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11th LITERATURE FESTIVAL 28 AND 29 FEBRUARY AND 1 MARCH 2020 Theme: Across Continents: How the Word Travels *Every effort will be made to adhere to this programme. However, the KLF organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time. Full-Day Fringe Events throughout the Festival: • Author Signings • Food Court • Book Fair • Media Rooms • Art Exhibition

Inauguration Friday, 28 February 2020 Time Main Garden 4.30 p.m. Arrival of Guests

5.00 p.m. Welcome Speech by the Festival Organizer: 5.10 p.m. Mr Arshad Saeed Husain Managing Director, 5.25 p.m. Speech by the Chief Guest: Mr Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Speech by the Guest of Honour: H. E. Dr Christian Turner CMG British High Commissioner to Pakistan 5.45 p.m. Remarks by Consuls-General: Mr Rob Silberstein, US Consul General in Karachi Ms Anna Ruffino, Consul General of Italy in Karachi Book Awards: KLF-Getz Pharma English Fiction Prize, KLF-HabibMetro English Non-Fiction Prize, KLF-Infaq Foundation Literature Prize, KLF-Arts Council Sindhi and Balochi Literature Prizes 6.05 p.m. Keynote Speeches by Mr William Dalrymple, author and historian Ms Zaheda Hina, Urdu language short story writer and playwright

6.40 p.m. A Tribute to Perveen Shakir: Kathak performance by Zahshanné Malik

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7.00 p.m. – 8.00 7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. : Challenges to Women of Substance: The Atlantic Muse by the p.m. The Story of Qawwali A Roller Coaster Ride International Diplomacy Fatima Jinnah, Benazir Arabian Sea: Poetry in English A Talk by Ally Adnan Shafqat Mahmood, Asad Ali Today Bhutto, and Asma Jahangir Adrian Husain, Arfa Ezazi, Performance by Shah, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Christian Turner, Shahid Victoria Schofield, Farida Faizullah, Fatima Ijaz, Ghayoor-Moiz-Mustafa Qawwal Amjad Waheed, Amin, and Sheema Kermani and , Ilona Yusuf, Farid Ayaz and Abu Mohammad and Shahid Siddiqui Tariq Waseem Ghazi Karamat Ali Maya Nadeem, Peerzada Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil Moderator: Shaheen Moderator: Fouzia Saeed Salman, Sadaf Halai, and Salahuddin Tehmina Ahmed Moderator: Salman Tarek Kureshi

Time Saturday, 29 February 2020

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Workshop: Media Literacy 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 and Misinformation a.m. Conducted by Sabrina Toppa Pre-registration is required

11.00 a.m. - 12.00 Forgotten Masters: Indian Love, Relationships and Aanay Walay Dinon kay Book Discussion: Karaiz by Indus Flows: Poetry, noon Painting for the East Muslim Women’s Writing Safeer: Taaza Tehreerain Farrukh Yar Mysticism, and Romance Company edited by William Claire Chambers, Hani Baloch, Inshal Jawed, Farrukh Yar Khaled Anam, Sarwat Mohiuddin, Dalrymple Muneeza Shamsie, Usman Abdul Qayyum, and Moderator: Waheed Noor and Harris Khalique A Presentation by William Dalrymple David Waterman, and Ammar Abbasi Moderator: Arfana Mallah Introduction: George Fulton Sabyn Javeri Moderator: Ansari Moderator: Ilona Yusuf Book Launch: Zair e Aasman by Shahid Siddiqui Shahid Siddiqui Moderator: Anwer Sen Roy

12.15 p.m. – 1.15 Aurton kay Takhleeqi Shaoor say Dastangoi by NAPA Book Launch: Soul Traditional Music on Modern The Political Character of p.m. Inkaar Kyun? The performance will feature Rivals: State, Militant and Media: Is there a Symphony in Pakistani Middle Class and Arfa Sayeda Zehra pieces from: Pop Sufism in Pakistan by this Noise? Asad Sayeed, Ghazi Salahuddin, in conversation Marhoom ki Yaad Mein by Nadeem Farooq Paracha Sharif Awan and Athar Masood and Huma Baqai Patras Bukhari Nadeem Farooq Paracha Moderator: Tauseeq Haider Moderator: Yasir Qazi Zikr e Khooban al Maroof Moderator: Arieb Azhar Aurat ki Takhleeq by Mir Baqir Presented by Ali Fasana e Azaad by Pandit Ratan Nath Sarshar

1.30 p.m. – 2.00 Love to Hear Peace through Performance Khawateen ka Book Launch: Aasaan Khanay Book Launch: Tooti hui Tanab p.m. Sanam Saeed reads Hijabistan Introduction: Sheema Kermani Mazahimati Adab Imrana Maqsood kay Saath Udhar by Sabyn Javeri, Sanam Saeed, and Tehrik-e-Niswan presents an Kishwar Naheed and Noorul Imrana Maqsood Asghar Nadeem Syed Saima Saleem enactment of Ismat Huda Shah in conversation Moderators: Asma Tirmizi and Moderator: Nasir Abbas Nayyar Chugtai's short story 'Kaafir' Nezihe Hussain promoting interfaith harmony

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2.15 p.m. – 3.15 The Deepening Crisis of the Getz Pharma presents The Drop by Drop: Karachi's Shumali aur Lateeni Amreeki The Spoken Word p.m. Middle East EACPE Film Awards 2019: Water Crisis Adab Pakistan Mein (Performance Poetry) Ahdaf Soueif, Massimo Ramaioli, 'Is Pakistan a Brave Farrukh Rasheed, Babar Nasim Syed, Annum Salman, Vaneeza Sohail, Shahid Amin, and Zafar Hilaly Nation?' Siddiqui, Wusatullah Khan, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Shehrbano Naqvi, Shameneh Moderator: Khalid Banuri Framji Minwalla and and Khalid Shaikh Syed Kashif Raza Majid, Zoha Jabbar, Hamza Sabiha Sumar Moderator: Simi Kamal Moderator: Nasira Zuberi Iftikar, Zain Baweja, and Batool Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy Presented by Hasan Moderator: Mariam Paracha Presented by Spoken Stage

3.30 p.m. – 4.30 Book Launch: The Anarchy: The Book Discussion: Prison Noon Meem Rashid: Nazm Book Launch: On Their Own Book Launch: Subjective Atlas p.m. Relentless Rise of the East India Interlude: The Last e Azad, Shayar e Azad Terms: Early Twenty First of Pakistan by Taqi Shaheen Company by William Dalrymple Eyewitness Account of the Asghar Nadeem Syed, Century Women’s Movements and Annelys de Vet A Presentation by William Dalrymple Conspiracy Nasim Syed, and in Pakistan by Fouzia Saeed Taqi Shaheen, Muhammad Introduction: George Fulton Case by Zafarullah Poshni Atiqa Odho and Fouzia Saeed Hassan Miraj, Mahim Maher, and Zafar Ullah Poshni, Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Sara Khan Pathan Sponsored by Mazhar Abbas, Kamal Azfar, Mahtab Akbar Rashdi Moderator: Arieb Azhar and Wusatullah Khan Sponsored by Moderator: Owais Tohid

4.45 p.m. – 5.45 Blood over Different Shades of Book Launch: Beydari by Stage and Teleplay Sindh's Economy: The Book Launch: Interpretations p.m. Green: 1971: Beo Zafar, translated by Shaping Society Untapped Potential of Jihad: An Intellectual History History Revisited Asma Nabeel Kaif Ghaznavi, Khaled Aijaz Ahmed Qureshi, Ishrat by Chair: Beo Zafar, Asma Nabeel, and Anam, Bee Gul, Husain, Tahira Raza, and Tariq Rahman and Pervez Ikram Sehgal, Huma Baqai, and Javed Jabbar , and Shamsuddin Shaikh Hoodbhoy Bettina Robotka Readings by Yasra Rizvi, Sanam Saeed Moderator: Nadeem Hussain Moderator: Syed Jaffar Ahmed Moderator: Owais Tohid Arieb Azhar, Raju Jamil, Talat Moderator: Ahmed Shah Hashmi, Paro Raza, Ayesha Usmani, Ruby Haider, Irshad Abdulkadir, Khurshid Hadi, Shabnam Jabbar, Shamira Mapara, and Zaheer Hussain Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Tulip Hall Sponsor

6.00 p.m. - 9.00 Feature Film Screening: Baaji Urdu Mushaira 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. p.m. Discussion with the film director Sadarat: Why Write Fiction? Sindh mein Nisai Adab The New Global Geopolitics of Saqib Malik and Angeline Malik Nizamat: Faisal Subzwari and Sadia Abbas, Omar Shahid Noorul Huda Shah, Attiya Museums Moderator: Ally Adnan Ambareen Hasib Amber Hamid, Claire Chambers, Dawood, Amar Sindhu, and Presentation by Alexandre Colliex Ahmad Atta, Anwar Shaoor, and Taha Kehar Fahmida Hussain Discussion: Taimur Suri and Fazil Jamili, Harris Khalique, Moderator: David Waterman Moderator: Arfana Mallah Sheherbano Husain Jawaid Saba, Kishwar Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh Naheed, Najma Usman, Nasim Syed, Nasira Zuberi, Neelum Ahmad Basheer,

9.30 p.m. Musical Performace by ACMA Rukhsana Saba, Sarwat 7.15 p.m. - 7.45 p.m. Mohiuddin, Seema Ghazal, Band Book Launch: Tasneem Hassan, and Transgressions: Poems Waheed Noor Presented by Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Anjum Altaf Anjum Altaf Moderator: Aquila Ismail

Sunday, 1 March 2020

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11.00 a.m. - 12.00 Urdu Adab ki Rang-a-Rang Karachi's Literary Heritage: Balochistan: Engaging Writing Cricket Book Launch: P.S. Pestonjee noon Jehtain A Celebration the Twain Omar Shahid Hamid, author of by Arif Mahmood Azra Abbas, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Ghazi Salahuddin, Iftikhar Ali Kaiser Bengali, Khawar The Fix and Arif Mahmood and Framji Attiya Dawood, Masud Mufti, Shallwani, Peerzada Salman, Mehdi, Rafiullah Kakar, and Qamar Ahmed, author of Far Minwalla and Asghar Nadeem Syed Rumana Husain, and Yasmin More than a Game Moderator: Hasan Zaidi Moderator: Tauseeq Haider Maniza Naqvi Moderator: Hafeez Jamali Moderator: Saad Shafqat Moderator: Maheen Usmani Book Launch: Dabi Sanson ka Shor by Zubair Murshed Zubair Murshed Moderator: Huma Mir Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Tulip Hall Sponsor

12.15 p.m. – 1.15 Student Politics in Pakistan: Back Maps of Belonging B. M. Kutty: Life and Book Launch: Beyond that Khalid Akhtar kay Sau Saal p.m. to the Future Muneeza Shamsie in Struggle Last Blue Mountain: My Silk Rafaqat Hayat, Haroon Khalid Arooj Aurangzeb, Faisal Subzwari, conversation with Ahdaf Karamat Ali, Abdul Malik Road Journey by Harriet Akhtar and Syed Kashif Raza Azhar Abbas, Khalid Amin, and Soueif Baloch, Yousuf Musti Khan, Sandys Moderator: Nasira Zuberi Iqtidar and Syed Jaffar Ahmed Harriet Sandys and Moderator: Nadeem Farooq Paracha Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Victoria Schofield Moderator: Shaheen Salahuddin Afro-Aishiai aur Pakistani Adab Zaheda Hina and Hoori Noorani Moderator: Waheed Noor

1.30 p.m. – 2.00 Readings by Khalid Ahmad from Book Launch: Saans Lenay Book Launch: Rang e Book Launch: Prodigal by Book Discussion: Chikkar p.m. Mazeed Himaqatain by Shafiq ur mein Dard Hota hai by Purshor by Ahmad Atta Irshad Abdulkadir Cholay by Iftikhar Iffi Rahman Hameed Shahid Ahmad Atta Irshad Abdulkadir Iftikhar Iffi Introduction: Huma Mir Hameed Shahid Moderator: Nasir Abbas Moderator: Nadya AR Moderator: Ghazal Ansari Moderator: Syed Kashif Raza Nayyar

2.15 p.m. – 3.15 Maa Jai: Song of Love and Peace Financial Inclusion and Aik Sadi ka Qissa: Qateel Book Launch: Siren Song: Urdu Shairi: Aaj ka p.m. Neelam Ahmad Basheer, Asma Women Empowerment Shifai, Zaheer Kashmiri, Understanding Pakistan Manzarnama Abbas, and Reza Baqir, , and Hasan Askari through Its Women Singers Iftikhar Arif Moderator: Faseeh Bari Khan Ayesha Aziz, Ishrat Husain, Kishwar Naheed, Syed by Fawzia Afzal-Khan Moderator: Hoori Noorani and Muhammad Aurangzeb Jaffar Ahmed, and Hameed Screening of Short Film Moderator: Rashid Masood Shahid Fouzia Saeed, Alam Moderator: Nasir Abbas Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Presented by Nayyar Maniza Naqvi, Framji Minwalla Moderator: Shazia Hasan

3.30 p.m. – 4.30 Pakistani Cinema in the Twenty- Kashmir: The Paradise Lost Aali Ji aur Urdu Where the Oxus Flows: A Book Launch: Khutoot-e- p.m. First Century Victoria Schofield, Athar Pirzada Qasim, Story of Central Asia Ghalib by Tanzeemul Firdous Faseeh Bari Khan, Saqib Malik, Abbas, Mushaal Hussein Arfa Sayeda Zehra, A Presentation by Iftikhar Tanzeem ul Firdous Faysal Qureshi, Sheheryar Munawar Mullick, and Sardar Masood and Syed Kashif Raza Salahuddin Moderator: Ahmad Atta Siddiqui, Bee Gul, Khan Moderator: Ambareen Hasib Introduction: Zehra Nigah , and Sangeeta Rizvi Moderator: Khalid Banuri Amber Moderator: Ally Adnan

Book Launch: Do Meenar: Reportage by Masud Mufti Masud Mufti Moderator: Yasir Qazi Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Tulip Hall Sponsor

4.45 p.m. – 5.45 Punching Up: Young Comedians Asad Mohammad Khan: The Media Crisis: Who is A Room of Her Own: Art in Your Mohalla: A Dialogue p.m. Redefining Satire Living Legend Responsible? Nusrat Khawaja in Conversation for a Megapolis of Harmony for Shehzad Ghias Shaikh, Ali Gul Pir, Readings by Zia Mohyeddin Azhar Abbas, Mubashir with Sadia Abbas the Future Natalia Gul, and Gul Zaib Asad Mohammad Khan Zaidi, Owais Tohid, and Aquila Ismail, Tariq Alexander Moderator: Hamna Zubair Moderator: Harris Khalique Sabrina Toppa Qaiser, Sohail Zuberi, and Moderator: Ayesha Tammy Romila Kareem Haq Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh

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6.00 p.m. - 6.15 Mapping Pakistan's Cultural Evolution over the Past 72 Years p.m. by Javed Jabbar

6.20 p.m. Closing Ceremony: Speech by the Chief Guest: Sardar Masood Khan President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Speeches by the Guests of Honour: 6.30 p.m. Mr Asad Umar and Mr Mike Nithavrianakis Keynote Speeches by: 6.50 p.m. Dr Ahdaf Soueif and Mr Harris Khalique Vote of Thanks by the Festival Organizer: 7.20 p.m. Mr Arshad Saeed Husain Managing Director, Oxford University Press Pakistan

7.30 p.m. Musical Performance by Raga Boyz Presented by