The digital pass has been priced at AED 100 and will include live-streamed sessions from home.

One of the most awaited literature festivals of the emirates— the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is back and the countdown to 2022 has started as the festival is set to take place from February 3 to 13, 2022.

As the festival gears up for an array of events, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature has released its digital pass for the 2022 festival.

The literary festival is hosting some of the world’s leading literature experts and speakers from different parts of the world and different walks of life on one stage, united in conversations that couldn’t take place anywhere else.

The digital pass selection includes many of these that will allow wider audience access to the fascinating dialogue live from home, and for the duration of the Festival.

Ahlam Bolooki, director of the Festival shares, “We have a fantastic programme of live events taking place at the hotels in Habtoor City, and we want to offer access to our festival to as many people as possible. With the pandemic still disrupting what we used to consider normal, we have selected a number of sessions to live stream that we believe will feed minds and souls, and give us all something to think and talk about for months to come.”

Various virtual panel sessions are going to be a part of the festival including ‘Between the Covers – Desire in Arab Writing’ featuring Noor Naga and Selma Dabbagh, ‘Cooking the Classics - Creative Liberties’ featuring Dr Rupy Aujla and Zahra Abdalla. ‘Originality in Crime Fiction – A Stab in the Dark?’ featuring Felicia Yap, Lucy Foley, Mark Billingham and Polly Phillips, ‘Inventions that Changed the World’ featuring Ahmed El Ghandour, Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology, and Serhii Plokhy, and ‘Stigma in Art’ featuring Dr Habib Al Attar and Huda Al-Khateeb.

The digital pass has been priced at AED 100 and will include live-streamed sessions from home. To attend the live events start at AED 65 for adult sessions and AED 40 for children’s sessions.