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.
September 27, 2019 5:00 pm
27, 28, and 29 September 2019
Hotel Margala, Islamabad.
6th Islamabad Literature Festival 2019
#IsbLF
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
4.30 p.m. -
5.00 p.m.
Margala Hall
Welcome Speeches by Festival Organizer / Sponsors
5.00 p.m. -
5.15 p.m.
Margala Hall
Keynote Speeches by Navid Shahzad and Haseena Moin
5:30 p.m. -
6.00 p.m.
Margala Hall
Performances: Dance of Peace and Understanding (Anand Taandav) by Iftikhar Masih 22 Crore by Laal Hartal: A Tribute to the Revolutionary Poet Habib Jalib
6.00 p.m. -
6.30 p.m.
Margala Hall
Kashmir: The Valley Seized
Hina Rabbani Khar, Athar Abbas and Arif Kamal
6.30 p.m. -
7.30 p.m.
Moderator : Ikram Sehgal
Sangam Hall
Documentary Screening: Indus Blues
Pakistani folk artists and their struggle to keep their art form alive
6.30 p.m. -
7.30 p.m.
Director and Producer: Jawad Sharif
Board Room
Book Launch: The Begum: A Portrait of Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan by Deepa Agarwal and Tahmina Aziz
Tahmina Aziz, Samia Liaquat Ali Khan and Amir Rana
6.30 p.m. -
7.30 p.m.
Moderator : Muneeza Shamsie
Margala Hall
Jahan-e-Sufi (A Fusion of Folk and Qawwali) by Bakhshi Brothers
7.45 p.m. -
8.45 p.m.
- Margala Hall
- Sangam Hall
- Central Lawn
- Board Room
Margala Hall
Iftikhar Arif: His Life and Work
Anna Suvorova, Harris Khalique, Vafa Yazdan Manesh
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Presided by: Iftikhar Arif
Moderator : Hameed Shahid
Sangam Hall
Adding up the Energy Equation
Kamran Kamal, Shaharyar Nashat, Saadia Qayyum
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Moderator : Asad Ali Shah
Central Lawn
Naya Asloob, Nayee Aurat
Muafiya Sheikh, Safia Shahid, Absar Fatima Jafri, Munazza Gillani, Humaira Ishfaq
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Presented by Young Women Writers Forum
Moderator : Farheen Khalid
Margala Hall
In conversation with Soniah Kamal author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Aliya Iqbal Naqvi
Sangam Hall
Taraqqi Pasand Tehrik: Naye Tanazarat Aur Naye Sawalaat
Noorul Huda Shah, Iftikhar Arif, Ravish Nadeem, Imdad Aakash
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Salahuddin Derwesh
Central Lawn
Bayad-e-Dr Enver Sajjad
Haseena Moin, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Kishwar Naheed, Ghazanfar Hashmi
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Irfan Ahmed Urfi
Board Room
Challenging the Colonial Narrative in South Asian Historical Fiction
Nukhbah Langah, Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti, Safeer Awan
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Asma Mansoor
Margala Hall
Book Discussion: Teen Saltanaton ki Daastan translated by Zahoor Ahmed - An Historical Chinese Novel
Zahoor Ahmed and Zhang Heqing
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Sharif Awan
Sangam Hall
Book Discussion: The Mercurial Mr Bhutto and Other Stories by Maheen Usmani
Maheen Usmani
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : George Fulton
Central Lawn
Book Discussion: The Melody of a Tear by Haroon Khalid Akhtar
Haroon Khalid Akhtar
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Rashid Masood Alam
Board Room
Book launch : Kaun- (‘Who’), a Novelette by Mudassar Bashir
Mudassar Bashir
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Ahmad Atta
Margala Hall
Book Launch: Phat’tay Aamon ka Case (Translation of A Case of Exploding Mangoes) by Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif, Syed Kashif Raza, Hoori Noorani
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Nazish Brohi
Sangam Hall
Striking Peace in a Nuclear Charged Environment
Khalid Banuri, Naeem Salik, Pervez Hoodbhoy
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Ejaz Haider
Central Lawn
Adab Kar Is Kharabati Ka Jis Ko Josh Kehtay Hain: Josh Malihabadi
Fateh Muhammad Malik, Saima Jaffery, Yasmeen Hameed
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Mujahid Barelvi
Board Room
Politics and the Pakistani English Language Poet
Harris Khalique and Salman Tarek Kureshi
2:15 p.m. -
3:15 p.m.
Moderator : Khayyam Mushir
Margala Hall
Reversing the Great Game: Pakistan's Pivot
Ikram Sehgal, Huma Baqai, Asif Yasin Malik
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Moeed Pirzada
Sangam Hall
In conversation with H.M. Naqvi author of Abdullah the Cossack
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : George Fulton
Central Lawn
Education in the New Millennium: Promises and Perils
Arshad Saeed Husain, Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Faisal Mushtaq
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Shahid Siddiqui
Board Room
Potohar Ka Adabi Manzarnama: Maazi aur Haal
Akhtar Usman, Envar Fitrat, Shoaib Khaliq, Nilofar Iqbal
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Ravish Nadeem
Margala Hall
Book Launch: Prison Interlude: The Last Eyewitness Account of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case by Zafar Ullah Poshni
Nafisa Shah, Zahid Hussain, Raza Rabbani, Moneeza Hashmi, Zafar Ullah Poshni
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Owais Tohid
Sangam Hall
Book Discussion: Rethinking Pakistan: A 21st Century Perspective Edited by Bilal Zahoor and Raza Rumi
Fasi Zaka, Bilal Zahoor, Pervez Hoodbhoy
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Nida Kirmani
Central Lawn
Digital Transformation in Education
Umar Saif, Kasim Kasuri, Syed Ali Naseer
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Rashid Masood Alam
Board Room
Chiragh Bujhtay Chalay Ja Rahay Hain: Khalida Hussain aur Altaf Fatima ki Yaad Mein
Kishwar Naheed, Yasmeen Hameed, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Hameed Shahid
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Margala Hall
Sneak Preview: Blood on Two Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971: History Revisited by Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka
Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka
6.00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Moderator : Huma Baqai
Sangam Hall
Mushaira
Nizamat: Najeeba Arif Ahmad Atta, Akhtar Usman, Ali Zaryoun, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Ayub Khawar, Farrukh Yar, Ghazanfar Hashmi, Hamid Ateeq Sarwar, Harris Khalique, Hasan Abbas Raza, Kishwar Naheed, Mehboob Zafar, Ravish Nadeem, Syed Kashif Raza, Yasmeen Hameed
6:00 p.m. -
8:00 p.m.
Moderator : Sadarat: Iftikhar Arif
Central Lawn
Let’s Laugh with Shafaat Ali
6.00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Board Room
Book Discussion: Rudad-e- Chaman Compiled by Rumana Qadri
Aamer Hussein, Farrukh Nadeem, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Shahbano Alvi
6.00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Moderator : Munazza Yaqoob
Margala Hall
Documentary Screening: The Qalandar Code
Atiya Khan, Syed Mehdi Raza Shah Subzwari, Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro
7.15 p.m. -
8.15 p.m.
Moderator : Ali Abbas Zaidi
- Margala Hall
- Sangam Hall
- Central Lawn
- Board Room
Margala Hall
Pakistan's Foreign Policy Challenges
Talat Masood, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Abdul Basit
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Moderator : Salma Malik
Sangam Hall
Urdu Main Tareekhi Fiction Nigari: Quratulain Hyder, Abdullah Hussein, Intizar Husain
Hameed Shahid, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Irfan Ahmed Urfi, Nasir Abbas Nayyar
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Moderator : Najeeba Arif
Board Room
Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction
Soniah Kamal, Haroon Khalid AKhtar, Taha Kehar, Sana Munir
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 a.m.
Moderator : Ilona Yusuf
Central Lawn
Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction
Soniah Kamal, Haroon Khalid Akhtar, Taha Kehar, Sana Munir
11.00 a.m. -
12.00 noon
Moderator : Ilona Yusuf
Margala Hall
Depicting Women in Literature and Drama
Haseena Moin, Noorul Huda Shah, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Shahnaz Sheikh
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Maheen Usmani
Sangam Hall
Perspectives on Economic Reform Agenda for Pakistan
Sania Nishtar, Hafiz A. Pasha, Jochen Hippler, Muhammad Ziauddin
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Vaqar Ahmed
Central Lawn
Publishing in Pakistan: Changing Trends
Shahbano Alvi, Arshad Saeed Husain, Hoori Noorani
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Bilal Zahoor
Board Room
In conversation with Aamer Hussein author of Hermitage
12.15 p.m. -
1.15 p.m.
Moderator : Muneeza Shamsie
Margala Hall
Feminist Dimensions of the novels Unfettered Wings and Typically Tanya
Taha Kehar and Sana Munir
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Sangam Hall
Pakistani Adab aur Taneesiat (Feminism)
In conversation with Kishwar Naheed
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Hameed Shahid
Central Lawn
Book Launch: Love in the Fist of Terrorism: Tale of Two Loving Souls Parted in the Name of Violence by Ayub Khawar
Ayub Khawar
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Ghazanfar Hashmi
Board Room
Book Launch : Karaiz- Taveel Nazm by Farrukh Yar’
1.30 p.m. -
2.00 p.m.
Moderator : Harris Khalique
Margala Hall
Shanul Haq Haqqee Ki Yaad Mein
Anwar Maqsood, Fateh Muhammad Malik, Haseena Moin
2:15 p.m. -
3:15 p.m.
Moderator : Najeeba Arif
Sangam Hall
Book Launch: Radioactive Decade: An Informal Cultural History of the 1970s Edited by Amin Gulgee, Niilofur Farrukh and John McCarry
Amin Gulgee, Aasim Akhtar, Nadia Batool, Salman Asif
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Niilofur Farrukh
Central Lawn
Book Launch: Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia by Anna Suvorova
Anna Suvorova, Tahmina Aziz, Khishwar Naheed, Nida Kirmani
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Ilhan Niaz
Board Room
The Traveller's Tales: Salman Rashid
2.15 p.m. -
3.15 p.m.
Moderator : Shaista Sirajuddin
Margala Hall
Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State
Ishrat Husain, Asad Umar, Waqar Masood Khan, Melinda Good
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Sakib Sherani
Sangam Hall
Book Launch: The Fix by Omar Shahid Hamid
Omar Shahid Hamid
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Central Lawn
Documenting Traditional Music in Pakistan
Fouzia Saeed, Sharif Awan, Muhammad Athar Masood
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Tauseeq Haider
Board Room
In conversation with Julien Columeau
3.30 p.m. -
4.30 p.m.
Moderator : Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Margala Hall
Pakistani Cinema: The Rise, The Fall…and the Rise again?
Usman Mukhtar, Khalid Saeed Butt, Areeba Alvi, Nadeem Baig, Humayun Saeed, Naghma Begum
4:45 p.m. -
5:45 p.m.
Moderator : Raju Jamil
Sangam Hall
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Kia Dehshat Gardi Kay Asraat Say Nikal Aya Hai?
Afrasiab Khattak, Hanif Khalil, Noreen Naseer
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Mujahid Barelvi
Central Lawn
Negotiating Different Worlds: Multilingualism in Creative Expression
Muneeza Shamsie, Noorul Huda Shah, Nukhbah Langah, Julien Columeau
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Board Room
1919: Jallianwala Bagh and the Century that Followed
Ali Usman Qasmi, Harris Khalique, Ali Raza
4.45 p.m. -
5.45 p.m.
Moderator : Aliya Iqbal Naqvi
Margala Hall
Satire in the Time of Tabdeeli
Fasi Zaka, Ali Aftab Saeed, George Fulton
6.00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Moderator : Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Sangam Hall
Tax, Budget, and the Common Man
Shabbar Zaidi
6.00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Moderator : Ikram Sehgal
Central Lawn
English Mushaira
Athar Tahir, Aurangzaib Khan, Harris Khalique, Eissa Saeed, Mehvash Amin, Orooj-e- Zafar, Salman Tarek Kureshi
6:00 p.m. -
7.00 p.m.
Moderator : Ilona Yusuf
Margala Hall
Closing Ceremony: Speech by the Festival Organizer
7.15 p.m. -
7.30 p.m.
Margala Hall
Keynote Speeches by Ishrat Husain and Anwar Maqsood
7.30 p.m. -
8.00 p.m.
Margala Hall
Ghazal Night by Ustad Hamid Ali Khan
8.05 p.m. -
9:00 p.m.
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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