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Dubai: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature concluded on Saturday following three weekends of live and virtual appearances and sold-out sessions from Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Elif Shafak, and Lemn Sissay.
Programme highlights also included internationally acclaimed authors and Booker nominees Avni Doshi (Burnt Sugar) and Oyinkan Braithwaite (My Sister the Serial Killer), behavioural specialist and author Thomas Erikson, and a dedicated day to Emirati talent.
Three weekends, three venues
For the first time, the Festival took place across three weekends and three venues: Jameel Arts Centre (January 29 to 30), the middle weekend at the event’s home InterContinental Dubai Festival City (February 4 to 6) and finally Alserkal Avenue (February 12 to 13). Also, the festival’s digital ticket provided access to more than a dozen live streamed sessions including Malala, Amin Maalouf, and Elif Shafak. It enabled creative professionals from as far afield as Algeria, Bahr
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Lemn Sissay is a headliner as the three-week Emirates Airline Festival of Literature closes its hybrid run for 2021, having engaged more than 90 authors in digital and physical events.
The organizing leadership of Dubai’s Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2021 at the InterContinential Dubai Festival City complex. Image: EAFL
Dubai Joins Sharjah in Staging a Physical Book Festival
As it enters its final of three weekends in Dubai, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature moves to its Alsserkal Avenue venue today (February 12), having been at the Jameel Arts Centre (January 29 and 30) and at the soaring InterContinental Dubai Festival City (February 4 to 6).