Expo City Dubai launches book club with Emirates Literature Foundation

Expo City Dubai launches book club with Emirates Literature Foundation

Dubai: Expo City Dubai has launched a “Connecting Minds Book Club’ at the Terra auditorium on Thursday. Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri, British-Nigerian, was present at the lunch. He travelled from the UK to launch his book ‘Tiger Work’ at the Expo City Dubai’s new club. The Book Club is expected to spearhead a movement to celebrate the power of books and raise awareness about climate change and sustainability. In collaboration with the Emirates Literature Foundation, the Book Club will connect a community of readers to stories that matter and offer opportunities for everyone to engage with some of the world’s most thought-provoking authors. Lana Abdelhameed, Senior Manager, Programme Advisory and Events, Expo Dubai Group said: “ Connecting Minds Book Club has been set up in partnership with the Emirates Literature Foundation. Through the partnership, we have recognised the ability of books, the arts and poetry, to humanise what are sometimes abstract issues. “At the core of it, it is about generating awareness for people to understand what they can do for climate change. So it’s a celebration of how written words can impact people on what the global outlook is all about.” Ben Okri, Booker Prize-winning author of ‘The