Saturday, Feb.

25, #LLF2017
F F the program BELOW is tentative and subject to change. For updates, please visit lahorelitfest.com

Hall 1 Ha ll 2 Ha ll 3 H a ll 4 H a ll 5
10 11 a.m. Not a Nice Launch Lahore Eternal Punjab University Launch
Man at All presents
Naya Daur, Shakir Ali, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Water in the Wilderness
Monty Pythons and the Lahore Art Circle Tahir Kamran, Heerte Punjabi Shairee Dealing with Climate Change
Michael Palin and Kelsey Hoppe
with Kamila Shamsie Samina Iqbal, Nayyar Ali Dada, with Khaled Ahmed Nabila Rehman Rina Saeed Khan, Mehjabeen
and Salima Hashmi and Ebad Nabeel Shaad Abidi-Habib, Ayesha Vellani, and
with Simone Willie with Saeed Ahmed Tehmina Rashid with Rafay Alam

11:15 12:15 p.m. A Question of Order and Conversation Unspooling Afsanay Ka Safeer Ghulam Bagh (Garden of
the Return of Strongmen Pakistani Cinema Slaves) aur Adab ki Baatein
Who Belongs Where? Ali Akbar Natiq, Syed Gulzar
Arif Nizami, Ahmed Rashid, Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad Husnain, and Nasir Abbas Nayyar Mirza Athar Baig, Najeeba Arif,
Basharat Peer, Nermeen Mohsin Hamid with Nasreen Rehman with Ali Madeeh Hashmi and Asim Butt with Asif Farrukhi
Sheikh, and Ciler Ilhan and Teju Cole

12:30 1:30 Wives, Daughters, and Medicine Man John Lockwood Book Club Goethe-Institut and the Annemarie
Courtesans of the Raj Kipling and Punjabs Schimmel Haus present
Dr. Syed Adeeb-Ul-Hasan Rizvi Arts and Crafts Gold Dust of
Margaret MacMillan, with Hameed Haroon Begum Sultans Digging Deep: Art from
Alex von Tunzelmann, and Bethany Wratislaw Germany, Pakistan and India
Katie Hickman with Pippa Virdee with Qudsia Rahim Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
and I. A. Rehman Elke Falat, Julie Tieke, Muzammil Ruheel
with Naazish Ataullah and Risham Syed with Nida Kermani

2:30 3:30 Launch Serena Hotels presents Pakistans Book Club Rediscovering Khadija
Protest Artist Mastoor and Hajira Masroor
Exit West Brick by Brick: Travels with a Mexican Circus
Change and Conservation Mian Ijaz ul Hassan, and The House at Bishopsgate Tahira Naqvi and Rashida Kazi
Mohsin Hamid Shehla Saigol, and Aitzaz Ahsan with Iram Zia Raja
with Dwight Garner Nayyar Ali Dada, Shahnaz Ismail, with Jugnu Mohsin Katie Hickman with
Wajahat Ali, and Asma Khan Alexandra Pringle
with Attiq Uddin Ahmed

3:45 4:45 Today in Fake News Elegy Writing Divided Rivers: Launches Road to Know-ware
Indus and Tributaries
Max Rodenbeck, Zehra Nigah, The Curse of Mohenjo Daro Naeem Zamindar,
Najam Sethi, Nermeen Sheikh, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, and Daniel Haines Maha Khan Phillips Shahid Zaman, and
and Rameeza Nizami Syeda Saiyidain Hameed with Tahir Kamran with Muneeza Shamsie Amjad Saqib with
with Fasih Ahmed with Tahira Naqvi Roshaneh Zafar
The Still Point of the Turning World
Sheheryar B. Sheikh
with Emad Ansari

56 TDF presents Cairo and Delhi: Where Shadows Conversation Nixon, Mao,
Cities in Context Paint Deep and Pakistan
The Edhi Way Out The Crescent in
William Dalrymple Imran Qureshi German Fiction Margaret MacMillan
Tehmina Durrani and Max Rodenbeck and Melissa Chiu with F. S. Aijazuddin
with Qazi Shaukat Fareed with Salima Hashmi Christoph Peters
with Bilal Tanweer
 Sunday, Feb. 26, #LLF2017
F F the program BELOW is tentative and subject to change. For updates, please visit lahorelitfest.com

Hall 1 Ha ll 2 Ha ll 3 H a ll 4 H a ll 5
11:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. Far Right, Far Out: Intizar Husain Sonnets, Launch From Morocco to
Writing, Nationalism, ka Jahan-e-Fun Belissimo Darjeeling: Food, Tea,
and the Brave New World The Selected Works and Wanderlust
Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Adrian Husain of Abdullah (the Cossack)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, Asghar Nadeem Syed, with Salman Kureishi Jeff Koehler with
Eka Kurniawan, Gillian Slovo, and Asif Farrukhi with H. M. Naqvi with Momina Aijazuddin
and Teju Cole with Dwight Garner Wajahat Masood Margaret Halton

12:30 1:30 Pakistan at 70 Reframing the Launch Launch Bano Qudsia

Picture of ki Yaadein
Ayesha Jalal and Asian Art Love in Chakiwara Blood and Sand:
William Dalrymple and Other Misadventures Suez, Hungary, and Amjad Islam Amjad,
Melissa Chiu the Crisis that Masood Asher, and Syeda
with Shahid Zahid Bilal Tanweer Shook the World Henna Babar Ali with
with Mohammed Hanif Alex von Tunzelmann Nasir Abbas Nayyar
and Aysha Raja

Syria Unraveled:
War and Diplomacy
Salam Kawakibi
with Ahmed Rashid

2:30 3:30 Parveen Shakir and Conversation Art in the Punjab University Launches
the Marsh Marigold Age of Fascism presents
This is Where the Hybrid Tapestries:
Aitzaz Ahsan, Amjad Islam Serpent Lives Molly Crabapple Nawi Punjabi Nazman A History of Pakistans
Amjad, and Rakshanda Naveed and Nada Raza English Literature
with Mujahid Barelvi Daniyal Mueenuddin Khaqan Haider Ghazi Muneeza Shamsie
with Kamila Shamsie and Naveed Shahzad with Ahmed Rashid
with Saeed Ahmed
Body in Exile
Ciler Ilhan with Sabyn Javeri

3:45 4:45 Naya Savera The Politics of Up Your Launches Theater of

Writing the Now Himalayas Resistance
Shabnam Ghosh This Wide Night
with Sarmad Khoosat Mohammed Hanif, Gillian Slovo, Michael Palin Sarvat Hasin Madeeha Gauhar,
Sinan Antoon, and Teju Cole and Ruth Graham Sheema Kermani, and
with Alex von Tunzelmann Shahid Nadeem with
Nobody Killed Her Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Sabyn Javeri and
Maryam Wasif Khan

56 Kohinoor: Story Writings from the The Missing One: Regret: Narratives Global Gastronomy:
of the Stone Arab Maelstrom Art and Science Fiction of Partition A Plateful of Prose

William Dalrymple Molly Crabapple, Salam Mehreen Murtaza, Ikramullah, Masood Asher, Samia Ahad and
and Anita Anand Kawakibi, Max Rodenbeck, and Fahd Burki, and Nada Raza and Ali Madeeh Hashmi Jeff Koehler with
with F. S. Aijazuddin Sinan Antoon with Ahmed Rashid with Pervez Hoodbhoy with Asif Farrukhi Momina Aijazuddin