ADAB FESTIVAL PAKISTAN: 1, 2, 3 FEBRUARY 2019 Governor’s House, Karachi,

*Adab Fest organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time. Effort will be made to adhere to this programme.
Throughout Adab Fest: •Author Signings •Education Fair •Food Court •Book Fair •EMedia Rooms

FRIDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2019

INAUGURATION, GETZ PHARMA PAVILION
3:15 - 4:00 pm: Arrival of Guests

3:15 - 345 pm. Pakistan Provinces’ Cultural Dances by String Puppets. Thespianz Theatre

4:00 Speeches: Ameena Saiyid, Asif Farrukhi, Khalid Mahmood, Stefan Winkler, Governor of Sindh, Imran Ismail

Keynote speeches: Ishrat Husain, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Seyyed Vali Nasr. MC Pomme Gohar
The Adab Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize 2019 Award Ceremony

Sindhi folk dance (Mor Tho Tile Rana by Abida Parveen) by Sumaira Ali (Veronica Fazal, Tayyaba Abdul
Rehman, Muhammad Aalam Khan, Taimoor) group celebrating the peacock’s dance (which is also our Adab
Fest logo).

We kick off in beauty!

 Getz Pharma Pavilion Thar Foundation Pavilion
6.15 – LAUNCH: NASIM KARACHI: ENCROACHMENTS AND
7.45 pm ZEHRA’S FROM DEMOLITIONS
KARGIL TO THE COUP: Faisal Siddiqui, Iftikhar Ali Shallwani,
EVENTS THAT SHOOK Muhammad Toheed, Noman Ahmad
PAKISTAN Moderator: Rumana Husain
Hameed Haroon, On October 27, 2018 the Supreme Court
Najmuddin Shaikh, Gen of Pakistan ordered for all encroachments
(R) Waseem Ghazi, Shahid to be removed from Karachi within 15
Amin days; whereupon the Mayor of Karachi,
Ahmed Rashid the Commissioner and others who had
with the author been so instructed, devised a plan and
Moderator: from November onwards heavy machinery
Mosharraf Zaidi has been employed to clear the
‘encroachments,’ beginning from Saddar,
including the Empress Market.
This campaign has disrupted not only the
supply chain of different commodities but
also destroyed people’s homes in places
like Macchar Colony in Lyari.
According to some estimates, over 11,000
shops and stalls across some 20 markets
have been affected, and innumerable other
commercial and residential facilities stand
in danger of a similar fate, directly
affecting hundreds of thousands of
workers and their dependents.
How does one define an ‘encroachment’?
Is it morally justifiable to demolish
encroachments which came up due to lack
of planning by and with the collusion and
consent of State authorities?
FRIDAY, 1 FEBRUARY, 8 PM: Qawwali by Saami Brothers brought to Adab Fest by I AM KARACHI
Haleeb Pioneer Pavilion
CONTEXTUALIZING
FEMINISM
How are women’s empowerment,
autonomy, human (including
sexuality and reproductive) rights,
and economic justice reflected in
the work of panelists Fatema
Hassan, Hani Baloch, Maheen
Usmani, Maniza Naqvi, Saira
Shah Halim, Severine Minot, and
panel chair, Fawzia Afzal-Khan.
Are indigenous and Western
feminisms mutually distinctive?
How is the fight against patriarchal
nationalisms, and resistance against
colonialist and imperialist feminism
conjoined? What about the tension
between feminists reclaiming Islam,
vs secular Islamic feminists? How
do local resistances such as sexual
harassment, enter the fray? Can we
learn anything from #MeToo and
#BlackLivesMatter? What do we
make of Amna Chaudhury’s claim
that ‘good’ Pakistani feminism
cannot fundamentally change
society” because “polite negotiation
will not lead to transgressing the
boundaries that continue to control,
and domesticate, women.” (Himal,
Oct 2018). Do we need, then, to
become “bad feminists”?
Careem Pavilion
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION:
ACCESSING THE UNSEEN IN
THE ISLAMIC TRADITION
Nur Sobers-Khan, Francisco Jose
Luis
Moderator: Waleed Ziad
Islamic civilization has set as one of
its priorities the notion of ihsan, one
that combines beauty and spirituality
into one indivisible
imperative. Professors Nur Sobers-
Khan, Waleed Ziad, and Francisco
Luis will engage in a discussion on
ihsan and the esoteric traditions in
Islam, touching on topics ranging
from aesthetics, the perception of
beauty, dream interpretation, Islamic
psychology, spiritual travel and
wayfaring, divine energy, and
meditative practices. This panel will
address systems of thought, belief
and bodily practice that have been
marginalised after the advent of
colonialism and modernity, and how
to revive and restore them to their
centrality in our ways of
understanding ourselves and the
world.
 SATURDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2019
9:00 - 9:30 am. String Puppet Dances. Thespianz Theatre. Getz Pharma Pavilion
Getz Pharma Pavilion Thar Foundation Pavilion Haleeb Pioneer Pavilion Careem Pavilion

Sat 2 Feb A CONVERSATION WITH SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN will talk on

9:45- to SEYYED VALI NASR (1) the Partition of India seen through the
10:45am Salim Raza prism of literature
and (2) 1. Does risqué poetry have a place in
Urdu literature?
Moderator: Syed Nomanul Haq
While some western societies have allowed
the public expression of risque poetry, it
remains out of bound in most cultures even
though it continues to thrive and be passed on
orally in all cultures/languages.
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Rafi Ahmad Khan,
Akbar Allahabadi, Josh Malihabadi, Syed
Wali Muhammad Nazeerabadi, Muhammad
Sanaullah Dar Meera Ji and Shan ul Haq
Haqqi are some literary names who have
expressed themselves in this genre. Respected
critics have opined positively about risqué
poetry, e.g. Abu Allais Siddiqi, Gian Chand
Jain, Hasirat Mohani, Noon Meem Raashid,
Krishan Chander and Josh Malihabadi.

Sat 2 Feb CONVERSATION WITH AMAR JALEEL 11:00-11:30 LAUNCH: IRSHAD ABDUL
11 am - 12 Noorul Huda Shah. Moderator: Shah KADIR’SPRODIGAL AND DERIABAD
noon Muhammad Pirzado CHRONICLES
Sibtain Naqvi with the author
11:30-12:00 LAUNCH: KULIYAT-E-
SUROOR
Iftikhar Arif, Hoori Noorani. Video clips of
Baarabankvi.
Moderator. Inaam Nadeem
LAUNCH: JAVED JABBAR’S WHAT
IS PAKISTANIAT?
Nadya Chishty Mujahid with the author
" ..this is possibly the first-ever book to
attempt a numerical identification of the
41 constituent elements ( 30 positive, 11
negative )
that shape the unique national identity of
the Pakistani people .." from the Preface.
" ..a most thoughtful , comprehensive yet
concise analysis...a remarkable book.." --
- Dr Sajjad Iqbal, USA, author,
Swimming Upstream
THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF
WOMEN’S TRAVEL WRITING IN
URDU
Daniel Majchrowicz will discuss his
research on the history of the
Urdusafarnama, with a focus on his
soon-to-be-published study of travel
writing by women in Urdu and
Punjabi. The travel account hardly
existed in Urdu before the mid-
nineteenth century – why did it
suddenly appear, and why and when
did women begin to take up the genre
themselves? This talk will provide an
introduction to this fascinating but
forgotten field, with ample quotations
from Urdu’s earliest women travel
authors themselves.
Moderator: Dr Yaqoob Bangash
Sat 2 Feb LAUNCH. GENERAL FIDA HUSSAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A TALK BY AFTAB NABI ON
12.15 - MALIK’SBALOCHISTAN: A CONFLICT UNDER CPEC COLONIAL RULE IN SINDH
1.15 pm OF NARRATIVES Ishrat Husain, Zahid Husain, Fatemeh Aman, FROM 1843 TO 1947 WITH A
Zobaida Jalal, Tariq Khosa, and Javed Moderator. Vaqar Ahmed FOCUS ON THE HUR
Jabbar with the author INSURGENCY OF 1941-46,
Moderator: Omayr Saiyid THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE
IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW
OF 1942 - 43 AND THE
REPRESSION UNLEASHED
DURING THAT MARTIAL LAW
PERIOD
Mehtab Rashdi, Zaituna Umar, Yaqoob
Bangash
Moderator: Masood Lohar
WHO'S AFRAID OF UMERA
AHMAD?
“Literature...and the people related
to it have done us a great service by
expelling us from their ranks. We
have become closer to the common
people...if it is true that literature has
been proven the guiding torch
during..difficult times of a nation’s
history, then in 21st-century
Pakistan, this role will be realized by
the works of “popular fiction
writers,” not by those of elite artists
(adīb).” Umera Ahmad.
“Introduction,” Mein nē Khvābōñ Kā
Shajar Dēkhā (Lahore: Ilm-o Irfan
Publishers, 2016), 9.
The bestselling and most influential
novels written post-9/11 are by
popular writers such as Ahmad,
Farhat Ishtiaq, Bushra Rehman,
Hashim Nadeem, and Nimra Ahmad.
This LUMS student-led
panel (Hamad Abdullah Nazar,
Mahnoor Nadeem, and
Muhammad Umar Habib) will
contemplate on what this means for
Pakistani readers and consumers of
fiction, the possible dangers that
these novels engender, and the
condition of Pakistani
literature.Moderator: Dr Maryam
Wasif Khan.

Sat LAUNCH. PEERZADA SALMAN’S IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? FINDING ZAMBEEL DRAMATIC LAUNCH. OSAMA
2 Feb FIRST COLLECTION OF URDU HOPE IN PAKISTAN READINGS: SAFAR KAHAANI SIDDIQUE’SSNUFFING OUT
1.25 to POEMS, WAQT Dr Murad Moosa and Dr Ayesha Mian. 'Reserve Seat' by Intizar Husain THE MOON
2:05 pm Syed Nomanul Haq and Iftikhar Arif with the Moderator: Zarrar Khuhro and 'Aik Shauhar ki Khaatir' by Ismat Muneeza Shamsie and Maniza Naqvi
author Chughtai. with the author
Performers: Asma Mundrawala, Fawad
Khan, Shama Askari
Music: Danish Faruqi
Direction&Sound: Asma Mundrawala
Sat 2 Feb RENDERING KARACHI ON THE
2.15 - 3.15 PAGE: HM NAQVI IN CONVERSATION
pm WITH MARVI MAZHAR ON THE
SELECTED WORKS OF ABDULLAH THE
COSSACK. (THIS IS THE FIRST
LAUNCH/EVENT FOR THIS BOOK)
Sat 2 Feb BUSS BHAI, BUSS! ZYADA BAAT NAHI
3.30 - 4.30 CHIEF SAAB
pm Fasi Zaka and Nadeem Farooq
Paracha (NFP) do a casual and humorous
retrospective of NFP’s career in cultural
commentary focusing on urban pop culture
and the interplay of TV, film, and music with
socio-economic drivers
Sat 2 Feb A CONVERSATION WITH
4.45- MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR
5.45 pm Harris Khalique, Sheraz Haider (Hyder)
Sat URDU MUSHAIRA
2 Feb Inaam nadeem
6–8 pm (Moderator),Osama Ameer, Waheed
noor,Kashif ghayer, Nasira zuberi,Harris
khaliq, Fazil jamili, 8.Tasnim Abidi, Ajmal
siraj,Tanvir anjum, Ahmad naved, Humera
Rehman, 13. Fatema hassan, Sarwar
javed, Khawaja Razi haidar, Afzal
syed, Naseer Turabi, Pirzada
Qasim,Anwar Shaoor, Kishwar
Nahid,Iftikhar Arif (sadr)
SHAERI MEIN NAYEE EEJAAD (NEW THE PAKISTANI START-UP EDUCATION AS IDEOLOGY
SENSIBILITY IN URDU POETRY) ECOSYSTEM: POSSIBILITIES AND Tania Saeed, Dilshad Ashraf, Ali
A different ethos emerged in Urdu poetry as a CHALLENGES Usman Qasmi, and Anushay
new kind of poetry began to appear with Azra Tez Financial Services Co- Malik -- discuss how public and
Abbas and Afzal Ahmed Syed in the lead and founder Naureen Hyat, private school Urdu and Pakistan
including Tanveer Anjum and other poets. Dawaai.pk founder Furquan Kidwai, Studies textbooks inculcate statist
. Azra Abbas, Afzal Ahmed Tapmad.com Founder, CEO Yassir narratives despite numerous studies
Syed and Tanvir Anjum will define and Pasha. calling for change. Education policy
recall the change as they recite selected poems Moderator: Planet N Founder and in the early 2000s improved things
and converse with Asif Farrukhi CEO,Nadeem Hussain of Planet N somewhat, but ideological content
continues to be the thrust of national
and provincial government
educational policies.
Moderator: Ali Raza
LAUNCH:TARIQ EACPE DOCUMENTARY FILM 3:30-4 pm LAUNCH: SHAZAF
KHOSA’S INCONVENIENT TRUTHS. SCREENINGS AND AWARDS FATIMA HAIDER’S A FIREFLY
PAKISTAN’S GOVERNANCE Khusro Mumtaz, Muqeem Khan IN THE DARK
CHALLENGES Moderator: Sibtain Naqvi Afia Aslam with the author
Harris Khalique, Niaz Ahmed Siddiki with the
author 4-4:30 pm LAUNCH: SABYN
Moderator: Huma Baqai JAVERI’S HIJABISTAN
Nimra Bucha with the author
FROM PASSIVE TO PRO-ACTIVE: A TRIBUTE TO FAHMIDA RIAZ KARACHI OF THE 1950S AND
PROMOTING MEDIA LITERACY IN Anis Haroon, Attiya Dawood, Najma 1960S
PAKISTAN Manzoor, Veerta Ali Ujan, Ameena Ghazi Salahuddin, Maniza Naqvi, Dr
The importance for media consumers to Saiyid Sher Shah Syed
develop the critical thinking and analytical Khalid Ahmad Moderator.
skills needed to demand a more responsible, Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Kamran Asdar Ali
ethical and professional media.
Tasneem Ahmar Javed Jabbar, Zarrar
Khuhro, Wusatullah
Khan Moderator Farieha Aziz
6-6:30 PM LAUNCH. IMRANA SCREENING OF SHEHRBANO 6:00-6:30
MAQSOOD’S SUBHA KA NASHTA, SAIYID’S THE UNKNOWN pm: LAUNCHTEHMINA
SHAAM KI CHAI MOUNTAINEERS KHAN’S THINGS SHE COULD
Shaha Jamshed and Asif Noorani with the followed by Q&A with the Director and NEVER HAVE
author others from Gilgit Baltistan featured in Nadya Chishty-Mujahid and Shazaf
the film Haider with the author
The first feature film ever made in Wakhi
language. Winner of Best Documentary at
DCSAFF (Washington DC South Asian
Film Festival)
 SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2019
10:00 - 10:30 am. String Puppet Dances. Thespianz Theatre. Getz Pharma Pavilion
Getz Pharma Pavilion Thar Foundation Pavilion Haleeb Pioneer Pavilion Careem Pavilion

Sun 3 Feb USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF PAKISTAN IN THE SECOND A DRAMATIC PRESENTATION ON LAUNCH: HANI BALOCH’S ZIND AE
11 am - YOUTH ACTIVISM: HOPE OR GLOBALISATION. (WE MISSED P. G. WODEHOUSE BYRICHARD AADINK (THE MIRROR OF LIFE)
12 noon DESPAIR? OUT ON THE WESTERN-LED, HELLER Sheema Kermani and Amar Sindhu with
Faisal Siddiqi, Jibran Nasir, Alia Amirali POST-1980 WAVE: CAN WE CATCH Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi the author
Moderator: Palvasha Shahab THE BUS ON THE SECOND, CHINA-
LED ONE?) Aleeya Khan Book Launch
Mushtaq Khan, Asad Sayeed, Ehsan
Malik, Saquib Shirazi. Moderator. Salim
Raza

Sun 3 Feb A CONVERSATION WITHAHMED DILLI JO EK SHEHER THHA EDUCATION EMERGENCY: 22.6 LIFE IN KARACHI DURING AYUB
12.15- RASHID Asif Farrukhi will talk to Zehra MILLION CHILDREN OUT OF KHAN’S RULE
1.15 pm Zahid Husain and Fatemeh Aman Nigah and Saif Mahmood (author SCHOOL: EXPANDING 30-minute talk by Lt Col Ian Vaughan-
of Beloved Delhi) about Mughal Delhi, its PARTNERSHIPS OR SHRINKING Arbuckle, followed by conversation with
syncretic culture and its great Urdu poets SPACE FOR PRIVATE SECTOR Ghazi Salahuddin and Sher Shah Syed
from Sauda and Mir to Ghalib and Daagh. 22.6 million are children out of school
(government statistics). Children in school
are not learning well (surveys). How do
we address the challenges of access,
equity, quality and governance? On one
hand we have the successful launch of the
government-financed Education
Management Organizations (EMOs) in
Sindh through the PPP Node, seeking
support of non-state actors to manage new
and old government schools and teacher-
training facilities. On the other there has
been rising judicial activism to protect
families from private-sector school fee
increases. The New Deal 2018-2023
speaks about a 'robust yet flexible'
framework to streamline efforts of private
actors to ensure value for money in
teaching quality, recruitment,
infrastructure, school management etc.
What is the score so far in Naya Pakistan
in its very early days ? Is there a trend
towards expansion of partnerships or
shrinking space for the private sector?
Zobaida Jalal, Shahid Siddiqui,
Shehzad Roy Salma Alam, Faisal
Mushtaq Ameena Saiyid,
Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil
Sun 3 Feb LAUNCH: SYED KASHIF LAUNCH. KISHWAR MAKING MUSIC IN KARACHI: A LAUNCH. MAHEEN USMANI’STHE
1.25-2:05 RAZA’S CHAAR DARWESH AUR EK NAHEED’S SHIRIN SUKHANI SAY TALK BY SHARIF AWAN MERCURIAL MR BHUTTO AND
pm KACHWA PARAY Moderator: Rafay Mehmood OTHER STORIES
Mohammad Hanif with the author Zaheda Hina and Ajmal Siraj with the Shafaat Ali with the author
author

Sun 3 Feb LAUNCH OF URDU TRANSLATION LAUNCH: FAROOQ BAJWA’S FROM LAUNCH: AYESHA KHAN’S THE WHAT ABOUT THE REST?
2.15 - OF ALYS FAIZ’S MEMOIRS, KAB KUTCH TO TASHKENT: THE INDO- WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
3.15 pm YAAD MEIN TERA SAATH NAHIN PAKISTAN WAR OF 1965 PAKISTAN: ACTIVISM, ISLAM AND IN NATIONAL LANGUAGE
Syed Javed Husain, Nauman Naqvi DEMOCRACY PEDAGOGY
Nayyer Rubab, Zehra Nigah. with the author Anis Haroon, Amar Sindhu, Uzma Suleman Shahid, Inaam Nadeem, Zahid
Readings by Sania Saeed, Moderator. Omayr Aziz Saiyid Noorani, Sultana Siddiqui with the author Hassan, Imdad Husaini. Moderator:
Short film on Alys Faiz Moderator. Kausar Saeed Khan Gwen Kirk
Moderator: Moneeza Hashmi The mother-tongue of most Pakistanis is
not Urdu, but too few institutions teach
Balochi, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi etc, as
second languages. The rare institutions
that are developing programs to teach
these face not only academic and
infrastructural, but also ideological
challenges questioning the value of
teaching these languages, and the skills
required to teach them. Teaching diverse
Pakistani languages as second languages
can contribute to a more just and
interconnected society. How can teachers
develop material to serve both heritage
and non-heritage students? How can
digital technologies help?

Sun 3 Feb LAUNCH: MOHAMMED LAUNCH: IFTIKHAR LAUNCH: URDU EDITION STEFAN WEIDNER
3.30 - HANIF’S RED BIRDS SALAHUDDIN’S IF STONES COULD OF PETER OBORNE’S WOUNDED “Blessed are the Strangers” – how the
4.30 pm Madeeha Syed and Saira Shah Halim with SPEAK. ECHOES FROM THE PAST TIGER: A HISTORY OF CRICKET IN Islamic tradition can help us to deal with
the author Javed Jabbar with the author. PAKISTAN exile and alienation and “Islamophobia in
Session presided over by Zehra Nigah Richard Heller, Najum Latif, Qamar Germany” – origins and recent
Ahmed with the author developments in German public
Moderator: Dr Saad Shafqat discourse. A lecture by the German
writer, intellectual, translator (from
Arabic) and former editor of the cultural
magazine “Fikrun wa Fann”
Moderator. Kamran Asdar Ali

Sun 3 Feb TRANSFORMATION AND
4.45- RESISTANCE: THE CHANGING
5.45 pm ART LANDSCAPE IN PAKISTAN
Salima Hashmi, Farida Batool, Adeela
Suleman. Moderator: Rabeya Jalil
PAKISTAN’S POPULATION
PREROGATIVE: A TALK BY
MEHTAB KARIM
Comments by Asif Iqbal, Naeem uz
Zafar. Moderator. Yasmeen Kazi.
A CONVERSATION WITH , CRAIG LAUNCH: OSAMA
MURRAY, AUTHOR OFSIKUNDER SIDDIQUE’S PAKISTAN’S
BURNES ANDMURDER IN EXPERIENCE WITH FORMAL LAW:
SAMARKAND AN ALIEN JUSTICE
Ayesha Tammy Haq and Arieb Azhar
 The diversity and depth of art-making in The 2017 census results indicated that Farooq Bajwa and Saif Mahmood with
Pakistan was evident in the Karachi and during the past 20 years, Pakistan’s the author
Lahore biennales. While internationally population has been growing @ 2.4% per
established names took centre stage, the annum, and in 2018 has exceeded
periphery was also noticed. Art-making as 213 million, adding about 79 million
a consequential facet of contemporary people during the last 20 years. The 2017-
Pakistan was reinforced, at least in these 18 Pakistan Demographic & Health
urban centres. Although some viewed the surveys results have been equally
events as a culmination of recent art alarming, indicating that fertility rate in
history, many of the evolving concerns Pakistan has remained much higher than
have yet to be reflected in the public other South Asian countries. The rapid
domain. population growth rate in Pakistan has
resulted in poor health indictors
The rationale of new critical practices particularly of women and children;
stems from the widening of the increasing number of illiterates; keeping
geographical /physical /cultural poverty level high and rapid urban
'catchment' area; expanding mechanisms growth. The session will discuss the
of opportunity and access for would-be results of the 2017 census and its resultant
artists, and the entry of global patronage social and economic consequences.
and virtual platforms via the internet. The
dispersal of art teachers to smaller
'centres' has instigated a mushrooming of
visual expression, while political tensions
in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
have brought aspirants to Islamabad,
Karachi and Lahore in growing numbers.
Public art has drawn together artists,
academia and activists, while curatorial
practices have united cultural
anthropologists, writers, art historians and
practitioners in unexpected ways.
The visual presentation will dwell on and
summarise some of these discernible
tracks and attempt to explore the
compulsions shaping recent art practices.

CLOSING CEREMONY, Getz Pharma Pavillion Sunday, 3 February 2019

6 - 7. 15 p.m. Speeches by Ameena Saiyid, Asif Farrukhi, and Khalid Mahmood.
Keynote speeches by Peter Oborne, Haseena Moin, Ahmed Rashid

Launch of The Thar Book by Ghias Khan and Ameena Saiyid

Mai Dhai Sindhi Folk Songs brought to Adab Fest by Thar Foundation
Stand-up Comedy by Shafaat Ali