
News from the Frontline of Literature - The Boundless Book Club
For many years, people have been talking about the decline of the book, with shorter attention spans and a general thirst for instant gratification. But we have seen reading and books make a major mai...
19 Mai 202223min

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 homes a...
12 Okt 20211h 8min

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and disinformation are serious problems today, and the medical world, in particular, is plagued by junk science, outdated theories and highly contested data presented as fact – not to me...
8 Jul 202157min

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...
8 Jul 20211h 3min

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...
13 Jun 202155min

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 ...
13 Jun 20211h 3min

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...
13 Jun 20211h



















