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Programme
Festival of Asian Literature 2012
Pre- Festival: Alchemy Festival at Southbank
The Many Faces of Love
Thursday, 12 April, 18.30
Moni Mohsin - Tender Hooks
Rosie Thomas - The Kashmir Shawl
Farahad Zama - The Wedding Wallah
With James Kidd
Watermarked - Women and Water in Pakistan
Wednesday, 18 April, 18.30
Kamila Shamsie
Ziauddin Sardar
Shazia Mirza
With Homa Khaleeli
Pre-Festival at Asia House
60 Minutes with Jerome Starkey and NajibWednesday, 9 May, 18.45
Festival:
Hardeep Singh Kohli –The Food of the Grand Trunk Road
Tuesday, 15 May, 18:45
Ghosts of Empire
Wednesday, 16 May, 19.30
Kwasi Kwarteng in conversation with Hugo Rifkind
Refreshingly Sri Lanka
Thursday, 17 May, 19.00
Romesh Gunesekera – Prisoner of Paradise
Roshi Fernando – Homesick
Shehan Karunatilaka - Chinaman
With George Alagiah
Barefoot in the City
Saturday, 19 May
11:00 Tales from the Silk Road
Xanthe Gresham with music by Arash Moradi
12:30 Snack Break
13.00 The Wise Fool – Fables from the Islamic World
Shahrukh Husain Shackle
Poetry from the Persian World
Monday, 21 May, 18.45
Reza Mohammadi
Azita Ghahreman
with Nick Laird and Maura Dooley
Moderator: Julia Bird
Women, Power and Politics
Tuesday, 22 May, 18.45
Peter Popham – The Lady and the Peacock
Rani Singh – Sonia Gandhi
With Mukulika Banerjee and Jane Macartney
The Geo-Politics of Oil
Wednesday, 23 May,18.45
Rafael Kandiyoti – Pipelines- Flowing Oil and Crude Politics
Greg Muttitt – Fuel on the Fire – Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq
With Ritula Shah
The Arabian Nights for the 21st C.
Thursday, 24 May, 18.45
Marina Warner – Stranger Magic
Hanan al Shaykh – One Thousand and One Nights
With Erica Wagner
Lunch and Literature
Friday, 25 May, 13.00
Paul French – Midnight in Peking
With Misha Glenny
Hands on Family Day
Saturday, 26 May
11.00 My Daddy is A Pretzel – Yoga Class for Kids
12.00 Hardeep’s Excellent Indian Cooking Class
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Writing Revolution – The Arab Spring and Asia
Monday, 28 May, 18.45
Ahdaf Soueif – Cairo, My City, Our Revolution
Kamin Mohammedi –The Cypress Tree
Paul Mason – Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere
With Mishal Husain
Busting Stereotypes - The Changing Face of Asia
Tuesday, 29 May, 18.45
Mohammed Hanif – Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Madeline Thien - Dogs at the Perimeter
Nikita Lalwani – The Village
Kim Thuy - Ru
With Claire Armitstead
Closing Night: The Last Mughal in words and music
Wednesday 30th May, 18:45
William Dalrymple and Vidya Shah
