Organisers of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature are reporting strong sales for special events, including sessions featuring David Walliams and Nadiya Hussain, as well as the celebration of Charles Dicken’s 210th birthday with his great-great-great granddaughter Lucinda Dickens Hawksley at
Emirates Literature Foundation’s (ELF) initiative, Kateb Maktub, has spearheaded the drive to increase the number of Arab author pages on Wikipedia in both Arabic and English, and reports a 516 per cent growth in the short span of one year.
The Emirates Literature Foundation has published its top list of books for book clubs from the critics choices to readers’ favorites. All books on the list are guaranteed to spark conversations, stimulate debate and share new perspectives on the world around us. Ahlam Bolooki, director of Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, said: “Planning one of the world’s greatest