The Emirates Literature Foundation's unveiled its education programme for the upcoming Emirates LitFest Students' Edition.
The schedule will feature a line-up of different authors, with sessions in English, Arabic, or both, made available to schools for one month from February 10.
There will also be a small number of education programme sessions on-site at the festival in Habtoor City for school trips. Each school will be limited to a maximum of 30 tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis. The festival is being held from February 3-13 across Hilton Dubai Al Habtoor City, Habtoor Palace Dubai, and V Hotel Dubai.
School competitions, including the Emirates NBD Poetry For All, RGS Guildford Dubai Children’s Letter Writing, Chevron Readers’ Cup, and the Story Writing competitions, will celebrate the winners at the festival.
School Librarian of the Year for 2022 will also be crowned at a special awards ceremony.
US singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has announced on Monday through Instagram that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer, prompting him to pause his scheduled concerts while he undergoes surgery.
Chris Rea, an English singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his festive hit 'Driving Home For Christmas', has died aged 74 following a short illness, his family said on Monday.
Director James Cameron's "Avatar: Fire and Ash" has kicked off its box office run with roughly $345 million in global ticket sales through Sunday, meeting pre-weekend forecasts for the epic movie franchise's third film.
The 1 Billion Followers Summit, the world’s largest summit dedicated to the content creation economy and organised by the UAE Government Media Office, has announced the list of the Top 12 shortlisted films competing in the world’s largest AI-Generated Film Award.