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SUMMARY:Big Bad Wolf Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:The self-styled “World’s Biggest Book Sale” is returning to Sound Stages\, Dubai Studio City\, from 1-10 March\, open daily 10am to midnight with something like two million titles in various genres on sale at discounts of up to 75 percent on RRP. Should be something for everyone …
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LOCATION:Dubai Studio City\, Dubai
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SUMMARY:The City and the Writer
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of multicultural\, multilingual authorship; a diverse lineup of award-winning writers come together to celebrate and share their writing. The evening is inspired by the column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine\, the most important international literature magazine in the United States\, noted for its ruminations on urban life and the imagination\, literature and language\, translation and transitions. This kind of loosely structured format and the range and quality of the contributors should make for a really interesting evening. \nThe curator is NYU Abu Dhabi’s Nathalie Handal (USA-France)\, award-winning poet and author of ten books. \nThe contributors: \nAlain Mabanckou (Congo-France-USA) Novelist\, poet\, essayist\, and a professor at UCLA. He is a recipient of the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. \nAmanda Michalopoulo (Greece) Author of eight novels\, three short story collections\, a play and a novella. Her awards include the Academy of Athens Prize. \nCarlo Lucarelli (Italy) Best-selling novelist (more than 20 titles to his name)\, scriptwriter and television presenter \nAngie Cruz (Dominica-USA) Novelist and editor\, recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies\, winner of the Gold Medal Latino Book Award\, and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. \nRana Kazkaz (Syria-USA) Award-winning filmmaker with a focus on Syrian stories. Associate Professor at Northwestern University Qatar. \nDavid Henry Hwang (USA) Tony Award winning playwright\, TV producer and showrunner. He also co-wrote ‘Solo” with Prince. \nIsabella Hammad (UK) Novelist – last year she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list of the most significant British writers under 40. She has taught literature and creative writing at NYU\, Brown and Al Quds Bard College. \nFernanda Trías (Uruguay) Novelist\, whose most recent book received Uruguay’s National Literature and Bartolomé Hidalgo prizes and Mexico’s international Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize. \nShahad Al-Rawi (Iraq) Novelist and anthropologist. Her first novel was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction\, and won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award; her second was nominated for the Sheikh Zayed Award. \nWole Soyinka (Nigeria) A towering figure in world literature: Nobel Prize Laureate\, artist-dramatist\, poet\, essayist\, musician\, philosopher\, academic\, teacher\, human rights activist\, global artist\, and scholar. \nRachel Holmes (UK) Award-winning biographer\, editor\, academic\, UK Chair of the Iraq Literature Festival in Erbil\, and Visiting Literary Fellow at Mansfield College\, Oxford. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-city-and-the-writer/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
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SUMMARY:Writers’ Suhoor
DESCRIPTION:Another of 421’s Ramadan specials – a gathering for wordsmiths to exchange writings\, makes zines\, and connect over food. “The perfect chance to share your experiences and exchange ideas while connecting with fellow writers who understand your unique journey …” \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/writers-suhoor/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
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