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Day One / Saturday, Feb. 20/#LLF2016

TIME MARQUEE KHORSHED MAHAL DINSHAW HALL TOLLINGTON

9:30 - 10:50 a.m. Safar:In Conversation

with Sharmila Tagore

With Hameed Haroon

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. The World of Intizar Hussain

Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed,

Khaled Ahmed and Nasir Abbas Nayyar

with Masood Ashar

Whose Narrative is it Anyway?

Susan Abulhawa, Zukiswa Wanner,

Tania James and Mohammed Hanif

with Claire Armitstead

Lahore: The Architectural Heritage

and Restoring the Shahi Hammam

Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, Lucy Peck,

Nayyar Ali Dada with Attiq Uddin Ahmed

From Mazaar to Madrassah

I. A. Rehman, Farzana Shaikh

and Salman Akram Raja

with Khaled Ahmed

12:10 - 1 Contemporary Great Games

Hina Rabbani Khar, Qaisar Mahmood,

Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll and

Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid

Festivity of Soul:

The Tradition of Qavvaali

Arfa Syeda Zehra, Dr. Hasan Aziz

and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri

Old Urdu Journals: A Disappearing Heritage

Urdu 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

1:25 - 2:25 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 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, Reza Deghati

and Viviana Mazza with Farzana Shaikh

Voices and Verse of Central Asia

Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova

with Quddus Mirza

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 Book Launch

The God of my Idolatry

andGhalib Recital

Zia Mohyeddin

with Naveed Riaz

Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation

Presented with Highlight Arts

Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry

Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan,

Kishwar Naheed and Vicki Husband

7:30 - 9 Love Letters

A play by A. R. GurneyDirected by Hameed Haroon, featuring

Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

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Day Two / Sunday, Feb. 21/#LLF2016

TIME MARQUEE KHORSHED MAHAL DINSHAW HALL TOLLINGTON

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 :1 5 p. m. The Pas si on fo r Love Li te rature

Ahdaf Soueif, Marion Molteno,

Kamila Shamsie and Alexandra Pringle

Inside the Labyrinth: A take

from Pakistan on David Bowie

Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, Mona Eltahawyand Shahid Zahid with Fifi Haroon

Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction

Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi

and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi

Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics

and 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 Who

Took 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, Sherry Rehman

and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir

Mobilizing New Readers

Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid,

Ashok Ferrey and Chiki Sarkar

with Asif Farrukhi

Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah

Madhur Jaffrey

with Asif Noorani

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 Pakistan

Presented with Highlight Arts

Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper,

Mujahid Eshai and Mehreen Fatima

7:30 Love Letters

A play by A. R. Gurney

Directed by Hameed Haroon featuring

Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

until 9

Midnights Grandchildren: South Asias

English Poetry Post-Independence

Sudeep Sen with Ryan Van Winkle

until 8:30

9:15 - 10:15 Qavvaali

Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, et. al.

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