Tag: movement

• The Graph of a Cry

  

  My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of […]

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  13 Aug 2022

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, dissertation, diversity, Education, Gender, Personal is Political, phd, Poetry, Read, research, Story, Travel

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• Museum VoorLinden in a weird year

  

  In the summer 2020, we took some time off to go visit spaces that resonated our inner landscape. It was a beautiful time for innovation, but mostly there was devastation followed by a constant creeping feeling of calamity. When my friend Marrije suggested that a visit to the Museum Voorlinden is a must. I took […]

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  10 Jan 2021

  Academic, Art, Audience, Customer Review, Education, Story, Travel

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• Delhi is a Ghazal

  

  On reading Mumbai’s Ghazal by Raef Kazi I dream of Delhi sitting in Amsterdam tonight Glamor in the lawns, silk whispers to pashmina tonight All that dust, never dulls the white gaadis and kurtas This is Delhi we are talking about tonight Tall red brick walls surrounding gated marvels Ghazals soirees and an open grill […]

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  26 Jan 2019

  Art, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story, Travel

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