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9:30 - 10:50 a.m.

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Day One / Saturday, Feb. 20 / #LLF2016

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The World of Intizar Hussain

Whose Narrative is it Anyway?

Lahore: The Architectural Heritage

and Restoring the Shahi Hammam

From Mazaar to Madrassah

Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed,

Khaled Ahmed and Nasir Abbas Nayyar
with Masood Ashar

Susan Abulhawa, Zukiswa Wanner,

Tania James and Mohammed Hanif
with Claire Armitstead

Contemporary Great Games

Festivity of Soul:
The Tradition of Qavvaali

Old Urdu Journals: A Disappearing Heritage

Hina Rabbani Khar, Qaisar Mahmood,

Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll and
Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid

Arfa Syeda Zehra, Dr. Hasan Aziz

and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri

An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim

Life with my Father, George Orwell

Aag Ka Darya: Partitions River of Fire

Inked: The Beauty of Arabic

Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition

Safar: In Conversation
with Sharmila Tagore
With Hameed Haroon

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

12:10 - 1

1:25 - 2:25

What I have most wanted to do is

to make political writing into an art

Richard Blair
with Mohammed Hanif and Navid Shahzad
2:30 - 3:30

We Can Be Heroes;
the Promise of Pakistans Youth

Ameena Saiyid, Arfa Syeda Zehra,

Asif Farrukhi and Zehra Nigah
with Asghar Nadeem Syed

The Arab Spring,

a Frank Obituary

Presented with UNDP

Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi,

Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali
with Marc-Andr Franche
3:45 - 4:45

Feminism and Global Politics

Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain,
European Union Ambassador to Pakistan

Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy

and Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
5-6

Friends, Not Masters?

Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy, Reza Deghati

and Viviana Mazza with Farzana Shaikh

Creativity, Capital and Chaos:

Future of the Metropolis
Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie and
Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead

Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, Lucy Peck,

Nayyar Ali Dada with Attiq Uddin Ahmed

Urdu Akhbar Aur Rasail, Ek Ghum Hota Virsa

Haji Noor Deen

with Maliha Noorani

I. A. Rehman, Farzana Shaikh

and Salman Akram Raja
with Khaled Ahmed
Anwar Jalal Shemza:
Between Home and Diaspora
Amrita Jhaveri, Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi
and Shezad Dawood with Salima Hashmi
Book Launch

Levant: Recipes and Memories

from the Middle East
Anissa Helou
with Momina Aijazuddin

Voices and Verse of Central Asia

Urdu Nazm ki Rawayat

Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova

with Quddus Mirza

Syed Nomanul Haq and Zehra Nigah

with Asghar Nadeem Syed

Rasheed Araeen and his Art

The Destruction of Hyderabad

Rasheed Araeen
and Iftikhar Dadi with Amra Ali

A. G. Noorani with Khaled Ahmed

Satire as Self-Defense

Addressing the post-Obama U.S.-Pakistan equation

Sherry Rehman, Shuja Nawaz

and Steve Coll with Fahd Husain
6:15 - 7:15

Book Launch

Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation

The God of my Idolatry

and Ghalib Recital

Presented with Highlight Arts

Zia Mohyeddin
with Naveed Riaz
7:30 - 9

Ashok Ferrey, Mohammed Hanif and

Ned Beauman with Rachel Holmes

Love Letters
A play by A. R. Gurney
Directed by Hameed Haroon, featuring
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry

Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan,
Kishwar Naheed and Vicki Husband

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10 - 11 a.m.

Day Two / Sunday, Feb. 21 / #LLF2016

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Making Museums: Preserving

National Heritage in Stressed Societies

Bound: Literature and

the Shackles of Politics

Foundering Freedoms

Urdu Mystery Literature (1890-1950)

Jaasoosi Urdu Adab

A. G. Noorani and I. A. Rehman

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noori

and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Ahmed Rashid

Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan,

Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed

The Passion for Love Literature

Inside the Labyrinth: A take

from Pakistan on David Bowie

Ahdaf Soueif, Marion Molteno,

Kamila Shamsie and Alexandra Pringle

12:30 - 1:30

2:30 - 3:30

3:45 - 4:45

Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi

and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi

Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics

and Post-colonialism
Javed Majeed
with Nasreen Rehman

The Woman Who

Took Curry Global

Central Asia:
Interview with a President

The Power of Photography:

the Human Imperative

Mohsin Hamid, Tania James

and Ned Beauman with Nick Barley

Madhur Jaffrey
with Anissa Helou

Roza Otunbayeva
with Farzana Shaikh

Reza Deghati with Arif Mahmood

and Tapu Javeri

Unveiling the Titan:

In Conversation with Syed Babar Ali

Lurching Rightwards:
South Asia in the Balance

Mobilizing New Readers

Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah

Syed Babar Ali

with Khaled Ahmed

Dina Siddiqi, Sherry Rehman

and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir

Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid,

Ashok Ferrey and Chiki Sarkar
with Asif Farrukhi

Madhur Jaffrey
with Asif Noorani

Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories

of Early Pakistan Years

So, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Another Way of Seeing

Mind the Gap: Bridging

the Poor-Rich Divide

Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf

and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead

Shezad Dawood
with Iftikhar Dadi

Meer: Shaksiyat Aur Shairi

C. M. Naim, Khurshid Rizvi
and Zehra Nigah with Amjad Islam Amjad

6:15 - 7:15

Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction

Illusion and Disillusion:

The American Dream in the Arts

Pasha Haroon with Hameed

Haroon and Nusrat Jamil
5-6

Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, Mona Eltahawy

and Shahid Zahid with Fifi Haroon

An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim

From Quest and Astonishment to

Nothingness: How Painters saw the Sufis

Jacqueline Novogratz with Shahid Zahid

The Ministry of Thin: Women, Weight Loss,

and the Obsession with Body Image
Ashok Ferrey and Emma Woolf
with Rafia Zakaria
Storytelling: Oral Traditions
in Scotland and Pakistan
Presented with Highlight Arts

B. N. Goswamy
with an introduction by F. S. Aijazuddin

7:30

9:15 - 10:15

Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper,

Mujahid Eshai and Mehreen Fatima

Love Letters
A play by A. R. Gurney
Directed by Hameed Haroon featuring
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

Midnights Grandchildren: South Asias

English Poetry Post-Independence

until 9

until 8:30

Qavvaali
Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, et. al.

Sudeep Sen with Ryan Van Winkle