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DAY ONE FRIDAY, FEB. 20

TIME HALL 1 HALL 2 HALL 3 HALL 4 HALL 5

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address

The Past as Present

Romila Thapar

Introduction by Ayesha Jalal

2:30 - 3:30 Politics, Pluralism and

Khushwant Singhs Punjab

Aitzaz Ahsan, Basharat Qadir,Rahul Singh, Shobhaa De,

with F. S. Aijazuddin

Cityscapes:

Writing and Living

in Global Cities

Laurent Gayer, Aakar Patel,

Jean Lambert, Naresh

Fernandes with Khaled Ahmed

Talking Pigment

Unver Shafi Khan

with Saquib Hanif

Reflections of

Seraiki Literature

Ashiq Buzdar, Riffat Abbas,Rana Mehboob with

Nukhbah Langah

The Trials of Writing

a First Novel

Bilal Tanweer, Mahesh Rao,Saba Imtiaz, Soniah Kamal

with Mohsin Hamid

3:45 - 4:45 No Permanent

Friends or Enemies

Andrew Small, Laila Bokhari,

Roger Cohen, Rashed Rahman,

Salil Tripathi with Lyse Doucet

A Lahori Writers Dispatches

Book Launch:Discontent

and Its Civilizations

Mohsin Hamid

with Razia Iqbal

Voicing Silence

Book Launch:

The Hired Man

Aminatta Forna

with Kamila Shamsie

The Eccentric World

of P. G. Wodehouse

Richard Heller with Navid

Shahzad and Peter Oborne

Fixing the Androon:

Reimagining Old Lahore

Attiq Uddin Ahmed, Imrana

Tiwana, Kamran Lashari, Nayyar

Ali Dada, Qazi Shaukat Fareed

5 - 6 Hero and Anti-Hero

Book Launch:

And Then One Day

Naseeruddin Shah

with Mira Hashmi

and Sarmad Khoosat

Urdu Ki

Maqbool Kahanian

Intizar Husain, M. Asaduddin,Kishwar Naheed with

Asif Farrukhi

A Formidable Trilogy:

The Incredible Brazilian

Zulfikar Ghose withMuneeza Shamsie

Zubaan Apni Apni

Punjabi Language

as Peoples Narrative

Ahmed Saleem and Saeed

Bhutta with Mushtaq Soofi

The Last Nizam

of Hyderabad

John Zubrzyckiwith F. S. Aijazuddin

Performance: Nescaf 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.

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DAY TWO SATURDAY, FEB. 21

TIME HALL 1 HALL 2 HALL 3 HALL 4 HALL 5

10 - 11 a.m. Do All Roads Lead to China?

Book Launch:

The China-Pakistan Axis

Presented with Jinnah Institute

Andrew Small, Hasan Karrar,

Mushahid Hussain, Eberhard

Sandschneider, Peter Oborne

Chronicling Lives:

The Art of Biography

Deborah Baker,

John Zubrzycki,

and Rachel Holmes

with Shaimaa Khalil

The Metropolis

and Violence

Laurent Gayer, Yasmine

El Rashidi, Bilal Tanweer,

Mahesh Rao with Ali Raza

What You See;

Art of Imran Mir

Introduction by Hameed

Haroon; Nighat Mir

and Noorjehan Bilgrami

with Quddus Mirza

V Can!

Bimla Bissell,

Roshaneh Zafar,

Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi

with Omar Jamil

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

In the Body

of the World

Eve Ensler and

Monique Wilson

with Nadia Jamil

Cosmopolitan Quetta:

The Past is Another Country

Presented with White Star

Aban Marker Kabraji

with Shahid Zahid

The Cosmic Dance

and Other Poems

Zulfikar Ghose

11:15 - 11:45

The English Ghazal

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

with Amra Raza

11:45 - 12:15

Necessary in Beirut?

Book Launch:

An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

with Moni Mohsin

12:30 - 1:30 Book Launch:

The Struggle for Pakistan

Ayesha Jalalwith Khaled Ahmed

Aaj Kal Ka Kaalum

Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Arif Nizami,

Kishwar Naheed, WajahatMasood with Yasir Pirzada

All that Jazz in

Bombay and Karachi

Naresh Fernandesand Leon Menezes

Lahores

Leisured Legacy

A presentation byJrgen Wasim Frembgen

Temples of the Indus

Reema Abbasi, Aitzaz Ahsan,

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, I. A.Rehman with Ali Qasmi

2:30 - 3:30 What Happens in Kabul

Stays in Kabul

Ahmed Rashid, Aziz Ahmad

Khan, Barnett Rubin, Saad

Mohseni with Lyse Doucet

The Eye Still Seeks

and Will Not Be Still

Book Launch:

The Eye Still Seeks

Salima Hashmi and Virginia

Whiles with Martand Khosla

Transit Literature: Defining

Time and Memory

Hari Kunzru

with Rachel Holmes

Translation Series

Book Launch:What Will You

Give for this Beauty?

Ali Akbar Natiq

with Ali Madeeh Hashmi

Tishnagi: Urdu

Poetry Translations

in Hindi and English

Minu Bakshi

with Navid Shahzad

3:45 - 4:45 Memories of War in Literature

Aminatta Forna, Joe Sacco,

Kamila Shamsie with Razia Iqbal

An Interview with

Bangladeshi History

Book Launch:The Colonel

Who Would Not Repent

Salil Tripathi, Hina Jilani

and Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi

with Taimur Rahman

Middle East: Between

a Rock and a Hard Place

Yasmine El Rashidi,Shaimaa Khalil,

Rabih Alameddine

with Roger Cohen

The Lure of Lal

Shahbaz Qalandar

Jrgen Wasim Frembgenwith Reema Abbasi

Book Launch:Ordered

Disorder of Karachi

Laurent Gayerand Maniza Naqvi

with Saba Imtiaz

5 - 6 Virtual Empires

Presented with Jinnah Institute

Hari Kunzru, Barnett Rubin,

Pervez Hoodbhoy, Andrew

Small, Eberhard Sandschneider,

Rashed Rahman

We Are All Stardust

Artist Faiza Butt talks about

her journey as an artist

Faiza Butt

with Salima Hashmi

and Kamila Shamsie

Taxi Talk

Book Launch:Noon Tide Toll

Romesh Gunesekera

with Ahsan Akbar

On Karl Marxs Daughter

Book Launch:

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Rachel Holmes

with Muneeza Shamsie

When A Woman

and Mountains Meet

Aisha Khan and

Nadeem Ahmed

with Khaled Ahmed

Performance: Poetic Parables by Vikram Sethwith Heeba Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Hall 1, 6:30 - 8

Mushaira, Hall 2, 6:30 - 8

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DAY THREE SUNDAY, FEB. 22

TIME HALL 1 HALL 2 HALL 3 HALL 4 HALL 5

10 - 11 a.m. Anticipating Peace:

India and Pakistan

Khurshid M. Kasuri, Hina

Rabbani Khar, Najam Sethi,

Shekhar Gupta with John Elliott

Faiz: Kuch Ishq Kiya,

Kuch Kaam Kiya

Presented with Faiz Ghar

Adeel Hashmi, Basharat Peer

and Sarwat Ali with Ali Sethi

Unveiling the Untouchable

Ananya Vajpeyi

with F. S. Aijazuddin

Photographing the Emerald

Miners of Afghanistan

Max Becherer

with Nosheen Abbas

Why I Write: Essays by

Saadat Hasan Manto

Aakar Patel

with Mujahid Eshai

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Malika-e-TarannumNoorJahan: the Empress of Song

Farida Khanum, Hameed

Haroon, Jugnu Mohsin, Nazia

Ejaz and Mina Hasan

The World at his Feet:The Writings of Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

with Ahmed Rashid

A Portrait of Ismet ChughtaiDefining an Era in Leftwing

Urdu Literature

Ameena Saiyid, I. A. Rehman

and M. Asaduddin with

Ali Madeeh Hashmi

English Shair o Shairi

Ahsan Akbar,

Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi,

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Chalta Hai!Book Launch:Implosion:

Indias Tryst with Reality

John Elliott with Rahul Singh

12:30 - 1:30 Footnotes from the Frontline

Joe Sacco, Romesh

Gunesekera, Asma Jahangir,

Yasmine El Rashidi

with Basharat Peer

The Return of the Butterfly

Moni Mohsin

with Saba Imtiaz

Harf-e-Man-o-Tu

(The Long Lost Art of

Literary Conversations)

Intizar Husain, Kishwar Naheed,

Masood Ashar, Asif Farrukhi

Book Launch:

The Convert

Deborah Baker

with Maniza Naqvi

Revisiting The Murder

of Aziz Khan

Zulfikar Ghose

with Maryam Wasif Khan

2:30 - 3:30 Cricket: Pakistans GreatestGame Book Launches:

Wounded Tigerand The

Unquiet Ones

Peter Oborne and Osman

Samiuddin with Kamila Shamsie

Future of TV News:Journalism or Mirch Masala?

Saad Mohseni, Saima Mohsin,

Fahd Husain, Arif Nizami

with Fasih Ahmed

Chand Phool:The Design Challenge

Amber Sami

and Shehnaz Ismail

with Naazish Ataullah

Book Discussion:Udaas Nasleinand Beyond

Abdullah Hussain

with Asif Farrukhi

The Stones of Mecca

Ziauddin Sardar

with Rafay Alam

3:45 - 4:45 Living with

Internal Differences:

The South Asian Dilemma

Romila Thapar,

Ayesha Jalal, Asma Jahangir

with Khaled Ahmed

The Incredible World

of Comic Journalism

Joe Sacco, Rabih Alameddine,

Sabir Nazar with Shaimaa Khalil

Pakistans New Soft Power

Ameena Saiyid, Ishrat Husain,

Syeda Abida Hussain

with Fahd Husain

Tilism-e-Hoshruba

Shahnaz Aijazuddin

and Salman Akram Raja

with Navid Riaz

Reef and the Ebb and

Flow of Sri Lankan Writing

Romesh Gunesekera

with Salil Tripathi

5 - 6 Secure Again in

an Insecure World?

Hari Kunzru, Barnett Rubin,

Saad Mohseni, Shekhar Gupta

with Ahmed Rashid

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Presented with UNDP Pakistan

Muneeza Shamsie,

Rachel Holmes, Shobhaa De,

Yasmine El Rashidi

with Nelofar Bakhtyar

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

Book Launch:

The Importance of

Not Being Earnest

Richard Heller

with Peter Oborne

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