Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

Christina Lamb is a renowned and multi-award-winning journalist for the Sunday Times. During her career she has reported from across the world, from Peshawar and Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg, Aleppo and Afghanistan. She is also the author of the best-selling books The Africa House, Waiting for Allah, The Sewing Circles of Herat, Small Wars Permitting and I Am Malala, co-authored with Malala Yousafzai. Her latest book, Nujeen, is co-written with the extraordinary young refugee Nujeen Mustafa.

In sharing both her own remarkable experiences and the lessons learned from Nujeen’s incredible journey in a wheelchair from war-torn Syria to Europe, Christina offers a motivating and insightful session that will prove inspirational to young people.

Is the creator of the George Greenby series, in which George and his friend Annie go on adventures through space and time with the help of the supercomputer Cosmos – and with real scientific information provided by Lucy’s famous father, Professor Stephen Hawking.

Find out how this acclaimed author fits so much adventure and information into her lively books and learn more about the new instalment, George and the Blue Moon.

“Sana’s a real-life super hero.” – Barack Obama

A household name among fans of comic books, Sana Amanat is best-known as the co-creator (with G. Willow Wilson) of Kamala Khan, the instantly beloved Muslim super hero, Ms. Marvel. As Marvel’s Director of Content & Character Development, Sana oversees Marvel’s continued efforts to expand its vast library of characters across the companies various platforms into the hands of global audiences. In addition to her Director position, Sana continues as an Editor on comic books like Captain Marvel and Hawkeye.

In this fascinating session, discover how Sana brings inspiring new characters and their narratives to life, and all about the creation of the first Muslim super hero.

Join author and explorer, Abi Elphinstone, on the adventures behind her books in this wonderfully interactive session.

Abi will share an exciting array of Romany gypsy props, show slides of her research adventures (from abseiling into jungle caves to living with the Kazakh Eagle Hunters in Mongolia), reveal secrets about her upcoming books, and answer the children’s wildest questions. She puts a huge focus on encouraging children to go on adventures outdoors to find ideas for their own stories, leaving them enthused and inspired about writing and reading.