17 Emirati Women You Need To Know About
In celebration of Emirati Women’s Day, we’re giving a shoutout to all the wonderful speakers and authors that have attended the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in the past few years.
Book Review: My Story by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed
The #BLM Reading List
Book Review: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
EDITOR'S PICKS
What's On The Bookshelf
Meet The Team: Ahlam Bolooki
Latest Podcasts
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Expect session recordings from the EmiratesLitFest, interviews with some of your favourite authors, book recommendations from the team as well as loads more on our YouTube channel.
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Latest Interview
Graeme Simsion speaks to Emirates ICE at EmiratesLitFest 2020
Dr Graeme Simsion is a former business and IT consultant who decided, at the age of 50, to become a screenwriter. After five years of study, 10 short films and two short plays he had a feature-film screenplay – but no producer. So he rewrote it as a novel. The Rosie Project and its sequel The Rosie Effect went on to sell five million copies in over 40 languages.
Latest session
Faith in the Modern World: Gelong Thubten, Lesley Hazleton & Omar Saif Ghobash
Our panel of high-profile writers investigate what we gain from understanding the spiritual side of life. Religion is and always has been an emotive and provocative aspect of human life – what answers can we find in it as we look to tomorrow?
Latest team recommendation
Book Recommendations from the Team: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence.
