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Thu, 25/06/2009 - 07:00
The Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature has unveiled a strong line-up of writers for its second annual event, with fair director Isobel Abulhoul telling The Bookseller that she would "learn" from her experience putting on the 2009 event, which attracted 60 writers but was briefly caught up in a media furore...
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Wed, 25/02/2009 - 16:05
On Thursday (26th) the inaugural Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature (EAIFL) will launch with more than 60 authors attending what is being described as a four day celebration of the “world of books”, with 51 events to be held across three days, followed by an “education day...
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Mon, 23/02/2009 - 07:25
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has expressed reservations about her decision to pull out of the Emirates Airline international festival of literature after believing reports that Geraldine Bedell's novel The Gulf Between Us had been "banned" and "censored" for containing—among other thing—the...
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Tue, 17/02/2009 - 12:57
The Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature has defended its decision not to allow Penguin author Geraldine Bedell to launch her new book The Gulf Between Us at the event. The organisers withdrew the book after discovering the novel featured a homosexual sheikh who had an English boyfriend and was also set in the backdrop...
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Tue, 17/02/2009 - 08:38
A British author has been banned from the Dubai book festival because one of the characters inher latest novel is gay.
The Times reports that Geraldine Bedell, whose novel The Gulf Between Us (Penguin) is set in the Middle East, was initially welcomed to the event. However, organisers withdrew the book after discovering...
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