Emirates Airline for Literature brings readers together with their favorite writers from around the world
Signing books at a previous edition of the Emirates Airline Festival.
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As part of a program full of many events, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature organizes a number of book signing parties with a group of distinguished writers from around the Arab world and the world.
The 15th edition of the festival is scheduled to take place between the first and the sixth of next February, at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City and the Mohammed bin Rashid Library.
Festival visitors will be able to travel between the two festival venues across Dubai Creek using an abra.
The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is held under the generous patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and in partnership with Emirates Airline, the official sponsor of the festival, and the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority “Dubai Culture”, the authority specialized in heritage, arts and culture. In the emirate, the founding partner of the festival, and the Mohammed bin Rashid Library, the sponsor of the headquarters.
The signing ceremonies include many books that have won the admiration of critics and readers in the recent period, the most prominent of which is the novel that won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for the year 2022, “Bread at the Table of Uncle Milad”, by its author, writer Muhammad Al-Naas, and the novel that won the same award for the year 2021, “Notebooks Al-Warraq”, by its author, Jalal Barjas.
Barjas and Naas are participating in an extraordinary session entitled "Winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction - A Blessing or a Curse?"
Which goes into the details of the scenes of fame as a result of winning the most important prize on the literary level.
In the same context, the writer Shahd Al-Rawi meets her readers to sign her books, “Above the Republic Bridge” and “Baghdad Clock.” The writer Khaled Al-Nasrallah also signs his collection of books that include the novel “The Supreme Gendarmerie” and “The White Line of Night,” in addition to the Egyptian writer Tariq Imam. His audience to discuss and sign his novel, "Cairo Makite".
Ahlam Bulooki, Director of the Emirates Festival of Literature, said that the festival “welcomes reading lovers to meet with their favorite writers in one place.”
Blocky dreams:
• "Nothing warms our hearts more than seeing writers communicate with each other and their fans directly."
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