Tickets for the 2016 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature are now on sale!
It’s that time of year again. The time to grab your EAFOL bag, stack it with books, and meet the incredible creators of your favourite characters. Yes, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is back and it’s bigger than ever!
Over 12 days, the Main Programme will offer plenty of panel discussions, insightful conversations, poetry recitals and performances, workshops and masterclasses, featuring authors and speakers from every corner of the globe.
The majority of sessions will be held at the InterContinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City. Keep checking our website for all the venue details.
This year, we have even more events for you and the family to enjoy. Head over to Novo Cinemas, Dubai Festival City, to revisit Shakespearean plays through Screenings of film adaptations and theatrical performances.
We also have the brand new Spotlight on the Emirates segment; three days of activities focused on Emirati and UAE-based writers, poets and performers, at the beautiful Dubai International Writers’ Centre, Al Shindagha Historical Area.
And don’t miss the Festival’s first Literary Cruise; the Time Travel Dinner and the UAE’s first ever performance of the critically-acclaimed Steven Berkoff play, Shakespeare’s Villains.
Don’t dither any more, get to know our authors a little better, read some of their blogs and keep checking our website for more updates.
The theme for the 2016 Festival is Time and it is running out, so get your tickets now!
To browse the programme online check out the day-by-day calendar or by event type/strand.
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