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A.G. Noorani
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The Destruction of Hyderabad
A. G. Noorani with Khaled Ahmed
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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Foundering Freedoms
How Jinnah Saw Civil Liberties and Religious Freedoms
Saturday, Feb. 20
A. G. Noorani and I. A. Rehman
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Abdul Hafiz Latify
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Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies
Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noor, and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Yalda Hakim
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Abdullah Husain Haroon
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Friends, not Masters?
Addressing the post-Obama U.S.-Pakistan equation
Abdullah Husain Haroon, Sherry Rehman, Shuja Nawaz and Steve Coll with Yalda Hakim
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Abu Muhammad
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Performance
Qav’vaali
Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad et al
Sunday, Feb. 21
7:30 – 9:30 | Hall 1
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Adrian A. Husain
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So, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf, and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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‘Reality’ and Alternative Fictions in Lolita
Adrian A. Husain with Shaista Sirajuddin
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Afshan Sajjad
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Ahdaf Soueif
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Creativity, Capital and Chaos: Future of the Metropolis
Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Hanif, Rana Dasgupta, and Zukiswa Wanner with Bachi Karkaria
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Speak, Don’t Speak: Between Expression and Oppression
Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ahdaf Soueif, Asma Jahangir, Salman Haidar, and Sonia Faleiro with Yalda Hakim
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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The Passion for Love Literature
Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie, and Alexandra Pringle
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Ahmed Rashid
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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As the World Turns
Steve Coll with Ahmed Rashid
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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Contemporary Great Games
Ahmed Rashid, Hina Rabbani Khar, Steve Coll, with Yalda Hakim
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Aisha Khan
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Book Launch
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Story of the First Ascent
An account of Pakistan’s tallest summit
Mick Conefrey with Aisha Khan
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Alexandra Pringle
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Hybrid Tapestries
A History of Pakistan’s English Literature
Muneeza Shamsie with Alexandra Pringle
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 6
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The Passion for Love Literature
Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie, and Alexandra Pringle
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Mobilising New Readers
Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Chiki Sarkar, and Sonia Faleiro with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Ali Akbar Natiq
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Ali Dayan Hasan
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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What’s so Funny about Satire?
Ashok Ferrey, Bachi Karkaria, and Ned Beauman with Ali Dayan Hasan
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Ali Khan
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Book Launch
Cinema and Society: A History of Pakistani Film Industry
Ali Nobil, Ali Khan, and Mira Hashmi with Nasreen Rehman
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Ali Nobil
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Book Launch
Cinema and Society: A History of Pakistani Film Industry
Ali Nobil, Ali Khan, and Mira Hashmi with Nasreen Rehman
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Ameena Saiyid
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Aag Ka Darya; Partitition’s River of Fire
Ameena Sayid, Arfa Syeda Zehra, and Zehra Nigah with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Mobilising New Readers
Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Chiki Sarkar, and Sonia Faleiro with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Amjad Islam
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Meer Ka Husn e Taghazul
C. M. Naim and Khurshid Rizvi with Amjad Islam Amjad
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Amra Ali
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Rasheed Araeen and his Art
Rasheed Araeen and Iftikhar Dadi with Amra Ali
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Amrita Jhaveri
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora
Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi, Shezad Dawood, and Amrita Jhaveri with Salima Hashmi
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Anissa Helou
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Book Launch
Levant: Recipes and Memories from the Middle East & Foods of Islam
Anissa Helou with Momina Aijazuddin
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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The Woman Who Took Curry Global
Madhur Jaffrey with Anissa Helou
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 2
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Anita Anand
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Feminism and Global Politics
Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union Ambassador to Pakistan
Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy, Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Book Launch
5 Queen’s Road
Sorayya Khan with Anita Anand
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Book Launch
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand with Taimur Rahman
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Arfa Syeda Zehra
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Aag Ka Darya; Partitition’s River of Fire
Ameena Sayid, Arfa Syeda Zehra, and Zehra Nigah with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Arif Mehmood
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The Power of Photography; The Human Imperative
Reza Deghati with Arif Mehmood and Tapu Javeri
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Asghar Nadeem Saeed
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Urdu Nazm Ki Rawayat
Syed Nomanul Haq with Asghar Nadeem Syed
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Aag Ka Darya; Partitition’s River of Fire
Ameena Sayid, Arfa Syeda Zehra, and Zehra Nigah with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Ashok Ferrey
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The Ministry of Thin
Emma Woolf and Rafia Zakaria with Ashok Ferrey
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Talking Sri Lanka: Satire as Self-Defence
Ashok Ferrey with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Asif Farrukhi
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Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction
Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Book Launch
Ainay kay Saamnay: Women voices in Sindhi literature
Attiya Dawood with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 4
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Mobilising New Readers
Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Chiki Sarkar, and Sonia Faleiro with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Asif Noorani
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Bombay and her Secrets
Asif Noorani, Pooja Bhatt, Namita Devidyal, and Sonia Faleiro with Bachi Karkaria
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Book Launch
Ganga Jamuni: A Forgotten Culture
Naz Ikramullah with Asif Noorani
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah
Madhur Jaffrey with Asif Noorani
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Asma Jahangir
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Speak, Don’t Speak: Between Expression and Oppression
Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ahdaf Soueif, Asma Jahangir, Salman Haidar, and Sonia Faleiro with Yalda Hakim
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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Attiq Uddin Ahmed
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Book Launch
Lahore: The Architectural Heritage
Lucy Peck with Attiq Uddin Ahmed
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Attiya Dawood
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Book Launch
Ainay kay Saamnay: Women voices in Sindhi literature
Attiya Dawood with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 4
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Aziz Sohail
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Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi with Aziz Sohail
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 5
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B. N. Goswamy
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From Quest and Astonishment to Nothingness: How Painters saw the Sufis
B. N. Goswamy with an introduction by F.S. Aijazuddin
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Bachi Karkaria
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Creativity, Capital and Chaos: Future of the Metropolis
Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Hanif, Rana Dasgupta, and Zukiswa Wanner with Bachi Karkaria
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Bombay and her Secrets
Asif Noorani, Pooja Bhatt, Namita Devidyal, and Sonia Faleiro with Bachi Karkaria
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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What’s so Funny about Satire?
Ashok Ferrey, Bachi Karkaria, and Ned Beauman with Ali Dayan Hasan
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Bari Mian
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Basit Bhatti
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The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab
Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar, and Musarat Kalanchvi with Asghar Nadeem Saeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Bilal Minto
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Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction
Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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C. M. Naim
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Old Urdu Journals: A Disappearing Heritage; Urdu Akhbar aur Rasail, Ek Ghum Hota Virsa
An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Meer Ka Husn e Taghazul
C. M. Naim and Khurshid Rizvi with Amjad Islam Amjad
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Urdu Mystery Literature; Urdu Jasoosi Adab (1890-1950)
An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Chiki Sarkar
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Mobilising New Readers
Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Chiki Sarkar, and Sonia Faleiro with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Claire Armitstead
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Whose Narrative is it Anyway?
Mohammed Hanif, Susan Abulhawa, Tania James, Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Book Discussion
Glow
Ned Beauman with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Hall 4
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So, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf, and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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The Art of Writing for Children
Saman Shamsie, Viviana Mazza, and Claire Armitstead with Ian Stephen
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Dina Siddiqi
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Feminism and Global Politics
Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union Ambassador to Pakistan
Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy, Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Women in the Cultural Straits of Central and South Asia
Presented with LUMS
Dina Siddiqi, Khawar Mumtaz, Razia Sultanova, Tanika Sarkar with Sadaf Aziz
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance
Dina Siddiqi, Karan Thapar, Sherry Rehman, and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Dr. Hasan Aziz
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Emma Woolf
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So, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf, and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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The Ministry of Thin
Emma Woolf and Rafia Zakaria with Ashok Ferrey
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Eruj Mubarak
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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F. S. Aijazuddin
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From Quest and Astonishment to Nothingness: How Painters saw the Sufis
B. N. Goswamy with an introduction by F.S. Aijazuddin
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Three Mughal Capitals: Agra, Delhi, and Lahore
Lucy Peck and Tahir Kamran with F. S. Aijazuddin
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Fariduddin Ayaz
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Performance
Qav’vaali
Sunday, Feb. 21
Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad et al
7:30 – 9:30 | Hall 1
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Farzana Shaikh
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The State and the Sufis
Farzana Shaikh with Hasan Karrar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Central Asia: Interview with a President
Roza Otunbayeva with Farzana Shaikh
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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From Mazaar to Madrassah
I. A. Rehman, Shuja Nawaz, and Farzana Shaikh with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Fifi Haroon
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The Reel Deal: Bollywood, Lollywood, and Indies
Ranjani Mazumdar, Sharmila Tagore, Jami, Sarmad Khoosat with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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From Bollywood to Bhatti Gate
Mahesh and Pooja Bhatt with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie
Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, and Mona Eltahawy with Fifi Haroon
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Gerry Cambridge
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Gulalai Ismail
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Hafeez Khan
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The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab
Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar, and Musarat Kalanchvi with Asghar Nadeem Saeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Haider Ali Jaan
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Shakir Ali: A Bird in my Heart
Salima Hashmi, Nayyar Ali Dada, Haider Ali Jaan, Zain Naqvi with Naazish Ataullah
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Haji Noor Deen
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Inked: The Beauty of Arabic Calligraphy in Chinese Tradition
Haji Noor Deen with Maliha Noorani
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Hameed Haroon
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Safar: In Conversation with Sharmila Tagore
with Hameed Haroon
Friday, Feb. 19
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Hall 1
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Friday, Feb. 19
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan Years
Pasha Haroon with Hameed Haroon and Nusrat Jamil
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Saturday, Feb. 20
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Hamid Ismailov
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Voices and Verse of Central Asia
Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova with Quddus Mirza
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Dr. Hasan Aziz
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Hasan Karrar
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The State and the Sufis
Farzana Shaikh with Hasan Karrar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Hina Rabbani Khar
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Contemporary Great Games
Ahmed Rashid, Hina Rabbani Khar, Steve Coll, with Yalda Hakim
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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I. A. Rehman
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Foundering Freedoms
How Jinnah Saw Civil Liberties and Religious Freedoms
A. G. Noorani and I. A. Rehman
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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From Mazaar to Madrassah
I. A. Rehman, Shuja Nawaz, and Farzana Shaikh with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Ian Stephen
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Storytelling; Oral Traditions in Scotland and Pakistan
Presented with Highlight Arts
Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai, and Mehreen Fatima
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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The Art of Writing for Children
Saman Shamsie, Viviana Mazza, and Claire Armitstead with Ian Stephen
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Iftikhar Dadi
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora
Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi, Shezad Dawood, and Amrita Jhaveri with Salima Hashmi
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Rasheed Araeen and his Art
Rasheed Araeen and Iftikhar Dadi with Amra Ali
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi with Aziz Sohail
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 5
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Quite Another Way of Seeing
Shezad Dawood with Iftikhar Dadii
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Ilona Yusuf
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Book Launch
City of Spies
Sorayya Khan with Ilona Yusuf
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 5:30 | Hall 4
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Imran Aslam
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Friday, Feb. 19
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Saturday, Feb. 20
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Imran Qureshi
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Art of the Matter
Imran Qureshi and Salima Hashmi
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Irfan Ahmed Urfi
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Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction
Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Jacqueline Novogratz
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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Poor-Rich Divide
Jacqueline Novogratz with Shahid Zahid
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Jami
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The Reel Deal: Bollywood, Lollywood, and Indies
Ranjani Mazumdar, Sharmila Tagore, Jami, Sarmad Khoosat with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Javed Majeed
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The Eloquence in Prose: Readings from Meatless Days, The Rhetoric of English India, and Boys will be Boys
Javed Majeed and Nasreen Rehman
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics
Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, and Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Post-colonialism
Javed Majeed with Nasreen Rehman
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Jim Carruth
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Kamal Munir
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Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance
Dina Siddiqi, Karan Thapar, Sherry Rehman, and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Kamiar Rokni
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Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie
Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, and Mona Eltahawy with Fifi Haroon
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Kamila Shamsie
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Book Launch
The Tusk That Did the Damage
Tania James with Kamila Shamsie
Friday, Feb. 19
5:30 – 6 | Hall 4
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The Afghan Grandmother
Nancy Dupree and Kamila Shamsie with Razia Sultanova
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 2
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The Passion for Love Literature
Ahdaf Soueif, Kamila Shamsie, and Alexandra Pringle
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Kamran Lashari
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Restoring the Royal Bathhouse: Shahi Hammam
Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, and Nayyar Ali Dada with Lucy Peck
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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Karan Thapar
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Talking South Asian Heads
The Craft of Getting Through to the South Asian Movers and Shakers
Karan Thapar and Sherry Rehman
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance
Dina Siddiqi, Karan Thapar, Sherry Rehman, and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Kate Leiper
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Storytelling; Oral Traditions in Scotland and Pakistan
Presented with Highlight Arts
Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai, and Mehreen Fatima
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Kenan Malik
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Khaled Ahmed
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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The Destruction of Hyderabad
A. G. Noorani with Khaled Ahmed
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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From Mazaar to Madrassah
I. A. Rehman, Shuja Nawaz, and Farzana Shaikh with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Unveiling the Titan: In Conversation with Syed Babar Ali
Syed Babar Ali with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Khalid Javaid Jan
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Khalid Jawed
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Fun aur Shakhsiyat
Khalid Jawed and Quddus Mirza with Nomanul Haq
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Give Me Another Tongue: On Ghalib
Marion Molteno with Khalid Jawed
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 5
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Khawar Mumtaz
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Women in the Cultural Straits of Central and South Asia
Presented with LUMS
Dina Siddiqi, Khawar Mumtaz, Razia Sultanova, Tanika Sarkar with Sadaf Aziz
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Khurshid Rizvi
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Meer Ka Husn e Taghazul
C. M. Naim and Khurshid Rizvi with Amjad Islam Amjad
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Kishwar Naheed
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Kishwar Apne Shaksi Khaakon Mein
Kishwar Naheed with Masood Ashar
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 5
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Leon Menezes
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Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie
Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, and Mona Eltahawy with Fifi Haroon
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Lucy Peck
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Book Launch
Lahore: The Architectural Heritage
Lucy Peck with Attiq Uddin Ahmed
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Restoring the Royal Bathhouse: Shahi Hammam
Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, and Nayyar Ali Dada with Lucy Peck
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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Three Mughal Capitals: Agra, Delhi, and Lahore
Lucy Peck and Tahir Kamran with F. S. Aijazuddin
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Madeeha Gauhar
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Theatre of Resistance
Madeeha Gauhar, Nadia Jamil, Sania Saeed, Sheema Kermani with Shahid Nadeem
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Madhur Jaffrey
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Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah
Madhur Jaffrey with Asif Noorani
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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The Woman Who Took Curry Global
Madhur Jaffrey with Anissa Helou
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 2
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Mahesh Bhatt
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From Bollywood to Bhatti Gate
Mahesh and Pooja Bhatt with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Majeed Sheikh
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Punjab’s Literature: Zubaan aur Shinakht
Majeed Sheikh and Sughra Sadaf with Mushtaq Soofi
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall
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Maliha Noorani
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Inked: The Beauty of Arabic Calligraphy in Chinese Tradition
Haji Noor Deen with Maliha Noorani
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Marc-André Franche
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Marie Lall
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Envisioning Education
Marie Lall and Seema Aziz with Marion Molteno
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 5
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Marion Molteno
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Envisioning Education
Marie Lall and Seema Aziz with Marion Molteno
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 5
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Give Me Another Tongue: On Ghalib
Marion Molteno with Khalid Jawed
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 5
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Mary Shemza
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora
Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi, Shezad Dawood, and Amrita Jhaveri with Salima Hashmi
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Masood Ashar
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Kishwar Apne Shaksi Khaakon Mein
Kishwar Naheed with Masood Ashar
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 5
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Masood Khan
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Restoring the Royal Bathhouse: Shahi Hammam
Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, and Nayyar Ali Dada with Lucy Peck
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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Mehreen Fatima
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Storytelling; Oral Traditions in Scotland and Pakistan
Presented with Highlight Arts
Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai, and Mehreen Fatima
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Mick Conefrey
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Book Launch
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Story of the First Ascent
An account of Pakistan’s tallest summit
Mick Conefrey with Aisha Khan
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Mira Hashmi
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Book Launch
Cinema and Society: A History of Pakistani Film Industry
Ali Nobil, Ali Khan, and Mira Hashmi with Nasreen Rehman
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Mohammed Hanif
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Creativity, Capital and Chaos: Future of the Metropolis
Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Hanif, Rana Dasgupta, and Zukiswa Wanner with Bachi Karkaria
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Whose Narrative is it Anyway?
Mohammed Hanif, Susan Abulhawa, Tania James, Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Life with my Father, George Orwell
What I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art
Richard Blair with Mohammed Hanif and Navid Shahzad
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Mohsin Hamid
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Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics
Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, and Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Illusion and Disillusion of the American Dream in the Arts
Mohsin Hamid, Tania James, Ned Beauman with Nick Barley
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Momina Aijazuddin
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Book Launch
Levant: Recipes and Memories from the Middle East & Foods of Islam
Anissa Helou with Momina Aijazuddin
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Mona Eltahawy
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Feminism and Global Politics
Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union Ambassador to Pakistan
Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy, Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics
Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, and Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie
Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, and Mona Eltahawy with Fifi Haroon
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Requiem for the Arab Spring, a Frank Obituary
Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy, and Reza Deghati with Shaimaa Khalil
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Mubashir Ali Zaidi
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Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction
Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Mujahid Eshai
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Storytelling; Oral Traditions in Scotland and Pakistan
Presented with Highlight Arts
Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai, and Mehreen Fatima
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Muneeza Shamsie
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Hybrid Tapestries
A History of Pakistan’s English Literature
Muneeza Shamsie with Alexandra Pringle
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 6
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Musarat Kalanchvi
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The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab
Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar, and Musarat Kalanchvi with Asghar Nadeem Saeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Mushtaq Soofi
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Punjab’s Literature: Zubaan aur Shinakht
Majeed Sheikh and Sughra Sadaf with Mushtaq Soofi
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall
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Naazish Ataullah
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Shakir Ali: A Bird in my Heart
Salima Hashmi, Nayyar Ali Dada, Haider Ali Jaan, Zain Naqvi with Naazish Ataullah
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Nadia Jamil
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Theatre of Resistance
Madeeha Gauhar, Nadia Jamil, Sania Saeed, Sheema Kermani with Shahid Nadeem
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Namita Devidyal
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Bombay and her Secrets
Asif Noorani, Pooja Bhatt, Namita Devidyal, and Sonia Faleiro with Bachi Karkaria
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Nancy Dupree
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Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies
Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noor, and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Yalda Hakim
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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The Afghan Grandmother
Nancy Dupree and Kamila Shamsie with Razia Sultanova
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 2
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Nasir Abbas Nayyar
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Nasreen Rehman
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The Eloquence in Prose: Readings from Meatless Days, The Rhetoric of English India, and Boys will be Boys
Javed Majeed and Nasreen Rehman
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Post-colonialism
Javed Majeed with Nasreen Rehman
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Book Launch
Cinema and Society: A History of Pakistani Film Industry
Ali Nobil, Ali Khan, and Mira Hashmi with Nasreen Rehman
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Cinema as Archive
Nasreen Rehman and Ranjani Mazumdar
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 3
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Naveed Riaz
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Book Launch
The God of my Idolatry
Zia Mohyeddin with Naveed Riaz
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 3
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‘Butamiziyan’ waghera
Naveed Riaz reads humorist Dr. Younis Butt’s stories
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Navid Shahzad
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Life with my Father, George Orwell
What I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art
Richard Blair with Mohammed Hanif and Navid Shahzad
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Nayyar Ali Dada
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Shakir Ali: A Bird in my Heart
Salima Hashmi, Nayyar Ali Dada, Haider Ali Jaan, Zain Naqvi with Naazish Ataullah
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Restoring the Royal Bathhouse: Shahi Hammam
Kamran Lashari, Masood Khan, and Nayyar Ali Dada with Lucy Peck
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 6
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Naz Ikramullah
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Book Launch
Ganga Jamuni: A Forgotten Culture
Naz Ikramullah with Asif Noorani
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Ned Beauman
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Book Discussion
Glow
Ned Beauman with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Hall 4
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Illusion and Disillusion of the American Dream in the Arts
Mohsin Hamid, Tania James, Ned Beauman with Nick Barley
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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What’s so Funny about Satire?
Ashok Ferrey, Bachi Karkaria, and Ned Beauman with Ali Dayan Hasan
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Nick Barley
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Illusion and Disillusion of the American Dream in the Arts
Mohsin Hamid, Tania James, Ned Beauman with Nick Barley
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Nomanul Haq
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Fun aur Shakhsiyat
Khalid Jawed and Quddus Mirza with Nomanul Haq
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Urdu Nazm Ki Rawayat
Syed Nomanul Haq with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Noor Agha Noor
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Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies
Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noor, and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Yalda Hakim
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Musarat Kalanchvi
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The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab
Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar, and Musarat Kalanchvi with Asghar Nadeem Saeed
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Nusrat Jamil
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Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan Years
Pasha Haroon with Hameed Haroon and Nusrat Jamil
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Pasha Haroon
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Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan Years
Pasha Haroon with Hameed Haroon and Nusrat Jamil
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Pooja Bhatt
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From Bollywood to Bhatti Gate
Mahesh and Pooja Bhatt with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Bombay and her Secrets
Asif Noorani, Pooja Bhatt, Namita Devidyal, and Sonia Faleiro with Bachi Karkaria
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Qaisar Mahmood
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Qasim Jafri
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Qazi Shaukat Fareed
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Quddus Mirza
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Voices and Verse of Central Asia
Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova with Quddus Mirza
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Fun aur Shakhsiyat
Khalid Jawed and Quddus Mirza with Nomanul Haq
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Rachel Holmes
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Feminism and Global Politics
Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union Ambassador to Pakistan
Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy, Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Talking Sri Lanka: Satire as Self-Defence
Ashok Ferrey with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Rafia Zakaria
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Feminism and Global Politics
Presented by H.E. Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union Ambassador to Pakistan
Anita Anand, Dina Siddiqi, Mona Eltahawy, Rafia Zakaria with Rachel Holmes
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 3
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Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie
Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, and Mona Eltahawy with Fifi Haroon
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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The Ministry of Thin
Emma Woolf and Rafia Zakaria with Ashok Ferrey
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Book Launch
An Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
Rafia Zakaria with Razeshteh Sethna
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Rahat Multanikar
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The Sound of Seraiki; Literature and Music from Southern Punjab
Basit Bhatti, Hafeez Khan, Rahat Multanikar, and Musarat Kalanchvi with Asghar Nadeem Saeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 4
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Rana Dasgupta
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Creativity, Capital and Chaos: Future of the Metropolis
Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Hanif, Rana Dasgupta, and Zukiswa Wanner with Bachi Karkaria
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 2
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Ranjani Mazumdar
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The Reel Deal: Bollywood, Lollywood, and Indies
Ranjani Mazumdar, Sharmila Tagore, Jami, Sarmad Khoosat with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Cinema as Archive
Nasreen Rehman and Ranjani Mazumdar
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 3
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Rasheed Araeen
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Rasheed Araeen and his Art
Rasheed Araeen and Iftikhar Dadi with Amra Ali
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 3
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Razeshteh Sethna
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Book Launch
An Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
Rafia Zakaria with Razeshteh Sethna
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Razia Sultanova
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Voices and Verse of Central Asia
Hamid Ismailov and Razia Sultanova with Quddus Mirza
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 4
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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The Afghan Grandmother
Nancy Dupree and Kamila Shamsie with Razia Sultanova
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 2
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Women in the Cultural Straits of Central and South Asia
Presented with LUMS
Dina Siddiqi, Khawar Mumtaz, Razia Sultanova, Tanika Sarkar with Sadaf Aziz
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Reema Abbas
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In Transit: Lanes of Liberty
Reema Abbasi and Shohini Ghosh
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 4
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Rehana Saigol
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Friday, Feb. 19
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Performance
Love Letters: A play by A. R. Gurney, directed by Hameed Haroon
Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol
Saturday, Feb. 20
7:30 – 9:00 | Hall 2
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Reza Deghati
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Requiem for the Arab Spring, a Frank Obituary
Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy, and Reza Deghati with Shaimaa Khalil
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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The Power of Photography; The Human Imperative
Reza Deghati with Arif Mehmood and Tapu Javeri
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Richard Blair
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Life with my Father, George Orwell
What I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art
Richard Blair with Mohammed Hanif and Navid Shahzad
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Roza Otunbayeva
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Central Asia: Interview with a President
Roza Otunbayeva with Farzana Shaikh
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Ryan Van Winkle
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Midnight’s Grandchildren: South Asia’s English Poetry, Post-Independence
Sudeep Sen with Ryan Van Winkle
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 6
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Sadaf Aziz
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Women in the Cultural Straits of Central and South Asia
Presented with LUMS
Dina Siddiqi, Khawar Mumtaz, Razia Sultanova, Tanika Sarkar with Sadaf Aziz
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Saifullah Magsi
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Salima Hashmi
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora
Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi, Shezad Dawood, and Amrita Jhaveri with Salima Hashmi
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Shakir Ali: A Bird in my Heart
Salima Hashmi, Nayyar Ali Dada, Haider Ali Jaan, Zain Naqvi with Naazish Ataullah
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Art of the Matter
Imran Qureshi and Salima Hashmi
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Salman Haidar
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Speak, Don’t Speak: Between Expression and Oppression
Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ahdaf Soueif, Asma Jahangir, Salman Haidar, and Sonia Faleiro with Yalda Hakim
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance
Dina Siddiqi, Karan Thapar, Sherry Rehman, and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Saman Shamsie
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The Art of Writing for Children
Saman Shamsie, Viviana Mazza, and Claire Armitstead with Ian Stephen
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Sana Mir
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Sania Saeed
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Theatre of Resistance
Madeeha Gauhar, Nadia Jamil, Sania Saeed, Sheema Kermani with Shahid Nadeem
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Sara Kazmi
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Musical Performance
Presented with Highlight Arts
Sara Kazmi and Sarah Hayes
Friday, Feb. 19
6:30 – 7:00 | Hall 3
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Sarah Hayes
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Musical Performance
Presented with Highlight Arts
Sara Kazmi and Sarah Hayes
Friday, Feb. 19
6:30 – 7:00 | Hall 3
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Sarmad Khoosat
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The Reel Deal: Bollywood, Lollywood, and Indies
Ranjani Mazumdar, Sharmila Tagore, Jami, Sarmad Khoosat with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Seema Aziz
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Envisioning Education
Marie Lall and Seema Aziz with Marion Molteno
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 5
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Shahid Nadeem
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Theatre of Resistance
Madeeha Gauhar, Nadia Jamil, Sania Saeed, Sheema Kermani with Shahid Nadeem
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Shahid Zahid
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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Poor-Rich Divide
Jacqueline Novogratz with Shahid Zahid
Saturday, Feb. 20
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Shaimaa Khalil
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Requiem for the Arab Spring, a Frank Obituary
Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy, and Reza Deghati with Shaimaa Khalil
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Shaista Sirajuddin
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‘Reality’ and Alternative Fictions in Lolita
Adrian A. Husain with Shaista Sirajuddin
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 5
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Shaman Shamsie
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The Art of Writing for Children
Saman Shamsie, Viviana Mazza, and Claire Armitstead with Ian Stephen
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Sharmila Tagore
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The Reel Deal: Bollywood, Lollywood, and Indies
Ranjani Mazumdar, Sharmila Tagore, Jami, Sarmad Khoosat with Fifi Haroon
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 1
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Sheema Kermani
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Theatre of Resistance
Madeeha Gauhar, Nadia Jamil, Sania Saeed, Sheema Kermani with Shahid Nadeem
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 3
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Sherry Rehman
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Talking South Asian Heads
The Craft of Getting Through to the South Asian Movers and Shakers
Karan Thapar and Sherry Rehman
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance
Dina Siddiqi, Karan Thapar, Sherry Rehman, and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 1
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Shezad Dawood
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: Between Home and Diaspora
Mary Shemza, Iftikhar Dadi, Shezad Dawood, and Amrita Jhaveri with Salima Hashmi
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Quite Another Way of Seeing
Shezad Dawood with Iftikhar Dadii
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Shohini Ghosh
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In Transit: Lanes of Liberty
Reema Abbasi and Shohini Ghosh
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 4
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Shuja Nawaz
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From Mazaar to Madrassah
I. A. Rehman, Shuja Nawaz, and Farzana Shaikh with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 2
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Sonia Faleiro
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Bombay and her Secrets
Asif Noorani, Pooja Bhatt, Namita Devidyal, and Sonia Faleiro with Bachi Karkaria
Saturday, Feb. 20
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Speak, Don’t Speak: Between Expression and Oppression
Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ahdaf Soueif, Asma Jahangir, Salman Haidar, and Sonia Faleiro with Yalda Hakim
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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Mobilising New Readers
Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Chiki Sarkar, and Sonia Faleiro with Asif Farrukhi
Sunday, Feb. 21
5 – 6 | Hall 4
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Sorayya Khan
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Book Launch
City of Spies
Sorayya Khan with Ilona Yusuf
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 5:30 | Hall 4
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Book Launch
5 Queen’s Road
Sorayya Khan with Anita Anand
Saturday, Feb. 20
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics
Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, and Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Steve Coll
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Contemporary Great Games
Ahmed Rashid, Hina Rabbani Khar, Steve Coll, with Yalda Hakim
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Sudeep Sen
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Midnight’s Grandchildren: South Asia’s English Poetry, Post-Independence
Sudeep Sen with Ryan Van Winkle
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 6
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Sughra Sadaf
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Punjab’s Literature: Zubaan aur Shinakht
Majeed Sheikh and Sughra Sadaf with Mushtaq Soofi
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall
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Susan Abulhawa
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Writing of Exile and the Exile of Writing
Hamid Ismailov, Marion Molteno, Richard Blair, and Susan Abulhawa with Ali Dayan Hasan
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 1
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Whose Narrative is it Anyway?
Mohammed Hanif, Susan Abulhawa, Tania James, Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics
Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, and Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 1
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Requiem for the Arab Spring, a Frank Obituary
Susan Abulhawa, Mona Eltahawy, and Reza Deghati with Shaimaa Khalil
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Syed Babar Ali
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Unveiling the Titan: In Conversation with Syed Babar Ali
Syed Babar Ali with Khaled Ahmed
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Syed Nomanul Haq
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Urdu Nazm Ki Rawayat
Syed Nomanul Haq with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 5
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Tahir Kamran
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Three Mughal Capitals: Agra, Delhi, and Lahore
Lucy Peck and Tahir Kamran with F. S. Aijazuddin
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 6
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Taimur Rahman
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Book Launch
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand with Taimur Rahman
Sunday, Feb. 21
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 6
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Tania James
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Book Launch
The Tusk That Did the Damage
Tania James with Kamila Shamsie
Friday, Feb. 19
5:30 – 6 | Hall 4
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Whose Narrative is it Anyway?
Mohammed Hanif, Susan Abulhawa, Tania James, Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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Illusion and Disillusion of the American Dream in the Arts
Mohsin Hamid, Tania James, Ned Beauman with Nick Barley
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 3
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Tanika Sarkar
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Women in the Cultural Straits of Central and South Asia
Presented with LUMS
Dina Siddiqi, Khawar Mumtaz, Razia Sultanova, Tanika Sarkar with Sadaf Aziz
Sunday, Feb. 21
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Hall 4
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Tapu Javeri
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The Power of Photography; The Human Imperative
Reza Deghati with Arif Mehmood and Tapu Javeri
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 3
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Tehmina Durrani
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Vicki Husband
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Aik Naya Pehlu: Poetry in Translation
Presented with Highlight Arts
Afshan Sajjad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Gerry Cambridge, Jim Carruth, Khalid Javaid Jan, Kishwar Naheed, and Vicki Husband
Friday, Feb. 19
5 – 6 | Hall 6
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Viviana Mazza
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Multiculturalism in Flux
Refugees, Radicalism and Rightwing Parties
Kenan Malik, Qaisar Mahmood, Roza Otunbayeva, Steve Coll, and Viviana Mazza with Ahmed Rashid
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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The Art of Writing for Children
Saman Shamsie, Viviana Mazza, and Claire Armitstead with Ian Stephen
Sunday, Feb. 21
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Waqas Ali
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We Can Be Heroes; the Promise of Pakistan’s Youth
Presented with UNDP Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail, Syed Muzamil Hassan Zaidi, Saifullah Magsi, Sana Mir, Waqas Ali with Marc-André Franche
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 5
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Yalda Hakim
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Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies
Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noor, and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Yalda Hakim
Friday, Feb. 19
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Contemporary Great Games
Ahmed Rashid, Hina Rabbani Khar, Steve Coll, with Yalda Hakim
Saturday, Feb. 20
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 2
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Speak, Don’t Speak: Between Expression and Oppression
Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ahdaf Soueif, Asma Jahangir, Salman Haidar, and Sonia Faleiro with Yalda Hakim
Sunday, Feb. 21
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 1
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Yasir Pirzada
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The World of Intizar Hussain
Eruj Mubarak, Kishwar Naheed, Khaled Ahmed, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, and Yasir Pirzada with Masood Ashar
Friday, Feb. 19
2:30 – 3:30 | Hall 1
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Zain Naqvi
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Shakir Ali: A Bird in my Heart
Salima Hashmi, Nayyar Ali Dada, Haider Ali Jaan, Zain Naqvi with Naazish Ataullah
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 6
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Zareena Saeed
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So, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf, and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 5
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Zehra Nigah
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Aag Ka Darya; Patitition’s River of Fire
Ameena Sayid, Arfa Syeda Zehra, and Zehra Nigah with Asghar Nadeem Syed
Sunday, Feb. 21
3:45 – 4:45 | Hall 2
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Zehra Nigah
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Festivity of Soul: The Tradition of Qav’vaali
Arfa Syeda Zehra, Bari Mian, Dr. Hasan Aziz, and Zehra Nigah with Qasim Jafri
Sunday, Feb. 21
6:15 – 7:15 | Hall 1
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Zia Mohyeddin
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Book Launch
The God of my Idolatry
Zia Mohyeddin with Naveed Riaz
Saturday, Feb. 20
12:30 – 1:30 | Hall 3
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Zukiswa Wanner
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Whose Narrative is it Anyway?
Mohammed Hanif, Susan Abulhawa, Tania James, Zukiswa Wanner with Claire Armitstead
Saturday, Feb. 20
10 – 11 a.m. | Hall 2
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