Events

Gourmand Award Winner 2022

Lima Shawa's A Taste of Gaza takes top honors for Mediterranean Cuisine and wins the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Palestinian author Lima Shawa was awarded the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for B...

Rimal Authors at APhF:22

Athens Photo Festival 2022 is exhibiting the selected works of artists and photographers from 6 June to 24 July, at one of the most prestigious museums in Greece - the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138. W...

Emirates Lit Festival 2022

Living in the UAE is like living with a confluence of myriad different cultures, which we all learn to embrace enthusiastically. But each of us has special bonds with our home country, unique memor...

Rimal X Focal Point 2021

Rimal books was proud to be invited once again by the Sharjah Art Foundation for its FOCAL POINT event. It is the region’s largest and most diverse art book fair. Returning for its fourth edition, ...

Virtual Book Launch with Lima Shawa

In collaboration with the Palestine Museum, author Lima Shawa talked about her newly published book along with a live cooking segment of the famous Gaza dish “Fatteh Ghazawyeh" watch the interview ...

Shortlisted for MEMO Award 2021

We are delighted and proud to announce that The Middle East Monitor have short listed "A Taste of Gaza, by Lima Shawa" for the Palestine Book Award 2021.  

RIMAL X REEL Palestine Dubai

We were back at Reel Palestine in January 2021 for its 7th edition. We were excited to once again be part of this amazing community. The film festival and its team of volunteers worked tirelessly t...

Rimal X Focal Point 2020

Rimal Books was selected and invited to be part of the third edition of the FOCAL POINT art book fair in 2020. The fair was a great success exhibiting printed matter by artists, writers, scholars a...

Rimal X San Francisco's Aswat Ensamble

San Francisco - This segment is part of a free online concert that was performed Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.  To wa...

RIMAL x REEL Palestine Dubai

UAE - Rimal collaborated with REEL Palestine in 2020 - an annual film festival showing a selection of alternative Palestinian films in the United Arab Emirates. The 9-day festival was held at Alser...

Rimal Author - Guinness World Record

Rimal author, Falak Shawwa, was seated among 1,502 authors from around the world who simultaneously signed their books at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), setting a new Guinness World R...

Rimal X Big Bad Wolf

This year Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) partnered with the Big Bad Wolf Ventures (BBW) – popularly known as the organiser of the World’s Biggest Book Sale, the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale, to further exp...

Open Books-Open Minds - SIBF 2019

The 38th Sharjah International Book Fair had a record turnout of 2.52 million visitors during the 11-day fair. Organised by the Sharjah Book Authority, under the theme of the Sharjah World Book Cap...

Mahrooseh Launch in Dubai

DUBAI - Alserkal Avenue. Both photography and musical worlds collided at KAVE on the evening of November 1st, 2019. Over 40 people attended to meet Photographer, Falak Shawwa, and listen to As Per ...

Mahrooseh Launch in Beirut

Photographer Falak Shawwa launched her new book Mahrooseh in Beirut.  Guests were greeted at the event to an open space with an assortment of Palestinian street food and a projected multi-media sh...

Nawwara Beirut Launch

Along with author Mimosa Al Arawi and designer Mayda Freije Makdessi - Rimal Books  celebrated the launch of its latest title Nawwara at Dar El-Nimer in Beirut.  Guests attended both the launch ev...

RIMAL x REEL Palestine Dubai

UAE - Rimal collaborated with REEL Palestine in 2019 - an annual film festival showing a selection of alternative Palestinian films in the United Arab Emirates. The 9-day festival was held at Alser...

Celebrating the Christmas Spirit in Amman

AMMAN - Rimal is proud to sponsor the Swiss Christmas Market, a winter-wonderland in the heart of Amman. Visitors enjoy a small Swiss Village with warmly decorated wooden chalets offering guests a ...

Rimal X Palestinian Cultural Festival in UAE

ABU DHABI - Rimal was proud to join the celebration and journey into the culture and spirit of Palestine at the Palestine Cultural Festival on 6 December 2018 in Abu Dhabi. The community event was ...

20 Million Books Under 1 Roof at SIBF 2018

This year Rimal participated at the Sharjah International Book Fair, which has put up yet another record performance in its 37th annual edition. Themed ‘A Tale of Letters’, the SIBF 2018 event was ...

Windows on Interesting Times Launch

NICOSIA - Guests joined us and author Michael Jansen in the evening of October 10th, 2018,  at the Atrium of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) in Nicosia, for the the book signing of Wi...

Jerusalem Book Launch

At the book launch event, author Adnan Abdelrazak had a conversation with Raja Khalidi about Palestinian architectural houses and dwellings in the west side of Jerusalem new city (the area defined...

Journeys of Motifs Launch in Amman

AMMAN - Over 80 guests attended the launch of Margarita Skinner's new book The Journeys of Motifs held at Tiraz on April 25th, 2018. The event was attended by Tiraz founder Mrs. Widad Kamel Kawar, ...

SIBF 2017 A World inside My Book

Rimal has once again joined the Sharjah International Book Fair and this year  over 1.5 million titles and 1,650 publishing houses from 60 countries were included at the 36th edition of SIBF. The e...

Rimal joins WorldReader

This year Rimal Books proudly joined the Read 2 Kids initiative. Based on the success of their Read to Kids India program, Read to Kids will begin piloting in Jordan in mid 2017 with a full rollou...

Year of Reading at SIBF 2016

This year the SIBF celebrated its 35th anniversary, featuring a packed programme of literary, cultural and entertainment activities, SIBF 2016 took place from November 2-12 at Expo Centre Sharjah. ...

Vanished Beiurt Book Launch

BEIRUT - Guests turned out on a pleasant Saturday evening (17 September 2016) in Beirut to attend the book signing of Vanished, by Ahmed Masoud. In the exquisite newly opened Dar El-Nimer for Art...

Under the Copper Covers Launch

Under the auspices of HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, heads the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Culture, author Sherine Ben Halim Jafar and Rimal Books celebrated the launch of Under the C...

Rimal and 1.2 million visitors at SIBF 2015

We were thrilled to be part of the Sharjah International Book Fair this year. Held from November 4-14, 2015, the 34th edition of SIBF saw the participation of 1,547 publishing houses from 64 countr...

Vanished Launch at SOAS

Vanished was launched at SOAS University of London with author Ahmed Masoud. The book reading and launch event was a great success.

Vanished Book Launch at Oxford University

Vanished was launched at Oxford University was a great success. The event included a reading by author Ahmed Masoud.

Rimal at ADIBF 2015

Rimal attended the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and our team spent these days networking, attending cultural events and meeting readers from across the UAE. Thank you ADIBF, this year's event ...

Rimal at ADIBF 2015

The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair ended today. Our Rimal team spent the last 6 days networking, attending cultural events and meeting readers from across the UAE. We also held a book signing a...

SIBF 2014 Complete Success!

Sharjah International Book Fair 2014 was a great success! This year we had introduced young readers to the award winning book "Blue Fish's Secret Wish" and over the span of eleven days our Rimal t...

Shortlisted for MEMO Award 2014

We are delighted to announce that The Middle East Monitor have short listed "Reflections from Palestine, by Samia Nasir Khoury" for the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2014.  

Sharjah Children's Book Award

We are happy to share the great news! Blue Fish's Secret Wish received the 2014 Sharjah Children's Book Award. We would also like to congratulate the author, Ranya Malouf, on the award. Additional...

Best Book on Jerusalem Award

April 30, 2014 - Jerusalem We are delighted to announce that "The Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem" (حارة اليهود في القدس: بين الحقائق والتضليل) received the Jerusalem Intellectual Forum Award 2014 for...

Rimal at London Book Fair

Rimal conducted several B2B meetings with publishers from around the world at the London Book Fair this year and successfully established potential partnerships and collaborations,with companies su...

Rimal at ADIBF 2014

Rimal attended the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and our team spent these days networking, attending cultural events and meeting readers from across the UAE. Rimal and Annie Kanafani were invit...

Reflections from Palestine Book Launch at Educational Bookshop

JERUSALEM - Saturday evening, February 15, Samia Nasir Khoury's new book Reflections from Palestine - Journey of Hope, was launched at the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, Palestine. The event w...