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Lahore Literary Festival in New York City

Co-presented with Asia Society, May 7 and 8, 2016
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Saturday, May 7

5 p.m.

Reception

6 p.m.

Performance: Pakistan on Stage

Sunday, May 8

10 a.m.

Registration and welcome addresses by Asia Society, LLF Founder and CEO Razi Ahmed, and Maleeha Lodhi

10:30 11:15 a.m.

Literary Pakistan
Bapsi Sidhwa, Bilal Tanweer, Rafia Zakaria, and Tasneem Zehra Husain with Hugh Eakin

11:30 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Urdu Literature Binding South Asia

Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Francis Pritchett, and Tahira Naqvi with Dr. Azra Raza

12:30 1:30 p.m.

The Promise of Pakistan

Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Manan Ahmed, and Stephen P. Cohen with Raza Rumi

2:30 3:15 p.m.

Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Salima Hashmi, Sadia Shirazi, and Salman Toor with Amin Jaffer

3:30 4:15 p.m.

Educating Pakistan
Syed Babar Ali with Amna Nawaz

4:30 5:15 p.m.

U.S.-Pakistan Relations in an Uncertain World

Ahmed Rashid and Kati Marton with Roger Cohen

5:15 6 p.m.

Lahore, Kites, and Popular Culture

Ammar Belal, Sarmad Khoosat, and Zeb Bangash with Maryam Wasif Khan

8 p.m.

Qawwali Devotional Music from the Sufi Traditions of Pakistan

With Saami Brothers Qawwal (This event is ticketed separately)

Tickets:
$20 for members
$22 for students/seniors
$25 for nonmembers

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