Friday, 25 April 2014
5.00 – 9.00 p.m. Margala Hall Inauguration Welcome Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi Keynote Speeches by Zehra Nigah and Aamer Hussein Performance by Sheema Kermani Dastangoi by Danish Husain and Darain Shahidi of India and Fawad Khan and Nazrul Hasan of NAPA
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room Consulate Room
In Conversation with Novel kay Nayay Rung: Children’s Literature is Book Launch: Feryal Ali-Gauhar Readings and Conversation with No Child’s Play! I’ll Find My Way: An Anthology Moderator: Ritu Menon Mirza Athar Baig and Launch of Saman Shamsie, Rumana Husain, of Short Stories Hassan ki Soorat-e-Haal: Khaali and Fauzia Minallah Edited by Maniza Naqvi Jaghain Pur Karo Moderator: Amra Alam Rehana Hyder and Framji Minwalla 10.00 – 11.00 a.m. Moderator: Irfan Javed Moderator: Irshad Abdul Kadir
The De Factor: Jis Tarha Sookhay Huay Phool Afghanistan: The Next Chapter Book Launch: Labyrinth of Reflections: In Conversation with Shobhaa De Kitabon main Milay: Faraz ko Rashed Rahman, Sarwar Naqvi, The Waters of Lahore In Conversation with Rashid Rana Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi Yaad Karnay kay Bahanay Tariq Osman Hyder, and by Kamal Azfar Moderator: Quddus Mirza Screening of Short Film on Faraz Najmuddin Shaikh Riaz H. Khokhar 12.15 p.m. and Discussion – Moderator: Rasul Bakhsh Rais Moderator: Shaheen Khattak Presented by ArtNow Shibli Faraz, Zehra Nigah, Kishwar Naheed, and Abid Hasan Minto
11.15 a.m. Moderator: Muhammad Ahmed Shah
Drama and the Small Screen In Conversation with Intizar Mission Possible: Book Launch: Sultana Siddiqui, Sarmad Khoosat, Husain and Launch of Reforming State Schools What’s Wrong with Pakistan? Sahira Kazmi, and Apni Danist Main and Mosharraf Zaidi, Ameena Saiyid, by Babar Ayaz Asghar Nadeem Syed Safar kay Khush Naseeb Abbas Rashid, Nauman Naqvi, and Moderator: Zahid Hussain
1.30 p.m. Moderator: Raana Shaikh Asif Farrukhi Faisal Bari – Moderator: Masood Ashar Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil Book Launch: Pakistan: Not a Failed State 12.30 by Syed Shabbar Zaidi Moderator: Zahid Hussain Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room Consulate Room Book Launch: Poetry from a Troubled Land: Book Launch: Book Launch: 20 Pakistani Painters You Pashto Poetry with Translations Natamam The Scatter Here is Too Great Should Know Arif Tabassum, Muhib Wazir, by Asim Butt by Bilal Tanweer Tassaduq Sohail, Taimur Suri, Salma Shaheen, and Haseena Gul Moderator: Irfan Javed Moderator: Bina Shah Tauqeer Muhajir, and Ali Habib Moderator: Ahmad Fouad 2:30 p.m. Book Launch: Book Launch: – Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Tanqeed ki Sheriaat Language, Gender, and Power:
1:30 by Qasim Yaqoob The Politics of Representation and Presented by Hameed Shahid Hegemony in South Asia Moderator: Anwaar Ahmad by Shahid Siddiqui Satire: A Sugar-coated Pill Shayer e Awam: Politics, History, and Mythology Book Launch: ID: A Discussion with the Curator Navid Shahzad, Ali Aftab Saeed, and Habib Jalib in South Asian English Poetry The Swan’s Wife and Artists on the Exhibition Fauzia Minallah Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Tahira Habib Ilona Yusuf, Waqas Khwaja, Harris by Aamer Hussein Sana Arjumand, Imrana Tanveer, Moderator: Asif Noorani Jalib, Taimur Rahman, Ayaz Amir, Khalique, Sadaf Saaz, and Ejaz Rahim Moderator: Ritu Menon Imran Hunzai, Rishem Syed,
3.45 p.m. and Zehra Nigah Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Sajjad Ahmed, Farida Batool, and – Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Nadia Khwaja
2.45 Moderator: Lavinia Filippi Presented by My Art World Center Stage Jadeed Urdu Nazm Majeed Amjad The Force of the Festival Book Launch: The State and the State of Art Rahat Kazmi, Madeeha Gauhar, kay Baad Sadaf Saaz, Razi Ahmed, and Ottoman Turkey, Ataturk, and Jamal Shah, Risham Syed, and Sheema Kermani, and Afzal Ahmed Syed, Hameed Shahid, Ameena Saiyid Muslim South Asia Adeela Suleman 5.00 p.m. Shahid Nadeem and Tanveer Anjum by Naeem Qureshi
– Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Moderator: Ilona Yusuf Moderator: Zain Ahmed Moderater: Qasim Yaqoob Ilhan Niaz 4.00 Moderator: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Presented by ArtNow Preview of Film on Manto Shaam ka Pehla Tara: An Eloquent Truth: Book Launch: Retrospective of Anja and In Conversation with Zehra Nigah In Conversation with The Life and Times of ABS Jafri Niedringhaus’s Work: Challenges Launch of Poora Manto Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra Jugnu Mohsin Mujahid Barelvi, Farhatullah Babar, of Working in a Warzone Volumes 1 and 2 Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi and Kishwar Naheed Max Becherer, M.M, Zohra, John 6.15 p.m.
– Asghar Nadeem Syed, Masood Moderator: Urooj Jafri Boon, and Rebecka Ashar, and Zaheda Hina Moderator: Stacey Winston 5.15 Moderator: Sarmad Khoosat Presented by My Art World Bedil aur Nazuk Khayali Dance and Dissent: At the Intersection of Fact Screening of Last Remarks Readings and Conversation with In Conversation with and Fiction A Short Film by Umar Riaz
7.30 p.m. Afzal Ahmed Syed Sheema Kermani H.M. Naqvi and Rob Crilly – Moderator: Taimoor Shahid and Moderator: Shayma Saiyid Moderator: Framji Minwalla Asif Farrukhi 6.30 Margala Hall Mushaira
9.00 p.m. Nizamat: Najeeba Arif – Kishwar Naheed, Tauseef Tabassum, Fahmida Riaz, Jalil Aali, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Nasreen Anjum Bhatti, Ahmad Fouad, Fatema Hassan, Qamar Raza Shahzad, Harris Khalique, Shahab Safdar, Aqeel
7.30 Abbas Jafri, Saeed Ahmad, Qasim Yaqoob, and Saeed Shaariq Sunday, 27 April 2014
Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room Consulate Room
Who Owns a Language?: Zaban aur Adab Badalti hui An Open Page: The Publishing Book Launch: Relocating the Past The Challenges of Writing Fiction Soorat e Haal main Scene in South Asia Conflict Management and Vision Nadeem Omar Tarrar and Luca in English Raza Ali Abidi, Anwaar Ahmad, and Ameena Saiyid, Afzaal Ahmad, for a Secular Pakistan Olivieri Framji Minwalla, Syed Nomanul Arfa Sayeda Zehra and Ritu Menon by Moonis Ahmar Presented by My Art World Haq, Aamer Hussein, and Chair: Intizar Husain Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Rasul Bakhsh Rais and Sabyn Javeri Zahid Hussain
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. Moderator: Najeeba Arif Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Moderator: Moonis Ahmar
The Magazine Culture of India New Words, New Worlds: Arz-e-Shumaal: Book Launch: In Conversation with and Pakistan: The Art of Translation Poetic Voices from Intikhab-e-Kalam: Parveen Shakir Sherry Rahman on Art, Culture, From Home-grown to Glossies Masood Ashar, Fahmida Riaz, Gilgit-Baltistan Fatema Hassan and Politics Shobhaa De, Amna R. Ali, Mehvash Anwaar Ahmad, and Waqas Khwaja Jamshed Dukhi, Nazir Bulbul, and Moderator: Najeeba Arif Moderator: Sameera Raja Amin, and Fasih Ahmed Moderator: Taimoor Shahid Aslam Saher 12.15 p.m. Moderator: Asif Noorani Moderator: Nosheen Ali Book Launch: – Presented by ArtNow Intikhab: Manto Intikhab: Ghulam Abbas Intikhab: Hasan Manzar 11.15 a.m. Masood Ashar Moderator: Najeeba Arif
Popular Cinema and Realism: Afsanay ki Tanqeed At the Threshold of Ghalib Jerusalem: A Journey Back in Time Arte Povera In Conversation with the Makers Book Launch and Discussion Syed Nomanul Haq and A Talk by Iftikhar Salahuddin Lavinia Filippi and Quddus Mirza of Zinda Bhaag Intizar Husain, Masood Ashar, Rahat Kazmi Moderator: Najmuddin Shaikh
1.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi Hameed Shahid, Mirza Athar Baig, – Moderator: Harris Khalique Presented by My Art World Moderator: Samar Minallah and Asif Farrukhi
12.30 Moderator: Najeeba Arif
Kargil The Pointed Pen: Art of the Readings and Conversation with In Conversation with Pran Nevile Tariq Osman Hyder and Political Cartoon Kishwar Naheed and Launch of Moderator: Asif Noorani
2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. Riaz H. Khokhar Fauzia Minallah Kishwar Naheed ki Notebook – Moderator: Rashed Rahman Moderator: Rumana Husain Moderator: Anwaar Ahmad 1.30 Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room Consulate Room
From MTV to Mecca: Hamarey Column Nigaar: Qawwali Music and Sufi Poetry Aaj ka Afsana Cultural Diplomacy and Pakistan In Conversation with Zimmaydari aur Zehan Saazi Fahmida Riaz and Neelam Basheer, Nilofar Iqbal, Aziz Sohail, Marcel De Vink, Kristiane Backer Masood Ashar, Wajahat Masood, Sarwat Mohiuddin Asim Butt, and Irfan Ahmed Urfi Bina Shah, and Farida Batool
3.45 p.m. Moderator: Navid Shahzad Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Zaheda Hina, and Moderator: Syed Nomanul Haq Moderator: Hameed Shahid – Asghar Nadeem Syed Presented by My Art World 2.45 Moderator: Kishwar Naheed
Short and Sweet: Talking and Umangpoetry.org: The Role of Music in Popularizing Linguistics and Literature: Catharsis in Art Reading Short Stories Contemporary Poetic Thought Urdu Poetry My Publishing Odyssey Shazia, Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, and Aamer Hussein, Bina Shah, and in Pakistan Asif Noorani, Salman Asif, and Tariq Rahman Irshad Abdul Kadir
5.00 p.m. Sabyn Javeri Zehra Nigah, Nasreen Anjum Bhatti, Taimur Rahman Moderator: Ilhan Niaz Moderator: Zainab Omar – Moderator: Bilal Tanweer and Harris Khalique Moderator: Rakae Jamil
4.00 Moderator: Nosheen Ali Presented by My Art World
Readings and Conversation Akhbaar say Radio tak: Gender Matters Education: A Global Snapshot Evolving Landscapes for Galleries with Mustansar Hussain Tarar In Conversation with Feryal Ali-Gauhar, Khawar Mumtaz, Faisal Bari, Baela Raza Jamil, Ilhan and Collectors and Launch of Tarar-Nama Raza Ali Abidi Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, and Niaz, and Muhammad Affan Javed Zainab Omar, Shireen Ikramullah, Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Ritu Menon Moderator: Mehnaz Aziz Rasheed Butt, Rumana Husain, and 6.15 p.m.
– Moderator: Salman Asif Asma Rashid 5.15 Presented by My Art World
Sangam Hall Closing Ceremony Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi 8.30 p.m.
– Keynote Speeches by Kishwar Naheed and Muneeza Shamsie
6.30 Taleem-e-Balighan: A Play by NAPA Repertory Theatre