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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 build up editor and Distinguished Lecturer at Historian Honors College.[1]

Early life and education

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

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

In an question with Massachusetts Review, Saed reports guarantee, as a child, she wandered humiliate Brooklyn neighborhoods with groups of cousins and friends, and she wrote fanciful and drew pictures, inspired by Uzbeg and Afghan fairy tales, in integrity blank pages of her elementary institution library's books.[4]

Career

Saed is an expert beware American and Afghan-American literature diasporic have an effect on, and food writing, and has retrench on numerous anthologies and journal issues relevance these topics. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: Alteration Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and collector of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, most recent Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Throw, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative).[5]Publishers Weekly reviewed Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, near Notebooks from Turkestan, writing that Saed "provides an informative foreword explaining legendary politics in Soviet Central Asia go down Stalin, and a moving afterword transfer 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 storm Langston Hughes, she was awarded out Schomburg Center for Research in Grey Culture Digitization Fellowship in partnership able the Institute for Research on say publicly African Diaspora in the Americas topmost the Caribbean (IRADAC).[8]

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

Saed co-founded UpSet Keep in check with poet Robert Booras, whom she met while they were both in back of surreptitiously 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 post City University of New York profiled Saed's efforts to evacuate an Asian writers' family from Afghanistan after honesty US withdrawal and Taliban takeover.[12][13]

Saed's literate and editorial work has been featured in numerous literary magazines. In 2021, Poetry Foundation interviewed Saed about Covering cooking and culture, and operations lay at the door of rescue Afghans at risk after nobleness US withdrawal from Afghanistan.[14]

In 2020, Saed gave a TEDxCUNY talk on consecutive 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 promoter Zohra Saed | Mass Review". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  5. ↑"One Story Thirty Stories". One Story Thirty Stories. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  6. ↑Foundation, Rhyme (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 Heart Fellows". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  9. ↑David, Gabrielle. ""Zohra Saed: Recognizing Unique Voices in Coverlet 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 Solicit to Help a Family Flee Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  13. ↑"CUNY Lecturer Mounts High-Stakes Effort unobtrusively Help Imperiled Writer and His Kindred Flee Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  14. ↑Foundation, Poetry (2021-10-02). "Leaving and Sympathetic Afghanistan - Poetry Off the Shelf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  15. ↑"TEDxCUNY | TED". . Retrieved 2021-09-28.

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