Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), the first and by far the foremost literature festival in the country, needs no introduction. It has become an integral part of the social and intellectual calendar of this city and, indeed, of the country.

14th KLF Speakers
14th KLF Programme
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Day 1
Feb 17, 2023
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Day 2
Feb 18, 2023
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Day 3
Feb 19, 2023
- Main Garden
- Jasmine
- Aquarius Hall
- Room 007


Main Garden
سخن افتخار : کلیات افتخارعارف


Jasmine
A Bank is Born


Aquarius Hall
Faiza Butt and Adeela Suleman in conversation with Shehnaz Ismail


Room 007
Reverberations: Poetry in English


Aquarius Hall
Schedule for Divvy Film Festival:
8:40 p.m. Baira Garakh - Mehreen Jabbar; 8:59 p.m. Sinf e Taal - Amna Maqbool; 9:12 p.m. The Land of My Forefathers - Irfan Noor; 9:35 p.m. A Night with Noorjehan - Mariam Majid; 9:48 p.m. Dayal Among the Spirits - Syed Muneeb Kazmi; 10:15 p.m. Sea Birds - Saweera Jahan & Puffball Studios; 10:25 p.m. B FOR NAOO - Roofi Kashfi; 10:45 p.m. Ramz - Daniyal Najam; 11:00 p.m. Q & A
- Main Garden
- Jasmine Hall
- Aquarius Hall
- Room 007


Main Garden
بیادرفتگان: ضیاء محی الدین ، امجد اسلام امجد ،امداد حُسینی اور مسعود اشعر


Jasmine Hall
Vulnerability and Resilience: Climate and Communities


Aquarius Hall
The Lahooti of Sindh: A Photographic Journey


Room 007
Workshop: Community Healing Circle
Pre-registration required


Room 007
Caring Culture: Student-Teacher Wellbeing


Main Garden
The Social Butterfly: From London to Lahore


Jasmine Hall
A Piece of the Moon


Aquarius Hall
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: A tale of pathos, humor and satire...


Room 007
Ways of Being: Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women


Main Garden
For Faith, State and the Soul: A History of Pop Culture in Pakistan


Jasmine Hall
پھرتا ہے فلک برسوں


Aquarius Hall
جنوبی ایشیا کی منتخب نظمیں


Room 007
Sindh Under the Mughals: Origin and Development of Historiography (1591-1737 CE)


Main Garden
Invasive Media: Right to Privacy


Jasmine Hall
EdTech: The New Normal


Aquarius Hall
Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan


Room 007
سب افسانہ ہے :حمید شاہد کی نگار شات پر مکالمہ


Main Garden
ہم سنگین مزاق کی لپیٹ میں ہیں


Jasmine Hall
Getz Pharma EACPE Film Awards 2022: Unearthing Cultures of Pakistan


Aquarius Hall
The Current Crisis: Constitutional or Political


Room 007
Heer Waris Shah (English Translation)


Main Garden
Book Launch: Gluco Kahani


Jasmine Hall
Pakistan: Statecraft and Geopolitics in Today’s World


Aquarius hall
Between the Arab and the Anglophone World


Room 007
قافلہء سخت جاں


Main Garden
پاکستانی ڈراما : کہاں سے آیا کہاں گیا وہ


Jasmine Hall
Promise, Reality and Time


Aquarius Hall
Pakistan’s Wars: An Alternative History


Room 007
عصر حاضر کی نسائی شاعر ی


Main Garden
Feature Film Screening: Quaid-i-Azam Zindabad


Jasmine Hall
مشاعرہ
Sani Syed, Salman Sarwat, Waheed Noor, Ahmed Atta, Peerzada Salman, Fazil Jamili, Harris Khalique, Tanveer Anjum, Hameeda Shaheen, Yasmeen Hameed, Ashfaq Hussain, Afzal Ahmad Syed, Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, Anwar Shaoor, and Kishwar Naheed


Aquarius Hall
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family


Room 007
اردو کا وقار بڑھانے میں اکیسویں صدی کے طریقہ ہاۓ تدریس کا کردار


Aquarius Hall
Schedule for Divvy Film Festival
8:40 p.m. Lahooti - Matthieu Paley & Sebastian Feehan 8:49 p.m. Quetta’s Old Men’s Garden - Soch Videos 8:59 p.m. Stay Tuned - Ali Mehdi 9:28 p.m. Delirium - Ahmed Sameer 9:35 p.m. One Way Glass - Nauman Khalid 9:55 p.m. Kanrach - Uzair Surhio 10:08 p.m. My Mother’s Daughter - Ahmen Khawaja & Mariam Khan 10:25 p.m. Stray Dogs Come Out at Night - Hamza Bangash 10:40 p.m. Q & A Session
- Main Garden
- Jasmine Hall
- Aquarius Hall
- Room 007


Main Garden
Cricket in Pakistan: Nation, Identity, and Politics


Jasmine Hall
Faith & Intellect


Aquarius Hall
Pathway to Development: Liberal Arts Education


Room 007
فطرت کی تعظیم اورہماری شعری روایت


Main Garden
Untangling South Asia


Jasmine Hall
Climate Justice & Embedded Injustices


Aquarius Hall
Saints, Sufis and Shrines: The Mystical Landscape of Sindh


Room 007
History, Memory, Fiction: New Dimensions in Contemporary Pakistani and Kashmiri Writings


Room 007
The Voice of the Left


Main Garden
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi


Jasmine Hall
Companion to Pakistani Cuisine


Aquarius Hall
The Equitable Tax


Room 007
The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian


Main Garden
Search for Peace and Security among Neighbours


Jasmine Hall
Rising Expectations: Pakistan’s Judiciary in Focus


Aquarius Hall
Between Quarantine and Quest: A Bilingual Anthology of Art, Poetry and Writings
Readings by Yogeshwar Karera and Raana Kazmi


Room 007
پو ٹھو ہار: خطۂ دل ربا


Room 007
Lisaniyat aur Lughat Naweesi ki Surat e Haal


Main Garden
Evolving Geopolitics: Impact on Pakistan


Jasmine Hall
Education Policies in Pakistan: Politics, Projections and Practices


Aquarius Hall
Dramatic Readings of Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi’s Aur Aana Ghar mein Murgiyon Ka and Patras Bukhari’s Bache aur Kuttay


Aquarius Hall
Dramatic Readings


Room 007
This Side of the River


Room 007
اک راستہ ہے زندگی


Main Garden
From Silver Screen to Mini Screen: Goldmine of OTT Media


Jasmine Hall
Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity


Aquarius Hall
Courageous Leadership: A Need for D&I


Room 007
The Writers Square


Main Garden
Doosri Mulaqat


Jasmine Hall
Pakistan’s Economy: Depth and Resilience


Aquarius Hall
Centrism and its Discontents


Room 007
بلوچی زبان و ادب کے فروغ میں کراچی کا کردار


Closing Ceremony
Vote of Thanks by: Muhammad Aurangzeb, President & CEO, HBL; Arshad Saeed Husain, Managing Director, Oxford University Press Pakistan


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