Search Results - GulfToday

Suggestions

    SHOWING 587 Results

    Authors, initiatives, community events to write another chapter in EAFL book

    25 Jan 2024

    The Festival will be hosting a series of book launches including Out of This World by Dr Sultan Al Neyadi.

    Sheikh Sultan allocates Dhs31.36m to digitise Joanina Library’s 30,000 rare books

    23 Feb 2024

    The project will leverage contemporary technology options to support research efforts in various fields of knowledge, thereby enabling scholars to search and study these sources with ease.

    Best-selling author Baroness Floella Benjamin visits RGS Guildford Dubai

    07 Feb 2024

    She captivated pupils by providing a reading session with excerpts from her renowned books, Keep Smiling and Coming to England. Pupils from year groups 3 and 4 had the unique opportunity to interact directly with the Baroness.

    Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi talks cultural ties with Canada's Governor General

    19 Mar 2022

    Sheikha Bodour welcomed Mary Simon who is visiting the UAE for the first time, and took a tour of the iconic cultural centre.

    New generations think of new mornings

    12 Jan 2022

    A few years ago, the author was deeply shocked when a news anchor had distorted the name of a big Indian leader in Munger. The author is among the leader’s millions of admirers. At that time, the author thought his novel could become a voice of the downtrodden.

    Winners of Sheikh Zayed Book Awards announced

    17 Mar 2019

    The 13th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award has announced the winners for 2018/19, with five international authors and an Arab research centre honoured for their exceptional literary and intellectual publications. The Award is presented annually to outstanding writers, intellectuals and publishers, and emerging talents whose writing and translation in the humanities field enriches Arab intellectual, cultural, literary and social life.

    VIDEO: Fire destroys Lebanese homeless man’s makeshift bookstore and dwelling under Beirut bridge

    23 Jan 2022

    Activists on social media circulated a video clip of the fire devouring books, expressing their full sympathy with the man, because the makeshift bookstore represented a cultural outlet for the city of Beirut, which is experiencing stifling economic crises.

    Dusk and daylight: Karuna Rathor Tina’s poems smile through tears

    13 Dec 2022

    In her work, Hindi is the soil on which Indian civilisation grows, while the spring of Urdu lies just below, irrigating the soil and making it fertile.

    Understanding other voices, accepting them for who they are requires intentional effort, says Sheikha Bodour

    04 Sep 2022

    Sheikha Bodour took to Twitter and said, “I was so happy to participate in the Estoril Conferences in Portugal and talk about the diversity of voices as a mirror of humanity.

    Two-time Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel dies at 70

    24 Sep 2022

    Hilary Mantel, whose death was announced on Friday, communed with ghosts throughout her life: the ghosts from history that stalked her fiction, the ghosts of her Irish Catholic ancestors and the ghosts of her unborn children.

    587 Results

    Most Popular Stories