The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) returned to the Asia Society in New York last weekend, featuring a star-studded line-up enthralling audiences in the single-day event.
Aiming to present American audiences with a more nuanced view of Pakistan, the one-day event on May 20 featured discussions on fiction and nonfiction writing, art, architecture, history and politics. Among the luminaries gracing the Asia Society stage were filmmakers Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Sadia Shepard; authors Kamila Shamsie, Shahbaz Taseer and Marina Fareed; and professor Tahira Naqvi.
In an inaugural address, Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. Masood Khan appreciated the event, noting it was part of the Asia Society’s ongoing efforts to boost people-to-people contacts between Islamabad and Washington. “These efforts are not influenced by governments, directly or indirectly. Your efforts and the efforts of these festivals are people driven,” he said.
A round-up of the event on social media:
Join us this Saturday for Lahore Literary Festival in New York! 🎉 Check out the event schedule and purchase tickets today: https://t.co/Bcb7Rp4aVC https://t.co/TEG2NJ8SUT
— Asia Society NY (@AsiaSocietyNY) May 19, 2023
Lahore Literary Festival returns to New York, with Masood Khan hoping for boost in people-to-people contacts – https://t.co/3lmHctTeEm
— Pakistan News International (@PNIDigital) May 20, 2023
Spoke at Lahore Literary Festival @lhrlitfest in New York. Thank you Asia Society @AsiaSocietyNY for hosting it. Literary Festivals and discourses will bring Pakistan 🇵🇰 and United States 🇺🇸 closer. pic.twitter.com/WuYZPoP7Ig
— Masood Khan (@Masood__Khan) May 21, 2023
Ambassador @Masood__Khan congratulated @AsiaSociety on organizing Lahore Literary Festival @lhrlitfest and connecting countries with North America and particularly with the United States, he said that the Society was making seminal contribution to bringing people together. pic.twitter.com/0sC0yHhyUN
— Pakistan Embassy US (@PakinUSA) May 21, 2023
Lahore Literary Festival Returns to New York.#Lahore #Newyork #WENews
Read More: https://t.co/wnItr2PXoX— WE News English (@WENewsEnglish) May 21, 2023
Treat to see Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy at Lahore Literary Festival .. pic.twitter.com/Ql67RuglXR
— ash- stocks, cricket and peaky blinders fan … (@AishaNazim3) May 21, 2023
In his remarks at Lahore Literary Festival, in New York @AsiaSocietyNY Ambassador @Masood__Khan said that the festival would be instrumental in providing stimulus to promoting people-to-people relations b/w Pakistan and the United States. @lhrlitfest @PkPublicDiplo @PakinUSA pic.twitter.com/7Tdp3y59w7
— Maliha Zargham Jabboana (@malihazargham) May 21, 2023
Listening to incredibly powerful voices of Pakistani authors from across the spectrum at the @lhrlitfest event organized by the @AsiaSocietyNY in New York today deeply resonated with me in many ways! #book #culture #art #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/mx5TYUrYKt
— Shaziah Zuberi (@ShaziahZ) May 21, 2023
Author of Lost to the World, Shahbaz Taseer @ShahbazTaseer speaking on surviving the taliban with @WajSKhan @AtlanticCouncil at the LLF in NY @AsiaSocietyNY #LLF2023NYC #AsiaSociety pic.twitter.com/2tN1kn8AAi
— LLF (@lhrlitfest) May 21, 2023
https://twitter.com/ShahbazTaseer/status/1660325901794521089?s=20
