Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

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^{Event starts at}	Special Venue	Al Baraha 1A, InterContinental Hotel	Al Baraha 1B, InterContinental Hotel	Al Baraha 2, InterContinental Hotel	Al Baraha 3, InterContinental Hotel	Al Baraha Foyer, InterContinental Hotel	Al Khaimah, InterContinental Hotel	Al Majlis, InterContinental Hotel	Al Ras 1, InterContinental Hotel	Al Ras 2, InterContinental Hotel	Al Ras 3, InterContinental Hotel	Al Rimal 1, InterContinental Hotel	Al Waha, InterContinental Hotel	Terrace, InterContinental Hotel
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^09:30	09:30 Radio Newsday with Max Easterman and Suzanne Radford Full Day Workshop
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^10:00		10:00 The City International School Stage Show	10:00 Animals Galore!	10:00 Luigi Bonomi - additional session How to Get Published	10:00 Andy Stanton ...and the Evil Mr Gum		10:00 Lynne Vowles I Love to Count! Introduced by Simone Nowell	10:00 Sahar Mahfouz Dare to be Different! Introduced by Sara Al Muhairy	10:00 Kate Adie The Roar of the Press, the Squeak of Social Media: Modern Journalism	10:00 Kate Pullinger Storytelling in the Digital Age	10:00 Mark Billingham, Chan Koonchung & Nicholas Sparks Film Panel: From Page to Screen. Chair Paul Blezard	10:00 Calligraphy Workshop - Children (1)	10:00 Creative Writing for Young Adults Tim Bowler Masterclass	10:00 JESS Arabian Ranches: A Musical Medley
^10:15		10:00 The City International School Stage Show												10:00 JESS Arabian Ranches: A Musical Medley
^10:30						10:30 JESS Folk Band
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^11:00		11:00 Winchester School: A Medley of Song and Dance	11:00 Story Time											11:00 Deira International School: Jazz Band & Choirs
^11:15		11:00 Winchester School: A Medley of Song and Dance	11:00 Story Time											11:00 Deira International School: Jazz Band & Choirs
^11:30				11:30 Kes Gray Fizzing Fun	11:30 Jacqueline Wilson Sapphire Battersea	11:30 Deira International School: Ensemble	11:30 Linda Davies & Rym Ghazal Spirited Away to the Land of the Djinn! In conversation with Rupert Wise	11:30 PG Bhaskar & Gabriel Malika in conversation with Joan Scott-Minter In Search of Fame and Fortune on Dubai's Golden Streets	11:30 AC Grayling Philosophy and the Good Life	11:30 Chetan Bhagat in conversation Want to Change Your Life? Be inspired by India’s topselling novelist	11:30 Samir & Roseanne Saad Khalaf Arabic Society & Culture: Changing Times	11:30 Fiona Lindsay Storytelling Workshop Telling Tales
^11:45						11:30 Deira International School: Ensemble
^12:00		12:00 Deira International School: Drama
^12:15		12:00 Deira International School: Drama
^12:30	12:30 Bobby Chinn The Literary Lunch... and so much more							12:35 Peter Dale Cracking the Cryptic Crossword					12:30 Creativity Demystified - Developing Your Writing Skills David Almond Masterclass
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^13:00		13:00 GEMS American Academy Abu Dhabi: Music & Drama
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^13:30							13:30 Wafa Tarnowska Scheherazade's Lesser Known Tales. Introduced by Mohammed Barghuthi	13:30 Lorraine Ludman The Weird and the Wonderful: A Personal Collection. In Conversation with Alice Johnson	13:30 Martin Kemp From Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon	13:30 Ariana Bundy: Cookery Demo and Book Launch Pomegranates and Roses: My Persian Family Recipes	13:30 Sadakat Kadri in conversation with Paul Blezard Heaven on Earth: A Journey through Shari'a Law			13:30 GEMS American Academy Abu Dhabi: Music & Drama (2)
^13:45				13:45 The Oxford University Press Story Writing Competition Prize Giving								13:45 Muhamed Al Khalil Survival Arabic: Module 1 - Let's Speak Arabic		13:30 GEMS American Academy Abu Dhabi: Music & Drama (2)
^14:00		14:00 JESS Arabian Ranches: The Spy who Spied Me				14:00 Dubai Chinese Learning Centre: Chinese Plays, Song and Poetry
^14:15		14:00 JESS Arabian Ranches: The Spy who Spied Me
^14:30				14:30 Funatics!											14:30 The Music Box: Marvellous Musicians
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^15:00		15:00 Power Tutoring: Poetry Performance	15:00 Liz Fenwick, Sarah Hathorn & Alexander McNabb with Luigi Bonomi First Fictions: Three different success stories		15:00 Darren Shan The Master of Horror		15:00 Julia Johnson The Leopard Boy. Introduced by Yvette Judge	15:00 Saeed Al Badi & Muhammad AS Abdel-Haleem Mecca: The Journey of a Lifetime	15:00 Lewis Trondheim Meet a French legend of the comic book scene	15:00 Josceline Dimbleby in conversation with Lucy Taylor Orchards in the Oasis	15:00 Romesh Gunesekera Prisoner of Paradise			15:00 The Music Box & Its Amazing Choir
^15:15		15:00 Power Tutoring: Poetry Performance												15:00 The Music Box & Its Amazing Choir
^15:30						15:30 Jebel Ali Primary School						15:30 Daljit Nagra Masterclass The Importance of Memory in Writing Poetry	15:30 Chan Koonchung China: From Repressive Past to Prosperous Future. Fact and Fiction
^15:45						15:30 Jebel Ali Primary School
^16:00		16:00 GEMS Royal School Dubai: The Wizard of Oz	16:00 Two Languages, One Story
^16:15		16:00 GEMS Royal School Dubai: The Wizard of Oz
^16:30					16:30 Dubai Culture & Arts Authority: The Importance of Philanthropy in a Civilized Society The Patron of the Arts Awards		16:30 Ghassan Amhaz The Open Skies of Dubai: Why Aviation has played a Crucial Role in Dubai's Growth	16:30 Mariam Al Saedi & Muhsin Sulaiman Condensed Fiction: The Art of the Short Story. Moderated by Dr Salem Humaid	16:30 Dervla Murphy in conversation Undaunted, Unstoppable, Indefatigable, Ireland's Travelling Legend	16:30 Elisabetta Montaldo In Conversation	16:30 Ibrahim Al Koni in conversation with Kamal Abdelmalek			16:30 JESS Arabian Ranches: Dance, Dance, Dance!
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^17:00		17:00 Nina's Drama Group: A Special Performance About Special People											17:00 How to Get Noticed and Sell Your Book with Alexander McNabb Self Publishing and Promoting Your Book in a Digital Age	17:00 Al Bateen School Pop-choir Scream & SHOUT perform The Supremes' classic 'You Can't Hurry Love'
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^18:00	18:00 Sandra Piesik in conversation with Brian Johnson The Arish Revolution: Structures, Tradition and Cultural Identity in the UAE			18:00 Mal Peet Life: An Exploded Diagram	18:00 Riz Khan: We Interrupt Our Programming - a novel In conversation with Shahnaz Pakravan				18:00 Kevin Murray The Language of Leaders	18:00 Annabel Karmel Fun and Healthy Food for Children - and all the Family	18:00 Ranjit Hoskote - Life through the lens of poetry Poetry and Conversation
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^19:30	19:30 Rashad Bukhash: The Architectural Heritage of Dubai In conversation with Peter Jackson				19:30 The Poeticians Poetry Rocks		19:30 Dania El Kadi & Hani Soubra Beirut and its Culture in the 21st Century: Fact, Fiction and the Middle Ground	19:30 Dr Shihab Ghanem & Dr Qais Ghanem Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Traditions and Importance in the Gulf Region	19:30 Nicholas Sparks The Bestselling author of Message in a Bottle	19:30 Paolo Giordano in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith The Solitude of Prime Numbers	19:30 Ahmed Khaled Towfik & Ahmed Mourad Egypt: Through the Eyes of Two Compelling Writers	19:30 Calligraphy Workshop - Adults (2)	19:30 Luigi Bonomi How to Get Published
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^20:30	20:30 The Festival Grand Lit-Quiz Hosted by Mark Billingham
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^21:00								21:00 Nujoom Al Ghanem, Khulood Al Mu'alla & Patty Paine Gathering the Tide: Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry	21:00 Jeremy Bowen with Riz Khan Anatomy of a Revolution		21:00 Muhammad AS Abdel-Haleem Translating the Qur'an: Opening the Book to Westerners		21:00 Dubai Culture & Arts Authority: Storytelling The Journey from Oral Tradition to the Written Word
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