Headlining the Festival are top storytellers Cecelia Ahern, Mohsin Hamid, Alexander McCall Smith, Kate Mosse and Bonnie Garmus; notable Bahraini poet Qasim Haddad, and Emirati author and poet Maisoon Saker Al Qassimi, 2022 winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Renowned religious commentator Reza Aslan will be in conversation with Assistant Minister for Culture and Public Diplomacy Omar Saif Ghobash and Malaysian journalist and activist Marina Mahathir. Indian politician Shashi…