Emirates Literature Foundation, home of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, one of the top literary festivals in the world and the biggest celebration of stories in the Middle East, brings some of the most impressive and compelling sessions from their 2022 edition to viewers fingertips via YouTube for free.
Panel sessions include Global Leadership: Work, Family, and our Future, with UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General Expo 2020 Dubai, HE Reem Al Hashimy, and former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi. An out of this world dialogue about the best scientific discovery of all times with YouTube content creator, Ahmed El Ghandour, known as Da7ee7, Head of the UAE Astronaut Programme, Salem Al Marri, and professor and author, Serhii Plokhy. Catch Sunday Times bestselling author, Dr Rupy Aujla, and cookbook author, presenter, entrepreneur, and social media influencer, Zahra Abdalla, as they discuss modern ways of Cooking the Classics. East meets West where Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, prolific author and direct descendant of Charles Dickens, Daniel L Newman, author and Chair of Arabic Studies at the University of Durham, and Karim Hauser, Head of International Relations at Spain’s Casa Árabe, reflect on the long history of globalisation in context of art, literature, and food. Watch four masters of the crime thriller genre, Felicia Yap, Lucy Foley, Mark Billingham, and Polly Phillips, as they talk Originality in Crime Fiction. Enjoy Between the Covers, a riveting discussion with poet and novelist, Noor Naga, and editor, Selma Dabbagh, on erotic writing in Arabic literature.
