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DAY ONE /SATURDAY, FEB. 20 /#LLF2016

TIME MARQUEE KHOSHED MAHAL DINSHAW HALL TOLLINGTON

9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Safar:In Conversationwith 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 Launch

Lahore: The Architectural Heritage

Lucy Peck with

Attiq Uddin Ahmed

The Sound of Seraiki; Literatureand Music from Southern Punjab

Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat

Multanikar and Musarat Kalanchviwith 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 isto 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 Launch

Levant: Recipes and Memories

from the Middle East

Anissa Helou

with Momina Aijazuddin

2:30 - 3:30 We Can Be Heroes;

the Promise of Pakistans YouthPresented 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 /#LLF2016

TIME MARQUEE KHOSHED MAHAL DINSHAW HALL TOLLINGTON

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

Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noori

and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Ahmed Rashid

Bound: Literature andthe 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 :1 5 p.m. The Passio n fo r Love Lite rature

Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie

and Alexandra Pringle

Inside the Labyrinth: A takefrom 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

Iqbal: Islam, Aestheticsand Post-colonialism

Javed Majeedwith Nasreen Rehman

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 WhoTook Curry Global

Madhur Jaffrey

with Anissa Helou

Central Asia:Interview with a President

Roza Otunbayeva

with Farzana Shaikh

The Power of Photography:the Human Imperative

Reza Deghati with Arif Mahmood

and Tapu Javeri

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

Book Launches

City of Spies

Sorayya Khan with Ilona Yusuf

The Tusk that did the Damage

Tania James with Kamila Shamsie

3:45 - 4:45 Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memoriesof 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: Bridgingthe 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

and

Qavvaali

Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, et. al.

Midnights Grandchildren: South Asias

English Poetry Post-Independence

Sudeep Sen

with Ryan Van Winkle

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