Day 3 - 28 February, 2009

Each session lasts an hour, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.

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Starts at Al Khayma
Ballroom 3		 Igloo Al Merkaz
Ballroom 1		 Al Medina
Ballroom 1A		 Al Majlis
Ballroom 2
10:30 Jeremy Strong: Beware! Killer Tomatoes ...
11:00 Anita Nair Claudia Roden, Jessie Parker & Leah Fielding: The True Taste of Arabia Victoria Hislop & Kate Mosse
11:30
12:00 Writer & Translator: Ibrahim al-Koni with Hartmut Fähndrich
12:30
13:00
13:30 Julia Glass Philippa Gregory
14:00
14:30 Margaret Atwood
15:00 Anne Fine Prizes and Translation: Raising Awareness of Arabic Writing
15:30
16:00 The New Gulf: How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good.
16:30 Louis de Bernières:
In Conversation		 Nassim Nicholas Taleb: In Conversation
17:00 Khaled al-Khamissi
17:30 The Novel in Saudi Arabia
18:00
18:30 Nik Gowing - Real Time Crises, New Real Time Tensions
19:00 Karin Slaughter: In Conversation
19:30
20:00 Poetry Live presents: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Mahmoud Darwish
20:30
21:00
21:30
22:00

All events at EAIFL offer simultaneous Arabic-English/English-Arabic translation.