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song of the sea

Sirocco and The Kingdom of the Winds: dir Benoît Chieux (2023)

SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

This slightly trippy animation features two intrepid sisters, four-year-old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen, who discover a passage into the extraordinary world of their favourite book, Kingdom of the Air Streams. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, the girls [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

giovannis room

Dubai Bibliophiles: Giovanni’s Room

The Coffee Club Times Square Center, 4B Street, Dubai

His publishers rejected Giovanni's Room as a failure, telling James Baldwin the novel would damage his reputation. Knopf claimed the judgement was nothing to do with the book’s content, but Baldwin was convinced that the publisher didn't want "a story [ ... ]

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