KLF-10 Programme 2019
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Friday, 1 March 2019 Inauguration of the 10th Karachi Literature Festival Main Garden, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi 5.00 p.m. Arrival of Guests 5.30 p.m. Welcome Speeches by Festival Organizers 5.45 p.m. Speech by the Chief Guest: Honourable Governor Sindh, Imran Ismail Speeches by: Mark Rakestraw, Deputy Head of Mission, BDHC, Didier Talpain, Consul General of France, Enrico Alfonso Ricciardi, Deputy Head of Mission, Italian Consulate 6.00 p.m. Karachi Literature Festival-Infaq Foundation Best Urdu Literature Prize 6.05 p.m. Keynote Speeches by Zehra Nigah and Muneeza Shamsie 6.45 p.m. KLF Recollection Documentary 7.00 p.m. Aao Humwatno Raqs Karo: Performance by Sheema Kermani 7.45–8.45 p.m. Panel Discussions 9.00–9.30 p.m. Safr-e-Pakistan: Pakistan’s Travelogue in String Puppets by ThespianzTheatre MC: Ms Sidra Iqbal 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Pakistani Cinema: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Yasir Hussain, Munawar Saeed, Nabeel Qureshi, Asif Raza Main Garden Mir, Fizza Ali Meerza, and Satish Anand Moderator: Ahmed Shah Documentary: Qalandar Code: Rise of the Divine Jasmine Feminine Atiya Khan, David C. Heath, and Syed Mehdi Raza Shah Subzwari Moderator: Arieb Azhar Aquarius Voices from Far and Near: Poetry in English Adrian Husain, Arfa Ezazi, Farida Faizullah, Room 007 Ilona Yusuf, Jaffar Khan, Moeen Faruqi, and Shireen Haroun Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi Book Discussion: The Begum: A Portrait of Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan by Deepa Agarwal and Tahmina Aziz Princess Akbar Liaquat Ali Khan and Javed Aly Khan Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Saturday, 2 March 2019 Hall Sponsor Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Princess 11 a.m. – 12 noon Filmi Gaanay aur Urdu Shairi Book Launch: Defiance of the The Karachi Dilemma: Safr-e-Pakistan: Pakistan’s Haseena Moin and Sultan Rose: Selected Poems by Perveen Conservation or Travelogue in String Puppets Arshad Shakir translated by Naima Evolution by Thespianz Theatre Moderator: Asif Noorani Rashid Marvi Mazhar, Maniza Naima Rashid and Naqvi, Syed Saif Ur Attiya Dawood Rehman, and Amer Zia Moderator: Shaheen Salahuddin Moderator: Rumana Husain 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. Urdu Theatre: Kal, Aaj aur Kal Complicated Images: The Arab Love, War and the End of Safr-e-Pakistan: Pakistan’s Zain Ahmed, Kulsoom Aftab, Woman of Today and Empire: Travelogue in String Puppets and Sheema Kermani Tomorrow: A Conversation with by Thespianz Theatre Moderator: Khaled Anam A Conversation with Deborah Baker Mona Eltahawy Moderator: Anita Weiss Moderator: Aquila Ismail Book Launch: Points of Entry: Typically Tania: Readings by Taha 1.30 p.m. – 2 p.m. From Italy to Pakistan: Book Launch: The ARZU Book Launch: Rich People, Poor Encounters at the Origin-Sites Kehar of Pakistan by Nadeem Geography of the Soul Anthology Second Edition Country: The Story of Fiscal and Farooq Paracha Elena Nicolai and Aquila Ismail Muneeza Shamsie to launch the Foreign Exchange Policies of in conversation anthology Pakistan by Syed Shabbar Zaidi Nadeem Farooq Paracha Moderator: George Fulton Areeha Batool, Mariam Taufeeq, Syed Shabbar Zaidi Shameneh Majid, Mushba Said, Moderator: Farrukh Iqbal and Hafsa Saeed Moderator: Sabyn Javeri Presented by: 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Judicial Activism vs Judicial Book Discussion: Journey into Ahmad Faraz: Mohabbat aur Publishing 2020 and Beyond: Nayee Nasal ki Awaaz: Restraint Europe: Islam, Immigration and Inqalab New Trends, Digitization and Kal Hamara Hai Jamil Yusuf and Mujibullah Identity by Akbar Ahmed Sarmad Faraz, Hameed Akhund, Technology Neel Ahmad, Mahin Baloch, Siddiqui in conversation with Shafqat Ali Shah Jamote Wajid Jawad, and Ashfaq Hussain Arshad Saeed Husain and Atta ur Rahman, and Abdul Rehman Ikram Sehgal and Huma Baqai Moderator: Bina Shah Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Noman Said Momin Moderator: Hoori Noorani Moderator: Ghazal Ansari Presented by: 3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Filbadi Fun with LOL Waalay Cultural Activism to Documentary: These Silences are Book Discussion: The Selected Literature: Transitions Akbar Chaudhry, Syed Counter Extremism in all the Words Works of Abdullah the Cossack and Transformations Kumail, Zubair Tariq, Sindh A Film by Madiha Aijaz by H.M. Naqvi Javed Jabbar Sannan Wastani, and Noorul Huda Shah and followed by a discussion H.M. Naqvi Moderator: Maria Hassan Siddiqui Ali Gul Pir Syed Sardar Ali Shah Maheen Zia, Marvi Moderator: Framji Minwalla Moderator: Izhar Soomro Mazhar, Mohammed Ali Hakeem 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Rethinking Education in Ghalib-e Nam Avaram Documentary: City by the Sea: Beyond the Novel: Taneesiat (Feminism) the Fast-Changing World 150 Years of Mirza The Future of Karachi’s Future Directions in Azra Abbas and Azra Naseem, Farrukh Ghalib Coastline by Mahera Omar Pakistani Writing Ghazal Ansari Iqbal, Shahzad Ahmed Syed Nomanul Haq followed by a discussion Taha Kehar, Nadya Moderator: Nasim Syed Memon, and and Khalid Nadeem Javed Mahar, Amber A.R., and Qazi Fasih, Baela Raza Jamil Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi Alibhai, and Moderator: David Moderator: Anjum Halai Ahmer Ali Rizvi Waterman Moderator: Mahera Omar Presented by: 6.00 p.m. – 8 p.m. Mushaira 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Nizamat: Ambareen Hasib Amber How Public is Public Art? Dangerous Women in Dangerous Writing Fiction for the Aqeel Abbas Jafri, Anwar Shaoor, Muhammad Zeeshan, Times Millennial Market Ashfaq Hussain, Fazil Jamili, Hamna Zubair, Fariha Amjad Ubaid, Moderator: Anita M. Weiss Nadya A. R., Maheen Humayun, Ghazal Ansari, Ghazanfar Hashmi, and Munawar Ali Syed and Taha Kehar Humera Rehman, Nasim Syed, Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh Moderator: Shazia Hasan Nasira Zuberi, Peerzada Salman, Pirzada Qasim, Salman Sarwat, and Waheed Noor 8.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. Qawwali by Hamza Akram and Brothers Presented by: Sunday, 3 March 2019 Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Princess 11 a.m. – 12 noon Is Today’s Media Informing Society Hum Hee So Gaye Dastaan Ye Kaisa Ishq Hai Urdu Zubaan ka: Book Launch: Sindhi Adab: Aik or Dumbing it Down? Kehtay Kehtay: Urdu Literature/Poetry Narration by Mukhtasar Tareekh by Attiya Ghazanfar Hashmi, QurratuLain Hyder ki Yaad Mein Taimur Rehman Dawood Ghazi Salahuddin, Shaheen Azra Abbas, Ahmed Shah, Salahuddin, and Huma Baqai Attiya Dawood, Amar Munir Badini, and Kashif Raza Sindhu, and Shah Moderator: Wusatullah Khan Moderator: Waheed Noor Muhammad Pirzada, Moderator: Arfana Mallah Book Launch: Tun Ghar Chala Ja Past and Future Dastaan, Dastak aur Darwazay: 12.15 – 1.15 p.m. Book Launch: The Economy of Book Launch: Rethinking Pakistan: A (Punjabi Kahaniyan) by Trajectory: Women’s Dramatic Readings by Atif Badar Modern Sindh by Ishrat Husain, 21st Century Perspective edited by Maqsood Saqib Writing in Pakistan Aijaz A. Qureshi, Nadeem BiLaL Zahoor and Raza Rumi Inaam Nadeem and Anwer Sen Roy Sabyn Javeri and Afia Hussain Moderator: Kashif Raza Bilal Zahoor, Erum Sattar, Aslam Murad Ali Shah, Ishrat Husain, Book Launch: Adh Adhooray Lok I. A. Rehman, and Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Shamshad Akhtar, and Arshad by Hafeez Khan Nadeem Farooq Paracha Saeed Husain Nazir Leghari and Shakeel Moderator: Harris Khalique Moderator: Aijaz A. Qureshi Anjum Lashari Moderator: Mazhar Arif 1.30 p.m. – 2 p.m. Book Launch: Subah ka Nashta, Book Discussion: Hijabistan Book Launch: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The Countering VioLent Extremism in Shaam ki Chai by Imrana by Sabyn Javeri Psychodynamics of his Rise and Fall by Pakistan: LocaL Actions, LocaL Maqsood Sabyn Javeri Shamim Ahmad Voices Imrana Maqsood Moderator: Afia Shamim Ahmad Anita M. Weiss Moderators: Amra Aslam Moderator: Javed Jabbar Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi Alam and Hoori Noorani 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. TV Drama: Rise and FaLL The Sorrows of BaLochistan Book Launch: Pakistan’s Pakistan’s MentaL HeaLth Time Book Launch: Always the Guest Kaif Ghaznavi, Saife Kaiser Bengali, Ikram Sehgal, Radioactive Decade: An Informal Bomb: Can it be Defused? by Wendy Marijnissen Hasan, and Azra and Mujahid Barelvi Cultural History of the 1970s Murad Moosa Khan, Uzma Sheema Kermani, Shershah Mohyeddin Moderator: Huma Baqai edited by NiiLofur Farrukh, Amin Ambareen, Rubeena Kidwai Syed, and Wendy Marijnissen Moderator: Khaled Anam GuLgee, and John McCarry Moderator: Zarrar Khuhro Moderator: Zofeen T. Ebrahim Amin Gulgee, Khusro Mumtaz, Aquila Ismail, and Taimur Suri Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh 3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Kuch Bhi: Documentary Premiere: Indus Blues Can Literature Survive the The State and Corporations: Book Launch: Pakistaniat Kya A TaLk by Anwar Maqsood Pakistani folk artists talk about their #Hashtag? PoLitics of TraditionaL Music in Hai? by Javed Jabbar struggle to keep a fading art form Sanam Maher, Sajeer Shaikh, Pakistan Moderator: Yasir Qazi alive while reminding the world what Jahanzaib Haque, and Rafay Mahmood, Sharif Book Launch: Beyond the Fields they are about to lose. Hamna Zubair Awan, and Waqar Ali by Aysha Baqir Director and Producer: Jawad Sharif Moderator: Taha Kehar Moderator: Malahat Awan Moderator: Shazia Hasan Presented by: 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Aik Shaam Amar Premiere: Rani The Master Performer Reads the CeLebrating Voices for Change Pakistani EngLish Poetry: Shifting JaLeeL kay Naam A short film about a transgender Master Humorist: Readings from Mir Gul Khan Naseer (Balochi), Perspectives Moderator: Noorul Huda Shah Pakistani woman who sets out to take the Work of Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani Khan (Pashto), Shaikh Ayaz Peerzada Salman, Adrian Husain, and care of an abandoned child. Yusfi by Zia Mohyeddin (Sindhi), Ustad Daman (Punjabi), Arfa Ezazi Hammad Rizvi (Director), Akbar Mumtaz Haider Dahar (Seraiki) Moderator: Ilona Yusuf Allana (Producer), Kami Sid, Bilquis Amar Sindhu, Ramazan Edhi Baloch, Mazhar Arif, Munir Moderator: Zarrar Khuhro Badini Moderator: Harris Khalique Book Launch: No Fortunes to Tell by Harris KhaLique Bilal Zahoor and Harris Khalique in conversation 6.00 p.m. – 6.50 p.m.