The fifteenth Emirates Airline Festival of Literature begins on Wednesday, welcoming a various array of company. With quite a few classes working each day till Monday and a number of other creatives attending, it is simple to really feel overwhelmed making an attempt to choose which to attend.
Held in two areas this 12 months — on the InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis and the Mohammed bin Rashid Library — it options a variety of talks, with authors discussing all the things from the artwork of storytelling and love within the fashionable age, to social points and spirituality.
Underneath the theme of Outdated Associates, the competition revisits its personal story by inviting a few of its earliest company to reminisce, whereas welcoming newcomers to look ahead to the way forward for storytelling.
Listed here are seven classes e book lovers will not wish to miss.
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: movie screening and speak
The animated movie The Prophet, tailored from the 1923 e book by celebrated Lebanese-American author, poet and visible artist Kahlil Gibran will likely be screened. It will likely be adopted by a dialogue with director Roger Allers, alongside producers Clark Peterson and Haytham Nasr.
The story follows exiled artist and poet Mustafa as he embarks on a journey dwelling along with his housekeeper and her daughter. Because the characters evade authorities who wish to cease Mustafa’s phrases — which they concern may stoke rebellion — viewers enter the spellbinding world of the poet’s creativeness.
The principle characters are voiced by Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek, who additionally served as a producer on the movie. Hayek has additionally recorded a particular video message for the session. The session will delve into the manufacturing of the movie and the way Gibran’s phrases had been translated into the animated format.
Date/Time: February 2, 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Al Baraha III, InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis
Brian Cox: Shakespeare, Success and Succession
A legend of the theatre and the display, Scottish actor Brian Cox will likely be speaking to an viewers about his life. His memoir, Placing the Rabbit within the Hat, launched in October 2021 candidly recounts how he emerged from a working-class Scottish background to turn out to be probably the most celebrated Shakespearean actors of his technology.
Asides from his work with the Royal Shakespeare Firm and the Royal Nationwide Theatre, Cox’s movie and TV performances embody his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter within the 1986 film, Manhunter, and most not too long ago his function as Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession.
Date/Time: February 2, 8pm to 9pm
Venue: Al Riwaq II, InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis
Warrior Queens, Rebels and Courtesans — How Girls Formed the World
On this session, Kate Mosse, founding father of the #WomanInHistory marketing campaign to rejoice ladies’s achievements, and historian Manu S Pillai, whose books look at India’s previous, are set to debate the significance of researching historical past’s forgotten ladies — lots of whom formed historical past with out receiving acknowledgement — and sharing their tales with fashionable audiences.
Date/Time: February 2, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: Al Baraha II, InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis
Mohsin Hamid: The Final White Man
British-Pakistani novelist, Mohsin Hamid will likely be discussing his newest e book, The Final White Man.
The novel follows the story of Anders, who wakes as much as discover his pores and skin color reworked from white to a “deep and plain brown”. It’s one thing that isn’t solely occurring to him, however to many others.
The novel brings to the forefront how race, energy, love and humanity are sometimes considered throughout instances of change.
Hamid can be the writer of bestselling novels Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The way to Get Filthy Wealthy in Rising Asia and Exit West.
Date/Time: February 3, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: Al Riwaq II, InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis
Fables Across the Fireplace
Fables and myths are a part of the collective traditions of storytelling throughout time, cultures and international locations.
From the Queens of Yoruba to the Dwende of the Philippines, this dialogue on the ability of folklore will likely be held below the celebrities within the Mohammed bin Rashid Library amphitheatre.
Authors resembling Ben Miller, Budjette Tan, Bolu Babalola, Dubai Abulhoul and Nicholas Jubber will narrate myths and tales from every of their cultures, adopted by a dialog about mythology and folklore.
Date/Time: February 4, 8pm to 9.15pm
Venue: Amphitheatre, Mohammed bin Rashid Library, Al Jaddaf
Previous, Current and Way forward for Islam
Emirati diplomat and writer Omar Saif Ghobash, Malaysian social and political commentator Marina Mahathir and Iranian-American spiritual scholar Reza Aslan are set to debate the worldwide significance of Islam.
With about two billion followers worldwide and rising, Islam consists of many ethnicities and nationalities. With varied challenges on the horizon, together with local weather change and a rising youth inhabitants, the panellists will discover the previous and current of Islam and what its future could appear like.
Date/Time: February 4, 10am to 11am
Venue: Al Baraha III, InterContinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis
It Should Have Been Love However is it Over Now?
Love throughout ages and cultures is a wealthy and numerous theme. However how has the portrayal of affection modified during the last 50 or 100 years? And the way has romance modified from the heyday of the mid-Twentieth-century Mills & Boons novels to up to date romcoms and vampire romances?
All these questions, and extra, will likely be answered, as famed authors Bolu Babalola, Cecelia Ahern and Katherine Webber — who’ve explored love in a single form or kind — talk about the one subject we simply can not seem to get sufficient of.
Date/Time: February 5, 6pm to 7pm
Venue: Al Baraha II, InterContinental, Dubai Pageant Metropolis
The Emirates Airline Pageant of Literature will likely be working from February 1 to six on the Intercontinental Dubai Pageant Metropolis and the Mohammed bin Rashid Library. Extra info and tickets can be found at www.emirateslitfest.com
Up to date: February 01, 2023, 3:05 AM
