Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Authors

Kamal Abdel-Malek

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:27:34 -0500

Kamal Abdel-Malek is a Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the American University of Dubai (AUD). He previously taught at Princeton and Brown Universities and is the recipient of Brown University’s prestigious Wriston Fellowship for excellence in teaching and research.

Ghada Abdel Aal

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:45:13 -0500

Ghada Abdel Aal is a single pharmacist living in Cairo, “a representative of 15 million females from 25 to 35 years who are pressured by the society everyday to get married even though this matter is out of their hands”.

Susan Abulhawa

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:33:19 -0500

Susan Abulhawa is an American-based author of Palestinian descent. Her parents were displaced by the Six Day War of 1967 and she grew up in Kuwait, Jordan and East Jerusalem before moving to the United States, where she established a successful career in medical science.

Ines Abassi

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:59:08 -0500

Tunisian poet and writer Ines Abassi was born in 1982. She currently resides in the UAE, working as a journalist and publishing her poetry, writing and translations in the local and international press. In 2004, she published the collection Secrets of the Wind, which won the Tunisian Poetry Prize that year.

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:56:51 -0500

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller and writer. For the past twenty five years his home has been the Yemeni capital San'a where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city.

Aminatta Forna

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:31:20 -0500

Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. Her most recent published works are Ancestor Stones, a novel set in West Africa, and The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir of her dissident father and her country.

Christina Lamb

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:34:56 -0500

Christina Lamb recently became US Editor of the Sunday Times, based in Washington, after 22 years of roving the world's hotspots.

Louise Doughty

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:54:14 -0500

Louise Doughty was born in 1963 in the East Midlands, UK. She grew up in Rutland, England's smallest county, a rural area that later provided the setting for her third novel, Honey-Dew.

Ariana Bundy

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:47:37 -0500

Ariana Bundy is a French-trained chef, presenter and cookbook author with a passion for wholesome food that's fresh and easy to prepare but full on flavour. She marries different cooking styles with French techniques using organic produce whenever possible.

Joseph O'Neill

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:55:41 -0500

Joseph O’Neill is author of the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Netherland. With mixed Irish-Turkish ancestry and experience of growing up in Mozambique, Turkey, Iran and the Netherlands and studying at Cambridge before eventually immigrating to the United States, he is well-qualified to write about the migrant experience.