ADAB festival 2022 set to highlight climate change issues.

Ameena Saiyid, Founder and Director, Adab Festival, Jovan Ilic, Deputy Director, British Council Pakistan and Wasif Rizvi, President, Habib University, announced the fourth Adab Festival to be held on 26 and 27 November 2022 at Frere Hall, Karachi.

Ameena Saiyid thanked Mr. Murtaza Wahab, Mr. Iqbal Memon, Commissioner, Karachi, British Council, Habib University, Lightstone Publishers, BARD Foundation, Institute of Business Management, Bank of Punjab, General Shipping Agencies Ltd, GETZ Pharma, EDLINKS, Pakistan International Container Terminal, Mr. Manzoor of Frere Hall, Mr. Afzal Zaidi, Metropolitan Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, District South, Municipal Commissioner, District South, Additional Inspector General Police, Karachi Range, Ms. Sara Amjad, Assistant Commissioner (Headquarters) Karachi, Mr Junaid Ullah Khan, DG Parks and Sister Liza, Principal, of St Joseph's Convent School Karachi for their support of the Adab Festival.

Ameena Saiyid said "the theme of the Adab Festival this year is Climate Change. At Adab Festival, we take literature in its widest form of expression in any language or form such as music, dance, acting, art. Literature is undervalued in Pakistan and we tend to think of it as ivory tower stuff for the elite. Through Adab Festival, which is free and open for all, we want everyone in the community to love, experience and enjoy literature. The Adab Festival belongs to Karachi and our community which is why we are having it in an open public space."

Jovan Ilic, Deputy Director British Council, Pakistan said "We are so pleased to be supporting Adab Festival and the theme of climate change which has also been a key area of focus for our PakistanUK Season New Perspectives programme this year. Festivals have the wonderful ability to create safe 'exciting' spaces. It's not as if all rules are dropped and anything goes, nor is it necessarily a space to overcome differences of opinion as if we are working towards some form of political or civic agreement, rather there's a complicit agreement almost of spirit. That spirit says, come, enjoy, bring an open mind, and recognise that you receive as well as contribute to this space as an artist andor as a visitor.

Wasif Rizvi, President, Habib University said "Pakistan will soon be "unlivable for humans". Extreme weather events - disastrous rains, lethal floods, devastating droughts and heatwaves - have made such...