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Celebrate 15 years of the Emirates LitFest!

Join old friends and new for author talks, workshops, special events and more at the Intercontinental in Festival City and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library from 1-6 February 2023.

Featured Sessions

We have a diverse line-up of author panels, solo conversation and more, with new ones featured every day

Kwentong Filipino - Filipino Stories: Angelo R Lacuesta, Danabelle Gutierrez & Miguel Syjuco

Saturday 4 February 2023 16:00-17:00

English

Hard Times, Human Stories: Barkha Dutt, Jo Browning Wroe & Lucy Easthope

Saturday 4 February 2023 14:00-15:00

English

The Big Fat LitFest Quiz

Sunday 5 February 2023 19:30-21:00

English

Letters to Old Friends: Alexander McCall Smith, Cecelia Ahern, Faye Brann & Sudha Murty

Friday 3 February 2023 20:30-21:30

English

Nathan Pyle: Greetings from Strange Planet

Sunday 5 February 2023 13:30-14:30

English

Past, Present & Future of Islam: Marina Mahathir, HE Omar Saif Ghobash & Reza Aslan

Saturday 4 February 2023 10:00-11:00

English

Agatha Christie & the Golden Age of Crime Fiction: Lucy Worsley & Ragnar Jónasson

Saturday 4 February 2023 20:30-21:30

English

Mohsin Hamid: The Last White Man

Friday 3 February 2023 18:30-19:30

English

HEAR FROM EMIRATI VOICES

Get a front row seat to some of the finest writers, poets, and thinkers the UAE has to offer

LEMN SISSAY RECOMMENDS

A selection of sessions curated by the BAFTA-nominated international prize-winning writer and poet

Don’t Ask the Dragon: Lemn Sissay & Greg Stobbs

Sunday 5 February 2023 10:00-10:45

English

Kit De Waal: My Name is Leon Film Screening

Friday 3 February 2023 19:00-21:00

English

Poems as Old Friends: Lemn Sissay, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta & Tishani Doshi

Friday 3 February 2023 20:30-21:30

English

Change is Coming: Avni Doshi & Tishani Doshi

Friday 3 February 2023 16:30-17:30

English

Childhood on the Edge: Kit de Waal & Lemn Sissay

Sunday 5 February 2023 20:00-21:00

English

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