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7, 8 and 9 February 2014 Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi

Bringing together international and Pakistani writers to showcasewriting at its bestwww.karachiliteraturefestival.org

About the Karachi Literature Festival

As the cold, dry offshore winds slowly shift away, and our southern metropolis begins to move towards the spring season, the time comes around again for an event that has become a happily anticipated annual feature of this citys calendar. The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), now being held for the fifth time, is not merely a local affair. With participants and visitors from all over the country, the KLF is truly an all-Pakistan event. More, with participants from India, UK, USA, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, China, Canada, and Brazil, it is also truly an international event.

The Festival this year is again being held at the Beach Luxury Hotel. Launched in 2010, the annual Festival remains free and open to all. It brings together and celebrates Pakistani and international authors writing in a variety of local, national, and international languages. It features fiction, poetry, prose, commentary, and analysis. There are debates, discussions, talks, mushairah (Urdu poetry recital), a book fair, readings, signings, film screenings, theatre, puppet shows, storytelling for children, dramatic readings, stand-up comedy, and musical and dance performances. The ancient storytelling art of Dastangoi is also featured here. This year, around thirty books will be launched at the KLF. There are special childrens events which will run alongside the regular sessions. A distinctive feature of the fifth KLF is the dedication of a portion of the Festival to a parallel series of Art-related events, curated by ArtNow under the KLF umbrella. And, of course, the best part of the Festival is the opportunity for baatain aur mulaqatain at the special level of discourse found only at KLF.

Directed by Ameena Saiyid, co-founded by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi, and produced by Oxford University Press, the Festival has grown rapidly. Attendance rose from roughly 5,000 in 2010 to 10,000 in 2011, to 15,000 in 2012, to 50,000 in 2013.

Each year, the speakers have been outstanding. Previous keynote speakers have included Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (2010), Karen Armstrong (2011), William Dalrymple (2012), Nadeem Aslam and Intizar Husain (2013). The keynote speaker at the inauguration this year will be the renowned Indian historian, Dr Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi. The award-winning novelist, Kamila Shamsie, and the BBC broadcaster, Raza Ali Abidi, will be the keynote speakers at the closing ceremony.

For the first time in the Festivals history, awards will be given to Pakistani authors for three different prize categories: KLF-Coca-Cola Best Non-Fiction Book Prize, KLF-Embassy of France Prize, and KLF Peace Prize. The panel of judges for the prizes include some of Pakistans most eminent critics, writers, and scholars.

AUTHORS/MODERATORS/SPEAKERS

A.H. NayyarA.G. NooraniAamir R. MuftiAasim Sajjad AkhtarAbbas RashidAbdul WahabAbdullah HussainAdeel Hashmi Afzal Ahmed SyedAhfaz ur RehmanAjmal SirajAkbar MasoomAkram DostAli Akbar NatiqAli SaleemAli SethiAliya Iqbal-NaqviAmar JaleelAmar SindhuAmeena SaiyidAmina YaqinAmjad Islam AmjadAmra AlamAnwar ShaoorAnwer Sen RoyAqeel Abbas JafriArfa Sayeda Zehra Arif HasanAsad Muhammad KhanAsad SayeedAshis NandyAshraf Jehangir QaziAsif FarrukhiAsif NooraniAsif SinanAsma IbrahimAsma JahangirAtaul Haq QasmiAttiya DawoodAyub BalochAzra Abbas Babar AyazBaela Raza JamilBari MianBeo ZafarBernardo CarvalhoBilal Hamid Bilal Tanweer Bina ShahBushra AnsariCabeiri deBergh RobinsonClaire ChambersDaniel HahnDanish HusainDarain ShahidiDurdana Soomro

Ehsan MasoodFahmida RiazFaisal MushtaqFarida FaizullahFatema HassanFauzia MinallahFramji MinwallaGhazi SalahuddinGioia GuerzoniH.M. NaqviHamida KhuhroHaris GazdarHarris KhaliqueHasan ManzarHaseena MoinHoori NooraniIftikhar SalahuddinIlona YusufImdad HussainiInaam NadeemIntizar HusainIqbal AkhundIrfan JavedIshrat HusainIsmat RiazJaved JabbarJulien ColumeauKaleemullah LashariKamila ShamsieKashif Hussain GhayarKhuda Bux AbroKhursheed HyderKhwaja Razi HaiderKishwar NaheedMadeeha GauharMadeline ClementsMahmood FarooquiMahmood JamalMaleeha LodhiMandira SenMarc ParentMaryam Wasif KhanMasood AsharMasood LoharMatthieu AikinsMazhar ZaidiMeenu GaurMeghan Davidson LadlyMehdi MasudMeher JaffriMoeen FaruqiMohammed HanifMohsin BabbarMoneeza HashmiMoni MohsinMosharraf Zaidi

Mubarak Ali Muhammad Ahmed ShahMuhammad Salman SarwatMujahid BarelviMuneeza ShamsieMushirul Hasan Mustafa ArbabMustansar Hussain TararNahid Siddiqui Najmuddin ShaikhNargis SultanaNasreen AskariNasreen IqbalNauman NaqviNavid ShahzadNaz IkramullahNazish BrohiNida KirmaniNiilofur FarrukhNikesh ShuklaNikita LalwaniNusrat AliOmar Shahid HamidOmayr Aziz Saiyid Peerzada SalmanPervez HoodbhoyPeter PannkeRaheela BaqaiRajmohan GandhiRasul Bakhsh RaisRaza Ali AbidiRaza RumiRazeshta SethnaRiaz Mohammad KhanRob CrillyRoland deSouza Rubina AbroRubina SaigolRukhsana AhmadRukhsana PreetRumana HusainSabir WaseemSahar AnsariSahar ImdadSalman HaqSalman Tarik KureshiSamina RahmanSaquib HanifSarah Ansari Sarmad KhoosatSarwat MohiuddinSarwat ZehraSayeed Hasan KhanSeema Taher KhanShabbar ZaidiShah Muhammad Pirzada

Shaha Jamshed Shahana Rajani Shahid SiddiquiShahnaz AhsanuddinShahnaz Wazir Ali Shahrukh Hasan ShakeelShanaz RamziShandana MinhasSharmeen Obaid ChinoyShaukat AbidShayma SaiyidSheema KermaniSheen FarrukhShehzad RoyShireen HarounSultana SiddiquiSyed Jaffar AhmedTaimoor ShahidTaimur RahmanTaimur SuriTaj Begum Farrukhi Tanveer AnjumTariq RahmanThomas BrussigTina SaniUzma Aslam KhanVictoria SchofieldWajid JawadYasmin Mehta Zafar HilalyZaffar JunejoZaheda HinaZain AhmedZainab OmarZeb BangashZehra NigahZia MohyeddinZobaida Jalal Zohra HusainZoya Hasan Zubeida Mustafa

THEATRE GROUPSGrips TheatreRitz TheatreThespianz TheatreZambeel Dramatic Readings Zain Ahmed and Group

Batain aur Mulaqatain Author Signings Media Rooms Book Fair Food Court

ArtNow Activities: Art Exhibition Photography Exhibition ArtNow Reading Corner

Full-Day Fringe Events throughout the Festival:

Friday, 7 February 2014

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

10 a.m. 12 noon InaugurationNational Anthem by Citizens Education Development Foundation Children Speeches by Festival Organizers and Representatives of Festival SponsorsKeynote Speaker: Dr Rajmohan Gandhi Performance by Nahid Siddiqui Awards for the Best Books on Peace, Fiction, and Non-Fiction

12.15 p.m. 1.15 p.m. Talking to the Butterfly: In Conversation with Moni Mohsin

Moderator: Raza Rumi

Power of the Fourth Estate

Meghan Davidson Ladly, Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Matthieu Aikins, Sruthi Gottipatti, Pierre Monegiere, and Sayem MehmoodModerator: Ghazi Salahuddin

The Faiz Everyone Loves

Mahmood Jamal, Wajid Jawad, and Moneeza Hashmi Moderator: Bari Mian

Book Launch: The Kashmir Dispute 1947 by A.G. Noorani

Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, Iqbal Akhund, and Zafar HilalyModerator: Victoria Schofield

The World of the Novel

Aamir R. Mufti, Bernardo Carvalho, Claire Chambers, Gioia Guerzoni, and Thomas Brussig Moderator: Shandana Minhas

Puppet Show by Ritz

1.15 p.m. 2.15 p.m. LUNCH AND PRAYERS

2.15 p.m. 3.15 p.m. Bushras BarbsBushra Ansari Moderator: Ali Saleem

Pani, Parinday aur Maut: Readings and Conversation with Mustansar Hussain Tarar Moderator: Irfan Javed

Geo-political Equation: Pakistan in the World

Zafar Hilaly, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, and Hussain HaroonModerator: Omayr Aziz Saiyid

Book Launch:

Ill Find My Way: An Anthology of Short StoriesEdited by Maniza Naqvi

Maryam Wasif Khan and Nasreen Askari Moderator: Framji Minwalla

Memory and the Imagination:

Readings and Conversation with Rukhsana Ahmad Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie

Storytelling by Amra Alam

Storytelling by Khursheed Hyder

2 p.m. 3 p.m.Karachis Changing Art Scene

Jalal Uddin Ahmed

Presented by ArtNow

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

3.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m. The Pakistani Muse: Literature and Music in Pakistan

Tina Sani, Zeb Bangash (of Zeb and Haniya), and Sarmad Khoosat Moderator: Ali Sethi

Human Rights and Wrongs in Pakistan

Mohammed Hanif, Asma Jahangir, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Moderator: Roland deSouza

Basti aur Uskay Baad: Readings and Conversation with Intizar Husain with launch of Silver Jubilee edition of Basti Moderator: Asif Farrukhi

Book Launch: The Rest is Silence: Zahoor ul Akhlaq: Art and Society in Pakistan by Roger Connah

Shahana Rajani, Saquib Hanif, and Zohra HusainModerator: Niilofur Farrukh

State School Reform

Shehzad Roy, Mosharraf Zaidi, and Shahnaz Wazir AliModerator: Pervez Hoodbhoy

Ali Baba Chalees Chor by Zain Ahmed and Group

3 p.m. 5 p.m.The Art of Writing on Art

Marjorie Husain, Quddus Mirza, and Zarmeene Shah Moderator: Saira Sheikh

Presented by ArtNow

4.45 p.m. 5.45 p.m. In Conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi

Moderators: Hamida Khuhro and Sarah Ansari

The French Connection: Round Table of Pakistani Authors with French Publisher, Marc Parent

Moderator: Framji Minwalla

Karachiwala: A Subcontinent Within a City A Talk by Rumana Husain

Moderator: Haris Gazdar

Identity and Literature: New Trends in Pakistani Writing in English

Claire Chambers and Rukhsana AhmadModerator: Bilal Tanweer

Importance of School Libraries

Yasmin Mehta, Zobaida Jalal, Nargis Sultana, Zubeida Mustafa, Mosharraf Zaidi, and Faisal Mushtaq Moderator: Shaha Jamshed

Choti Moti Tota aur S. M. Hamid

A Play by Grips Theatre

A Grips Pakistan and Goethe Institut Pakistan Production

6.00 p.m. 8.00 p.m. Mushaira Nizamat: Fatema HassanKishwar Naheed, Anwar Shaoor, Imdad Hussaini, Fahmida Riaz, Sahar Ansari, Amjad Islam Amjad, Khwaja Razi Haider, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Tanveer Anjum, Sahar Imdad, Shaukat Abid, Akbar Masoom, Sabir Waseem, Harris Khalique, Sarwat Zehra, Inaam Nadeem, Aqeel Abbas Jafri, Ajmal Siraj, Kashif Hussain Ghayar, Peerzada Salman, Attiya Dawood, and Muhammad Salman Sarwat

Friday, 7 February 2014

Saturday, 8 February 2014

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

10 a.m. 11 a.m. Qalam sey Awaz Tak: Readings and Conversation with Raza Ali Abidi

Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin

Contemporary Fiction at Home and the Diaspora

Nikesh Shukla, Nikita Lalwani, Muneeza Shamsie, and Moni MohsinModerator: Salman Tarik Kureshi

Apni Beyaz Say: Readings from the Classics and Conversation with Zehra Nigah Moderator: Harris Khalique

Book Launch: Language, Gender, and Power: The Politics of Representation and Hegemony in South Asiaby Shahid Siddiqui

Moderator: Tariq Rahman

Book Launch: The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer

Moderator: Ali Sethi

The Goal of Higher Education: Creating Professionals or Scholars?

Ishrat Husain, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ismat Riaz, Zobaida Jalal, and Abbas RashidModerator: Aamir R. Mufti

Puppet Show by Ritz Theatre

11.15 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. Book Launch: Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten by Rajmohan Gandhi

Moderator: Raza Rumi

On Stage

Madeeha Gauhar, Sheema Kermani, and ShakeelModerator: Zain Ahmed

Teesray Pehr ki Kahaniyan: Readings and Conversation with Asad Muhammad Khan Moderator: Asif Farrukhi

Book Launches: Jazeera-e- Sukhanwaran by Ghulam Abbas Intikhab: Ghulam Abbas Zaheda Hina and Masood AsharModerator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra

Voices, Older and Younger: Poetry in English

Salman Tarik Kureshi, Ilona Yusuf, Shireen Haroun, Bilal Hamid, Moeen Faruqi, and Farida FaizullahModerator: Shahnaz Ahsanuddin

Book Launches: Our Shaikh Sadi: A Selection from Gulistan and Bustan translated by Fahmida Riaz

The Simurgh and the Birds translated by Fahmida Riaz

Moderator: Amra Alam

11 a.m. 1 p.m.

Arts and the Politics of Our Times

Durriya Kazi, Gemma Sharpe, and Seher NaveedModerator: Quddus Mirza

Presented by ArtNow

12.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. In Conversation with Kamila Shamsie

Moderator: Maryam Wasif Khan

Historic Adversaries, Modern Partners

Tilo Klinner, Shahrukh Hasan, and Thomas BrussigModerator: Zafar Hilaly

Qawwali Music and the Sufi Poetry Tradition: A Presentation by Mahmood Jamal

Moderator: Sarwat Mohiuddin

Book Launch: Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller by Raza Rumi

Moderator: Asif Noorani

Pakistani Nationalism: The Extremist Threat Syed Jaffar Ahmed and Mohsin BabbarModerator: Javed Jabbar

British Council Translation Workshop

Taimoor Shahid, Durdana Soomro, Nikesh Shukla, Nikita Lalwani, Gioia Guerzoni, and Daniel Hahn

Chulbuk Chori A Play by Thespianz Theatre

1.40 p.m. 2.40 p.m. Dehshat Gardi aur Hamari Kahaniyan: In Conversation with Asif Farrukhi, Intizar Husain, and Arfa Sayeda Zehra

Moderator: Masood Ashar

New Voices in Sindhi Poetry

Rukhsana Preet and Rubina AbroModerator: Amar Sindhu

Nai Nazm ka Safar

Sarwat Zehra, Mustafa Arbab, and Ahfaz ur RehmanModerator: Azra Abbas

Saturday, 8 February 2014

Main Garden Sunflower Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

2.45 p.m. 3.45 p.m. The Pakistani Novel in English: International Representation and Local Reception

Uzma Aslam Khan, H.M. Naqvi, Shandana Minhas, and Bina Shah Moderator: Madeline Clements

Public Knowledge, Private Learning

Ishrat Husain, Abdul Wahab, Faisal Mushtaq, and Aasim Sajjad AkhtarModerator: Ehsan Masood

Shayer e Awam: Habib Jalib

Asma Jahangir, Fahmida Riaz, Taimur Rahman, and Arfa Sayeda ZehraModerator: Mujahid Barelvi

Book Launch: Ganga Jamuni: Silver and Gold: A Forgotten Culture by Naz Ikramullah

Sheema KermaniModerator: Raza Rumi

Book Launch: Pakistan: Not a Failed State by Syed Shabbar Zaidi

Moderator: Asad Sayeed

Shaping Societal Norms:

The Role of Textbooks

Pervez Hoodbhoy, Rubina Saigol, A.H. Nayyar, Zobaida Jalal, and Samina Rahman Moderator: Ameena Saiyid

Musical Performance and Workshop by Asif Sinan

3 p.m. 5 p.m.Challenges Faced by Art Galleries

Zohra Husain, Riffat Alvi, and Sameera RajaModerator: Nighat Mir

Presented by ArtNow

4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. Afghanistan 2014: Consequences for Pakistan

Najmuddin Shaikh, Maleeha Lodhi, Victoria Schofield, Mehdi Masud, Hussain Haroon, and Riaz Mohammad KhanModerator: Omayr Aziz Saiyid

Contribution of the Progressive Writers Movement to the Indo-Pak Cinema: A Presentation by Asif Noorani

Moderator: Haris Gazdar

Glitter of the Silver Screen

Meenu Gaur, Mazhar Zaidi, and Meher JaffriModerator: Navid Shahzad

Chashm-e-Tamasha: Readings and Conversation with Amjad Islam Amjad

Moderator: Muhammad Ahmed Shah

Aap Beeti, Jag Beeti: Khawateen aur Khudnavisht

Kishwar Naheed, Azra Abbas, Sheen Farrukh, and Attiya Dawood Moderator: Tanveer Anjum

Traditional Storytelling by Nasreen Iqbal

Pontoon: Sea Front Restaurant

3.30 p.m. 5 p.m.Book Launch: Food Prints: An Epicurean Voyage through Pakistan: Overview of Pakistani Cuisine by Shanaz Ramzi

Moderator: Zainab OmarLive Cooking Demonstration

5.15 p.m. 6.15 p.m. Thinner than Skin: In Conversation with Uzma Aslam Khan Moderator: Razeshta Sethna

Defiant Colours: Readings and Conversation with Kishwar Naheed

Moderator: Amina Yaqin

Bedil aur Nazuk Khayali: Readings and Conversation with Afzal Ahmed Syed Moderator: Taimoor Shahid

Book Launch: The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid

Moderator: Bina Shah

Viewing the Publishing Scene

Masood Ashar, Hoori Noorani, Mandira Sen, and Marc ParentModerator: Ameena Saiyid

Choti Moti Tota aur S. M. Hamid

A Play by Grips Theatre

A Grips Pakistan and Goethe Institut Pakistan Production

6.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. Dastangoi: Dastan-e-Husaam Jadoo and Dastan-e-Chouboli

Danish Husain, Darain Shahidi, and Mahmood Farooqui

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

10 a.m. 11 a.m. Karachi: From Stone Age to Cyber Age

Arif Hasan, Taimur Suri, Kaleemullah Lashari, Asma Ibrahim, and Rumana Husain Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-NaqvI

Writing History

Ismat Riaz, Hamida Khuhro, Mubarak Ali, and Mushirul Hasan Moderator: Syed Jaffar Ahmed

Book Launch: Soonha Joon Sou Sooratoon by Shah Mohammad Pirzada

Imdad Hussaini Moderator: Masood Lohar

Book Launch: Saints and Singers: Sufi Music in the Indus Valley by Peter PannkeModerator: Masood Lohar

Baloch Literature and Landscape

Akram Dost and Ayub Baloch Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil

Puppet Show by Ritz Theatre

11 a.m. 1 p.m.

Creativity in Education: In Conversation with Paul Collard

Moderator: Fawzia Naqvi

Presented by ArtNow

11.15 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. In Conversation with Ashis Nandy

Moderator: Nauman Naqvi

Bringing Down the Gender Walls

Mandira Sen, Amina Yaqin, Zoya Hasan, and Asad SayeedModerator: Taimur Rahman

In Conversation with Navid Shahzad

Moderator: Sarmad Khoosat

Book Launch: Urdu Afsanay by Hasan Manzar

Masood Ashar and Arfa Sayeda ZehraModerator: Ali Akbar Natiq

Book Launch: Zahid aur Do Kahaniyan by Julien Columeau Afzal Ahmed SyedModerator: Anwer Sen Roy

Dhoop Kiran: Readings and Conversation with Imdad Hussaini Fahmida RiazModerator: Sahar Imdad

Storytelling by Adeel Hashmi

Presented by

12.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. The Legacy of the Mahatma

Rajmohan Gandhi and Sarah AnsariModerator: Zaffar Junejo

Drama and the Small Screen

Haseena Moin, Attiya Dawood, Seema Taher Khan, Sultana Siddiqui, and ShakeelModerator: Sarmad Khoosat

Ba-Zuban e Qasmi: Readings and Conversation with Ataul Haq Qasmi

Moderator: Irfan Javed

Book Launch: Questioning the Muslim Woman: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality by Nida Kirmani

Moderator: Nazish Brohi

Book Launch: Across the Seas: Incorrigible Drift by Sayeed Hasan Khan

Moderator: Mushirul Hasan

In Conversation with Nahid Siddiqui

Moderator: Shayma Saiyid

Choti Moti Tota aur S. M. Hamid

A Play by Grips Theatre

A Grips Pakistan and Goethe Institut Pakistan Production

1.40 p.m. 2.40 p.m. Fireworks on a Window Pane: Readings and Conversation with Tanveer Anjum

Moderator: Rukhsana Ahmad

Aik Shakhs, Poora Mushaira (Mizahia) Nusrat Ali

Introduction: Raheela Baqai

The Tenuous Line between Fiction and Non-Fiction

H.M. Naqvi and Rob CrillyModerator: Framji Minwalla

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 PrincessChildrens Strand

(Parking Area)Tulip

2.45 p.m. 3.45 p.m. Selection from the Classics: Readings by Zia Mohyeddin

Introduction: Asif Farrukhi

The US-Pakistan Relationship: Will it Endure?

Moderator: Ishrat Husain

Wapsi ka Safar: Readings and Conversation with Abdullah Hussain and launch of Jubilee edition of Udas Naslain Moderator: Muhammad Ahmed Shah

Book Launch: Who am I? by Moneeza Hashmi

Asma Jahangir and Zehra Nigah Moderator: Adeel Hashmi

Book Launch: Whats Wrong with Pakistan? by Babar Ayaz

Moderator: Zubeida Mustafa

In Conversation with Mushirul Hasan and Zoya Hasan Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin

Sharing a Favourite Story: A Read Aloud Session by Yasmin Mehta

3 p.m. 5 p.m.In Conversation with Naiza Khan

Moderator: Kamila ShamsieBook Launch: Karachi Elegies

Presented by ArtNow

4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. In Conversation with Mohammed Hanif Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi

Stand-up Comedy by Beo Zafar

Introduction: Ali Saleem

Shatranj ki Baazi from the short story by Munshi Premchand by Zambeel Dramatic Readings

(Mahvash Faruqi, Asma Mundrawala, Meesam Naqvi, and Nazr-ul-Hasan)

Jerusalem: A Journey Back in Time (History through Images) A Talk by Iftikhar Salahuddin

Moderator: Najmuddin Shaikh

Talking about Sufism

Sarwat Mohiuddin Moderator: Masood Lohar

Storytelling by Zara Mumtaz

Pontoon: Sea Front Restaurant

3.30 p.m. 5 p.m.Book Launch: Food Prints: An Epicurean Voyage through Pakistan: Overview of Pakistani Cuisine by Shanaz Ramzi

Moderator: Zainab OmarLive Cooking Demonstration

5.15 p.m. 6.15 p.m. Readings and Conversation with Amar Jaleel

Moderator: Shah Muhammad Pirzada

Film Screenings: Humaira: The Dream CatcherHo Yaqeen: Syeda Fatima by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

Moderator: Bina Shah

The Flux of History

Sarah Ansari, Mushirul Hasan, and Mubarak AliModerator: Rasul Bakhsh Rais

Book Launch: Intikhab-e-Kalam: Parveen ShakirAmjad Islam Amjad Moderator: Fatema Hassan

Book Launch: Shaheedan-e-Wafa ka Khoon Baha Kia Salman Haq and Zehra NigahModerator: Taj Begum Farrukhi

The Pointed Pen: Art of the Political Cartoon

Fauzia Minallah and Khuda Bux Abro Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh

Chulbuk Chori A Play by Thespianz Theatre

6:30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Closing Ceremony: Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi Speech by Aman Aziz Siddiqui, Head Strategy and Investment, HBLKeynote Speakers: Kamila Shamsie and Raza Ali Abidi

7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Performance by Nahid Siddiqui

8.30 p.m. Concert by Laal

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