Joy of Urdu Online Sessions: “I too Have Some Dreams” Sean Pue on N.M. Rashed’s poetry . On the occasion of N.M. Rashed’s upcoming birth anniversary on August 1st, Joy of Urdu is delighted to present a special online session TONIGHT (8pm Dubai, 9pm Pakistan) with Dr. Sean Pue. Moderated by Zarminae Ansari, and discussion/ recitals by Aleem Zubair and Faraz Ali. . Register in advance for this meeting: Link in bio After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. . Sean Pue’s English critically acclaimed translations of N.M. Rashed’s poetry have been used by the Joy of Urdu team in previous events. Imagine our delight to be able to have him speak about his own journey learning Urdu, the art of translation, specifically the challenge of translating poetry, Rashid’s work, and his translation of 2 poems: “Zindagi Se Darte Ho” & “Guman Ka Mumkin”. . Dr. A. Sean Pue is associate professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Michigan State University. His I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry was published by the University of California Press in 2014. He has served as the Director of the Digital Humanities program at Michigan State University and recently received an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship that allowed him to study linguistics and computer/data science for his current research on poetic sound in South Asian poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University.
Joy of Urdu Online Sessions: “I too Have Some Dreams” Sean Pue on N.M. Rashed’s poetry . On the occasion of N.M. Rashed’s upcoming birth anniversary on August 1st, Joy of Urdu is delighted to present a special online session TONIGHT (8pm Dubai, 9pm Pakistan) with Dr. Sean Pue. Moderated by Zarminae Ansari, and discussion/ recitals by Aleem Zubair and Faraz Ali. . Register in advance for this meeting: Link in bio After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. . Sean Pue’s English critically acclaimed translations of N.M. Rashed’s poetry have been used by the Joy of Urdu team in previous events. Imagine our delight to be able to have him speak about his own journey learning Urdu, the art of translation, specifically the challenge of translating poetry, Rashid’s work, and his translation of 2 poems: “Zindagi Se Darte Ho” & “Guman Ka Mumkin”. . Dr. A. Sean Pue is associate professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Michigan State University. His I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry was published by the University of California Press in 2014. He has served as the Director of the Digital Humanities program at Michigan State University and recently received an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship that allowed him to study linguistics and computer/data science for his current research on poetic sound in South Asian poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University.hammadJuly 28, 2020
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Thank you to one of our advisors, socio-linguist Dr Rizwan Ahmad of Qatar University, for alerting us to this: https://ift.tt/3gjSug7 #urduwordshammadDecember 6, 2020
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شعر، کتاب، آواز Word, Verse, and Voice The Notion of Correctness in Language A conversation with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad. PART 2 . Host: Aleem Zubair . Friday, December 4 . 5 pm Qatar, 6 pm UAE, 7 pm Pakistan, 7:30 pm India . Listen live on our Facebook page or join via Zoom. Please register via link in BIO to get the Zoom link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. . “کیونکر کوئی نوشتئہ حق کو غلط کہے” . زبان میں صحیح اور غلط کا مسئلہ ڈاکٹر رضوان احمد کے ساتھ گفتگو . میزبان: علیم زبیر ______ شعر، کتاب، آواز علیم زبیر کے ساتھ اردو ادب، زبان اور شاعری کے بارے میں نشست ، ہر دوسرے جمعے، شام سات بجے Word, Verse and Voice: A journey through the world of Urdu poetry & prose with Aleem Zubair Alternate Fridays, 7 pm (PST) has . Joy of Urdu is a volunteer-run, BILINGUAL, organization for the promotion of the Urdu language, creating bilingual content and publication, with chapters around the world. . NOTE: Please subscribe to the Joy of Urdu YouTube Channel to see the videos of this event and other videos. Do click on the bell icon to make sure you are notified when we upload it! . To join one of our international chapters, and receive information about events, or to volunteer for Joy of Urdu, please register by filling the forms linked in bio. . Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. Link in Bio . Poster design: Rabila Kidwai Edit: Zahra AlihammadDecember 2, 2020
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This Sunday- December 6th . Join us this Sunday for the Joy of Urdu Weekly Hour: “Dr Arfa Sayeda aur Zarminae Ansari ki Himaqatein”, and watch our founder-director improve her Urdu pronunciation & comprehension as she stumbles through works of Urdu literature under Dr. Arfa’s expert was guidance! . As it is Intizar Hussain’s birth anniversary on Monday, we will read his story “Baadal”. It is available online on Rekhta. . Also available in two different English translations: in The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told by Muhammad Umar Memon, as “Clouds”, and in Rakhshanda Jalil’s book of translations of short stories by Intizar Hussain, “The Death of Sheherzad”. . Watch live on Facebook, or register for the zoom meeting- LINK IN BIO. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. . Joy of Urdu is a volunteer-run, BILINGUAL, organization for the promotion of the Urdu language, creating bilingual content and publication, with chapters around the world. . NOTE: Please subscribe to the Joy of Urdu YouTube Channel to see the videos of this event and other videos. Do click on the bell icon to make sure you are notified when we upload it! . To join one of our international chapters, and receive information about events, or to volunteer for Joy of Urdu, please register by filling the forms linked in bio. . Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. Link in Bio . Poster design: Rabila Kidwai #urdu #joyofurdu #kitabeinparhiye #arfasayeda #drarfa #drarfasayedazehra #zarminaeansari #himaqatein #joyofurduweeklyhour #intizarhussain #alephbookcompany #pakistanreads #pakistan #pakistani #urduadab #urduliterature #urdupoetry #language #reading #literature #books #shortstory #pronunciation #intizarhussain urduseekhiyehammadDecember 2, 2020