Novels, poetry collections, cookbooks, self-help guides, and children’s literature all posted declines ranging from 11 to 37 percent.
Cairo, December 8 – Education advocates in the Levant and beyond have found a silver lining in statistics showing a marked increase in the consumption of books, magazines, newspapers, and other Middle East publications devoted to spreading hatred for Jews, noting that while no other content area of the region’s publishing industry has shown much growth, public policymakers can take some consolation in the fact that the data indicate some growth in literacy.
The Arab Publishers Association released its annual report last week, and the numbers are stark: total book sales across the 22 member states of the Arab League rose 2.8 percent in the first ten months of 2025, the first year-on-year increase in seven years. Nearly all of that gain—94 percent, to be exact—came from titles classified under “Jewish Conspiracies,” “Zionist Crimes,” “Holocaust Doubts,” and the ever-popular “Protocols of the Elders of Zion Variants” subcategory. Romance novels, poetry collections, cookbooks, self-help guides, and children’s literature all posted declines ranging from 11 to 37 percent.
“It’s not the renaissance we were hoping for,” admitted Dr. Hanan al-Masri, chairperson of the Cairo-based Literacy for All initiative, “but we have to celebrate victories. You know, like the 1973 War. When a 28-year-old delivery driver in Amman tells you he finally finished an entire book this year—granted, it was a 400-page tome claiming Jews invented COVID to sell vaccines—at least he turned the pages himself instead of waiting for the TikTok summary.”
At the Al-Mutanabbi Book Market in Baghdad, vendor Abu Laith says his stall has never been busier. “Before, people would come, look at a novel for thirty seconds, then ask if I had anything about how the Jews control the weather. Now they buy three or four at a time. Some even ask for the footnotes.” He gestured proudly to a stack of freshly printed copies of The International Jew: Updated for the Age of Instagram.
Governments, too, are spinning the trend positively. Egypt’s Ministry of Culture issued a statement congratulating citizens on “renewed engagement with the printed word.” In Syria, state media hailed the surge as proof that “the masses remain vigilant against historical distortions,” while ordering an extra 180,000 copies of a new illustrated edition of Mein Kampf translated into Levantine dialect.
Literacy NGOs are adapting. One Jordanian organization has begun wrapping classic Arabic literature in dust jackets claiming the books expose “Mossad involvement in the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate.” Early results are promising: sales of Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry jumped 400 percent after the rebranding.
Not everyone is thrilled. “We tried releasing a nuanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with primary sources on both sides,” said Beirut publisher Dar al-Farabi. “It sold eleven copies. Then we slapped ‘How Israel Invented Cancer’ on the cover of the exact same book. Sold out in four hours.”
Even international observers have taken note. A UNESCO spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity, called the phenomenon “technically compliant with our global reading-promotion targets.” When pressed on whether hate literature should count toward those targets, the spokesperson shrugged: “A page is a page.”
Back in Cairo, Dr. al-Masri remains cautiously optimistic, fumbling with a pamphlet titled Proof the Jews Replaced Arab Leaders with Reptilian Clones. “But look— my children are sounding out the words. Last year they would have just shared the meme. Progress is progress.”
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