ANNUAL REPORT 2020

IIUM Press | Annual Report 2020 _______________________________________________________________________________________ 26 ACTIVITY UPDATE This year, not much activities, events or workshop that we can managed. The spike of COVID 19 and implementation of CMCO affected the activity that has been planned. In this new norms, there are about an online activities that IIUM Press organized and taking part. More organizers and publishers also manage more online programme and activities recently. IIUM Press online book talk… As the impact and crisis of COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns became clear, Translation Unit launched a series of translation online book talk with publishers, readership and translator society — sharing the challenges, knowledge on translation project and how they were working to produce a good translation book. The series also included a conversation with the translators, book writers and translator facilitators, examining the translation book on the wider literature perspective. It’s also sharing on thought of multilateralism, the freedom to publish, copyright and certain aspect from historical, technology and Islamic. The series proved a valuable resource for IIUM Press followers and a testimony to the resilience and innovation of IIUM Press publishers in Malaysia.