Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP) was a joint venture owned by the Qatar Foundation and managed by Bloomsbury Publishing. Established in October 2008 and headquartered in Doha, BQFP was Qatar's first publishing house. Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Publishing ended their partnership in December 2015, with all of BQFP's published works being assimilated by QF's new publishing house, HBKU Press.
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Publishing
BQFP previously published a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, reference material, and children’s literature in both Arabic and English. A significant portion of its projects involved translating well-known works of Arabic into English and vice versa. These included children’s books like The Gruffalo and fiction such as The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi, which has been translated from Arabic into English. By the time BQFP was dissolved, it had published over 200 books.
Notable books
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) previously published peer-reviewed research articles on its website QScience. It was launched in December 2010 and contained more than fifteen specialized and multidisciplinary journals. Its journals were open access. QScience published an overall 980 online research papers in 2013 of which 23% pertained to the field of health.