6th Islamabad Literature Festival Programme Theme: The Focus is Tomorrow: Reflecting on the Past

27, 28, and 29 September 2019, Hotel Margala, Islamabad

Inauguration Friday, 27 September 2019

Time Margala Hall

4.30 p.m. Arrival of Guests

5.00 p.m. Welcome Speeches by Festival Organizers / Sponsors

5.15 p.m. Speech by the Chief Guest

5.30 p.m. Keynote Speeches by Navid Shahzad and

6.00 p.m. Performances: Dance of Peace and Understanding (Anand Taandav) by Iftikhar Masih 22 Crore by Dugdugi: A Tribute to the Revolutionary Poet

Margala Hall Sangam Hall Board Room

6.30 p.m. – 7.30 Kashmir: The Valley Seized Documentary Screening: Indus Book Launch: The Begum: A Portrait of Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan p.m. , Athar Abbas, Blues by Deepa Agarwal and Tahmina Aziz Arif Kamal Pakistani folk artists and their struggle to Tahmina Aziz, Samia Liaquat Ali Khan, Amir Rana Moderator: Moeed Pirzada keep their art form alive. Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Director and Producer: Jawad Sharif

7.45 p.m. Jahan-e-Sufi (A Fusion of Folk and Qawwali) by Bakhshi Brothers

Time Saturday, 28 September 2019

Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room

11.00 a.m. - 12.00 : His Life and Work Adding up the Energy Equation Naya Asloob, Nayee Aurat noon Anna Suvorova, Harris Khalique, Vafa Kamran Kamal, Shaharyar Nashat, Muafiya Sheikh, Safia Shahid, Absar Yazdan Manesh Saadia Qayyum Fatima Jafri, Presided by: Iftikhar Arif Moderator: Asad Ali Shah Humaira Ishfaq Moderator: Hameed Shahid Moderator: Farheen Khalid Presented by Young Women Writers Forum Presented by

12.15 p.m. – 1.15 In conversation with Soniah Kamal Taraqqi Pasand Tehrik: Naye Bayad-e-Dr Challenging the Colonial p.m. author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Tanazarat Aur Naye Sawalaat Haseena Moin, , Narrative in South Asian Prejudice in Noorul Huda Shah, Iftikhar Arif, Ravish Kishwar Naheed, Ghazanfar Hashmi Historical Fiction Moderator: Aliya Iqbal Naqvi Nadeem, Imdad Aakash Moderator: Irfan Ahmed Urfi Nukhbah Langah, Muhammad Moderator: Salahuddin Derwesh Sheeraz Dasti, Safeer Awan Moderator: Asma Mansoor

1.30 p.m. – 2.00 Book Discussion: Teen Saltanaton ki Book Discussion: The Mercurial Mr Book Discussion: The Melody of Book Launch: Karaiz - Taveel p.m. Daastan translated by Zahoor Ahmed Bhutto and Other Stories by a Tear by Haroon Khalid Akhtar Nazm by Farrukh Yar - An Historical Chinese Novel Maheen Usmani Haroon Khalid Akhtar Moderator: Harris Khalique Zahoor Ahmed and Yao Jing Maheen Usmani Moderator: Rashid Masood Alam Moderator: Sharif Awan Moderator: George Fulton

2.15 p.m. – 3.15 Book Launch: Phat’tay Aamon ka Striking Peace in a Nuclear Adab Kar Is Kharabati Ka Jis Ko Politics and the Pakistani p.m. Case (Translation of A Case of Charged Environment Josh Kehtay Hain: Josh English Language Poet Exploding Mangoes) by Mohammed Moeed Yusuf, Naeem Salik, Malihabadi Harris Khalique and Salman Tarek Hanif Pervez Hoodbhoy Fateh Muhammad Malik, Saima Kureshi Mohammed Hanif, Syed Kashif Raza, Moderator: Ejaz Haider Jaffery, Yasmeen Hameed Moderator: Khayyam Mushir Hoori Noorani Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Nazish Brohi

3.30 p.m. – 4.30 Reversing the Great Game: In conversation with H.M. Naqvi Education in the New Potohar Ka Adabi p.m. Pakistan's Pivot author of Abdullah the Cossack Millennium: Promises and Perils Manzarnama: Maazi aur Haal Ikram Sehgal, Huma Baqai, Asif Yasin Malik Moderator: George Fulton Faisal Bari, Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Akhtar Usman, Envar Fitrat, Shoaib Moderator: Moeed Pirzada Faisal Mushtaq Khaliq, Nilofar Iqbal Moderator: Shahid Siddiqui Moderator: Ravish Nadeem

4.45 p.m. – 5.45 Book Launch: Prison Interlude: The Book Discussion: Rethinking Digital Transformation in Chiragh Bujhtay Chalay Ja p.m. Last Eyewitness Account of the Pakistan: A 21st Century Education Rahay Hain: Khalida Hussain Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case by Perspective Edited by Umar Saif, Kasim Kasuri, aur Altaf Fatima ki Yaad Mein Zafar Ullah Poshni Bilal Zahoor and Raza Rumi Adrian Mellor Kishwar Naheed, Yasmeen Nafisa Shah, Zahid Hussain, , Fasi Zaka, Bilal Zahoor, Moderator: Rashid Masood Alam Hameed, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Moneeza Hashmi, Zafar Ullah Poshni Pervez Hoodbhoy Hameed Shahid Moderator: Owais Tohid Moderator: Nida Kirmani Moderator: Nasir Abbas Nayyar

6.00 p.m. - 7.00 Sneak Preview: Blood on Two 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Let’s Laugh with Shafaat Ali Book Discussion: Rudad-e- p.m. Shades of Green: East Pakistan Chaman Compiled by Rumana 1971: History Revisited by Ikram Mushaira Qadri Sehgal and Bettina Robotka Sadarat: Iftikhar Arif Aamer Hussein, Farrukh Nadeem, Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka Nizamat: Najeeba Arif Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Moderator: Huma Baqai Ahmad Atta, Akhtar Usman, Ali Zaryoun, Shahbano Alvi Asghar Nadeem Syed, Ayub Khawar, Moderator: Munazza Yaqoob Farrukh Yar, Ghazanfar Hashmi, Hamid Ateeq Sarwar, Harris Khalique, Hasan 7.15 p.m. - 8.15 Documentary Screening: The Abbas Raza, Kishwar Naheed, Mehboob Zafar, Ravish Nadeem, p.m. Qalandar Code Syed Kashif Raza, Yasmeen Hameed Atiya Khan, Syed Mehdi Raza Shah Subzwari, Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro Moderator: Ali Abbas Zaidi

Sunday, 29 September 2019

Margala Hall Sangam Hall Central Lawn Board Room

11.00 a.m. – 12.00 Pakistan's Foreign Policy Challenges Main Tareekhi Fiction Nigari: Contemporary Pakistani English noon Talat Masood, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Quratulain Hyder, Abdullah Fiction Abdul Basit Hussein, Intizar Husain Soniah Kamal, Haroon Khalid Akhtar, Moderator: Salma Malik Hameed Shahid, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Taha Kehar, Sana Munir Irfan Ahmed Urfi, Nasir Abbas Nayyar Moderator: Ilona Yusuf Moderator: Najeeba Arif

12.15 p.m. – 1.15 Depicting Women in Literature and Perspectives on Economic Reform Publishing in Pakistan: In conversation with Aamer p.m. Drama Agenda for Pakistan Changing Trends Hussein author of Haseena Moin, Noorul Huda Shah, Sania Nishtar, Hafiz A. Pasha, Shahbano Alvi, Arshad Saeed Husain, Hermitage Asghar Nadeem Syed, Shahnaz Sheikh Jochen Hippler, Muhammad Ziauddin Hoori Noorani Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Moderator: Maheen Usmani Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed Moderator: Bilal Zahoor

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1.30 p.m. – 2.00 Feminist Dimensions of the novels Pakistani Adab aur Taneesiat Book Launch: Love in the Fist of Book Launch: Kaun - (‘Who’), a p.m. Unfettered Wings and Typically (Feminism) Terrorism: Tale of Two Loving Novelette by Mudassar Bashir (HALF HOUR) Tanya In conversation with Kishwar Naheed Souls Parted in the Name of Mudassar Bashir Taha Kehar and Sana Munir Moderator: Hameed Shahid Violence Moderator: Ahmad Atta by Ayub Khawar Ayub Khawar Moderator: Ghazanfar Hashmi

2.15 p.m. – 3.15 Shanul Haq Haqqee Ki Yaad Mein Book Launch: Radioactive Decade: Book Launch: Widows and The Traveller's Tales: p.m. , Fateh Muhammad Malik An Informal Cultural History of the Daughters: Gender, Kinship, Salman Rashid Moderator: Najeeba Arif 1970s Edited by Amin Gulgee, and Power in South Asia by Moderator: Shaista Sirajuddin Niilofur Farrukh and John McCarry Anna Suvorova Amin Gulgee, Aasim Akhtar, Nadia Anna Suvorova, Tahmina Aziz, Batool, Salman Asif Nida Kirmani Moderator: Niilofur Farrukh Moderator: Ilhan Niaz

3.30 p.m. – 4.30 Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist Book Launch: The Fix by Omar Documenting Traditional Music In conversation with Julien p.m. State Shahid Hamid in Pakistan Columeau Ishrat Husain, Asad Umar, Omar Shahid Hamid Fouzia Saeed, Sharif Awan, Moderator: Nasir Abbas Nayyar Waqar Masood Khan, Moderator: Nadeem Farooq Paracha Muhammad Athar Masood Patchamuthu Illangovan Moderator: Tauseeq Haider Moderator: Sakib Sherani

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4.45 p.m. – 5.45 Pakistani Cinema: The Rise, The : Kia Dehshat Negotiating Different Worlds: 1919: Jallianwala Bagh and the p.m. Fall…and the Rise again? Gardi Kay Asraat Say Nikal Aya Multilingualism in Creative Century that Followed Humayun Saeed, Usman Mukhtar, Khalid Hai? Expression Ali Usman Qasmi, Harris Khalique, Saeed Butt, Areeba Alvi Afrasiab Khattak, Hanif Khalil, Muneeza Shamsie, Ali Raza Moderator: Raju Jamil Noreen Naseer Noorul Huda Shah, Nukhbah Langah, Moderator: Aliya Iqbal Naqvi Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Julien Columeau Moderator: Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti

6.00 p.m. – 7.00 Satire in the Time of Tabdeeli Tax, Budget, and the Common Man English Mushaira p.m. Fasi Zaka, Ali Aftab Saeed, and Shabbar Zaidi, Reza Baqir, Athar Tahir, Aurangzaib Khan, George Fulton Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Harris Khalique, Eissa Saeed, Moderator: Nadeem Farooq Paracha Moderator: Ikram Sehgal Mehvash Amin, Orooj-e- Zafar, Salman Tarek Kureshi Moderator: Ilona Yusuf

7.15 p.m. – 7.30 Closing Ceremony: Speech by the Festival Organizer p.m. 7.30 p.m. Keynote Speeches by Ishrat Husain and Anwar Maqsood

8.05 p.m. Ghazal Night by Ustad

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