15, 16, and 17 April 2016 The Festival is free and open to all. 15 April: 4.00 to 8.30 p.m. 16 April: 11.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. 4TH For special privileges, register as a 17 April: 11.00 a.m. to 8.15 p.m. 4TH Delegate. For information, visit Lok Virsa, Islamabad www.karachiliteraturefestival.org
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Friday, 15 April 2016
4.00 – 6.00 p.m. 6.15 – 7.15 p.m. 7.30 – 8.30 p.m. FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Inauguration Ruk ja Hujoom-e-Gul A Tribute to Ismat Chughtai and Quratulain Hyder: Lady Changez Performance by Children Saif Mahmood in conversation with Zehra Nigah Khan and Pom Pom Darling by Zambeel Dramatic Readings Welcome Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Asma Mundrawala, Mahvash Faruqi, Danish Faruqi, and Fawad Khan Speeches by Festival Sponsors Potohari Mushaira INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Keynote Speeches by Hina Rabbani Khar and Masood Ashar Nizamat: Alle Imran Springtime Voices: Poetry in English Javed Ahmad, Azaram Khiyam, Saqib Imam Rizvi, Jahangir Imran, Harris Khalique, Azka Khan, Waqas Naeem, Risham Amjad, Shiraz Tahir, Shakoor Ahsan, Turab Naqvi, and Farid Zahid Mina Malik-Hussain, and Mehvash Amin ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Ilona Yusuf Shaam Laatt: A Tribute to Nasreen Anjum Bhatti ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Fahmida Riaz and Ahmad Salim Jihad and Descent into Chaos Moderator: Sarwat Mohiuddin Riaz Khokhar in conversation with Ahmed Rashid
Saturday, 16 April 2016 Sunday, 17 April 2016
11.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon 3.30 – 4.30 p.m. 11.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon 2.15 – 3.15 p.m. FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Nayee Purani Urdu Nazm Regional Connectivity and Stability? Exposing the Truth Bajia: A Tribute Kishwar Naheed, Amjad Islam Amjad, and Hina Rabbani Khar, Anatol Lieven, Nasim Zehra, Cyril Almeida in conversation with Barkha Dutt Zehra Nigah, Masood Ashar, and Ravish Nadim Omar Zakhilwal, and Jean-François Cautain INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Amjad Islam Amjad Moderator: Saeed Ahmad Moderator: Haroon Sharif Pakistani English Literature: Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Presented by World Bank Group New Books, New Writers, New Directions INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Qualified Equality: Minorities in the INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Ilona Yusuf, Kanza Javed, Harris Khalique, Mera Paigham Mohabbat Hai: The Secular Constitution of Pakistan Urdu hai jis ka Naam: Sophia Khan, and Aroosa Kanwal and Pluralist Tradition of Urdu Poetry Shaqaib Lilla, Zain Mansoor, Babar Sattar, and The Ebb and Flow of Modern Urdu Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Saif Mahmood and Fahmida Riaz Romana Bashir Literature in India and Pakistan ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Harris Khalique Moderator: Irfan Mufti Saif Mahmood and Ali Akbar Natiq in Cultural Policy and Dynamics in South Asia ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Presented by AAWAZ conversation Sumant Batra, Salima Hashmi, and Fouzia Saeed The Past is a Foreign Country: How Does ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Mohammad Waseem History Inform Fiction? Chehray Subjunctive Fictions: Stories We Invent about H.M. Naqvi, Pran Nevile, and Basharat Peer 12.15 – 1.15 p.m. Najeeba Arif and Hameed Shahid in conversation the World We Inhabit Moderator: Framji Minwalla with Masud Mufti FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Qaisra Shahraz, Shehryar Fazli, Bina Shah, and 3.30 – 4.30 p.m. Piyush Jha Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider’s 12.15 – 1.15 p.m. FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Moderator: Framji Minwalla Account of Pakistan’s Foreign Relations FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Including Details of the Kashmir Framework Media: More Independent, Less Responsible Softening the Hard Country 4.45 – 5.45 p.m. by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Basharat Peer, Rashed Rahman, Farhan Bokhari, Anatol Lieven in conversation with Hina Rabbani FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Sudheendra Kulkarni, and Nasim Zehra Khar Aik Sham Anwar Masood kay Naam Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, and Mehr Tarar Moderator: Saif Mahmood INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Zahid Hussain INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Nayee Kahani Nayay Log Baloch Literature and Society INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Barriers to Girls’ Education Irfan Urfi, Ali Akbar Natiq, and Zafar Syed Munir Ahmed Badini, Abdul Malik Baloch, Wahid Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Sadia Hussain, A. H. Nayyar, Malick Shahbaz, Moderator: Hameed Shahid Bux, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, and Rahila Durrani by Ali Madeeh Hashmi and Vibeke Jensen, and Haroona Jatoi ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Over My Shoulder by Alys Faiz Moderator: Safiya Aftab What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Moneeza Hashmi, Presented by AAWAZ Salima Hashmi, Nasreen Azhar, and Framji Minwalla, Bina Shah, and Aqsa Ijaz August 1947: The Parting of Ways ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Navid Shahzad Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi Ishtiaq Ahmed, Sudheendra Kulkarni, and Book Launch: Moderator: Aisha Sarwari Ilhan Niaz 1.30 – 2.00 p.m. Cinema and Society: A History of Pakistani Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Cinema edited by Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Book Launch: 6.00 – 8.00 p.m. Ali Khan, Omar Ali Khan, Pran Nevile, and Book Launch: A History of the Judiciary in Pakistan Sumant Batra FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Education Policies in Pakistan: Politics, by Hamid Khan Moderator: Tariq Rahman Projections, and Practices by Shahid Siddiqui Mushaira Ijaz Hussain, Hamid Khan, Faisal Siddiqui, Ameena Saiyid, Shahid Siddiqui, and A. H. Nayyar Nizamat: Najeeba Arif and Khawaja Muhammad Farooq Mehta 4.45 – 5.45 p.m. Moderator: Haroona Jatoi Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, Amjad Islam Moderator: Ijaz Shafi Gilani FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Amjad, Ahmad Fouad, Sarwat Mohiuddin, Kahanian Awaaragard hoti hain: ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL 1.30 – 2.00 p.m. Manzar Naqvi, Harris Khalique, Shakeel Jazib, A Tribute to Intizar Husain Crime and Fiction: The World of Whodunnits FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE Piyush Jha and Masood Ashar Zahoor Ahmed, Arshad Meraj, Ravish Nadim, Kishwar Naheed, Masood Ashar, Fahmida Riaz, Saeed Ahmad, Qasim Yaqoob, Rehman Faris, Book Launch: Moderator: Qaisra Shahraz Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Basharat Peer, and Akhtar Usman, Ali Akbar Natiq, Syed Mazhar Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadeed: Saif Mahmood 2.15 – 3.15 p.m. Masood, Asim Bakhshi, and Imran Aami Nau Aabaadiyaati aur Pas e Nau Aabaadiyaati Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Ehad kay Urdu Adab kay Mutaleaat by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE 6.00 – 7.00 p.m. INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Niklay Teri Talaash Main Nasir Abbas Nayyar INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Nasir Abbas Nayyar State of Urdu Literature in Pakistani School Asif Farrukhi in conversation with and College Syllabi Pen on the Pulse of the Taliban Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Mustansar Hussain Tarar Zafar Syed, Qasim Yaqoob, Ali Akbar Natiq, Nasim Zehra, Riaz Mohammad Khan, INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL and Omar Zakhilwal and Nasir Abbas Nayyar Book Launch: Mera Paigham Pakistan: Moderator: Rashed Rahman Moderator: Najeeba Arif Water in the Wilderness: Life in the Coast, A Tribute to Jamiluddin Aali ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Deserts, and Mountains of Pakistan by Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Zaheda Hina, Women’s Protection: Yeh Bill Maangay More The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience Satyapal Anand, Raju Jamil, Fatema Hassan, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Richard Garstang, Fouzia Saeed, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Nasira Iqbal, Babar Ayaz and Mohammad Waseem in and Talat Hussain and Rina Saeed Khan and Jan Achakzai conversation with Christophe Jaffrelot Recitation by Saif Mahmood Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib and Rina Saeed Khan Moderator: Khursheed Nadeem 6.00 – 7.00 p.m. Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Vaqar Zakaria FAIZ AHMED FAIZ OPEN-AIR THEATRE ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL 7.00 – 8.00 p.m. ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Closing Ceremony Swat: Transition from Tribal System to State INTIZAR HUSAIN CONFERENCE HALL Book Launch: to Pakistan Tilism-e-Hoshruba: Enchantment of the Senses Carefree Days: Many Roles, Many Lives Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi Sultan-i-Rome, Zubair Torwali, and Ahmad Fouad Shahnaz Aijazuddin and Arfa Sayeda Zehra by Pran Nevile Keynote Speeches by Christophe Jaffrelot and Amjad Islam Amjad Moderator: Amineh Hoti Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Pran Nevile Performance by Shayma Saiyid ABDULLAH HUSSEIN CONFERENCE HALL Moderator: Madeeha Gauhar Book Launch: 7.15 – 8.15 p.m. Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani ANARKALI FACADE Fiction: Beyond 9/11 by Aroosa Kanwal Mystic Sufi Night Presented by Lok Virsa Aroosa Kanwal and Muneeza Shamsie Moderator: Shehryar Fazli
*Every effort will be made to adhere to this programme. However, the ILF organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time.