Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Authors

Elisabetta Montaldo

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:46:49 -0600

Elisabetta Montaldo is a painter, costume designer and writer. She studied in Rome at The Art School and The Academy of Fine Arts, and since 1988 has designed costumes for opera, film and the theatre. Her work has won numerous awards including the David di Donatello (twice!) and the Ciak d’Oro. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

Rashad Bukhash

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:06:54 -0600

Rashad M Bukhash is Director of the Architectural Heritage Department, Dubai Municipality. He has 25 years of experience in the fields of planning, directing, managing & supervising modern architectural projects, conservation of historic buildings, museum design and management, and landscaping projects.

Sandra Piesik

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:30:58 -0600

Sandra Piesik is the founder of 3 ideas Limited, an architectural consultancy specializing in architecture, design and cultural research.

Habib Selmi

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:45:15 -0600

Habib Selmi was born in al-’Ala, Tunisia, in 1951. He has published eight novels and two collections of short stories. A number of the stories have been translated into English, Norwegian, Hebrew and French and his novels have been translated into English, French, German and Italian.

Nasser Iraq

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:36:50 -0600

Nasser Abelfatah Ibrahim Iraq graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo University, in 1984. He has worked in cultural journalism in Egypt and co-founded the Dubai Al-Thaqafiya magazine where he has been managing editor since 2004.

Hind Shoufani

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:30:36 -0600

Hind Shoufani, a Palestinian filmmaker/writer, born in Lebanon as a refugee in 1978, has lived in many cities in the Middle East. In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to NYU to obtain a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from Tisch.

Najla Al Rostamani

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:39:40 -0600

Najla Al Rostamani is Deputy Managing Editor, Gulf News, and also the co-editor of The Rise of a Nation: 30 Years in Pictures, and Building a Nation: 40 years of the UAE.

Judith Hornok

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:21:32 -0600

Judith Hornok is a Viennese-born journalist and communications specialist. She has worked for European and Arabian newspapers, magazines and TV networks since 1996. She also moderates business panels and presents seminars and workshops on the subject of cultural understanding between the Arab Countries and the West.

Fatema Lootah

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:21:59 -0600

Responsible for Heritage at Dubai Culture, Fatema Lootah has collected eyewitness accounts of important as well as everyday events during a 40-year period by taking audio and video recordings of elderly Emiratis before their time runs out.

Patty Paine

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:44:09 -0600

Patty Paine is the author of The Sounding Machine, Feral and Elegy & Collapse and co-editor of Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Gulf Poetry.