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Best of the Emirates LitFest

On this podcast you will find full session recordings from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature and festival author interviews with Emirates ICE, as well as some special features. The Festival ... Read more

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News from the Frontline of Literature - The Boundless Book Club

News from the Frontline of Literature - The Boundless Book Club

For many years, people have been talking about the decline of the book, with shorter attention spans and a general thirs... Read more

19 May 2022

23mins

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Lemn Sissay: My Name is Why

Lemn Sissay: My Name is Why

Lemn Sissay knows more than most what it takes to change the story. Until he was seventeen he didn’t even know his real ... Read more

12 Oct 2021

1hr 8mins

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Fashion, Football and Feminism: Hafsa Lodi & Houriya Altaheri

Fashion, Football and Feminism: Hafsa Lodi & Houriya Altaheri

For all of women’s advances in recent years, feminism remains a fraught topic and women still have to find creative ways... Read more

8 Sep 2021

56mins

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Why is Everyone an Idiot?: Sherif Arafa & Thomas Erikson

Why is Everyone an Idiot?: Sherif Arafa & Thomas Erikson

Do you feel like you are surrounded by idiots? What is going on in the head of that one colleague you just can’t work wi... Read more

8 Jul 2021

1hr 3mins

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Fighting the Anti-Facts Movement: Jay Jayamohan, Nafea Alyasi & Rupy Aujla

Fighting the Anti-Facts Movement: Jay Jayamohan, Nafea Alyasi & Rupy Aujla

Fearmongering and disinformation are serious problems today, and the medical world, in particular, is plagued by junk sc... Read more

8 Jul 2021

57mins

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Amin Maalouf at Emirates LitFest 2021

Amin Maalouf at Emirates LitFest 2021

Among today’s upheavals in the Middle East, a global pandemic and economic recessions, the timely release of Adrift by w... Read more

13 Jun 2021

55mins

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Malala Yousafzai at Emirates LitFest 2021

Malala Yousafzai at Emirates LitFest 2021

Youngest Nobel laureate and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has never stopped advocating for girls’ right to educati... Read more

13 Jun 2021

1hr

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Elif Shafak at Emirates LitFest 2021

Elif Shafak at Emirates LitFest 2021

Elif Shafak’s remarkable career has seen her use the power of story to bring people together. Perhaps most famous for he... Read more

13 Jun 2021

1hr 3mins

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Inside Out special

Inside Out special

As firm believers in the redemption and enlightenment that can be found in a book, the Emirates Literature Foundation ha... Read more

28 Jul 2020

13mins

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Ian Rankin talks about Rebus and In a House of Lies at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (2019)

Ian Rankin talks about Rebus and In a House of Lies at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (2019)

Detective John Rebus may have retired, but bestselling crime author, Ian Rankin, certainly has not!The latest instalment... Read more

1 May 2020

37mins

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