The Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) was launched in April 2013 and has been a resounding success right from the start. Inspired by the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) was launched at the end of 2011.
6th Islamabad Literature Festival 2019
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Speakers
6th ILF Programme
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Day 1
Sep 27, 2019
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Day 2
Sep 28, 2019
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Day 3
Sep 29, 2019
- Margala Hall
- Sangam Hall
- Board Room


Margala Hall
Arrival of Guests


Margala Hall
Welcome Speeches by Festival Organizer / Sponsors


Margala Hall
Keynote Speeches by Navid Shahzad and Haseena Moin


Margala Hall


Margala Hall
Kashmir: The Valley Seized


Sangam Hall
Documentary Screening: Indus Blues


Board Room
Book Launch: The Begum: A Portrait of Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan by Deepa Agarwal and Tahmina Aziz


Margala Hall
Jahan-e-Sufi (A Fusion of Folk and Qawwali) by Bakhshi Brothers
- Margala Hall
- Sangam Hall
- Central Lawn
- Board Room


Margala Hall
Iftikhar Arif: His Life and Work


Sangam Hall
Adding up the Energy Equation


Central Lawn
Naya Asloob, Nayee Aurat


Margala Hall
In conversation with Soniah Kamal author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan


Sangam Hall
Taraqqi Pasand Tehrik: Naye Tanazarat Aur Naye Sawalaat


Central Lawn
Bayad-e-Dr Enver Sajjad


Board Room
Challenging the Colonial Narrative in South Asian Historical Fiction


Margala Hall
Book Discussion: Teen Saltanaton ki Daastan translated by Zahoor Ahmed - An Historical Chinese Novel


Sangam Hall
Book Discussion: The Mercurial Mr Bhutto and Other Stories by Maheen Usmani


Central Lawn
Book Discussion: The Melody of a Tear by Haroon Khalid Akhtar


Board Room
Book launch : Kaun- (‘Who’), a Novelette by Mudassar Bashir


Margala Hall
Book Launch: Phat’tay Aamon ka Case (Translation of A Case of Exploding Mangoes) by Mohammed Hanif


Sangam Hall
Striking Peace in a Nuclear Charged Environment


Central Lawn
Adab Kar Is Kharabati Ka Jis Ko Josh Kehtay Hain: Josh Malihabadi


Board Room
Politics and the Pakistani English Language Poet


Margala Hall
Reversing the Great Game: Pakistan's Pivot


Sangam Hall
In conversation with H.M. Naqvi author of Abdullah the Cossack


Central Lawn
Education in the New Millennium: Promises and Perils


Board Room
Potohar Ka Adabi Manzarnama: Maazi aur Haal


Margala Hall
Book Launch: Prison Interlude: The Last Eyewitness Account of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case by Zafar Ullah Poshni


Sangam Hall
Book Discussion: Rethinking Pakistan: A 21st Century Perspective Edited by Bilal Zahoor and Raza Rumi


Central Lawn
Digital Transformation in Education


Board Room
Chiragh Bujhtay Chalay Ja Rahay Hain: Khalida Hussain aur Altaf Fatima ki Yaad Mein


Margala Hall
Sneak Preview: Blood on Two Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971: History Revisited by Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka


Sangam Hall
Mushaira


Central Lawn
Let’s Laugh with Shafaat Ali


Board Room
Book Discussion: Rudad-e- Chaman Compiled by Rumana Qadri


Margala Hall
Documentary Screening: The Qalandar Code
- Margala Hall
- Sangam Hall
- Central Lawn
- Board Room


Margala Hall
Pakistan's Foreign Policy Challenges


Sangam Hall
Urdu Main Tareekhi Fiction Nigari: Quratulain Hyder, Abdullah Hussein, Intizar Husain


Board Room
Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction


Central Lawn
Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction


Margala Hall
Depicting Women in Literature and Drama


Sangam Hall
Perspectives on Economic Reform Agenda for Pakistan


Central Lawn
Publishing in Pakistan: Changing Trends


Board Room
In conversation with Aamer Hussein author of Hermitage


Margala Hall
Feminist Dimensions of the novels Unfettered Wings and Typically Tanya


Sangam Hall
Pakistani Adab aur Taneesiat (Feminism)


Central Lawn
Book Launch: Love in the Fist of Terrorism: Tale of Two Loving Souls Parted in the Name of Violence by Ayub Khawar


Board Room
Book Launch : Karaiz- Taveel Nazm by Farrukh Yar’


Margala Hall
Shanul Haq Haqqee Ki Yaad Mein


Sangam Hall
Book Launch: Radioactive Decade: An Informal Cultural History of the 1970s Edited by Amin Gulgee, Niilofur Farrukh and John McCarry


Central Lawn
Book Launch: Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia by Anna Suvorova


Board Room
The Traveller's Tales: Salman Rashid


Margala Hall
Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State


Sangam Hall
Book Launch: The Fix by Omar Shahid Hamid


Central Lawn
Documenting Traditional Music in Pakistan


Board Room
In conversation with Julien Columeau


Margala Hall
Pakistani Cinema: The Rise, The Fall…and the Rise again?


Sangam Hall
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Kia Dehshat Gardi Kay Asraat Say Nikal Aya Hai?


Central Lawn
Negotiating Different Worlds: Multilingualism in Creative Expression


Board Room
1919: Jallianwala Bagh and the Century that Followed


Margala Hall
Satire in the Time of Tabdeeli


Sangam Hall
Tax, Budget, and the Common Man


Central Lawn
English Mushaira


Margala Hall
Closing Ceremony: Speech by the Festival Organizer


Margala Hall
Keynote Speeches by Ishrat Husain and Anwar Maqsood


Margala Hall
Ghazal Night by Ustad Hamid Ali Khan
Fringe events: Book Fair, Food Court, Art Exhibition
Art Exhibition: Preserving the Paradigm by Satrang Art Gallery
Exhibition Director: Asma Rashid Khan; Curators: Mahnoor Asad and Noor Fatima
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