Layla Mohamed (Moderator)
New Writers
Culture 4 November 13:00 The British crime novelist Karen Millie James meets the Lebanese writer and director Leena Khouri. They will introduce their books and talk about how their very different careers have led them to their lives as writers.Inspirations
Culture 8 November 17:00 Where can a crime fiction writer get his inspiration from? Can he go beyond the real events, create other imagined events in his writing and base his crime story on real crimes? And who is the hero of crime stories? Is it the detective or the criminal?Why I Write
Culture 13 November 17:00 What moves an author to practice the act of writing? Do authors write for themselves or based on the needs and desires of their readers?Two Worlds
Culture 14 November 13:00 Two novelists, one from Uganda and one from UAE, talk about their work, what has influenced them, and how the distinctive oral traditions of Africa and Arabic writing have shaped their storytelling.Speakers
