Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

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^{Event starts at}	Al Ras 1	Al Ras 2	Al Ras 3	Al Majlis Meeting Room	Al Baraha 2	Al Baraha 3	Belgian Cafe, Crowne Plaza, Dubai Festival City	Deira International School, Room A	Deira International School, Room B
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^10:30								10:30 Getting Started: Creative Writing Workshop with Rachel Hore Workshop for Adults	10:30 Plot Versus Atmosphere: Creative Writing Workshop with Greg Mosse Workshop for Adults
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^11:00	11:00 Kate Adie: In Conversation		11:00 Jeffery Deaver: In Conversation	11:00 Page to the Stage: Drama Workshop with Round Midnight Ages 8-11	11:00 Polly Dunbar Stories, Drawing and Puppets	11:00 Darren Shan
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^12:30	12:30 Chris Cleave: In Conversation	12:30 Imtiaz Dharker & Fadhil Al-Azzawi East & West: Best of Both Worlds: Poetry Readings and Conversation	12:30 Robert Lacey Inside the Kingdom		12:30 Caroline Lawrence How to Write a Great Story: An Illustrated Talk
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^13:30				13:30 Drawing Workshop for Fledgling Illustrators with Korky Paul Ages 5-7
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^14:00	14:00 Women Writing from the Arab World	14:00 William Dalrymple In Conversation about his first travel book in more than 10 years	14:00 Ghada Karmi: In Conversation		14:00 Ian Whybrow An Illustrated talk with Stories, Songs & Games			14:00 Unlocking Creativity: Drama Workshop with Round Midnight Workshop for Adults
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^14:30				14:30 Drawing Workshop for Young Illustrators with Korky Paul Ages 8-11
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^15:00									15:00 Character and Dialogue: Creative Writing Workshop with Greg Mosse Workshop for Adults
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^15:30	15:30 Francis Wheen: In Conversation	15:30 Isabel Fonseca: In Conversation	15:30 Crossing Borders on the Page: Leila Aboulela, Raja Shehadeh and Ahdaf Soueif Presented as part of International PEN's Free the Word! festival of world literature		15:30 Fatima Sharafeddine Storytelling (in Arabic)	15:30 Roger McGough 1 That Awkward Age – performance poetry from the ‘patron saint of poetry’
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^16:00				16:00 Five Ways to Tell a Story: Writing Workshop with Alice Kuipers Ages 12-14
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^16:45						16:45 Remembering Tayeb Salih (1929-2009): Leila Aboulela, Bahaa Taher, Denys Johnson-Davies
^17:00	17:00 Imran Ahmad Islam and the West: Getting Published in a Post-9/11 World				17:00 Michelle Paver Living with Wolves – and Other Aspects of Book Research
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^18:00		18:00 Marjane Satrapi: In Conversation
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^18:30	18:30 Vikas Swarup: In Conversation Meet the author behind the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire		18:30 An Evening with Five Contemporary Emirati Poets		18:30 Conn Iggulden
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^19:00							19:00 Story Night
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^20:00	20:00 Yann Martel Life After Pi	20:00 Amit Chaudhuri This is Not Fusion: a Concert	20:00 Sargan Boulus (1944-2007) - A Tribute by Khalid Al-Maaly & Samuel Shimon An Iraqi in San Francisco		20:00 Gervase Phinn A One-Man Show
^20:15						20:15 Social Media: How readers and writers are using the new media
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