Speaking
I speak about the infrastructure behind Arabic books: standards, metadata, distribution, AI and data. I aim for talks that give a mixed audience one thing they can use on Monday.
Past talks
| When | Event | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 9 October 2026 | Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026, EDRLab stand (Hall 4.1, F15) | Joint session with EDRLab on standards and the Arabic market. |
| June 2026 | BookTech Remote Con | Building digital infrastructure for the Arab publishing industry. |
| June 2026 | Digital Publishing Summit and ThinkPub, Prague | Speaker, with Samawy as gold sponsor. |
| June 2025 | Digital Publishing Summit, Dublin | Building a digital reading platform for Arabic books on the Readium open-source framework. |
Talk menu
- Arabic-first by design. Why right-to-left, diacritics and accessibility belong in the foundation, with examples from EPUB production. Audience: standards bodies, reading-system and platform teams.
- A metadata contract for a language the standards forgot. Localising Thema, ONIX and BISAC for Arabic, and what it unlocks for discovery. Audience: metadata and supply-chain teams.
- One shop, one path. Distribution architecture for aggregators: channel conflicts, parity and rights. Audience: distributors, retailers, booksellers.
- The data the Arab book market does not have. What we can count, what we cannot, and how to build the missing layer. Audience: investors, researchers, fair organisers.
- AI and Arabic content. Narration, discovery and rights, and the contract clause every publisher should check. Audience: publishers, rights managers, policymakers.
Formats
Keynote (20 to 40 minutes) · Panel · Roundtable workshop (up to 60 minutes) · Closed-door briefing for institutions. English or Arabic.
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