DUBAI: Palestinian American novelist, poet and Arab American Book Award recipient Hala Alyan is making her debut at the 2024 edition of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature with a Feb. 4 panel talk and she told Arab News it feels like a full-circle moment.
“My parents lived in Abu Dhabi for a long time, and I actually spent my eighth grade in Al-Ain,” Alyan, who lives in New York, said. “This is my first literary festival in the Arab region however, and I am really honored and heartened to be presenting alongside so many wonderful artists.”
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