Oxford University Press (OUP) is once again gathering avid readers, writers, academics, and literary figures from Pakistan and the world at the 3rd Islamabad Literature Festival to be held on April 24, 25, and 26, 2015 at the local hotel in Islamabad. This was announced by Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director OUP. OUP's previous literature festivals have been heralded as massive successes, attracting a great deal of attention among the literary and intellectual communities in the country. In Islamabad last year, literary enthusiasts thronged to the ILF to meet renowned authors and attend over 60 interactive sessions.
Ameena Saiyid highlighted that the 3rd Islamabad Literature Festival will feature, talks/interviews, panel discussions, Mushaira, English poetry recitation, book fair, book launches, readings, author signings, film screening, performing arts, Sufi music, art exhibitions by Art Now, and much more.
Apart from Pakistani authors, poets, and academics, speakers from UK, USA, France, India and Australia will also be participating in the ILF. The keynote speakers at the opening and closing ceremonies will be Anatol Lieven, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Zehra Nigah, and the Pulitzer Prize winner, Paul Harding.
Prominent speakers at the 3rd ILF will be Ahmed Fouad, Ali Akbar Natiq, Almas Bobby, ArfaSayeda Zehra, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Asif Noorani, Asif Raza Mir, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Athar Tahir, Bilal Tanweer, Aitzaz Ahsan, Fatema Hassan, Farooq Qaiser, Feryal Ali-Gauhar, Harris Khalique, HaseenaMoin, HinaJillani, I A Rehman, Ilona Yusuf, Ikram Sehgal, Intizar Husain, KishwarNaheed, Masood Ashar, Mohammed Hanif, MujahidBarelvi, Mushahid Hussain, Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Nasim Zehra, Raju Jamil,SarwatMohiuddin, Shahid Nadeem, ShandanaMinhas, Shehryar Fazli, Sorayya Khan, Syed Talat Hussain, SyedaAbida Hussain, ZahedaHina, Zehra Nigah, and Zobaida Jalal.
The event will also feature a performance on Kishwar Naheed's poem 'Yaey Hum GunahgaarAurtainHaen' by Feriyal Aslam, dramatic readings of Ismat Chughtai's stories by Feryal Ali Gauhar, English Poetry Recitation, film screening of 'Life's Worth Living', and Sufi music by the Rafi Peer Ensemble.-PR