The 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 [... more]
The 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 [... more]
LitFest 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 [... more]
An 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, [... more]
A 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 [... more]
Anyone 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 [... more]
The 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 [... more]
Anyone 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 [... more]
A 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 [... more]
Subtitled "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. [... more]
A 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 [... more]
A 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 [... more]
A monumental 2025 novel from the National Book Award winner, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see. Powerful stuff: "domestically sprawling, [... more]
"A welcoming space to write alongside others and find your voice on the page" in the form of a writing seminar led by Sarah Afaneh designed for writers at any stage of their practice. It comprises six sessions held across [... more]
The second of six sessions for this writing seminar led by Sarah Afaneh designed for writers at any stage of their practice. It comprises six sessions held across three months, alternating between guided teaching and communal workshops. In this workshop [... more]
The Sahab Collective writing group is getting together to produce written materials for possible inclusion in Kutubna’s Documenting Culture in the Gulf in a Time of War exhibition (opens 3 September). The exhibition asks "what does it mean to be [... more]
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