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6, 7, and 8 February 2015 6 February: 5 to 9 p.m. The Festival is free and open to all. 7 and 8 February: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi For special privileges, register as a Delegate. For information, visit Bringing together international www.karachiliteraturefestival.org and Pakistani writers to showcase writing at its best Co-sponsors:
Friday, 6 February 2015 5.00 – 9.00 p.m. Welcome Speeches by Ameena Saiyid obe, Asif Farrukhi, and Ghazi Salahuddin Inauguration Speeches by Festival Sponsors MAIN GARDEN Awards of the Karachi Literature Festival Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books Keynote Speeches by Nayantara Sahgal and Zehra Nigah Performance by Nighat Chaodhry Saturday, 7 February 2015
10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. 11.15 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. JASMINE HALL Speakers: Jamil Ahmed, Andrea ROOM 007 MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN Compassionate Karachi Backhaus, Shayma Saiyid, Book Launch: The Closed Politics and Personalities of Book Launch: Benazir Bhutto: An Eloquent Truth: In Speakers: Karen Armstrong Sheema Kermani, Asif Farrukhi, Valley: With Fierce Friends in Pakistan: In Conversation with A Multidimensional Portrait by Conversation with Jugnu Mohsin (on Skype), Pervez Hoodbhoy, and Kamran Asdar Ali the Pakistani Himalayas and Najam Sethi Anna Suvorova Moderator: Sahira Kazmi Jameel Yusuf, Ishrat Husain, and Moderator: Rumana Husain Wrestlers, Pigeon Fanciers, and Moderator: Agha Ghazanfar Speakers: Zafar Hilaly, Syeda JASMINE HALL Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui ROOM 007 Kite Flyers: Traditional Sports Moderator: Amin Hashwani Book Launch: Changing India: JASMINE HALL Abida Hussain, and Anna Book Launch: The Unquiet Ones: and Pastimes in Lahore by Jurgen Kitabi Chehre se Facebook tak: AQUARIUS HALL A Muslim Woman Speaks by Wasim Frembgen Suvorova A History of Pakistan Cricket by Reading in the Age of TV and Osman Samiuddin Khayali Shakhs say Muqabala: Iqbalunnisa Hussain Speakers: John Keay and Jurgen Moderator: Victoria Schofield Social Media Speakers: Murad Moosa Khan, In Conversation with Kishwar Speakers: Tahera Aftab and Wasim Frembgen JASMINE HALL Speakers: Haseena Moin, Amjad Nadeem F. Paracha, and Osman Naheed and Book Launch: Salima Ahmed Moderator: Asif Noorani Islam Amjad, Asghar Nadeem Can Local Cinema Travel Samiuddin Intikhab-e-Kalam: Kishwar Moderator: Arif Zaman PRINCESS ROOM Syed, Zaheda Hina, and Neelofar Globally? Moderator: Kamila Shamsie Naheed compiled by Asif Farrukhi Book Launch: Urdu Afsanay Book Launch: The Emergence of Abbasi Speakers: Sanjay Iyer, Munizae AQUARIUS HALL Speakers: Asif Farrukhi and Intikhab: Syed Rafiq Hussain and Socialist Thought among North Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali Jahangir, and Meenu Gaur Book Launch: Why I Write: Essays Kishwar Naheed Intikhab: Naiyer Masood compiled Indian Muslims (1917–1947) by AQUARIUS HALL Moderator: Mazhar Zaidi by Saadat Hasan Manto by Aakar Moderators: Muhammad Ahmed by Asif Farrukhi Khizar Humayun Ansari He Sang to Our Souls: Nusrat AQUARIUS HALL Patel Shah and Anwer Sen Roy Speakers: Masood Ashar and Speakers: Babar Ayaz and Khizar Fateh Ali Khan The World as the Author Sees it Speakers: Nauman Naqvi, ROOM 007 Intizar Husain Humayun Ansari Speakers: Pierre Alain Baud and Speakers: Aakar Patel, Kamran Asdar Ali, and Aakar Announcement of the KLF Peace Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin Moderator: Nomanul Haq Nomanul Haq Benyamin, Mohammed Hanif, Patel Prize Winner PRINCESS ROOM SUNFLOWER ROOM PRINCESS ROOM IOWA Silk Route Residency Moderator: Ali Sethi and Alex Preston Moderator: Fahd Ali Dosti Kitabon Sey by Khaled Uncovering History: In Programme ROOM 007 Moderator: Sarah Humayun ROOM 007 Anam Conversation with John Keay Speakers: Bina Shah, Shandana Book Launch: Where Worlds Sindhi Afsaana jo Saun Saal 6.15 p.m. – 8.15 p.m. ROOM 007 Moderator: Nauman Naqvi Minhas, Sridala Swami, H. M. Collide: Pakistani Fiction in Speakers: Imdad Hussaini, JASMINE HALL Book Launch: Fade Into Red by SUNFLOWER ROOM Naqvi, and Kavery Nambisan the New Millennium by David Manzoor Kohyar, and Akhlaq Mushaira Reshma K. Barshikar Creative Movement for Children Moderator: Christopher Merrill Waterman Ansari Nizamat: Ambareen Haseeb Speakers: Zakia Sarwar and with Nighat Chaodhry SUNFLOWER ROOM Speakers: Muneeza Shamsie and Moderator: Sahar Imdad Reshma K. Barshikar Readings from Our Shaikh Sa’di: Amber David Waterman PRINCESS ROOM 3.45 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Moderator: Arshia Sattar A Selection from Gulistan and Anwar Shaoor, Kishwar Naheed, Moderator: Framji Minwalla Cultural Diplomacy MAIN GARDEN Bustan and The Simurgh and the Sahar Ansari, Imdad Hussaini, Book Launch: Koozah: Naye Book Launch: Baltistan: Apricot Speaker: Christopher Merrill Shayer e Awam: Habib Jalib Birds: A Selection from Amjad Islam Amjad, Afzal Likharion ki Kaawishon ka Bloom by Tariq Alexander Qaiser Moderator: Shayma Saiyid Speakers: Asma Jahangir and Mantiq-ut-Tayr by Shaikh Farid Ahmed Syed, Sabir Zafar, Sahar Intikhab compiled by Zahra Sabri Speaker: Tariq Alexander Qaiser SUNFLOWER ROOM Aitzaz Ahsan Imdad, Fatema Hassan, Shaukat Speakers: Maniza Naqvi and ud-Din Attar by Fahmida Riaz Moderator: Iftikhar Salahuddin The Art of Bookmaking – Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Abid,Tanveer Anjum, Attiya Bilal Tanweer Speaker: Fahmida Riaz PRINCESS ROOM Activities with Children JASMINE HALL Dawood, Ajmal Siraj, Harris Moderator: Harris Khalique Working with the Printed Word Continued Crossing Genres: Transmuting 5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Khalique, Aqeel Abbas Jafri, PRINCESS ROOM Speakers: Ritu Menon, Ameena Presented by Oxford University Fiction into Drama MAIN GARDEN Sarwat Zehra, Inaam Nadeem, Book Launch: Ballet in the Saiyid, Afzaal Ahmad, Marc Press Speakers: Kamila Shamsie, Freedom’s Niece: In Conversation Kashif Hussain Ghayar, Zulfiqar Cane Fields: Vignettes from a with Nayantara Sahgal Parent, and Karthika V.K. Framji Minwalla, Arshia Sattar, Adil, and Salman Sarwat Dominican Wanderlogue 1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Alex Preston, and Nimra Bucha Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi Moderator: Asif Noorani Moderator: Omayr Aziz Saiyid BREAK Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie AQUARIUS HALL 8.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. SUNFLOWER ROOM SUNFLOWER ROOM 2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. AQUARIUS HALL The Changing Face of Pakistani MAIN GARDEN The Art of Bookmaking – The Art of Bookmaking – MAIN GARDEN Book Launch: Gender, Politics, Politics Presentation on Indus Raag: Activities with Children Activities with Children The Satirical Pen: and Performance in South Asia Speakers: I. A. Rehman, Asma Music Beyond Borders Age Group: 5 to 12 years Continued In Conversation with Mohammed compiled by Sheema Kermani, Jahangir, Syeda Abida Hussain, 9.00 p.m. Presented by Oxford University Presented by Oxford University Hanif Asif Farrukhi, and Kamran Asdar and Sahar Shafqat MAIN GARDEN Press Press Moderator: Navid Shahzad Ali Moderator: Mahtab Akbar Rashdi Concert by Fuzon Band Sunday, 8 February 2015 10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. JASMINE HALL SUNFLOWER ROOM 1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. AQUARIUS HALL JASMINE HALL MAIN GARDEN A Traveller’s Tales: Lahore say Dosti Kitabon Sey by Khaled BREAK Atam Katha: In Conversation with Dastaangoi: Tilism e Hoshruba Book Launch: The Political Yarkent tak with Mustansar Anam 2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Amar Jaleel and Remembering Deputy Nazeer Imagination by Nayantara Sahgal Hussain Tarar 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. MAIN GARDEN Moderator: Shah Muhammad Ahmed and Out of Line: A Literary and Speaker: Mustansar Hussain Tarar MAIN GARDEN Transaction or Transformation in Pirzada Performers: Fawad Khan and Political Biography of Nayantara Moderator: Asghar Nadeem Syed Looking into the Corridors of Film and TV ROOM 007 Nazarul Hasan of NAPA Sahgal by Ritu Menon AQUARIUS HALL Power: In Conversation with Speakers: Ali Saleem, Sanjay Iyer, Can ‘Creative Pakistan’ undo AQUARIUS HALL Speakers: Nayantara Sahgal and Vitality and Violence: The Chaos Syeda Abida Hussain and Book and Mira Sethi ‘Unstable Pakistan’? The Legacy of Scheherazade: Ritu Menon that is Karachi followed by Book Launch: Power Failure: The Moderator: Omayr Aziz Saiyid Speakers: Jude Kelly and Sherry Women and Fiction Moderator: Aamer Hussein Launch: Karachi: The Land Issue Political Odyssey of a Pakistani JASMINE HALL Rehman JASMINE HALL Speakers: Shandana Minhas, by Arif Hasan et. al Woman A Dramatic Presentation of the Moderator: Peter Upton Sindh Sagar aur Reshma K. Barshikar, and Mira Speakers: Nasreen Askari, Maniza Speaker: Syeda Abida Hussain Stories of Manto and Intizar PRINCESS ROOM Qayam-e-Pakistan: Sethi Naqvi, Rumana Husain, and Arif Moderators: Irshad Abdul Kadir Husain by Feryal Ali-Gauhar Book Launch: London, Sydney, In Conversation with Moderator: Framji Minwalla Hasan and Hamida Khuhro Chair: Intizar Husain Hamida Khuhro Tokyo by Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Kamran Asdar Ali JASMINE HALL Moderator: Asghar Nadeem Syed ROOM 007 Moderator: Aitzaz Ahsan Speaker: Mujahid Barelvi ROOM 007 AQUARIUS HALL Char Janam ki Katha: In AQUARIUS HALL The English Language Literatures Moderator: Rumana Husain Book Launch: Qurratulain Hyder’s Gul Chandni: In Conversation with Conversation with Satyapal Making A Better Pakistan— of South Asia: Do They Interact Kal kay Angaray: Book Launch: Andaz-e-Bayan Aur edited by Zehra Nigah Anand Screenings of Short Films by with Each Other? A Rebel and her Cause: The Life Jameel Akhtar Moderator: Masood Ashar Speakers: Fatema Hassan and Faryal Malik, Alizeh Kohari, Azhar Speakers: Sadaf Saaz Siddiqui, and Work of Rashid Jahan by Speakers: Azra Abbas and Satyapal Anand Shan, and Ayoub Mallah followed H.M. Naqvi, and Ritu Menon ROOM 007 Rakhshanda Jalil by Award Ceremony Ameena Saiyid Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Mirror of the Mind: In Speakers: Ritu Menon, Kamran Moderator: Harris Khalique Speakers: Sabeen Mahmud and Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra AQUARIUS HALL Conversation with Aamer Hussein Asdar Ali, and Zaheda Hina PRINCESS ROOM Khalid Mahmood Book Launch: The Constitutional Right to Moderator: Bilal Tanweer Moderator: Kausar S. Khan A Celebration of Literature and Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy Nau Lakhi Kothi by Ali Akbar Education: From Access to PRINCESS ROOM SUNFLOWER ROOM Art Festivals Natiq Book Launch: Kitab-e-Muntashir: ROOM 007 Quality Learning for All Book Launch: Intikhab-e-Kalam: Speakers: Sadaf Saaz, Razi Speaker: Ali Akbar Natiq Ye Natamam si Eik Zindagi jo Guzri Iran—A Story of Emperors and Speakers: Mosharraf Zaidi, Arfa Zahida Khatoon Sherwaniya Ahmed, Karthika V.K., Ameena Moderator: Mohammed Hanif hay by Musadiq Sanwal Kings Sayeda Zehra, Ishrat Husain, Compiled by Fatema Hasan Saiyid, Jude Kelly, and Ulrich PRINCESS ROOM Speakers: Mohammed Hanif and A Presentation by Iftikhar Zobaida Jalal, Sabrina Dawood, Speaker: Fatema Hasan Schreiber Sab Lal o Gohar: In Conversation and Ameena Saiyid Wusat Ullah Khan Salahuddin Moderator: Fahmida Riaz Moderator: Asif Farrukhi with Fahmida Riaz and Book Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil Moderator: Hasan Zaidi Moderator: Khalid Mir Book Launch: Educational Crisis Launch: Intikhab-e-Kalam: ROOM 007 SUNFLOWER ROOM 6.15 p.m. – 7.15 p.m. PRINCESS ROOM and Reform: Perspectives from Dialogue of Rhythm and Fahmida Riaz compiled by Asif In a Time of Tragedy Book Storytelling by MAIN GARDEN South Asia by Abbas Rashid and Movement: In Conversation with Farrukhi Launch: A Season for Martyrs by Khursheed Hyder Closing Ceremony: Irfan Muzaffar Nighat Chaodhry Speakers: Harris Khalique, Bina Shah 3.45 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Speakers: Abbas Rashid and Sajid Moderator: Shayma Saiyid Fahmida Riaz and Asif Farrukhi Speaker: Bina Shah MAIN GARDEN Asif Farrukhi Ali SUNFLOWER ROOM Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Victoria Schofield The Complete Performer: In Readings by Zia Mohyeddin Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin Storytelling by Amra Alam Meray bhi hain Kuch Khwab: In PRINCESS ROOM Conversation with Bushra Ansari 7.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. Conversation with A. Sean Pue 5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. 11.15 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Mental Health in a Troubled City Moderator: Nimra Bucha MAIN GARDEN and Book Launch: I Too Have Speakers: Ayesha Mian, Naeem MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN JASMINE HALL Performance by Nighat Chaodhry PTV aur Aaj ka Drama Some Dreams: N.M. Rashed and Sadiq, Haroon Ahmed, and Purani Kahaniyaan, Nayi Dunia: Serial aur Soap: Rung Badaltay Speakers: Samina Ahmed, Aamina Modernism in Urdu Poetry Saadia Quraishy 32 Tales of the Thrones Dramay 8.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. Sheikh, Sajid Hasan, Sania Saeed, by A. Sean Pue Moderator: Murad Moosa Khan Speakers: Intizar Husain, Arshia Speakers: Neelofar Abbasi, Sahira MAIN GARDEN Samira Fazal, Haseena Moin, and Speakers: Asif Farrukhi and SUNFLOWER ROOM Sattar, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, and Kazmi, Rashid Sami, Khaled Popular Classics: The Raag-based Neelofar Abbasi A. Sean Pue Creative Movement for Children Masood Ashar Anam, and Shanaz Ramzi Love Songs of Pakistan by Ali Moderator: Raju Jamil Moderator: Sarah Humayun with Nighat Chaodhry Moderator: Kishwar Naheed Moderator: Hina Khwaja Bayat Sethi * The Programme is subject to change without prior notice due to last minute cancellations and other contingencies.