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
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23mins
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
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1hr 8mins
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
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56mins
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
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1hr 3mins
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
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57mins
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
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55mins
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
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1hr
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
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1hr 3mins
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
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13mins
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
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37mins