Urdu/Persian/Arabic
A starter pack of/for folks (academics, researchers, students, authors, translators etc.) working on Urdu, Persian & Arabic, as interconnected/overlapping literary and linguistic traditions, socio-culturally distinct in their own right. Comment or DM with bio to be added or to suggest others.
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@keshavbansal.bsky.social
@amir-moosavi.bsky.social
Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
@balarag.bsky.social
Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality. Santa Cruz, CA/ India SALT Chicago summer school
@meliteratures.bsky.social
A forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures (broadly conceived) from Late Antiquity until the present. Critical work welcome!
@rrgould.bsky.social
Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
@clarachambara.bsky.social
'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
@iqtibaas88.bsky.social
کتابِ زندگی سے اقتباسات Mostly literary stuff: excerpts from Urdu/Hindi/English books, quotations, musings Also: food, plants & paintings
@ajab.bsky.social
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics. Twitter @yakabikaj
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories/Sociologies