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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
FreeReading Group: Reading the City – Home and Belonging in the Gulf
Jameel Library Jameel Arts Centre, DubaiThe Jameel Library Reading Groups return with a new series that considers urban life across the globe. Over the course of four sessions, participants will engage with short texts that spotlight different cities, following thematic threads and examining contemporary literature [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
FreeReading for Pleasure Conference
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences Al Razi St, Umm Hurair 2, Dubai Healthcare City, DubaiThe second edition of this Emirates Literature Foundation conference brings together a diverse selection of educators and experts from across the globe, including some of the most influential voices in the fields. The aim: to discuss and offer guides to [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
FreeAhmad Nabil: Fetus Exodus
Jameel Library Jameel Arts Centre, DubaiA Jameel Library Commission by the Palestinian artist and educator that explores regional myths and legends through ten monthly texts – chapters in fact, in digital form – that address an imagined foetus (referred to as a “child of myths") [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
FreeThe Dice Player: Mahmoud Darwish
House of WIsdom Al Juraina 1, SharjahA celebration of the life and work of the great Palestinian poet (b.1941 d.2008) that unfolds across six themed sections – The Son explores his childhood in Al-Birwa; The Poet highlights his early literary beginnings; The Exiled follows his displacement [ ... ]
FreeFocal Point 2025
Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, SharjahThe eighth and biggest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s art book fair – the region’s only book fair dedicated to publishing about art, we think – features local and international publishers with book launches, talks, workshops and musical performances during [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerFocal Point 2025
Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, SharjahThe eighth and biggest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s art book fair – the region’s only book fair dedicated to publishing about art, we think – features local and international publishers with book launches, talks, workshops and musical performances during [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerFocal Point 2025
Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, SharjahThe eighth and biggest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s art book fair – the region’s only book fair dedicated to publishing about art, we think – features local and international publishers with book launches, talks, workshops and musical performances during [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerSharjah Festival of African Literature
University City SharjahThe second edition of the festival brings together 20 African and nine Emirati authors for around 20 Library sessions, book talks and panel discussions – and a series of African cooking sessions. The theme is “The African Way”, which is [ ... ]
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Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City, DubaiLitFest is back with the usual rich brew of panel discussions and conversations, talks, workshops, family activities and the LitFest After Hours programme. It looks like the biggest and most varied yet, so that probably means it will be the [ ... ]
Writers’ Mixer
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiAn opportunity for writers – novelists, poets, journalists, bloggers, and more – to meet, exchange ideas, and network: "connect with fellow book lovers, spark new collaborations, and feel part of a shared creative space ... An evening of conversation, inspiration, [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
FreeDubai Bibliophiles: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
The Coffee Club Times Square Center, 4B Street, DubaiAnyone who has read Kurt Vonnegut’s powerful SF-infused semi-autobiographical anti-war satire is free to join this Dubai Bibliophiles Book Club meetup. Centring on the infamous WWII firebombing of Dresden, this darkly humorous American cult classic still feels relevant and profoundly [ ... ]
FreeBig Bad Wolf Book Sale
Dubai Studio City DubaiThe self-styled "World’s Biggest Book Sale” is returning to Sound Stages, Dubai Studio City, from 26 February to 8 March, open daily 10am to midnight with something like two million titles in various genres on sale with prices from AED [ ... ]
FreeDubai Bibliophiles: Andy Clark, The Experience Machine
The Coffee Club Times Square Center, 4B Street, DubaiAnyone who has read Clark’s sweeping but very accessible vision of cognitive science is free to join this Dubai Bibliophiles Book Club meetup. It’s a great choice: the key takeaway – experience itself is a kind of controlled hallucination because [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE The Dice Player: Mahmoud Darwish
House of WIsdom Al Juraina 1, SharjahA celebration of the life and work of the great Palestinian poet (b.1941 d.2008) that unfolds across six themed sections – The Son explores his childhood in Al-Birwa; The Poet highlights his early literary beginnings; The Exiled follows his displacement [ ... ]
FreeTo Be A Writer in This Time
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiSubtitled "UAE authors reflect on their art and practice during war", this Kutubna panel discussion about writing – or not writing – at his time features authors Amandeep Ahuja, Hafsa Lodi, Shahd Thani, Tamreez Inam, Tessy Koshy, and Yosr ElSherbiny. [ ... ]
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421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
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