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10 - 11 a.m. Making Museums: Preserving National Heritage in Stressed Societies

Nancy Dupree, Noor Agha Noori and Abdul Hafiz Latify with Ahmed Rashid

Bound: Literature and the Shackles of Politics

Mohsin Hamid, Mona Eltahawy, Sorayya Khan, Susan Abulhawa with Javed Majeed

Urdu Mystery Literature (1890-1950) Jaasoosi Urdu Adab

An illustrated talk by C. M. Naim

Foundering Freedoms

A. G. Noorani and I. A. Rehman

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The Passion for Love Literature

Ahdaf Soueif, Marion Molteno,Kamila Shamsie and Alexandra Pringle

Inside the Labyrinth: A take from Pakistan on David Bowie

Kamiar Rokni, Leon Menezes, Mona Eltahawy and Shahid Zahid with Fifi Haroon

Emerging Trends in Urdu Fiction

Bilal Minto, Irfan Ahmed Urfi and Mubashir Ali Zaidi with Asif Farrukhi

Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Post-colonialism

Javed Majeed with Nasreen Rehman

12:30 - 1:30 Illusion and Disillusion: The American Dream in the Arts

Mohsin Hamid, Tania James and Ned Beauman with Nick Barley

Central Asia: Interview with a President

Roza Otunbayeva with Farzana Shaikh

The Woman Who Took Curry Global

Madhur Jaffrey with Anissa Helou

The Power of Photography: the Human Imperative

Reza Deghati with Arif Mahmood and Tapu Javeri

2:30 - 3:30 Unveiling the Titan: In Conversation with Syed Babar Ali

Syed Babar Ali with Khaled Ahmed

Lurching Rightwards: South Asia in the Balance

Dina Siddiqi, Sherry Rehman and Salman Haidar with Kamal Munir

Mobilizing New Readers

Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Ashok Ferrey and Chiki Sarkar

with Asif Farrukhi

Revisiting Shakespeare Wallah

Madhur Jaffrey with Asif Noorani

3:45 - 4:45 Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan Years

Pasha Haroon with Hameed Haroon and Nusrat Jamil

So, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Adrian A. Husain, Emma Woolf and Zareena Saeed with Claire Armitstead

Another Way of Seeing

Shezad Dawood with Iftikhar Dadi

Mind the Gap: Bridging the Poor-Rich Divide

Jacqueline Novogratz with Shahid Zahid

5 - 6 Meer: Shaksiyat Aur Sha’iri

C. M. Naim, Khurshid Rizvi, Aitzaz Ahsan and Zehra Nigah with Amjad Islam Amjad

The Ministry of Thin: Women, Weight Loss, and the Obsession with Body Image

Ashok Ferrey and Emma Woolf with Rafia Zakaria

6:15 - 7:15 From Quest and Astonishment to Nothingness: How Painters saw the Sufis

B. N. Goswamy with an introduction by F. S. Aijazuddin

Storytelling: Oral Traditions in Scotland and PakistanPresented with Highlight Arts

Ian Stephen, Kate Leiper, Mujahid Eshai and Mehreen Fatima

7:30 - 8:30 Love LettersA play by A. R. Gurney

Directed by Hameed Haroon featuring Imran Aslam and Rehana Saigol

Please note: The play runs until 9

Midnight’s Grandchildren: South Asia’s English Poetry

Post-Independence

Sudeep Sen with Ryan Van Winkle

9:15 - 10:15 Qav’vaaliFariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, et. al.

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