Apr 25 2024
Dubai: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (February 1-6), one of the world’s top ten literary festivals, begins today at InterContinental Dubai Festival City and Mohammed bin Rashid Library. The crystal edition is expected to be exceptional, with the largest […]
Dubai: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, which will take place from February 1-6, 2023 at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City and Mohammed bin Rashid Library, has announced that it will feature its greatest number ever of top Emirati writers, […]
French author Dominique Lapierre, some of whose most celebrated works focused on India, died at the age of 91. His wife Dominique Conchon-Lapierre said that the author died of old age. She added that he was “at peace and serene […]
Dubai: The Emirates Literature Foundation announced, that they will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature from February 1-6, 2023. The Festival will return to their original neighbourhood, near Dubai Creek. Sessions will take place at […]
This day in history we feature Nadine Gordimer. She was a South African writer and political activist, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on this day in 1991. Trivia – Nadine Gordimer Gordimer’s writing dealt with moral and racial […]
SHARJAH: The 13th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF), organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) under the theme ‘Create Creativity’, will launch on May 11 through May 22, 2022. The series of inspirational talks will be held […]
ABU DHABI: The ‘Library on Wheels’ initiative, operated by the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), will continue its tour of the emirate on a year-long basis. This comes after a series of successful pop-ups at schools and […]
SHARJAH: Sharjah is all set to take centre stage as Guest of Honour at the 59th edition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF), which continues until March 24 in the Italian city, Bologna. The emirate’s distinguished status at the book […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature welcomed child authors of the winning stories in the Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East Region competition for the launch of their book; an anthology called Young Voices of Arabia 2021. […]
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in between cultures and continents.” Gurnah was born in Tanzania […]
SHARJAH: The Sharjah Department of Culture (SDC) announced that it has issued more than 60 titles in creativity and knowledge during the first 8 months of 2021. Abdullah Al Owais, Chairman of the SDC, stressed that these publications contribute to […]
