Lahore Literary Festival 2015

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DAY ONE FRIDAY, FEB. 20 T IM E 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

H A LL 1

HALL 2

HALL 3

H ALL 4

H ALL 5

Cityscapes: Writing and Living in Global Cities

Talking Pigment

Reflections of Seraiki Literature

The Trials of Writing a First Novel

Ashiq Buzdar, Riffat Abbas, Rana Mehboob with Nukhbah Langah

Bilal Tanweer, Mahesh Rao, Saba Imtiaz, Soniah Kamal with Mohsin Hamid

The Eccentric World of P. G. Wodehouse

Fixing the Androon: Reimagining Old Lahore

Richard Heller with Navid Shahzad and Peter Oborne

Attiq Uddin Ahmed, Imrana Tiwana, Kamran Lashari, Nayyar Ali Dada, Qazi Shaukat Fareed

Zubaan Apni Apni Punjabi Language as People’s Narrative

The Last Nizam of Hyderabad

Keynote Address

The Past as Present Romila Thapar Introduction by Ayesha Jalal 2:30 - 3:30

Politics, Pluralism and Khushwant Singh’s Punjab Aitzaz Ahsan, Basharat Qadir, Rahul Singh, Shobhaa De, with F. S. Aijazuddin

3:45 - 4:45

No Permanent Friends or Enemies Andrew Small, Laila Bokhari, Roger Cohen, Rashed Rahman, Salil Tripathi with Lyse Doucet

5-6

Hero and Anti-Hero Book Launch: And Then One Day Naseeruddin Shah with Mira Hashmi and Sarmad Khoosat

Unver Shafi Khan with Saquib Hanif

Laurent Gayer, Aakar Patel, Jean Lambert, Naresh Fernandes with Khaled Ahmed A Lahori Writer’s Dispatches Book Launch: Discontent and Its Civilizations

Voicing Silence Book Launch: The Hired Man

Mohsin Hamid with Razia Iqbal

Aminatta Forna with Kamila Shamsie

Urdu Ki Maqbool Kahanian

A Formidable Trilogy: The Incredible Brazilian

Intizar Husain, M. Asaduddin, Kishwar Naheed with Asif Farrukhi

Zulfikar Ghose with Muneeza Shamsie

Ahmed Saleem and Saeed Bhutta with Mushtaq Soofi

John Zubrzycki with F. S. Aijazuddin

Performance: Nescafé Basement Gigs, Hall 1, 6:30 - 7:30 Performance by Poor Rich Boy, Hall 2, 6:30 - 7:30

Please note that LLF reserves the right in its sole discretion to change the time, date, hall or speakers for any of the listed panels. Seating in all halls shall be on a first-come, first-served basis at this free, open-to-public event. Firearms and weapons shall not be permitted at the premises. Sessions will start on time, and entrance doors to the halls shall be closed during the sessions to ensure that the discussions are not disrupted.

DAY T WO SATURDAY, FEB. 21 T IME 10 - 11 a.m.

H A LL 1

HALL 2

HALL 3

H ALL 4

Do All Roads Lead to China?

Chronicling Lives: The Art of Biography

The Metropolis and Violence

What You See; Art of Imran Mir

Deborah Baker, John Zubrzycki, and Rachel Holmes with Shaimaa Khalil

Laurent Gayer, Yasmine El Rashidi, Bilal Tanweer, Mahesh Rao with Ali Raza

Introduction by Hameed Haroon; Nighat Mir and Noorjehan Bilgrami with Quddus Mirza

In the Body of the World

Cosmopolitan Quetta: The Past is Another Country

Eve Ensler and Monique Wilson with Nadia Jamil

Presented with White Star

The Cosmic Dance and Other Poems Zulfikar Ghose 11:15 - 11:45

Aaj Kal Ka Kaalum

All that Jazz in Bombay and Karachi

Lahore’s Leisured Legacy

Naresh Fernandes and Leon Menezes

A presentation by Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

Transit Literature: Defining Time and Memory

Translation Series

Book Launch: The China-Pakistan Axis Presented with Jinnah Institute

Andrew Small, Hasan Karrar, Mushahid Hussain, Eberhard Sandschneider, Peter Oborne 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

The Wonder that was Cordoba: The Legacy of Tolerance Roger Cohen, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Ziauddin Sardar with Ali Qasmi

12:30 - 1:30

Book Launch: The Struggle for Pakistan Ayesha Jalal with Khaled Ahmed

2:30 - 3:30

What Happens in Kabul Stays in Kabul… Ahmed Rashid, Aziz Ahmad Khan, Barnett Rubin, Saad Mohseni with Lyse Doucet

3:45 - 4:45

Memories of War in Literature Aminatta Forna, Joe Sacco, Kamila Shamsie with Razia Iqbal

Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Arif Nizami, Kishwar Naheed, Wajahat Masood with Yasir Pirzada The Eye Still Seeks and Will Not Be Still Book Launch: The Eye Still Seeks

Hari Kunzru with Rachel Holmes

Salima Hashmi and Virginia Whiles with Martand Khosla An Interview with Bangladeshi History Book Launch: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent Salil Tripathi, Hina Jilani and Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi with Taimur Rahman

5-6

Aban Marker Kabraji with Shahid Zahid

Virtual Empires

We Are All Stardust

Presented with Jinnah Institute

Artist Faiza Butt talks about her journey as an artist

Hari Kunzru, Barnett Rubin, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Andrew Small, Eberhard Sandschneider, Rashed Rahman

Faiza Butt with Salima Hashmi and Kamila Shamsie

Performance: Poetic Parables by Vikram Seth with Heeba Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Hall 1, 6:30 - 8 Mushaira, Hall 2, 6:30 - 8

The English Ghazal Shadab Zeest Hashmi with Amra Raza 11:45 - 12:15

Book Launch: What Will You Give for this Beauty? Ali Akbar Natiq with Ali Madeeh Hashmi

H ALL 5 V Can! Bimla Bissell, Roshaneh Zafar, Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi with Omar Jamil

Necessary in Beirut? Book Launch: An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine with Moni Mohsin

Temples of the Indus Reema Abbasi, Aitzaz Ahsan, Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, I. A. Rehman with Ali Qasmi

Tishnagi: Urdu Poetry Translations in Hindi and English Minu Bakshi with Navid Shahzad

Middle East: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The Lure of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Book Launch: Ordered Disorder of Karachi

Yasmine El Rashidi, Shaimaa Khalil, Rabih Alameddine with Roger Cohen

Jürgen Wasim Frembgen with Reema Abbasi

Laurent Gayer and Maniza Naqvi with Saba Imtiaz

Taxi Talk Book Launch: Noon Tide Toll

On Karl Marx’s Daughter Book Launch: Eleanor Marx: A Life

When A Woman and Mountains Meet

Romesh Gunesekera with Ahsan Akbar

Rachel Holmes with Muneeza Shamsie

Aisha Khan and Nadeem Ahmed with Khaled Ahmed

DAY THREE SUNDAY, FEB. 22 T IM E 10 - 11 a.m.

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

12:30 - 1:30

2:30 - 3:30

H A LL 1

HALL 2

HALL 3

H ALL 4

H ALL 5

Anticipating Peace: India and Pakistan

Faiz: Kuch Ishq Kiya, Kuch Kaam Kiya

Unveiling the Untouchable

Photographing the Emerald Miners of Afghanistan

Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

Khurshid M. Kasuri, Hina Rabbani Khar, Najam Sethi, Shekhar Gupta with John Elliott

Presented with Faiz Ghar

Max Becherer with Nosheen Abbas

Aakar Patel with Mujahid Eshai

English Shair o Shairi

Chalta Hai! Book Launch: Implosion: India’s Tryst with Reality

3:45 - 4:45

The World at his Feet: The Writings of Roger Cohen

Farida Khanum, Hameed Haroon, Jugnu Mohsin, Nazia Ejaz and Mina Hasan

Roger Cohen with Ahmed Rashid

Footnotes from the Frontline

The Return of the Butterfly

Joe Sacco, Romesh Gunesekera, Asma Jahangir, Yasmine El Rashidi with Basharat Peer

Moni Mohsin with Saba Imtiaz

Cricket: Pakistan’s Greatest Game Book Launches: Wounded Tiger and The Unquiet Ones

Future of TV News: Journalism or Mirch Masala?

Living with Internal Differences: The South Asian Dilemma Romila Thapar, Ayesha Jalal, Asma Jahangir with Khaled Ahmed

5-6

Adeel Hashmi, Basharat Peer and Sarwat Ali with Ali Sethi

Malika-e-Tarannum Noor Jahan: the Empress of Song

Peter Oborne and Osman Samiuddin with Kamila Shamsie

Secure Again in an Insecure World? Hari Kunzru, Barnett Rubin, Saad Mohseni, Shekhar Gupta with Ahmed Rashid

Ananya Vajpeyi with F. S. Aijazuddin

A Portrait of Ismet Chughtai Defining an Era in Leftwing Urdu Literature

Ahsan Akbar, Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi, Shadab Zeest Hashmi

John Elliott with Rahul Singh

Book Launch: The Convert

Revisiting The Murder of Aziz Khan

Deborah Baker with Maniza Naqvi

Zulfikar Ghose with Maryam Wasif Khan

Chand Phool: The Design Challenge

Book Discussion: Udaas Naslein and Beyond

The Stones of Mecca

Saad Mohseni, Saima Mohsin, Fahd Husain, Arif Nizami with Fasih Ahmed

Amber Sami and Shehnaz Ismail with Naazish Ataullah

Abdullah Hussain with Asif Farrukhi

The Incredible World of Comic Journalism

Pakistan’s New Soft Power

Tilism-e-Hoshruba

Ameena Saiyid, Ishrat Husain, Syeda Abida Hussain with Fahd Husain

Shahnaz Aijazuddin and Salman Akram Raja with Navid Riaz

Ameena Saiyid, I. A. Rehman and M. Asaduddin with Ali Madeeh Hashmi

Harf-e-Man-o-Tu (The Long Lost Art of Literary Conversations) Intizar Husain, Kishwar Naheed, Masood Ashar, Asif Farrukhi

Joe Sacco, Rabih Alameddine, Sabir Nazar with Shaimaa Khalil

Fifty Shades of Feminism Presented with UNDP Pakistan

Muneeza Shamsie, Rachel Holmes, Shobhaa De, Yasmine El Rashidi with Nelofar Bakhtyar

Performance: One Billion Rising, Eve Ensler with the Rafi Peer Sufi Music Ensemble, Hall 1, 6:30 - 8:30

Taking South Asia to Venice Feroze Gujral and Rashid Rana with Virginia Whiles

Punjab Da Husn-e-Adab Qazi Javed and Riaz Ahmed Shad with Mushtaq Soofi

Ziauddin Sardar with Rafay Alam

Reef and the Ebb and Flow of Sri Lankan Writing Romesh Gunesekera with Salil Tripathi

Book Launch: The Importance of Not Being Earnest Richard Heller with Peter Oborne