Day one / saturday, Feb. 20 / #LLF2016time marquee khoshed mahal dinshaw hall tent

9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Safar: In Conversation with Sharmila Tagore

With Hameed Haroon

10:45 - 11:45 The World of Intizar Hussain

Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar

and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar

Whose Narrative is it Anyway?

Susan Abulhawa, Zukiswa Wanner, Tania James and Mohammed Hanif

with Claire Armitstead

Book LaunchLahore: The Architectural Heritage

Lucy Peck with Attiq Uddin Ahmed

The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab

Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar and Musarat Kalanchvi

with Asghar Nadeem Saeed

12 - 1 p.m. Contemporary Great Games

Hina Rabbani Khar, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid

Old Urdu Journals: A Disappearing HeritageUrdu Akhbar Aur Rasail, Ek Ghum Hota Virsa

An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim

Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora

Amrita Jhaveri, Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi and Shezad Dawood with Salima Hashmi

Voices and Verse of Central Asia

Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova with Quddus Mirza

1:15 - 2:15 Life with my Father, George Orwell

What I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art

Richard Blair with Mohammed Hanif and Navid Shahzad

Aag Ka Darya: Partitions River of Fire

Ameena Saiyid, Arfa Syeda Zehra, Asif Farrukhi and Zehra Nigah

with Asghar Nadeem Syed

Inked: The Beauty of Arabic Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition

Haji Noor Deen with Maliha Noorani

Book LaunchLevant: Recipes and Memories

from the Middle East

Anissa Helou with Momina Aijazuddin

2:30 - 3:30 We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistans Youth

Presented with UNDP

Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali

with Marc-Andr Franche

The Arab Spring, a Frank Obituary

Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy and Reza Deghati with Farzana Shaikh

Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah

Madhur Jaffrey with Asif Noorani

Urdu Nazm ki Rawayat

Syed Nomanul Haq and Zehra Nigah with Asghar Nadeem Syed

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

Creativity, Capital and Chaos: Future of the Metropolis

Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie and Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead

Rasheed Araeen and his Art

Rasheed Araeen and Iftikhar Dadi with Amra Ali

The Destruction of Hyderabad

A. G. Noorani with Khaled Ahmed

5 - 6 Friends, Not Masters?Addressing the post-Obama U.S.-Pakistan equation

Sherry Rehman, Shuja Nawaz and Steve Coll with Fahd Husain

Satire as Self-Defense

Ashok Ferrey, Mohammed Hanif and Ned Beauman with Rachel Holmes

6:15 - 7:15 Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in TranslationPresented with Highlight Arts

Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan,

Kishwar Naheed and Vicki Husband

7:30 - 9 Love LettersA play by A. R. Gurney

Directed by Hameed Haroon, featuring Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

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Day two / sunday, Feb. 21 / #LLF2016time marquee khoshed mahal dinshaw hall tent

10 - 11 a.m. Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies

Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noori and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Ahmed Rashid

Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics

Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed

Foundering Freedoms

A. G. Noorani and I. A. Rehman

Urdu Mystery Literature (1890-1950) Jaasoosi Urdu Adab

An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The Passion for Love Literature

Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie and Alexandra Pringle

Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie

Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, Mona Eltahawy and Shahid Zahid

with Fifi Haroon

Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction

Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi

Book LaunchesCity of Spies

Sorayya Khan with Ilona Yusuf

The Tusk that did the DamageTania James with Kamila Shamsie

12:30 - 1:30 Illusion and Disillusion: The American Dream in the Arts

Mohsin Hamid, Tania James and Ned Beauman with Nick Barley

The Woman Who Took Curry Global

Madhur Jaffrey with Anissa Helou

Central Asia: Interview with a President

Roza Otunbayeva with Farzana Shaikh

Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Post-colonialism

Javed Majeed with Nasreen Rehman

2:30 - 3:30 Unveiling the Titan: In Conversation with Syed Babar Ali

Syed Babar Ali with Khaled Ahmed

Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance

Dina Siddiqi, Nancy Dupree, Sherry Rehman and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir

Mobilizing New Readers

Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Ashok Ferrey and Chiki Sarkar

with Asif Farrukhi

The Power of Photography: the Human Imperative

Reza Deghati with Arif Mahmood and Tapu Javeri

3:45 - 4:45 Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan Years

Pasha Haroon with Hameed Haroon and Nusrat Jamil

So, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead

Another Way of Seeing

Shezad Dawood with Iftikhar Dadi

Mind the Gap: Bridging the Poor-Rich Divide

Jacqueline Novogratz with Shahid Zahid

5 - 6 Meer: Shaksiyat Aur Shairi

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

The Ministry of Thin: Women, Weight Loss, and the Obsession with Body Image

Ashok Ferrey and Emma Woolf with Rafia Zakaria

6:15 - 7:15 From Quest and Astonishment to Nothingness: How Painters saw the Sufis

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

Storytelling: Oral Traditions in Scotland and PakistanPresented with Highlight Arts

Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai and Mehreen Fatima

7:30 - 9:30 Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qavvaali

Arfa Syeda Zehra, Dr. Hasan Aziz and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri

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QavvaaliFariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, et. al.

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