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4-9 FEBRUARY 2020
LAUNCH PROGRAMME InterContinental, Dubai Festival City
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Tomorrow Can lessons fro
history stop us
making the same
Bringing together more than 140 of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers and doers, our
programme for the 12th edition of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature allows us to
begin the search for answers to life’s great questions.
mistakes?
The programme is jam-packed with inspiring, fun and mind-boggling sessions that will
delight and astound people of all ages. Nowhere else in the world can you hear such
a diverse range of voices tackle one topic together. That’s why stories happen at the
Festival.
This is only a small taste of what the Festival will bring in 2020. Many sessions are
available in both English and Arabic with simultaneous translation but do make sure you
check the language carefully before you book.
Head to our website tickets.emirateslitfest.com to see the full programme with more
than 190 sessions to excite, engage and entertain.
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Women in History: Abdelillah
Benarafa, Bettany Hughes,
Dr Rafia Ghubash & Reem
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women have played through the ages,
with writers and historians Abdelillah
Benarafa, Bettany Hughes, Dr Rafia
Ghubash and Reem Al Kamali.
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Justin Marozzi: Islamic Empires: Relationships Under Strain: Esi
Fifteen Cities that Define a Edugyan & Tayari Jones
Civilization
Saturday 8 February 2020
Friday 7 February 2020 10:00 - 11:00
19:30 - 20:30 Adult | Arabic/English with sim.
Adult | English with sim. Arabic translation | AED 59
translation | AED 59
How do the stresses on our personal lives
Islamic civilisation was once the envy affect our interactions with others? The
of the world – its cities unrivalled prize-winning authors of Washington Black
powerhouses of artistic grandeur, and An American Marriage examine the
commercial power, spiritual sanctity and pressure of culture and distance on their
forward-looking thinking. characters’ relationships and discuss how
Historian and journalist Justin Marozzi – fiction can shed new light on this.
after having spent most of his professional
life in the Middle East – captivatingly
combines history with reportage, bringing
storytelling to the fore.
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World of Tomorrow – Sci-fi v Esi Edugyan: Washington Black Tayari Jones: An American Science for Humans: Adam Twisting Fiction from Life:
Reality: Christina Dalcher & Marriage Rutherford & Dr Mohamed Inaam Kachachi, Mohammed
Yasser M Bahjatt Friday 7 February 2020 Qasem Hanif & Omaima Alkhamis
12:00 - 13:00 Friday 7 February 2020
Adult | English | AED 59 16:00 - 17:00
Thursday 6 February 2020
Adult | English with sim. Arabic Saturday 8 February 2020 Saturday 8 February 2020
19:30 - 20:30 An eleven-year-old slave finds himself translation | AED 59 11:30 - 12:30 14:00 - 15:00
Adult | English with sim. Arabic pursuing a promise of freedom, from the Adult | English with sim. Arabic Adult | Arabic/English with sim.
translation | AED 59 scorching cane fields of 19th-century An official Oprah’s Book Club selection translation | AED 59 translation | AED 59
Barbados to lands he could have never and winner of the Women’s Prize for
Science Fiction is famous for reimagining dreamt of. Inspired by a true story, Fiction, Tayari Jones’ An American How do we confront today’s most serious What role do literary authors play
the concerns of today as the world of Washington Black – a Man Booker finalist Marriage traces the lives of a young scientific questions? Two people who in making sense of other people’s
tomorrow – but it is also rooted in the – is the extraordinary tale of a world couple – Roy, a man wrongly convicted have made science communication experiences?
fantastical stories of the past, from the destroyed and made whole again. of a crime, and his wife Celestial. Set in their business discuss the importance of Our panel of acclaimed and award-
1001 Nights to The Handmaid’s Tale.
modern-day America, it asks profound scientific literacy to society. winning authors discusses how they came
Christina Dalcher, author of Vox, and
questions about love, racial injustice and a Adam Rutherford, author of How to Argue to write about historical and modern-day
bestselling writer of science fiction and
marriage interrupted. with a Racist, presents Inside Science on issues and their choices of characters
alternate history Yasser M Bahjatt discuss
BBC Radio 4. through whose eyes we see the world.
what these intersections of reality and
Dr Mohamed Qasem, author of Things
fiction mean for our future.
You Cannot Imagine, presents acclaimed
Arabic science podcast Sciware.
4 Adult sessions Children’s sessions All ages Special events 5
Is it too late
030
Five Fun Ways to Save the
to save the
World! With Martin Kiszko,
BOSH!, Jeannie Baker & Harry
and Chris
planet? Friday 7 February 2020
14:00 - 15:15
All ages | English | AED 39
How are we going to protect the
environment for future generations? In this
lively family-friendly event, international
authors share their ideas for long-term
solutions that will make the world of
tomorrow one we want to live in!
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BOSH!: Vegan Supper Club Miriam Lancewood: Woman in
011 087 066 the Wilderness
Tony Juniper: What Has Nature Green Sheikh: Towards a Cities of Tomorrow: Roma Friday 7 February 2020
Ever Done for Us? Sustainable Future Agrawal, Saeed Al Gergawi & 19:30 - 21:30 Saturday 8 February 2020
Tony Juniper Special event | English | AED 299 10:00 - 11:00
Adult | English with sim. Arabic
Friday 7 February 2020 Saturday 8 February 2020 Are you curious about vegan cuisine? Do translation | AED 59
10:00 - 11:00 20:00 - 21:00 Saturday 8 February 2020 you find the concept difficult to embrace
Adult | English with sim. Arabic Adult | Arabic with sim. English 16:00 - 17:00 or are you already a convert? Do you Living in the wild is a dream many of us
translation | AED 59 translation | AED 59 Adult | English with sim. Arabic need a healthy and entertaining night out share. Miriam Lancewood made it her
translation | AED 59 with friends? YouTube sensations Henry reality in 2010 when she abandoned
Do you believe we have to make a Do you feel helpless hearing about the Firth and Ian Theasby, aka BOSH!, are society’s norms to take survival into her
choice between nature and economic environmental crises that threaten future The cities of tomorrow will be shaped here for you. own hands.
development? generations, and guilty about our lack of by several major trends, including Inspired by the climate crisis, animal She learnt how to hunt, forage for food
Campaigner and sustainability advisor action? urbanisation, globalisation and climate welfare and health concerns, the demand and adapt to the changing seasons, but
Tony Juniper CBE argues that 100% of Don’t miss Green Sheikh’s session, change. Three experts – award-winning for exciting and satisfying vegan food most of all she learnt what it means to feel
our economic development and well-being which provides an in-depth discussion structural engineer Roma Agrawal, keeps growing. See BOSH! in action as truly alive.
is based upon the services nature provides on how to adopt a lifestyle that respects Dubai Future Academy’s Director they demonstrate how to prepare their
for us. Get ready to have Tony change the and preserves the environment and Saeed Al Gergawi and campaigner and favourite dishes, hear them speak frankly
way you think about life, the planet and contributes to building a sustainable sustainability advisor Tony Juniper CBE – about the ideas in their latest book How to
the economy. future. discuss what is being done now, and what Live Vegan, and enjoy a delicious
could be done, to build sustainable and three-course vegan meal yourself.
resilient cities.
6 Adult sessions Children’s sessions All ages Special events 7
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Is this the
Hoda Barakat: The Night Mail Writing Across Continents:
Jan Dost & Omaima Alkhamis
new golden age
Thursday 6 February 2020
18:00 - 19:00 Friday 7 February 2020
Adult | Arabic with sim. English
?
of Arabic Fiction
18:30 - 19:30
translation | AED 59 Adult | Arabic | AED 59
What if you find a letter from someone As we cross distant lands and follow
unknown declaring his love to someone different paths, our understanding of
who will never receive it? Or repenting the world expands and brings new hope
a mistake he made in impossible for dialogue. Jan Dost and Omaima
circumstances? What would you do? Alkhamis discuss how their protagonists’
Through five different letters, Hoda journeys open up these channels of
Barakat introduces her celebrated novel’s tolerance and allow us to explore exciting
characters and the immense change they new experiences.
endure overnight.
089
Where Does Literary Criticism
Stand Today?: Ali AlShaali,
079 Reem Al Kamali & Hussain Al
Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Mutawaa
Bodies
Saturday 8 February 2020
19:30 - 20:30
Friday 7 February 2020
Adult | Arabic | AED 59
16:00 - 17:00
Adult | Arabic with sim. English
Does literature today focus on quantity
translation | AED 59
over quality? Does an author’s success
depend solely on book sales? What is
In Celestial Bodies, the 2019 International
the role of literary criticism in the cultural
Man Booker Prize winner, Jokha Alharthi
scene? Is there an inverse relationship
brings to life the intertwined tales of three
between literary works and criticism?
sisters and the secrets and conflicts –
Emirati author and publisher Ali AlShaali
both internal and external – of their small
and Reem Al Kamali, Emirati writer and
Omani society.
journalist, will tackle these important
Join the acclaimed author to hear more
questions with Kuwaiti writer Hussain Al
about her extraordinary novel, and her
Mutawaa, winner of a Sheikh Zayed Book
approach to writing powerful fiction.
Award 2019.
8 Adult sessions Children’s sessions Adult sessions Children’s sessions 9
es fa ith lo ok like How will
What do
in the mo de rn wo rld? we define
success
tomorrow?
054 027 117
Faith in the Modern World: Jonathan Yabut: From Grit Fatima Bhutto: New Kings of
Gelong Thubten, Lesley to Great the World: Dispatches from
Hazleton, Mitch Albom & Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop
Omar Saif Ghobash Friday 7 February 2020
10:00 - 11:00 Friday 7 February 2020
Adult | English with sim. Arabic 14:00 - 15:00
Saturday 8 February 2020 translation | AED 59 Adult | English with sim. Arabic
11:30 - 12:30
translation | AED 59
Adult | English | AED 59 From being the poorest kid in school
to becoming Asia’s first Apprentice, Author and journalist Fatima Bhutto takes
Are we losing faith? Jonathan Yabut’s is a story of hard a vivid look at this new global pop culture,
Our panel of high-profile and bestselling work and perseverance. Having worked profiling Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan,
writers investigate what we gain from under Malaysian business mogul Tony the world’s most popular movie star; going
understanding the spiritual side of life. Fernandes, he believes all you need is grit. behind the scenes of Magnificent Century,
Religion is and always has been an Jonathan Yabut shares his story to the Turkey’s biggest TV show, and travelling
emotive and provocative aspect of human top of the boardroom teaching you how to South Korea, where “Gangnam Style”
life – what answers can we find in it as we grit can fuel your success. became the first billion-viewed YouTube
look to tomorrow?
video.
10 Adult sessions Children’s sessions All ages Special events 11
How do we get to
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Santa Montefiore: The Secret Oliver Jeffers: Drawing
Hours Pictures and Telling Stories
appy ever after?
h Friday 7 February 2020
10:00 - 11:00
Friday 7 February 2020
12:00 - 12:45
Adult | English | AED 59 Age: 3+ | English | AED 39
When Faye’s mother passes away, she Don’t miss this opportunity to meet award-
leaves unexpected instructions – her ashes winning Oliver Jeffers, one of the world’s
must be scattered in a remote corner of most-loved authors and illustrators! He will
Ireland. be here to entertain his many fans of all
Unanswered questions and deep secrets ages with stories and live drawing.
unravel in million-copy bestseller Santa
Montefiore’s spell-binding new novel The
Secret Hours.
In the words of Jojo Moyes, “No one does
epic romance like Santa Montefiore”.
048 058
Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Hussain Al Mutawaa: I Dream
085 Result of Being a Concrete Mixer
Gelong Thubten: A Monk’s
Guide to Happiness Saturday 8 February 2020 Saturday 8 February 2020
10:00 - 11:00 12:00 - 13:00
Adult | English | AED 59 Age: 9+ | Arabic | AED 39
Friday 7 February 2020
19:30 - 20:30 Author of the bestselling Rosie trilogy Young dreamer Haddam refuses to listen
Adult | English with sim. Arabic Graeme Simsion tries to answer the to the advice of others, and is determined
translation | AED 59 question, “What happens when your to go ahead with his ambition to become
happy ever after isn’t the one you a concrete mixer! Will he succeed? Join
How do we stay afloat in a city that wanted?” In the final instalment of his Don Hussain Al Mutawaa as he tells Haddam’s
runs at a million miles per hour? Gelong Tillman trilogy, The Rosie Result, Don and story and inspires you to discover the
Thubten – who traded his life as an Rosie try to solve the problems of their distinctive qualities of your own character.
actor at 21 and ordained as a Tibetan eleven-year-old son.
Buddhist monk – can guide our search
for happiness within an urban jungle, and
show us the meaning of mindfulness.
12 Adult sessions Children’s sessions Adult sessions Children’s sessions 13
049 017
Christopher Lloyd: Humanimal Ranulph Fiennes: Mad, Bad
What is left
– Incredible Ways Animals are and Dangerous to Know
Just Like Us
to explor e in
Friday 7 February 2020
Friday 7 February 2020 12:00 - 13:00
?
Adult | English with sim. Arabic
the 21st century
12:00 - 13:00
Age: 6+ | English | AED 39 translation | AED 59
So you think you’re special because you’re How many people can say they’ve walked
a human? Time to think again! Join author unaided to the North Pole, discovered a
and storyteller Christopher Lloyd on an lost city in Oman and became the first
entertaining journey to discover how slime person to travel overland to both Poles?
moulds can help navigate a maze, how The world’s greatest living explorer (as
rats tickle and laugh out loud, and lots named by the Guinness Book of Records)
more! makes his triumphant return to Dubai.
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Dispatches from the The UAE Astronauts Return:
Wilderness: Ali Al Saloom, Hazzaa AlMansoori, Sultan
Gavin Thurston, Kate Humble & AlNeyadi & Salem AlMarri
Miriam Lancewood 061 031
Chris Bonington: Ascent Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock:
Saturday 8 February 2020
13:00 - 14:00 Dr Maggie’s Grand Tour of
Thursday 6 February 2020
19:00 - 20:00 Adult | Arabic/English with sim. Saturday 8 February 2020 the Solar System
Adult | English | AED 59 translation | Free 12:00 - 13:00
Adult | English | AED 59
In September 2019 Hazzaa AlMansoori Friday 7 February 2020
What can we learn from time spent in
became the first Emirati to travel to space. Sir Chris Bonington’s life could almost be 16:00 - 17:00
tune with nature?
Our panel, including Hazzaa, his fellow measured in peaks, and there aren’t many Age: 7+ | English | AED 39
Our panel of writers and adventurers from
across the globe, who have lived in the Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi and mountains he hasn’t conquered.
Salem AlMarri of the Mohammed Bin Ascent tells the extraordinary, personal Visit the magnificent sights and spectacles
wild under very different circumstances,
Rashid Space Centre, discusses the story of Sir Chris Bonington’s near-death that outer space has to offer with space
discuss what their travels have taught
scientific and cultural significance of the adventures and struggle to make a living scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock,
them.
mission and the future of the UAE space climbing while raising a family. discovering the planets that surround us,
programme. and the moons, asteroids, comets, space
stations and satellites that hover beyond
the stratosphere. This epic event will leave
no space question unanswered and no
meteorite unturned!
14 Adult sessions Children’s sessions Adult sessions Children’s sessions 15
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Maria Dadouch: Do You Like 1001 Nights and the Power of Nadiya Hussain: Finding My
Stripes with Spots? Story: Alwyn Hamilton, Dubai Voice
001 002 Abulhoul, Kevin Crossley-
Desert Stanzas 2020 Murder Mystery Dinner: Killing Friday 7 February 2020 Holland & Tareq Imam Friday 7 February 2020
15:30 - 16:30 16:00 - 17:00
Villanelle with Luke Jennings Adult | English | AED 59
Age: 5-7 | Arabic | AED 39
Friday 7 February 2020
Tuesday 4 February 2020
Abu Malkat can’t bear seeing stripes 14:00 - 15:00 Join the TV presenter, cook and
19:00 - 21:30 Wednesday 5 February 2020
and spots together. His friend wants Adult | Arabic/English with sim. bestselling author Nadiya Hussain as she
Special event | Arabic/English | AED 249 19:30 - 21:30
to help him see the bigger picture. Will translation | AED 59 considers her roles as mother, Muslim,
Special event | English | AED 249
Featured Speakers: he succeed in changing Abu Malkat’s working woman and celebrity and, in her
mind and encouraging him to accept the Where do stories come from, and who do own warm, honest and humorous way,
Afra Atiq A three-course meal, revelations about
different things around him? we write them for? questions the barriers many women face
Arundhathi Subramaniam an enigmatic assassin, and the chance to
Join award-winning author Maria Our panel of acclaimed writers explores and the issues we must all tackle, despite
Carlos Andrés Gómez solve a murder – it’s all in a night’s work at
Dadouch as she reads her story Do You the myriad ways different cultures and our differences.
Chris Read this year’s Murder Mystery Dinner.
Like Stripes with Spots? generations retell old stories and find in
Eleanor Hooker Luke Jennings is the London-based them new meanings, taking the Arabian
Farah Chamma author and journalist whose Codename Nights as their starting point.
Hamed Al-Yahyai Villanelle series was adapted to the
Harry Baker Emmy-nominated TV series Killing Eve,
Hassan Al matrooshi starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer.
Ibrahim Ahmed Alshami After discovering the inspirations for his 014 106 035
Rui Cóias characters and their depiction on page Linwood Barclay: Elevator Pitch Fatima Sharaffedine: Mila’s Ziauddin Yousafzai & Toor
and screen, you will be plunged headfirst
A night of cultural entertainment unique into a thrilling Dubai-based mystery Pear Pekai Yousafzai: Let Her Fly
to Dubai, Desert Stanzas celebrates scenario inspired by the dark world of Friday 7 February 2020
international and homegrown poetic international assassins and espionage 10:00 - 11:00 Friday 7 February 2020 Friday 7 February 2020
talent in a desert camp on the edge of that Luke has created. Adult | English with sim. Arabic 16:30 - 17:30 18:00 - 19:00
the city, bringing together talented poets
translation | AED 59 Adult | Arabic | AED 59 Adult | English with sim. Arabic
from across the globe for an evening
of enthralling poetry under the stars, translation | AED 59
What happens when one of the most Jamila — or Mila, as she likes to be called
alongside music and traditional Emirati
vertical cities in the world plummets into — is a sixteen-year-old girl who takes a Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai
food.
a series of elevator “accidents” terrorising fateful decision after a painful incident Yousafzai are best known as the parents
the city? As Linwood Barclay brings with her classmates. of the youngest Nobel Peace Prize
some of our greatest fears to life in his Join this valuable discussion with writer recipient, Malala. In this session they
trademark high-concept new thriller, find Fatima Sharafeddine on writing for discuss the journey they took to ensure
how he does it – and why. young people, the subjects that interest their daughter’s access to education, and
them, the difficulties they face in society its life-changing outcome for their family,
and at home, the appropriate language as chronicled in Ziauddin’s book Let Her
to address them and the challenges Fly.
faced when writing about breaking social
taboos.
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