Encouraging writers and readers... in Dubai

Nusrat Ibrahim, who made her career in publishing outside of the Gulf, has returned and set up the Literary Society of Dubai (www.theilsd.com). Among the activities planned are a series of book signings and a literary festival. The article sets out some of the challenges of trying to encourage writers in English-speaking places on the edges of the English-speaking cultural map. India is held out as the shining example of what can be done (well, I think that is what the journalist means when she talks about "ever-burgeoning Indo-Anglican literature").