General Manager of Beijing Publishing Group

The Assistant Secretary of the Party in the China Education Publishing & Media Group.

Editor-in-chief of Higher Education Press.

HE Saeed Hamdan Al Tunaiji, Executive Director of the Arabic Language Centre, has acquired extensive experience in leading initiatives that focus on books and the publishing industry at the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi). He managed creative content and played a major role in publishing notable series of books, including with the Kalima Project for Translation and the ‘Isdarat’ series.

Al Tunaiji also serves as Director of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and has risen through the ranks, assuming various positions, including Director of Media and Public Relations at DCT Abu Dhabi. He began his career as a journalist, worked for several Emirati newspapers, and wrote opinion articles on cultural pages in various dailies. Al Tunaiji has published several books, most notably ‘From and to the Depths of the Nation’, ‘Mosaic’ and ‘The Mistakes of Her Majesty’.

Bachar Chebaro is the Executive Director of HBKU Press. He is the founder of Editions Difaf and a partner in Arab Scientific Publishers Incorporated, Neelwafurat.com, Arab Scientific Publishers Press, and Thaqafa Publishing and Distribution. He is the General Secretary of the Arab Publishers Association. He was the Secretary of the Board of the Syndicate of Publishers Union in Lebanon for ten years. He acted as a publishing advisor in Beirut World Book Capital. He is the President of Al Bayan Cultural Centre. He is a member of the Arab Culture Club and the Founding member of the Arab Forum for the Children's Book Publishers' Association.

An Algerian publisher who holds the position of CEO of Al-Ikhtilaf Publishing House in Algeria.

Ahmed Al-Said is an Egyptian writer and translator, and the founder and CEO of the Bayt Alhekma Cultural Group. He is also the regional director of the Chinese Intercontinental Corporation for Media and Publishing in the Middle East, and the editor-in-chief of the Arabic edition of the Chinese magazine People’s Literature.

Al-Said is an advisor on Arab cooperation affairs at Badr University and teaches postgraduate students at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
He holds a PhD in ethnology from China.