive, and daily bibliographic data for every significant new book published worldwide and in all languages. This service can also benefit research centers and major Arab publishing houses involved in translation.

Third: Coordinating with leading media institutions (newspapers, magazines, and websites) to present our new media services, including daily news and specialized reports published weekly and monthly under the title “The Arab World Reads”, covering the most important newly published foreign and Arab books.

Fourth: Collaborating with television channels interested in cultural media to produce short video content titled “Books Speak”, using innovative creative and production approaches where the book metaphorically “speaks for itself” through graphics and visual storytelling, aimed at attracting viewers to reading by simplifying cultural content.

Fifth: Nominating the project for regional and international cultural awards, as it represents a pioneering Arab initiative that enables the Arab reader to discover every important book published worldwide, in all languages, and to follow the latest achievements of human thought in science, arts, literature, and culture while contributing to revitalizing the translation movement and the growth of the Arab book market.