5, 6, and 7 February 2016
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Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
Bringing together international and Pakistani writers to promote reading and showcase writing at its best
karachiliteraturefestival.org
Entry is free and open to all.
Timings: 10 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.
#KhiLF
Co-sponsors:
The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) has been a resounding success since its launch in March 2010. Inspired by the first two KLFs (2010 and 2011), the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) was launched at the end of 2011. The momentum begun in Pakistan with the KLF led not only to the CLF but also to the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) launched in 2013, the Teachers’ Literature Festival (TLF) launched in 2014, and many others in Pakistan. This momentum reflects the depth of our historical literary and cultural roots, and the great desire in Pakistan to celebrate the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and creativity. The KLF and ILF are directed by Ameena Saiyid, founded by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi, and produced by Oxford University Press. The first of a kind in Pakistan, they are open to all and free, and bring together authors writing in diverse languages and genres. They feature debates, discussions, lectures, English and Urdu mushaira, a book fair, book launches, readings, signings, comedy, satire, theatre, film screenings, music, and dance. Since 2014, the KLF and ILF have featured parallel art programming, curated by ArtNow. Additionally, the KLF has featured parallel children’s programming such as storytelling, puppetry, painting, singing, and creative movement. KLF attendance has grown exponentially: 5,000 in 2010; 10,000 in 2011; 15,000 in 2012; 50,000 in 2013; 70,000 in 2014; and 125,000 last year. In 2010, there were 35 speakers/performers, 104 in 2011; 139 in 2012; and, since 2013, the KLF has featured more than 200 speakers/performers each year. Each year, the speakers/participants have been outstanding, including, but not limited to, these keynote speakers: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (2010); Karen Armstrong (2011); William Dalrymple (2012); Intizar Husain and Nadeem Aslam (KLF 2013); Intizar Husain, Kamila Shamsie, and Zia Mohyeddin (ILF 2013); Kamila Shamsie, Rajmohan Gandhi, and Raza Ali Abidi (KLF 2014); Aamer Hussein, Kishwar Naheed, Muneeza Shamsie, and Zehra Nigah (ILF 2014); Nayantara Sahgal and Zehra Nigah (KLF 2015); Anatol Lieven, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Paul Harding, and Zehra Nigah (ILF 2015). This year’s keynote addresses will be delivered by Fahmida Riaz, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Rakhshanda Jalil, and Ziauddin Sardar. Four literary prizes will be awarded at the KLF. The KLF Coca-Cola Prize goes to the best non-fiction book originally written in English by a Pakistani or Pakistan-origin foreign national, published anywhere worldwide. The KLF Peace Prize is a joint project of the KLF, the Consulate General of Germany in Karachi, and the Embassy of Germany in Islamabad. It goes to a fiction or non-fiction book that promotes peace, tolerance and international understanding, published anywhere worldwide in any language translated into English, and written by a Pakistani or a Pakistani-origin foreign national residing anywhere worldwide, or any foreign national who is a resident of Pakistan. The KLF–Embassy of France Prize promotes fiction originally written in English. The author (a Pakistani or a Pakistani-origin foreign national residing anywhere worldwide) of the best novel or short story collection, published anywhere worldwide or selfpublished, wins an official invitation for a fully-sponsored visit to the Paris Book Fair. The KLF Urdu Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize is awarded to a poetry or prose book originally written in Urdu, published anywhere worldwide (or self-published) before December 2015, by a Pakistani or Pakistan-origin author living anywhere worldwide. See you at Beach Luxury on 5, 6, and 7 February! Don’t register in advance: just turn up! And mark your calendars for ILF on 15, 16, 17 April 2016 at the Lok Virsa Museum.
AUTHORS/MODERATORS/SPEAKERS Aaron Mulvany Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Adeela Suleman Afzaal Ahmad Afzal Ahmed Syed Aijaz Mangi Aisha Khalid Ajmal Siraj Ali Akbar Natiq Ali Habib Ali Khan Ali Nobil Ahmad Ali Safina Ali Usman Qasmi Aliya Iqbal Naqvi Amar Jaleel Amar Naseer Amar Pirzada Amar Sindhu Ambareen Haseeb Amber Amean J. Ameena Saiyid Amra Ali Anas Riasat Andrea Berrini Aneesuddin Ahmed Anis Haroon Anwaar Ahmad Anwar Masood Anwar Shaoor Aqeel Abbas Jafri Aquila Ismail Arfa Sayeda Zehra Arif Mahmood Arshad Faruqi Arshad Mahmud Asghar Nadeem Syed Ashok Chopra Asif Farrukhi Asif Noorani Asif Sinan Asma Ibrahim Attiya Dawood Ayla Raza Aziz Sohail
Azra Abbas Babar Ayaz Baela Raza Jamil Barbara D. Metcalf Barbara Toye-Welsh Bari Mian Barkha Dutt Bilal Hamid Bina Sarkar Bina Shah Bindiya Rana Brigitta Blaha Camilla Hadi Chaudhary Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq Christoph Peters Daniel Mattern Deborah Robinson Ehsan Masood Ejaz Ahed Emaan Rana Emmanuelle Collas F. S. Aijazuddin Fahmida Riaz Faraz Maqsood Hamidi Farhan Bokhari Farida Faizullah Farjad Nabi Farzana Firoz Fasih Ahmed Fatema Hassan Fawzia Naqvi Fazal Rizvi Fazlullah Pechuho Feryal Ali-Gauhar Fouzia Saeed Framji Minwalla Frieha Altaf Ghazi Salahuddin H. M. Naqvi Haajra Haider Hafeez Jamali Harris Khalique Hasan Zaidi Haseeb Asif Haseena Moin
Hashim Raza Hina Rabbani Khar Hoori Noorani Imdad Hussaini Imran Qureshi Inaam Nadeem Irfan Javed Ishrat Husain Jamsheed Marker Javaid Ahmed Jean-Luc Racine John O’Brien Kamal Khan Kamila Shamsie Kashif Hussain Ghayar Kasim Kasuri Kausar S. Khan Khawar Mumtaz Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Khwaja Razi Haider Kiran Aman Kishwar Naheed Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Mahmood Ayub Mahreen Zuberi Mahtab Akbar Rashdi Malahat Awan Maliha Noorani Malika Abbas Maniza Naqvi Mansoora Hassan Marjorie Husain Masood Ashar Masood Lohar Masuma Hasan Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib Mehr Tarar Mehtab S. Karim Mirza Waheed Moeen Faruqi Mohammed Hanif Mubashir Ali Zaidi Muhammad Athar Masood Mujahid Barelvi Muneeza Shamsie
Musharaf Hai Mustafa Arbab Mustansar Hussain Tarar Nadeem F. Paracha Nadeem Mandviwalla Naila Mahmood Naima Dadabhoy Najmuddin Shaikh Nandita Das Nasir Abbas Nayyar Nauman Naqvi Naz Ikramullah Nazish Brohi Neelofar Abbasi Niilofur Farrukh Nimra Bucha Nisar Ahmad Khuhro Noor ul Huda Shah Noor Zaheer Nurayah Sheikh Nabi Olivier Truc Omayr Aziz Saiyid Omran Shafique Osman Khalid Waheed Pervez Hoodbhoy Pirzada Qasim Quddus Mirza Qudsia Rahim Rabia Garib Rafeeq Ellias Rafique Kathwari Rakhshanda Jalil Reema Abbasi Riffat Alvi Rina Saeed Khan Roohi Ahmed Ruchira Gupta Saad Haroon Saad Irfan Saba Khan Sabiana Paoli
Sabir Zafar Sadaf Malatere Sadia Mahmood Sadia Shepard Sadiah Pal Sadiqa Salahuddin Sahar Ansari Sahar Imdad Hussaini Saif Mahmood Saira Sheikh Salman Khurshid Salman Sarwat Salman Tarik Kureshi Sameera Raja Sanam Saeed Sania Saeed Sanjay Rajoura Sara Haider Sarmad Khoosat Seema Nusrat Sehba Sarwar Shah Muhammad Pirzada Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman Shahid Nadeem Shahida Hassan Shahnaz Wazir Ali Shahram Azhar Shakeel Adilzada Shakil Rizvi Shanaz Ramzi Sharif Awan Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Sharmila Farooqi Shayma Saiyid Shireen Haroun Sibtain Naqvi Sono Khangharani Sonya Batla Stefano Pontecorvo Steffen Kopetzky Stuart Schaar
Suleman Aqeel Khilji Sumbul Khan Syed Jaffar Ahmed Syed Nomanul Haq Syed Nusrat Ali Syed Salim Raza Syed Turab Hussain Tahera Hasan Tahira Syed Taimur Khan Mumtaz Talat Hashimi Talea Zafar Talha Mufti Talib Syed Karim Tanveer Ahmed Tanveer Anjum Tapu Javeri Tauqeer Muhajir Tehmina Ahmed Tipu Sharif Uzma Aslam Khan Vaqar Ahmed Vidya Shah Wajahat Husain Wajahat Masood Wasif Rizvi Wusatullah Khan Yaqoob Khan Bangash Yasmeen Lari Zaheda Hina Zarmeene Shah Zeeshan Muhammed Zehra Nigah Ziauddin Sardar Zoe Viccaji Zohaib Kazi Zubair Ahmed Zubeida Mustafa Zulfiqar Adil
Full-Day Fringe Events throughout the Festival: • Author Signings • Book Fair
Inauguration of the 7th Karachi Literature Festival/Jashn-e-Adab 10.00 a.m. Friday 5 February 2016 Main Garden, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi 10.00 a.m.
Arrival of Guests Performance by Asif Sinan
10.30 a.m.
Welcome Speeches by: Ameena Saiyid obe, Managing Director, Oxford University Press, and Founder/Director, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals, and Co-Founder, Children’s Literature Festival Asif Farrukhi, Founder, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals
10.40 a.m.
Speeches by Karachi Literature Festival Sponsors
11.20 a.m.
Performance by Chao’s Dance and Theatre Performance by Amna Mawaz Khan
11.40 a.m.
Awards of the KLF Best Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Urdu Fiction/Non-Fiction Books
12.10 p.m.
Keynote Speeches by: Pervez Hoodbhoy Fahmida Riaz
1.00 p.m.
Break
• Food Court • Media Rooms
Friday, 5 February 2016
Main Garden 2.30 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
The Dilemmas of the Transgender Arfa Sayeda Zehra in conversation with Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, author of Me Laxmi, Me Hijra
Jasmine
Aquarius
Room 007
Education and Reading: Community and Parental Involvement Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, Fazlullah Pechuho, Baela Raza Jamil, Ameena Saiyid, Barbara Toye-Welsh, and Shahnaz Wazir Ali Moderator: Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman
Chap Tilak: Amir Khusro’s Harvest of Folk Songs Saif Mahmood, Talat Hashimi, Zaheda Hina, and Taimur Khan Mumtaz Moderator: Kausar S. Khan
Book Launch: In Another Country by Rafique Kathwari Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi Book Launch: Leaves from Lahore by Mehr Tarar Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali
Tulip/Red Terrace Making an Artist Nurayah Sheikh Nabi, Zarmeene Shah, and Mahreen Zuberi Moderator: Saira Sheikh
3.45 p.m.–4.45 p.m.
No Borders between Performers Sarmad Khoosat in conversation with Nandita Das
Book Launch: Cinema and Society: Film and Social Change in Pakistan by Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad Ali Khan, Ali Nobil Ahmad, and Hasan Zaidi Moderator: Asif Noorani
Book Launch: Intikhab-e-Kalam: Munir Niazi and the Urdu Virsa series Fahmida Riaz, Asghar Nadeem Syed, and Fatema Hassan Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi
How Publishers Bring out the Best Andrea Berrini, Ameena Saiyid, and Afzaal Ahmad Moderator: Hoori Noorani
The Art of Writing Amra Ali, Marjorie Husain, H.M. Naqvi, Quddus Mirza, and Tauqeer Muhajir Moderator: Maliha Noorani
5.00 p.m.–6.00 p.m.
Abhi to Main Jawan Hoon: A Tribute to Malika Pukhraj Tahira Syed and Arshad Mahmud Moderator: Ayla Raza
Jilawatan sey Jungle tak: Short Stories and TV Dramas Asif Farrukhi in conversation with Noor ul Huda Shah
Book Launch: Cover Point: Impressions of Leadership in Pakistan by Jamsheed Marker Jamsheed Marker and Ishrat Hussain Moderator: Aneesuddin Ahmed
Fiction, Memory, and Colonialism H.M. Naqvi, Sadia Shepard, Kamila Shamsie, and Christoph Peters Moderator: Framji Minwalla
Arte d’Italia Quddus Mirza in conversation with Sabiana Paoli
6.15 p.m.–7.15 p.m.
Desi Stand-up Comedy Sanjay Rajoura
Book Launch: Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh Barbara D. Metcalf, Maniza Naqvi, Asif Noorani, and Naz Ikramullah Moderator: Babar Ayaz
Abad Kharaba Harris Khalique and Asghar Nadeem Syed in conversation with Kishwar Naheed
Italy Reads Pakistan: Award by Metropoli d’Asia and Consulate of Italy in Karachi Stefano Pontecorvo, Andrea Berrini, and H.M. Naqvi Moderator: Bina Shah
Art as Part of Public Engagement: Lahore Biennale Foundation Naima Dadabhoy, Fawzia Naqvi, Qudsia Rahim, Roohi Ahmed, and Osman Khalid Waheed Moderator: Amra Ali
7.30 p.m.–9.30 p.m.
Musical Evening by Vidya Shah and Zoe Viccaji
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Main Garden
Jasmine
Aquarius
Room 007
Princess
Tulip/Red Terrace
10.00 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Rumi: Mystic and Poet Fahmida Riaz, Amar Sindhu, and Bari Mian Moderator: Syed Nomanul Haq
Book Launch: Globalisation, Governance and Growth by Ishrat Husain Syed Salim Raza and Ishrat Husain Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed
Column say Urdu Bloggers tak Wusatullah Khan, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Masood Ashar, Zaheda Hina, Amar Jaleel, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi Moderator: Wajahat Masood
Book Launch: Borderlines by Sehba Sarwar Sehba Sarwar, Tehmina Ahmed, Noor Zaheer, and Naila Mahmood Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin
Using Technology to Deliver Quality Education Kasim Kasuri and Talea Zafar Moderator: Rabia Garib
Poetry in Art, Art in Poetry Kiran Aman, Sonya Batla, Asif Noorani, and Bina Sarkar Moderator: Faraz Maqsood Hamidi
11.15 a.m.–12.15 p.m.
Samjhotay ki Chadar Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with Zehra Nigah
Book Launch: This Unquiet Land by Barkha Dutt Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation with Barkha Dutt
Writing History Nauman Naqvi in conversation with Barbara D. Metcalf
Tharparkar: Desert Woes Sono Khangharani, Tanveer Ahmed, and Masood Lohar Moderator: Sadiqa Salahuddin
Fostering Innovation and Creativity through Protection of Intellectual Property Amar Naseer, Ameena Saiyid, and Babar Ayaz Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali
Photography in the Age of Art Rafeeq Ellias, Amean J., Tapu Javeri, Arif Mahmood, and Emaan Rana Moderator: Tehmina Ahmed
12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.
From Life to Reel Nandita Das, Asif Noorani, and Shahid Nadeem Moderator: Hasan Zaidi
Transgender Rights: Are there Any? Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Khawar Mumtaz, Bindiya Rana, and Reema Abbasi Moderator: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Agay Samandar Hay In conversation with Intizar Husain Rakhshanda Jalil, and Masood Ashar Moderator: Asif Farrukhi
Announcement of the KLF Peace Prize Winner
Our History, Our Heritage, Our Responsibility Asma Ibrahim and Yasmeen Lari
Chughtai Revisited Inam Khawaja in conversation with Quddus Mirza
1.45 p.m.–2.45 p.m.
Safar aur Kahani Asghar Nadeem Syed in conversation with Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mother Tongue: Medium of Instruction and Learning Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Farzana, Zubeida Mustafa, and Barbara Toye-Welsh Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil
Laughter, the Best Medicine Saad Haroon and Sanjay Rajoura Moderator: Nadeem F. Paracha
Diversity and Dissent Hafeez Jamali in conversation with Ziauddin Sardar
Nayee Awazain (New Voices in Urdu Writing) Ali Akbar Natiq, Mustafa Arbab, and Inaam Nadeem Moderator: Tanveer Anjum
Sibtain Manzil: Life and Times of Sadequain A Conversation between Three Generations Syed Sultan Ahmed Naqvi and Sibtain Naqvi
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Main Garden
Jasmine
Aquarius
Room 007
Tulip/Red Terrace
3.00 p.m.–4.00 p.m.
Pakistani Cinema Strikes Back Nimra Bucha, Sania Saeed, Farjad Nabi, Hashim Raza, Nadeem Mandviwalla, and Tipu Sharif Moderator: Shanaz Ramzi
Words and Images of the Day Olivier Truc, Barkha Dutt, Farhan Bokhari, and Fasih Ahmed Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin
Sarkari Urdu, Awami Urdu: The Official Status of Urdu Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Masood Ashar, and Nasir Abbas Nayyar Moderator: Fatema Hassan
Book Launch: Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider and Witness in a Turbulent Age by Stuart Schaar Stuart Schaar and Pervez Hoodbhoy Moderator: Nauman Naqvi
Locating Art Saba Khan, Quddus Mirza, Seema Nusrat, Adeela Suleman, Zeeshan Muhammed, and Suleman Aqeel Khilji Moderator: Sumbul Khan
4.15 p.m.–5.15 p.m.
The Oscar Lady Omayr Aziz Saiyid in conversation with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy including clips of her films
Of Love in a Place of War Mohammed Hanif in conversation with Mirza Waheed
Book Launch: The Resourceful Fakirs by F. S. Aijazuddin Syed Jaffar Ahmed in conversation with F.S. Aijazuddin
What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts Aaron Mulvany, Barbara D. Metcalf, and Aliya Iqbal Naqvi Moderator: Framji Minwalla
Different Strokes Brigitta Blaha, Mansoora Hassan, Stefan Winkler, Fatema Sultan, and Naz Ikramullah Moderator: Sameera Raja
Busting Myths: What is Versus What We are Told Pervez Hoodbhoy and Nadeem F. Paracha Moderator: Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Ismail ka Urdu Sheher Sara Haider, Saad Irfan, Zohaib Kazi, Kamal Khan, Anas Riasat, Omran Shafique, and Zoe Viccaji Moderator: Ali Safina
Book Launch: The Other Side of the Mountain by Salman Khurshid Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation with Salman Khurshid 5.30 p.m.–6.30 p.m.
Aik Sham Anwar Masood kay Naam
6.45 p.m.–8.45 p.m.
6.45 p.m.–9.15 p.m. Manto, the Movie: Screening followed by Q&A Sarmad Khoosat, Nimra Bucha, Sania Saeed, Talha Mufti, and Shahid Nadeem
Book Launch: Risk by Steffen Kopetzky Mohammed Hanif in conversation with Steffen Kopetzky Mushaira: Anwar Shaoor, Kishwar Naheed, Sahar Ansari, Imdad Hussaini, Pirzada Qasim, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Sabir Zafar, Sahar Imdad Hussaini, Fatema Hassan, Shahida Hassan, Khwaja Razi Haider, Tanveer Anjum, Attiya Dawood, Ajmal Siraj, Harris Khalique, Aqeel Abbas Jafri, Inaam Nadeem, Kashif Hussain Ghayar, Zulfiqar Adil, Noor ul Huda Shah and Salman Sarwat Nizamat: Ambareen Haseeb Amber
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Main Garden
Jasmine
Aquarius
Room 007
Tulip/Red Terrace
10.00 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Kashmir: The Never-ending Conflict Mirza Waheed, Barkha Dutt, Jean-Luc Racine, and Rafique Kathwari Moderator: Farhan Bokhari
Towards a Better Pakistan— Screenings of Short Films followed by Award Ceremony Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy
Facing Wrongs and Seeking Rights: The Female Perspective Ruchira Gupta, Fouzia Saeed, and Feryal Ali-Gauhar, Moderator: Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman
Pakistan: Modernity and Postcoloniality Nauman Naqvi and Shahram Azhar Moderator: Hafeez Jamali
Documentaries Workshop Rafeeq Ellias
11.15 a.m.–12.15 p.m.
Love, Longing, and Exile Shah Muhammad Pirzada in conversation with Amar Jaleel
South Asian English Fiction: Where Mythology and History Meet Uzma Aslam Khan, Kamila Shamsie, Bina Shah, and Mirza Waheed Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie
Emigres and Exile: A Tribute to Abdullah Hussain H. M. Naqvi, Masood Ashar, Irfan Javed, Afzaal Ahmad, and Mustansar Hussain Tarar Moderator: Asif Farrukhi
Book Launch: Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadeed by Nasir Abbas Nayyar Aqeel Abbas Jafri in conversation with Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Art as Witness to Memory and Erasure: Karachi Biennale 2017 Camilla Hadi Chaudhary, Niilofur Farrukh, and Asma Ibrahim Moderator: Aquila Ismail
Book Launch: A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of the Princely States of Pakistan, 1947–1955 by Yaqoob Khan Bangash Yaqoob Khan Bangash and Barbara D. Metcalf Moderator: Hafeez Jamali
12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.
UBL Literary Excellence Awards Asghar Nadeem Syed, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Anwaar Ahmad, Kishwar Naheed, Ghazi Salahuddin, Asif Farrukhi, Framji Minwalla, and Wajahat Husain Moderator: Ali Habib
The White Stripe on the National Flag Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman, Olivier Truc, Reema Abbasi, Sono Khangharani, and John O’Brien Moderator: Nazish Brohi
Stories from the Heart, Reflections of Young Leaders
Book Launch: Candles in the Dark: Successful Organizations in Pakistan’s Weak Institutional Environment by Mahmood Ayub and Turab Hussain Javaid Ahmed, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Mahmood Ayub, and Syed Turab Hussain Moderator: Sibtain Naqvi
The Country of Last Things Huma Mulji in conversation with Noorjehan Bilgrami
1.45 p.m.–2.45 p.m.
Book Launch by Lifebuoy: 28 Days Tapu Javeri, Arif Mahmood, Malika Abbas, Tahera Hasan, Sadiah Pal, and Shakil Rizvi Moderator: Sanam Saeed
Aid, Trade, and Inter-State Relations Syed Salim Raza, Najmuddin Shaikh, and Masuma Hasan Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed
Book Launch: Kab Mehkey gi Fassal e Gul by Anis Haroon Anis Haroon, Amar Sindhu, Syed Jaffar Ahmed, and Azra Abbas Moderator: Mahtab Akbar Rashdi
Poets’ Corner: English Mushaira Shireen Haroun, Moeen Faruqi, Farida Faizullah, Rafique Kathwari, Harris Khalique, and Bilal Hamid Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi
Beyond Borders Haajra Haider, Deborah Robinson, and Fazal Rizvi Moderator: Aziz Sohail
Book Launch: The Editorials of Anwer Pirzado (Musharaf Era) by Anwer Pirzado Aijaz Mangi and Mahtab Akbar Rashdi Moderator: Amar Pirzada
Sunday, 7 February 2016
3.00 p.m.–4.00 p.m.
Main Garden
Jasmine
Book Launch: Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider’s Account of Pakistan’s Foreign Relations Including Details of the Kashmir Framework by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Barkha Dutt, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Ishrat Husain, and Najmuddin Shaikh Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin
River of Flesh and Other Stories: The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Fiction and As if Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader Shayma Saiyid in conversation with the anthologies’ editor, Ruchira Gupta
4.15 p.m.–5.15 p.m.
Room 007
Princess
Idhar Urdu, Udhar Urdu, Kidher Urdu?: Urdu in India and Pakistan Saif Mahmood and Arfa Sayeda Zehra Moderator: Bari Mian
Book Launch: Water in the Wilderness by Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Rina Saeed Khan, and Richard Garstang Aaron Mulvany, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, and Rina Saeed Khan Moderators: Sono Khanghrani and Masood Lohar
Screening of Documentary Film ‘Mast Qalandar’, directed by Till Passow, followed by Q&A with the director
The Art of Now Fawzia Naqvi in conversation with Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi
Omayr Aziz Saiyid in conversation with Hina Rabbani Khar
Compressed Tales: Urdu Digests and Digest Writers Shakeel Adilzada, Neelofar Abbasi, Haseena Moin, Haseeb Asif, Olivier Truc, Noor ul Huda Shah, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi Moderator: Zaheda Hina
Revisiting the Iqbal–Dante Question Andrea Berrini and Syed Nomanul Haq Moderator: Afzal Ahmed Syed
Islamic Science: The Chimera that Never Was Ziauddin Sardar, Sadia Mahmood, Ali Usman Qasmi, and Rina Saeed Khan Moderator: Ehsan Masood
Art and Alternate Spaces Ejaz Ahed, Zubair Ahmed, Riffat Alvi, Musharaf Hai, and Sharmila Farooqi Moderator: Fawzia Naqvi
Higher Learning or the Wholesaling of Degrees? Wasif Rizvi, Ishrat Husain, Talib Syed Karim, and Shahnaz Wazir Ali Moderator: Mehtab S. Karim
Book Launch: Kaghazi hay Pairahan by Ismat Chughtai translated by Noor Zaheer Khawar Mumtaz, Rakhshanda Jalil, Noor Zaheer, and Saif Mahmood Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra
Words and Music on the Page: 100 Years of Musical Literature Publishing Arshad Mahmud, Muhammad Athar Masood, Vidya Shah, and Sharif Awan Moderator: Malahat Awan
5.30 p.m.–6.30 p.m.
What Keeps Us Apart?: India–Pakistan Relations Salman Khurshid, Jamsheed Marker, Hina Rabbani Khar, and Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin
6.45 p.m.–7.45 p.m.
Closing Ceremony: Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi Keynote Speeches by: Ziauddin Sardar and Rakhshanda Jalil
8.00 p.m.–9.00 p.m.
Stand-up Comedy by Saad Haroon
Aquarius
Tulip/Red Terrace
Meeting Points, Melting Pots Frieha Altaf, Sonya Batla, Arshad Faruqi, and Sadaf Malatere Moderator: Zarmeene Shah
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*Every effort will be made to adhere to this programme. However, the KLF organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time.
