Best of the Emirates LitFest Podcast
1) Lemn Sissay: My Name is Why
Lemn Sissay knows more than most what it takes to change the story. Until he was seventeen he didn’t even know his real name, having been brought up in a succession of foster families and care ho...Show More
2) Fashion, Football and Feminism: Hafsa Lodi & Houriya Altaheri
For all of women’s advances in recent years, feminism remains a fraught topic and women still have to find creative ways to assert themselves in different areas. Hafsa Lodi and Houriya ...Show More
3) Why is Everyone an Idiot?: Sherif Arafa & Thomas Erikson
Do you feel like you are surrounded by idiots? What is going on in the head of that one colleague you just can’t work with? How do meetings always end up over-length and off-topic? Our panel brings to...Show More
4) Fighting the Anti-Facts Movement: Jay Jayamohan, Nafea Alyasi & Rupy Aujla
Fearmongering and disinformation are serious problems today, and the medical world, in particular, is plagued by junk science, outdated theories and highly contested data presented as fact – not to me...Show More
5) Amin Maalouf at Emirates LitFest 2021
Among today’s upheavals in the Middle East, a global pandemic and economic recessions, the timely release of Adrift by world-renowned scholar and bestselling author Amin Maalouf is his attempt at maki...Show More
6) Malala Yousafzai at Emirates LitFest 2021
Youngest Nobel laureate and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has never stopped advocating for girls’ right to education, despite the attempt on her life by the Taliban in 2012 in her home, Pakistan...Show More
7) Elif Shafak at Emirates LitFest 2021
Elif Shafak’s remarkable career has seen her use the power of story to bring people together. Perhaps most famous for her fiction, which includes bestsellers The Forty Rules of Love and 10 minutes 38 ...Show More
8) Inside Out special
As firm believers in the redemption and enlightenment that can be found in a book, the Emirates Literature Foundation has been working for more than two years with Dubai Penal and Correctional In...Show More
9) Ian Rankin talks about Rebus and In a House of Lies at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (2019)
Detective John Rebus may have retired, but bestselling crime author, Ian Rankin, certainly has not!The latest instalment continues the story of Rebus’s post-retirement meddling in the changing landsca...Show More
10) Unconventional Journeys: Leon McCarron and Malachy Tallack speak at Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (2019)
What makes going from A to B an adventure, not a destination? A map can show you the layout of a place, but its emotional geography is something that takes a bit more time and skill to uncover. Leon M...Show More