• Bookends Book Club: Tuesdays with Morrie

    Bookends A3 building, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai

    Subtitled 'An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, this 1997 memoir by the award-winning sports columnist Mitch Albom is based on a series of Tuesday visits he made to his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz [ ... ]

    Free
  • Book Cellar Dubai: The Elephant in the Brain

    Le Brasserie sur le Boulevard Kempinski The Boulevard, Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd, Dubai

    Another really interesting pick by Book Cellar. The authors – software engineer and writer Kevin Simler and economics professor Robin Hanson – start from the premise that we are often unaware of the real reasons for our behaviours: they go [ ... ]

    Free
  • SAF Book Club Meetup: Theories of Photography

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    SAF's August book club meetup will explore how our perspectives shape the way we interpret photographs. Through books such as On Photography by Susan Sontag, Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt and Photography’s Orientalism by Ali Behdad and Luke [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Book Cellar Dubai: The Queue

    Le Brasserie sur le Boulevard Kempinski The Boulevard, Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd, Dubai

    Vladimir Sorokin's 1983 has been described as "a bizarrely funny saga of a quintessential Russian institution, the interminably long line". Perhaps you might go for "avant-garde" rather than bizarre; the book is solely snatches of dialogue, the voices of people [ ... ]

    Free
  • Dubai Bibliophiles: Poetry Session – Vote for Your Favorites

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

    Discuss the top seven poems (from a list of 50) that have received the most votes by members. As with any such list, it's highly debatable – way too many US poets, way too few from MENASA (including the UAE, [ ... ]

    Free