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Dubai literature festival to début in for 2009

Dubai will be the venue for the first ever literary festival in the Middle East next year. The inaugural Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature will take place between 25th February and 1st March 2009 and will be launched at this year’s London Book Fair. The festival will be directed by Isobel Abulhoul, director of Magrudy’s, the region’s leading chain of bookshops, and Bill Samuel, vice chairman of Foyles.

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