Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
LAHORELAHORE: The second edition of the English literary anthology, The Aleph Review, was launched on Sunday in a large yet intimate gathering on Tufail Road in Cantonment, Lahore.The event was attende
UncategorizedModerated by Robert Worth, fiction writers Mohsin Hamid, Nadifa Mohammad, and Kaya Genc came together in a talk titled “Writing of Nationhood in an Age of Rage.”The heavyweight fiction writing
Every year the LLF has a headline. Last year it was Michael Palin of Monty Python fame. This year it was Booker Prize winner Ben Okri. And while Okri has had some mesmerising session since Saturday, i
The event began with the organisers bringing out this year’s big guns for the first session, with acclaimed writer and scholar Reza Aslan joining Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri accompanied by
UncategorizedThe crowds packed not only the chairs, but the stairs of Al Hamra’s hall 2 as they anxiously awaited the arrival of the great Ziya Moheuddin to for the longest session of the entire event, “Why is
Fans of Booker prize winner Ben Okri will have been especially pleased by the one on one session between him and Zareen Saeed, in which the writer talked about his latest work and the process of both
UncategorizedIt would not be a stretch to say that Baghdad Blues was the breakout session of the LLF.At almost 4, 000 KM away from Lahore, one wonders what the current situation in Baghdad would have to do wit
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CITYBaghdad Blues—the breakout session of the LLFZiya Moheuddin wows crowd with ShakespearePoets’ vivid imagery mesmerises crowd, panelLAHORE: The Lahore Literary Festival concluded a
LAHORELAHORE: Despite the high attendance that the LLF received this year, there were reports of the event being boycotted by a number of people over the controversy caused in recent times by Newsweek Paki
LAHORELAHORE: It was in the midst of a late winter drizzle that the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) finally returned home to the Alhamra Arts Centre, as literati from all over the city thronged to the cultu
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