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‎BAMM! EP 552: Adab Festival 2025 - Press Conference  ‎Red Carpet Host: Dr. Kamran Jawaid Aziz  ‎ ‎A Press Conference of Karachi's biggest literary and cultural event is here! ✨ Presenting the 10th Adab Festival Pakistan. Two days of literature, art, music, and fun. FREE ENTRY! Habitt City, Nov 22nd - 1  to 9:30 pm & Nov 23rd - 12 to 9:30 pm.  Be there! ‎ ‎#10thAdabFest #AdabFestival #AdabFest #KarachiEvents #LiteratureFestival  #Starlinkspr #LightStonePublishers #DawnNews #AmeenaSaiyid #AminGuljee #KamranJawaid #RJKamranJawaidAziz #BAMMTVpk  ‎ ‎@AdabFest @StarLinksPR @BAMMTVpk @KamranJawaidAziz @Dawn_Images @Dawn.Today @DawnNewsTV @Dawn_dot_com @Shanaz.Ramzi @TurabRamzi @mtRamzi @AmeenaSaiyid @ShaymaSaiyid @AminGulgee @ArshadMahmud03 @KamranJawaidAziz @BAMMTVpk

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00:50will come and you will hear from them. Where is Adopt Festival?

01:05Hello, today is the press conference of Adopt Festival.

01:08In the press conference, there are leading speakers,

01:10management committee members who are behind the Adopt Festival,

01:13all are there, they are here,

01:15and they know what their thoughts are in the press conference.

01:20Thank you so much for coming.

01:23I am delighted to announce that today we are launching the 10th Adopt Festival.

01:35This is a big milestone for us and we are really excited.

01:39I am actually controlling myself otherwise I will be dancing over here.

01:43Look, this is the 22nd Adopt Festival.

01:50It will be inaugurated.

01:52It will be inaugurated.

01:53It will be inaugurated.

01:54It will be inaugurated until 9 o'clock.

01:58It will be inaugurated so many programs.

02:00Book launches will be inaugurated.

02:03Panel discussions will be inaugurated.

02:04There will be discussions and in particular, Amin Gulji's book will launch and will be here

02:11Performing Arts will be here, Performance Arts.

02:15It's the first time in the Literature Festival is going to be a performance art.

02:21There will be concert, worship, inauguration ceremony.

02:26There will be very good memories and songs.

02:31The next day, we will do a special thing.

02:38We are doing another time in the system.

02:42This is a creative writing class.

02:46This is for emerging writers and young writers.

02:50The renowned novelist Taha who is here with us today, thank you.

02:58He will conduct a creative writing class.

03:01This is for you to know that it has no ticket.

03:05This is for me.

03:06Because we want people to come from every place.

03:10Our audience is good.

03:13Our audience will be happy to write and write.

03:18They will be happy to write.

03:20They will be happy to write.

03:23And when they read books, they will be happy to write.

03:26They will be happy to write.

03:27And there will be performers, speakers, people in the show.

03:32People will come from every show.

03:35School, university, education.

03:38There will be educators, journalists, academics, novelists.

03:42And we will cover every time here.

03:47And I want to thank you for this.

03:50Vahid Noor Sahib.

03:54I would like to thank the British Council.

03:56Khadija, thank you for being here with us today.

03:57Khadija from the British Council.

03:58They are sponsoring a visit of British authors and Shandana Minhas.

04:03jeaninemaa jeaninthakit a.

04:07I would like to thank the British Council.

04:10Khadija, thank you for being here with us today.

04:15Khadija from the British Council.

04:16They are sponsoring a visit of British authors and Shandana Minhas

04:22which has even been to watch the new book.

04:24Here is the other festival in FARC Foundation Award.

04:27And in this year we will add one language in the next year.

04:32English Satharam, Baloshi, the editor of the book launches, performing art, of course,

04:42panel discussions, talks, dramatic readings, a concert, safe-safe-savejo,

04:49a concert from Hedervaad.

04:52There will be creative writing classes.

04:55We have a full stand for kids.

05:02We invited the kids to do their show.

05:07Whatever the kids do, we have a platform to do whatever you want to do,

05:15the music, the acting theater, whatever you want to do,

05:20the music, the music, the music, the music, the music,

05:24the music, the poetry, the literature, the politics,

05:29all the topics covered.

05:31And I want to thank our sponsors for their support.

05:36I want to thank them for their support.

05:39Sin government, Don, Don are our media partners.

05:44They have supported us a lot.

05:47Bank of Punjab, British Council, thank you very much.

05:51I don't know anything else except music to make a music.

05:56So I did the only work for the whole world.

06:03So this session is the same way that I am trying to do,

06:10Thank you very much.

06:40For this creative writing workshop, it's titled The Story Maker Studio and I will be chairing it.

07:04It's a fun, engaging two-session workshop designed for teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18.

07:12We want to foster young writers, their talent, help them find their voices.

07:20It's an opportunity for them to express themselves.

07:23I think few festivals have done more to revive the cultural, intellectual and literary landscape of Pakistan

07:33and to create this space where so many people and stories and communities can come together and converge so meaningfully.

07:43Now this is another festival that we have started.

07:57Looking for the better part of my life, I've always been sort of loitering at these events,

08:05whether they be in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad.

08:08What a pleasure then it is to be invited to speak at one.

08:14And all the credit goes to the absolute national treasure that is Ms. Amina Syed.

08:20A round of applause for it.

08:23People start, people launch start-ups in their 20s.

08:28I launched mine in my 70s.

08:30I'm a writer.

08:34I am honored to be amongst my esteemed panelists and many more to come.

08:43I'm here only because of Amina, really.

08:47She's been my mentor and my role model.

08:51I've been my mentor and role model since I was about 18 years old.

08:55And over the many years that we've worked together on many, many collaborations,

08:59we have also become friends.

09:01And it's a friendship that I really treasure.

09:03So I'm really, I would go anywhere that she asks me to go.

09:08I am looking forward myself because not only am I going to be a panelist but I'm also going

09:12to be in the audience for many of these other excellent panels that are going to take place.

09:17And I'm really interested and glad to see the promotion of the language,

09:22one of the languages of Gilgit, Pakistan.

09:25Urushaski, to be precise.

09:27I think that's the one that's being featured at this festival.

09:31A lot of the books and authors, Mrs. Zubayla Mustafa was the editor of it and my colleagues,

09:39Shazia Hassan and Faheem Sarwa sitting here.

09:43I used to cover these festivals and I used to be in awe of Amina Syed and just to go and

09:53talk to her, who was like, you know, a huge honor.

09:57And last year she gave me this honor of publishing my book.

10:03It's a translation.

10:04It's called The Future of Civilization.

10:07And I'm going to do a book talk on the 22nd and 23rd summer and it's going to be about

10:16civilizational, ethical and moral values, the value of these values in society today.

10:24What's the meaning of a dissenter and a revolutionary years and what's the difference between them?

10:30Like these festivals are possible.

10:32As much of the literature festivals in Pakistan, these are possible because she has started

10:38this trend and laid this foundation.

10:40And those of the other festivals are made in the same framework.

10:46As much as possible, my work and focus is now that youth enrichment, youth to art,

10:57youth to dialogue.

10:59So I'm going to do a session with young actors, content creators, musicians, dancers,

11:05all of them will tell us about how are they available for youth?

11:09What are their journeys that you can replicate and learn from them?

11:14I feel very good.

11:17I'm going to take a look at the first edition.

11:19Now it's the 10th edition.

11:20The people say that where are they?

11:22The second step is the second step.

11:23The second step is the second step.

11:24The second step is the second step.

11:25So I'm very happy to see the festival.

11:27I've seen the festival and the second step.

11:30I've seen the day that I've seen the events and many events.

11:35And now I've seen the best positions.

11:37I've been doing my best.

11:39I've been doing my best.

11:40We've done the last year on our show.

11:42And I hope you can join us with all of these.

11:50Thank you, Ameena.

11:52Thank you so much for that you thank us.

11:54The thing we are giving you today is what we have delivered.

11:56As we are making a chance to know.

12:01I've worked with Ameena and I'll tell you,

12:05which is inclusive, which is all our provincials.

12:11Aminah was the first time.

12:15And this time, with her,

12:18we will have a whole session

12:20in which we are joining transgenders.

12:23The book is called Aminah,

12:26which is Lightstone, Queen's Up,

12:28which are transgenders.

12:32It was originally written in Pashto.

12:35So, I think that this festival

12:38has been a very big accomplishment.

12:41All provincial languages and gender

12:44are building a platform here.

12:47My name is Khadija Hussaini.

12:49I am an arts program coordinator

12:51at the British Council.

12:53Before this presentation,

12:55I want to share with you all.

12:58Because I want to share with you all.

13:02So, like I said, I am arts program coordinator

13:05of British Council,

13:06supporting the British Council arts team,

13:08as well as our equality, diversity, and inclusion workshop.

13:12So, it gives me immense pleasure

13:14to see the diverse program,

13:17the diverse voices that Aminah has so effortlessly brought together

13:26under one platform.

13:27So, congratulations, Aminah.

13:29This is a great, great effort.

13:31and I can understand the challenges

13:34that you might have faced in doing so.

13:37As-salamu alaykum.

13:38As-salamu alaykum.

13:39My name is Rana Rata Kudar.

13:40First of all, I will say that

13:42it is a very important thing

13:44that I am a small part of Pakistan's

13:46legal legislation.

13:47I am a short part of Pakistan.

13:48And I want to encourage you all

13:50it is important.

13:52And if I say that

13:54it is a difficult thing

13:56about the national government

13:57in a united states,

13:59but Aminah,

14:02My name isux has given

14:05My father passed away, Amina is my mother.

14:35And I just wanted to say that Abu had a masters in English literature and throughout my life I observed that he would, he was just into literature in the biggest way. Bigger than, much more than Amma was.

14:50And so this was actually the way, because Amma got married when she was very young and Abu has been, you know how they say there's always a great, behind every great woman, behind every great man there's a great woman.

15:05But behind Amma was my father.

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15:21Thank you very much.

15:51This is the film that covers the adept and covers the ideas of the adept.

15:56In the adept festival you have performed the art, writers, directors, actors and poets, speakers, intellectuals, philosophers,

16:07all have been available.

16:09There are some exclusive talks, screenings, documentaries, short stories, and some live presentations.

16:21Thank you very much.

16:51Thank you very much.

17:21Thank you very much.

17:51Thank you very much.

18:21Thank you very much.

18:51Thank you very much.

19:21Thank you very much.

19:51Thank you very much.

20:21Thank you very much.

20:51Yes, absolutely.

20:53So please join us and it's going to be a wonderful, I think the most important thing is that you get to meet people that you don't meet otherwise and you get to exchange ideas and you know, you get to step out of your normal thinking zone and your normal comfort zone.

21:11So please join us.

21:41Thank you very much.

22:11So there is so much and something for everyone.

22:41I think it's going to be a great opportunity.

24:11As I said in the press conference.

26:35First time we will do an art exhibition and we have two sessions here.

26:43Yasmeen Lari Sahib has made 50,000 houses.

26:49There is no toxic toxic things in the kitchen.

26:55We will do a session with Yasmeen Lari.

27:25Well, guys, today we have got our own souvenir and exclusive things.

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