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Aurangzeb Alamgir, Man and King Reassessing the longestruling Mughal Emperor
Munoo Bhai ki Yaad Mein Jangal Udaas Hain
The Ground Beneath Our Feet Coping with climate change
Audrey Truschke with F. S. Aijazuddin
I. A. Rehman, Kishwar Naheed, Wajahat Masood, and Hussain Naqi; Moderated by Asghar Nadeem Syed
Dr. Parvez Hassan, Paul Salopek, and Hammed Naqi; Moderated by Rina Saeed Khan (From
Istanbul: Magnificence through the Ages
The Multiple Lives of Shoaib Hashmi
Mindscapes:: The Art of Mindscapes Drawing and Architecture
Christopher de Bellaigue (Islamic Enlightenment) , author Kaya Genç, and journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad; Moderated by poet and scholar Sinan Antoon
Salman Shahid and Nadia Jamil; Moderated by Adeel Hashmi
London-based conservationist Tanvir Hasan in conversation with iconic architect Nayyar Ali Dada
Writing of Nationhood in an Age of Rage
Expressions of Contemporary China
Soh Thehra Hai Yahi Ab Fun Humara
Kaya Genç, Mohsin Hamid, and Nadifa Mohamed; Moderated by Robert Worth
Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum director Melissa Chiu in conversation with Shahid Zahid
Iftikhar Arif with Asghar Nadeem Syed
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10 – 11 a.m.
HALL 5
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Light at the End of Trumpian Disruption?
Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, Mark Leonard, and Reza Aslan, Aslan, with Ahmed Rashid 11:15 – 12:15 p.m.
MC Activist
Emmy winner Riz Ahmed with Mohsin Hamid; Moderated by Shahid Zahid
12:30 – 1:30
2:30 – 3:30
3:45 – 4:45
5–6
Faiz: Humari Yaadein
Pushing the Envelope
Iftikhar Arif, Zafar Poshni, and Kishwar Naheed; Moderated by Masood Asher
Satirist Shafaat Ali, unplugged
A Delirium of Stories
Reframing the Picture of Asian Art
Ben Okri on storytelling with Zareena Saeed
Melissa Chiu, Archaeology of the Final Decade founder Vali Mahlouji, and former British Museum curator Sona Datta with Salima Hashmi
Sikh Heritage after the Raj
Mountains to Mangroves) Book Club
Wavell: Soldier & Statesman Victoria Schofield with F. S. Aijazuddin Book Launch
In Conversation
Book Launch
Trainspotting and Other Works
When Tribesmen Came Calling: Building an Enduring American Business in Pakistan
Scottish novelist and playwright Irvine Welsh with novelist Nadifa Mohamed Changing Perspectives on Down Syndrome
Tania Naima Khan, Ali Allawala, and Shermeen Alam; Moderated by Nadia Jamil
S. Qaisar Shareef with Irteza Ubaid Art and the Human Condition
Janne Teller, Esther Freud, Ciler Ilhan, and Sabyn Javeri; Moderated by Tank magazine’s Thomas Roueché
The Fickle 70s: Memoirs 1972-79 F. S. Aijazuddin with Salman T. Kureishi Book Launch
The New Pakistani Middle Class
Scholar Ammara Maqsood with architect Arif Hasan; Moderated by Khaled Ahmed
Myths, Realities, Politics, and Imagination: Postconflict Sri Lanka and Women’s Writing
Sunela Jayewardene, Bhavani Fonseka, and Ameena Hussein; Moderated by Maithree Wickramasinghe
Book Launch
Punjab University presents
Governing the Ungovernable
Heer Waris Shah Te Ajoka Wasaib
Amardeep Singh with Rina Saeed Khan
Ishrat Hussain and Illango Parchamuthu; Moderated by Shahid Hamid
Paying It Forward
Gurg-i-Shabka Novel Nigar
Cofounder of Kiva, Jessica Erin Jackley, in conversation with Naeem Zamindar
Ikramullah and Masood Asher; Moderated by Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Nabila Rehman and Ebad Nabeel Shaad; Moderated by Saeed Ahmed
Adam Zameenzad, Son of Earth Celebrating Salim Ahmed a.k.a. Adam Zameenzad, whose The Thirteenth House was long-listed for the 1987 Booker Prize
Salman T. Kureishi, Muneeza Shamsie, and Athar Tahir Moderated by Framji Minwalla The Mundane as Incubator
Irvine Welsh, Osama Siddique, and Esther Freud with Hugh Thompson
Book Club
Book Launch
The Orchard of Lost Souls Nadifa Mohamed with Thomas Roueché
Batwaray Ka Mausam, Jallundar se Lahore
Book Launch
Feast Bisma Tirmizi with Nelofar Bakhtyar
Salman Rashid and Shaista Sirajuddin; Moderated by Khaled Ahmed
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6:15 – 6:45
Keynote Address
The Power of Woke
Dr. Azra Raza; Introduction by Arfa Sayeda Zehra 7 – 8:30
Dastangoi Tales in the 13thcentury art form
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12:30 – 1:30
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SUNDAY, FEB. 25 #LLF2018 / ALHAMRA ARTS CENTER, MALL ROAD THE PROGRAM BELOW IS TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR UPDATES, PLEASE VISIT LAHORELITFEST.COM HA L L 1
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Asma Jahangir: Warrior Icon
Book Launch
Mixing Media The agenda and authenticity of popular history
Ruchi Ram Sahni, Hali, and Lahore’s Rattigan Road
Afsaanay Ke Safeer
Ideal City: Landscapes and Cultures of Karachi and Lahore
I.A. Rehman, Ahmed Rashid, Salima Hashmi, Munizae Jahangir, and Jilani Jahangir with BBC’s Lyse Doucet
Tantalizing the Tooth Exploring gastronomic feats
Aitzaz Ahsan, Amjad Islam Amjad, and Rakshanda Naveed; Moderated by Mujahid Barelvi
Chef and culinary writer Sumayya Usmani in conversation with Momina Aijazuddin
Outside the American Prism
Mazahmati Shairi
A Pilgrimage with Ceramics
European Council on Foreign Relations director Mark Leonard with Hina Rabbani Khar and Zahid Hussain; Moderated by Lyse Doucet
Kishwar Naheed and Dr. Azra Raza
Sheherezade Alam with Sona Datta
Baghdad Blues
Khaab Saraab Lucknow ki Tareekh
Pakistan’s Protest Artist
Beyond Extremism
Reza Aslan with Khaled Ahmed
6:30 – 7:40
Christopher de Bellaigue, Robert Worth, with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Mehreen Murtaza, Ayesha Jatoi, and Vali Mahlouji; Moderated by Iftikhar Dadi
Parveen Shakir and the Marsh Marigold
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Sinan Antoon; Moderated by Razia Iqbal
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Performance
Laal celebrates rights activist Asma Jahangir with new Urdu and Punjabi poetry and music from their upcoming album, Rang
Lucknow-based critic and writer Lucknow-based Anis Ashfaq and Masood Asher with Nasir Abbas Nayyar Book Launch
Seventy … And to Hell With It!
Shobhaa De with Sabyn Javeri Why Is Shakespeare Shakespeare? An evening with Zia Mohyeddin
Ghani Khan, Iconoclast Examining the works of the 20th-century Pakhtun poet
Sabah Husain and Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada; Moderated by Shandana Khan
Activist and painter Mian Ijaz ul Hassan with Aitzaz Ahsan and Quddus Mirza
Poetry Slam!
Ben Okri, Sinan Antoon, and Salman T. Kureishi with Shaista Sirajuddin
Neera Burra, great-granddaughter of reformer Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863-1948), with Sajida Vandal, and Khalid Aftab; Moderated by Khaled Ahmed Book Launch
Peach Emma Glass with Razia Iqbal Book Launch
Invisible Ties Nadya A. R. with Shobhaa De
Ali Akbar Natiq and Syed Gulzar Husnain; Moderated by Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Arif Hasan, Nayyar Ali Dada, and Hiba Ali; Moderated by Tanvir Hasan
Women of Myrrh, Women of Sand
Treasures of the Indus
Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh with Aamer Hussein
Introduction by Sona Datta and Hugh Thompson; Moderated by Matt Vaughan
Screening and discussion
Wadiye Mehran ke Adab ka Husn
Book Launch
Book Launch
Muslims
Love and Its Seasons
Attiya Dawood and Noor ul Huda Shah; Moderated by Amar Sindhu
Ali Mahmood with Qazi Shaukat Fareed
Aamer Hussein and Hanan al-Shaykh; Moderated by Framji Minwalla
Writings from Today’s Turkey
Time Present, Time Past
Spotlight, Lahore
Audrey Truschke and Osama Siddique; Moderated by Sona Dutta
Tanvir Hasan and Attiq Uddin Ahmed
Ciler Ilhan and Thomas Roueché with Christopher de Bellaigue
Fariduddin Masoud de Jewan Te Kam
Asma Qadri