F F lahore literary festival

FRIDAY, FEB. 22, #LLF2019 / ALHAMRA ARTS CENTER, MALL ROAD /lahorelitfest @lhrlitfest
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3 – 4:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony

followed by
Keynote Address
on the life and legacy of

by Zehra Nigah,
with introduction
by Nasreen Rehman

5 – 6 p.m. Securing Pakistan’s Populism and the Digital History: Book Launches
Water Future Future of Global The Balochistan
Democracy Archives My Pakistan:
Former Chief Justice of The Story of a Bishop
Pakistan Saqib Nisar and Historian Ayesha Jalal, Digitizing our past to
water law and policy political commentator Fahmida Riaz, preserve our heritage Alexander John Malik
expert Erum Sattar Afshin Shahi and Altaf Fatima
historian Eugene Rogan and Khalida Hussain Sindh Archives’ Moderated by
Moderated by Ravinder L. Jha Nelofar Bakhtyar
Rina Saeed Khan Moderated by Asghar Nadeem Syed, and Balochistan Archives’
acclaimed-journalist Masood Asher and Dr. Hafeez Jamali
and author Ahmed Rashid Yasmeen Hameed Metro Lahore
Moderated by British
Moderated by Asif Farrukhi Library Lead Curator for A photographic journey
South Asian Collections along Lahore’s Metro Bus
Nur Sobers-Khan
Faizan Ahmad in
conversation with
Amna Rizwan Ali

7 - 8 p.m. Performance

Mughal-e-Funk in concert

*THIS PROGRAM IS TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR UPDATES, PLEASE VISIT LAHORELITFEST.COM
SATURDAY, FEB. 23, #LLF2019 / ALHAMRA ARTS CENTER, MALL ROAD
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11 a.m. – On Equity and Happiness Book Discussion A City in Fiction

12:00 p.m. In partnership with
UNDP Pakistan From Kargil to the Capturing Lahore’s stories
Coup: Events that Exploring the political and The University of and streets, violence and
Akhuwat's Amjad Saqib, Shook Pakistan personal in the art of Punjab’s Nabila Rehman revolts, cosmopolitanism
Water law and policy Lahore-based artist and Ayesha Ali and provincialism
expert Erum Sattar, Owen Bennett-Jones in Farida Batool, whose
economist Hafiz Pasha conversation with author and installation is on display Moderated by Faiza Rana Author and critic
and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa journalist Nasim Zehra at the Alhamra Muneeza Shamsie,
finance minister Roopa Farooki
Taimur Jhagra Adeela Suleman, and Osama Siddique
Naazish Ataullah,
Moderated by the Ambereen Karamat Moderated by
UN’s Neil Buhne and Farida Batool Claire Chambers
Moderated by Rabeya Jalil

12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Book Launch Channeling Nostalgia Modern Pasts, Connected Memorial Stones In recognition of
The Ottomans, the Great Futures: Exploring the of Tharparkar Hamza Shinwari
A Woman Like Her War and Turkey Today Progressive Artists
of South Asia An illustrated talk by Literature and Sufism
Sindh poet and activist Oxford University historian Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Amar Sindhu, author of specialising in the Middle Zehra Jumabhoy of on the art and cultural
The Sensational Life East Eugene Rogan with the Courtauld Institute anthropology of the Dr. Shahida Shah,
and Death of Qandeel acclaimed-journalist and of Art, London, art patron Memorial Stones Neelum Afridi,
Baloch Sanam Maher, writer Ahmed Rashid Taimur Hassan and Conor in Pakistan’s Sindh Akbar Hoti and Ibrar Ghar
and Divisional Police Macklin of the Grosvenor province followed by
Officer, Bahwalnagar Gallery, London a conversation with Moderated by
Ammara Athar noted travel writer Kainat Khan
Moderated by Salman Rashid
Moderated by Samina Iqbal
noted activist and
artist Salima Hashmi

1:15 – 2:15 LUNCH

2:15 – 3:15 War Writing
Syria: Unraveling
of a Cultural Haven
Exploring the in the Middle East
Political and Social
Consciousness in Award-winning journalist
Urdu Fiction and Poetry Rania Abouzeid,
photojournalist
Ameena Saiyid, Lalage Snow
Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and broadcast journalist
Harris Khalique Osama bin Javaid
and Amar Sindhu
Moderated by BBC
Moderated by Pakistan Correspondent
Asif Farrukhi Secunder Kermani
Book Launch Book Launches Book Discussion
Mosaic of Food A Line in the River: Iran: Legends of
from the Islamic World Khartoum, City Emperors and Kings
of Memory
Aliya Naqvi in Author Iftikhar Salahuddin
conversation with Author Jamal Mahjoub with an introduction
Anissa Helou, in conversation by Zehra Nigah
celebrated cookbook with Amna Rizvan Ali
author of Feast
Beyond that Last Blue
Mountain: My Silk Road
Khaled Ahmed in
conversation with
Harriet Sandys
SATURDAY, FEB. 23, #LLF2019 / ALHAMRA ARTS CENTER, MALL ROAD
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3:30 – 4:30 Decoding Iran
Iran remains culturally-
disconnected from
Pakistan: a discussion of
its vibrant youth and its
expressions in activism,
art, literature and
other realms
Middle East commentator
Afshin Shahi, Iranian
artist and curator
Vali Mahlouji, and
British-Iranian author
Kamin Mohammadi
Moderated by
author and lecturer
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
4:45 – 5:45 Between Remembrance
and Forgetting:
History as Freedom
Hameed Haroon in
conversation with
Ayesha Jalal
6-7 Book Discussion
Back to the Future
Award-winning
essayist and novelist
Pankaj Mishra with
Mohsin Hamid
7:30 - 9 The Triumphant Guitar
In partnership with
the Embassy of
Spain in Islamabad
Performance by
Raul Viela, who
has performed at Zarautz
Guitar Festival in San
Sebastian and Bilkent
University in Ankara,
among others
*THIS PROGRAM IS TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR UPDATES, PLEASE VISIT LAHORELITFEST.COM
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The Crying Game
Are Pakistani TV
serials misogynistic
or do their stories
actually resonate
with women?
Actor Iqra Aziz and
actor Atiqa Odho
Moderated by Fifi Haroon
Book Discussion
Empire of Enchantment
Jadoowallahs, Jugglers
and Jinns; exploring
indigenous forms
of magic
Osama Siddique
in conversation with
author John Zubrzycki
Kashmir Scars
Ayesha Jalal,
and Anam Zakaria
Moderated by
Victoria Schofield
Film Screening
Some Lover to
Some Beloved
A critically-acclaimed Urdu
film, with English subtitles,
by Umar Riaz showcasing
the lives of Pakistani icons
Zia Mohyeddin, actor and
litterateur, and poet Faiz
Ahmed Faiz, and the Ghazal
genre of Urdu poetry
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Oral History A Quiet Line of Book Launch
Resistance: Pakistan’s
My Lahore Theatre Movements Tell Her Everything
A journey through the Celebrating our Zarrar Said in
past and present of indigenous conversation with
the cultural capital street and stage theatre award-winning
of Pakistan novelist Mirza Waheed
Social activist and
Parveen Kennedy theatre director Sheema
in conversation with Kermani and playwright
Nayyar Ali Dada Shahid Nadeem
Moderated by
Harris Khalique
The Padshanama: PAKISTAN’S NEW
A Mughal masterpiece ENGLISH FICTION
The Royal Library's Book Launches Showcasing the
magnificent Padshahnama talent from Urdu’s
manuscript contains some Hijabistan contemporary poetry
of the most famous Mughal
paintings ever created. Author Sabyn Javeri Abbas Tabish,
Its curator explores in conversation with Ahmad Ata
these fascinating works Maha Khan Phillips and Adnan Baig
of art depicting the life
and court of Mughal Moderated by
Emperor Shah-Jahan Unmarriageable poet Shakeel Jazib
Pride and Prejudice
Royal Library Curator in Pakistan
Emily Hannam with noted
literary historian working Syima Aslam
primarily with Urdu materials in conversation
Francesca Orsini with author Soniah Kamal
Book Launch Music and the Book Launch
Mughal Twilight,
The Selected Works of from Aurangzeb to Bird Summons
Abdullah the Cossack Bahadur Shah Zafar
Sudanese-British
Author H. M. Naqvi Historian of Mughal author Leila Aboulela,
and Christopher Merrill Indian music Katherine Muneeza Shamsie
Schofield with musician and Sadia Zulfiqar
Moderated by Rakae Jamil
Nasreen Rehman Moderated by Afia Aslam
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11 a.m. — 12 p.m. Arab Experiments
Successes and setbacks
of democracy and diplomacy
Prof. Eugene Rogan, Afshin Shahi,
and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
with moderator Khaled Ahmed
NOT PREVIOUSLY MADE PUBLIC
12:15 — 1:15 Two Writers
Radicalization, Muslim identity,
social media, and the writing process
Fatima Bhutto, author, most
recently, of The Runaways
and Sanam Maher, author
of A Woman like Her
2:15 — 3:15 Us and Them
Migration and morality in today’s
Build the Wall and Brexit world
Becca Heller, Mohsin Hamid
and Leila Aboulela with
moderator Suzy Hansen
3:30 — 4:30 Manto and the Recovery
of Imagination
Ayesha Jalal, Khaled Ahmed
and Salima Hashmi with
moderator Osama Siddique
4:45 — 5:45
Celebrating the folk songs
and ghazals of Multan and South
Punjab with Suraiya Multanikar
and Rahat Multanikar
6—7 Global Strongmen
The inexorable rise of the right
Becca Heller, Rick Stroud,
Jamal Mahjoub, Afshin Shahi
and Zahid Hussain with moderator
Owen Bennett-Jones
7:30 — 8:30 PERFORMANCE
Sheema Kermani
Choreographed to Ameer Khusraw’s
first qawwali, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s
Yaad; Finale: dhamaal
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Screenwriter Asghar Nadeem Syed
discusses his seminal TV series
with Humsafar director
Sarmad Khoosat
Past Categorization
Women authors cannot be
defined by their gender alone
Leila Aboulela, Roopa
Farooki, Alexandra Pringle
and Maha Khan Phillips with
moderator Rosemary Hilhorst
Asma Immortal
Asma Jahangir’s iconic struggle
shaped rights activism in Pakistan.
Her influence abides
Nida Ali, I. A. Rehman, Seema
Iftikhar and Gul Rukh Rahman
with moderator Farida Shaheed
LAUNCH
The Begum: A Portrait of
Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan,
Pakistan’s Pioneering First Lady
Author Tahmina Aziz Ayub,
Javid Aly Khan and Rana Liaquat Ali
with moderator Framji Minwalla
From the Frontlines
Exploring nonfiction narratives
and their currency
Ahmed Rashid, Suzy Hansen
and Rania Abouzeid with
moderator Isambard Wilkinson
The Country without
a Post Office
Kashmir through the
poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Christopher Merrill,
Shadab Zeest Hashmi,
Mirza Waheed and
Shaista Sirajuddin
Introduction by Rachel Cooper
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Cry Freedom
Negotiating Colonial narratives
Jamal Mahjoub and
Maha Khan Phillips
with moderator
Claire Chambers
LAUNCH
Paper Jewels: Postcards
from the Raj 1892—1947
518 vintage postcard tour of
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Omar Khan with F. S. Aijazuddin
The Greek Who
Made Islamabad
Urban planning and the legacy of
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, who
designed Islamabad’s master plan
Harvard Prof. Spiro Pollalis
with Shahid Zahid
LAUNCH
Travels in a Dervish Cloak:
Adventures in Pakistan
Author Isambard Wilkinson,
travel writer Tahir Jahangir
and Harriet Sandys with
moderator Victoria Schofield
Eastern Encounters: Curating the
Splendours of the Subcontinent
The making of the first exhibition
dedicated to South Asian art in
the Royal Collection, held last
summer, at Buckingham Palace
Emily Hannam with F. S. Aijazuddin
The songs of
Baba Farid and
Guru Nanak
Ayesha Nadir Ali
and Shafqat Hussain
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The Spy Princess
and the Nazis
The extraordinary life and
death of British-India’s
Noor Inayat Khan
Lonely Courage author
Rick Stroud with Asma Rashid
LAUNCH
Ghazal Cosmopolitan:
Ghazals and Essays on the
Culture and Craft of the Ghazal
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
with Amra Raza
LAUNCHES
Musings of a Nomad
Aisha Farooqui with Fifi Haroon
Beyond the Fields
Ayesha Baqir with Huma Ijaz
LAUNCH
Bella Figura: How to Live,
Love, and Eat the Italian Way
Author Kamin Mohammadi,
restaurateur Zahra Khan and
cookbook author Anissa Helou
with moderator Alexandra Pringle
LAUNCHES
The Mercurial Mr. Bhutto
and Other Stories
Maheen Usmani with Soniah Kamal
No Fortunes to Tell
Harris Khalique with Tariq Rahman
Moderated by Bilal Zahoor
WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT
Cities of Literature
Dr. Andrea Edel on UNESCO’s
Creative Cities Network and the
Heidelberg example for Lahore
Making Knowledge Work
University of Bradford V.C. Brian
Cantor on universities, tech, and
socioeconomic development
Introduction by Mark Garratt
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You Can’t Go Home Tonight
Author Sarvat Hasin
with Maarya Rehman
Pureland
Author Zarrar Said
with Jahanzeb Aslam
Reading Urdu Literature
outside Pakistan
The circulation of literary
works of minority languages
in multilingual societies
Prof. Francesca Orsini
with Sabyn Javeri
War Flowers
On the delicately tended gardens
of the Afghanistan, Syria, Gaza
and West Bank war zones
Author Lalage Snow
with Aysha Raja
Accounts of Acculturation
Music, literature, and
performance in North India
Francesca Orsini and
Katherine Schofield with
moderator Nasreen Rehman
LAUNCH
The Women’s Movement
in Pakistan: Activism,
Islam and Democracy
Author Ayesha Khan, Fareeda
Shaheed and Kamran Asdar Ali
with moderator Fauzia Viqar
The Italian Job
Archaeological research
and excavation work in Swat
Prof. Ashraf Khan
of the Taxila Institute of Asian
Civilizations in conversation with
Amb. Stefano Pontecorvo