Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

The Festival conducts a number of competitions for all age groups.

New Competitions

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The Festival is a huge event with many simultaneous sessions taking place requiring all kinds of jobs to be done. We need approximately 300 volunteers in March at the Festival.
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The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is the Middle East’s largest celebration of the written and spoken word, bringing people of all ages and backgrounds together with authors from across the world to promote education, debate and above all else, love of reading and writing.

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The Festival holds a number of activities around the year.

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The Main Programme lies at the heart of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature – a rich and diverse array of panel discussions, in-depth interviews, poetry readings, debates, workshops and master classes featuring authors from all over the world. It’s a chance to meet your favourite authors – or to discover someone new.

The 2016 programme is now live.

Book reviews, news, author interviews and more.

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