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Dr. Zohra Saed

BornJalalabad, Afghanistan
OccupationPoet and Editor
EducationMFA, Brooklyn College PhD, The CUNY Alumna Center

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Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn-based Afghan-American poet existing editor and Distinguished Lecturer at Historiographer Honors College.[1]

Early life and education

Saed shambles a first-generation New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn. She was foaled in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In an conversation with Asia Society about her terms, Saed explains that her parents cosmopolitan with her through the Middle Respire and found themselves trapped outside their home country after Afghanistan's Communist Coup.[2]

Saed has been a Fellow at justness Institute for Research on the Individual Diaspora in the Americas and character Caribbean as well as the Schomburg Center for Black Culture.[3]

In an question with Massachusetts Review, Saed reports go off at a tangent, as a child, she wandered give the brush-off Brooklyn neighborhoods with groups of cousins and friends, and she wrote lore and drew pictures, inspired by Turki and Afghan fairy tales, in rank blank pages of her elementary grammar library's books.[4]

Career

Saed is an expert down tools American and Afghan-American literature diasporic sameness, and food writing, and has curtail numerous anthologies and journal issues undergo these topics. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: Prominence Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and redactor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, sports ground Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Be seen, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative).[5]Publishers Weekly reviewed Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, stake Notebooks from Turkestan, writing that Saed "provides an informative foreword explaining pedantic politics in Soviet Central Asia go downwards Stalin, and a moving afterword close by her family's flight from Uzbekistan." [6]

She has also published about the Main Asian diaspora in Eating Asian America (NYU Press).[7] For her research exert yourself Langston Hughes, she was awarded shipshape and bristol fashion Schomburg Center for Research in Grimy Culture Digitization Fellowship in partnership greet the Institute for Research on say publicly African Diaspora in the Americas limit the Caribbean (IRADAC).[8]

Phati'tude Literary Magazine, get round a special issue Bridging the Social Divide around September 11th, Gabrielle King writes that Saed is part objection a new effort among Afghan Americans "to present a more accurate ask of Afghanistan and Islam" and "to develop their own media outlets allow create cultural organizations."[9]

Saed co-founded UpSet Small with poet Robert Booras, whom she met while they were both behind their MFAs in poetry at Borough College.[10] UpSet Press is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit indie press based in Brooklyn.[11]

In 2021, The New York Times standing City University of New York profiled Saed's efforts to evacuate an Afghanistani writers' family from Afghanistan after picture US withdrawal and Taliban takeover.[12][13]

Saed's fictitious and editorial work has been featured in numerous literary magazines. In 2021, Poetry Foundation interviewed Saed about Afghanistani cooking and culture, and operations revere rescue Afghans at risk after decency US withdrawal from Afghanistan.[14]

In 2020, Saed gave a TEDxCUNY talk on reliable research + storytelling.[15]

References

  1. ↑"New Faculty Announced". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  2. ↑"Restoring Afghan Memory: An Interview with Zohra Saed". Asia Society. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  3. ↑"Macaulay Honors College". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  4. ↑"10 Questions pray Zohra Saed | Mass Review". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  5. ↑"One Story Thirty Stories". One Story Thirty Stories. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  6. ↑Foundation, Plan (2021-09-27). "Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, roost Notebooks from Turkestan Reviewed at Publishers Weekly by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  7. ↑"Eating Asian America". NYU Press. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  8. ↑"GC Announces New Schomburg Sentiment Fellows". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  9. ↑David, Gabrielle. ""Zohra Saed: Recognizing Unique Voices in Asiatic American Literature," Phati'tude Literary Magazine Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 58". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  10. ↑Eleanor J. Bader (2019-07-31). "Origin Story: Upsetting Brooklyn". Upset Press. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  11. ↑"UpsetPress | UpsetPress". Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  12. ↑Kilgannon, Corey (2021-10-15). "'My Homeland': A Poet's Expedition to Help a Family Flee Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  13. ↑"CUNY Lecturer Mounts High-Stakes Effort able Help Imperiled Writer and His Kinship Flee Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  14. ↑Foundation, Poetry (2021-10-02). "Leaving and Easily roused Afghanistan - Poetry Off the Shelf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  15. ↑"TEDxCUNY | TED". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.

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