Saturday, Feb.
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Hall 1
10 – 11 a.m. Light at the End of
Trumpian Disruption?
Booker Prize winner
Ben Okri, Mark Leonard, and
Reza 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 Istanbul: Magnificence
through the Ages
Christopher de Bellaigue (Islamic
Enlightenment), author Kaya
Genç, and journalist Ghaith
Abdul-Ahad; Moderated by poet
and scholar Sinan Antoon
2:30 – 3:30 Writing of Nationhood
in an Age of Rage
Kaya Genç, Mohsin Hamid,
and Nadifa Mohamed;
Moderated by Robert Worth
3:45 – 4:45 Faiz: Humari Yaadein
Iftikhar Arif, Zafar Poshni,
and Kishwar Naheed;
Moderated by Masood Asher
5–6 A Delirium of Stories
Ben Okri on storytelling
with Zareena Saeed
Ha ll 2
Aurangzeb Alamgir,
Man and King
Reassessing the longest-
ruling Mughal Emperor
Audrey Truschke
with F. S. Aijazuddin
The Multiple Lives
of Shoaib Hashmi
Salman Shahid and Nadia Jamil;
Moderated by Adeel Hashmi
Expressions of
Contemporary China
Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn
Museum director Melissa Chiu
in conversation with
Shahid Zahid
Pushing the Envelope
Satirist Shafaat Ali, unplugged
Reframing the
Picture of Asian Art
Melissa Chiu, Archaeology
of the Final Decade founder
Vali Mahlouji, and former British
Museum curator Sona Datta
with Salima Hashmi
Ha ll 3
Munoo Bhai ki Yaad The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Mein Jangal Udaas Hain
I. A. Rehman, Kishwar Dr. Parvez Hassan, Paul Salopek,
Naheed, Wajahat Masood, and Hammed Naqi; Moderated
and Hussain Naqi; Moderated
by Asghar Nadeem Syed
Mindscapes: The Art of
Drawing and Architecture Wavell: Soldier & Statesman
London-based conservationist
Tanvir Hasan in conversation
with iconic architect
Nayyar Ali Dada
Soh Thehra Hai
Yahi Ab Fun Humara
Iftikhar Arif with
Asghar Nadeem Syed
Sikh Heritage
after the Raj Governing the Ungovernable
Amardeep Singh
with Rina Saeed Khan
Paying It Forward
Cofounder of Kiva,
Jessica Erin Jackley,
in conversation with
Naeem Zamindar
Ha ll 4 (Bait h ak )
Coping with climate change
by Rina Saeed Khan (From
Mountains to Mangroves)
Book Club
Victoria Schofield with
F. S. Aijazuddin
Book Launch
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
Book Launch
Ishrat Hussain and Illango
Parchamuthu; Moderated
by Shahid Hamid
Gurg-i-Shabka Novel Nigar
Ikramullah and Masood
Asher; Moderated by
Nasir Abbas Nayyar
H a ll 5
In Conversation
Trainspotting
and Other Works
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
Myths, Realities, Politics,
and Imagination: Postconflict
Sri Lanka and Women’s Writing
Sunela Jayewardene,
Bhavani Fonseka, and Ameena
Hussein; Moderated by
Maithree Wickramasinghe
Punjab University presents
Heer Waris Shah
Te Ajoka Wasaib
Nabila Rehman and
Ebad Nabeel Shaad;
Moderated by Saeed Ahmed
Book Club
The Orchard of Lost Souls
Nadifa Mohamed
with Thomas Roueché
Book Launch
Feast
Bisma Tirmizi
with Nelofar Bakhtyar
H a ll 6
Book Launch
When Tribesmen Came Calling:
Building an Enduring American
Business in Pakistan
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
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 Launch
Batwaray Ka Mausam,
Jallundar se Lahore
Salman Rashid and Shaista
Sirajuddin; Moderated
by Khaled Ahmed
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Hall 1 Ha ll 2 Ha ll 3 Ha ll 4 (Bait h ak ) H a ll 5 H a ll 6
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 13th-
century art form
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Hall 1
11:15 a.m. – Asma Jahangir: Warrior Icon
12:15 p.m.
I.A. Rehman, Ahmed Rashid,
Salima Hashmi, Munizae
Jahangir, and Jilani Jahangir
with BBC’s Lyse Doucet
12:30 – 1:30 Parveen Shakir and
the Marsh Marigold
Aitzaz Ahsan, Amjad Islam
Amjad, and Rakshanda Naveed;
Moderated by Mujahid Barelvi
2:30 – 3:30 Outside the American Prism
European Council on Foreign
Relations director Mark Leonard
with Hina Rabbani Khar and
Zahid Hussain; Moderated
by Lyse Doucet
3:45 – 4:45 Baghdad Blues
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
and Sinan Antoon;
Moderated by Razia Iqbal
5–6 Beyond Extremism
Reza Aslan
with Khaled Ahmed
6:30 – 7:40 Performance
Laal celebrates rights
activist Asma Jahangir
with new Urdu and Punjabi
poetry and music from their
upcoming album, Rang
Ha ll 2
Book Launch
The Islamic Enlightenment:
The Modern Struggle Between
Faith and Reason
Christopher de Bellaigue, Robert
Worth, with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Tantalizing the Tooth
Exploring gastronomic feats
Chef and culinary writer
Sumayya Usmani in conversation
with Momina Aijazuddin
Mazahmati Shairi
Kishwar Naheed
and Dr. Azra Raza
Khaab Saraab
Lucknow ki Tareekh
Lucknow-based critic and writer
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
Ha ll 3
Mixing Media
The agenda and authenticity
of popular history
Neera Burra, great-granddaughter
Mehreen Murtaza, Ayesha
Jatoi, and Vali Mahlouji;
Moderated by Iftikhar Dadi
Ghani Khan, Iconoclast
Examining the works of the
20th-century Pakhtun poet
Sabah Husain and Imtiaz
Ahmad Sahibzada; Moderated
by Shandana Khan
A Pilgrimage with Ceramics
Sheherezade Alam
with Sona Datta
Pakistan’s Protest Artist
Activist and painter
Mian Ijaz ul Hassan with Ciler Ilhan and Thomas Roueché
Aitzaz Ahsan and Quddus Mirza
Poetry Slam!
Ben Okri, Sinan Antoon,
and Salman T. Kureishi
with Shaista Sirajuddin
Ha ll 4 (Bait h ak )
Ruchi Ram Sahni, Hali, and
Lahore’s Rattigan Road
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
Wadiye Mehran ke
Adab ka Husn
Attiya Dawood and
Noor ul Huda Shah;
Moderated by Amar Sindhu
Writings from
Today’s Turkey
with Christopher de Bellaigue
Fariduddin Masoud
de Jewan Te Kam
Asma Qadri
H a ll 5 H a ll 6
Afsaanay Ke Safeer Ideal City: Landscapes and
Cultures of Karachi and Lahore
Ali Akbar Natiq and Syed
Gulzar Husnain; Moderated Arif Hasan, Nayyar Ali Dada,
by Ali Madeeh Hashmi and Hiba Ali; Moderated
by Tanvir Hasan
Women of Myrrh, Screening and discussion
Women of Sand Treasures of the Indus
Lebanese author Introduction by Sona Datta
Hanan al-Shaykh and Hugh Thompson;
with Aamer Hussein Moderated by Matt Vaughan
Book Launch Book Launch
Muslims Love and Its Seasons
Ali Mahmood with Aamer Hussein and
Qazi Shaukat Fareed Hanan al-Shaykh; Moderated
by Framji Minwalla
Time Present, Time Past Spotlight, Lahore
Audrey Truschke Tanvir Hasan and
and Osama Siddique; Attiq Uddin Ahmed
Moderated by Sona Dutta