Dubai Airports organises writing contest as part of Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

DUBAI, 5th March, 2015 (WAM) -- Dubai Airports is organising a travel-related writing contest on Twitter as part of its sponsorship of the Emirati Strand at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2015. Open to everyone globally, the contest accepts original Arabic or English poetry and prose related to travel, not exceeding 110 characters, on twitter. Participants can also support their text with an image using Dubai Airports’ Instagram page. The winner will be selected by Dubai Airports based on the originality of the entry and the number of ‘favourites’ and ‘retweets’ it receives online. The winner will be announced on the final day of the festival on March 7th. Anita Mehra, Vice President of Communications and Business Development at Dubai Airports, commented, "We believe that using social media to organise the contest is a great way to connect with a global audience and encourage more and more people to be creative and express themselves through their writing." "This is the fifth year of our association with the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature as sponsors of the Emirati Strand, and we are very pleased with the way the festival as a whole and the Emirati segment in particular has grown over the years," she said. The Emirati Strand offers budding and established indigenous authors and thinkers a platform to present their work to international audience and make reading and writing popular. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the five-day festival opened on March 3rd, and features more than 120 award winning authors, poets and journalists from around the world. – Emirates News Agency, WAM – http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates/1395277455386.html