आफ़ताब अहमद / Aftab Ahmed

Aftab Ahmad earned his PhD in Urdu literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Having served as the Director of the American Institute of Urdu Studies Program in Lucknow for five years, he began teaching as an Urdu lecturer at UC-Berkeley in 2006. “Reflections on Growing up Muslim in India,” his essay about being a religious minority in India, was recently published in the Hindi journal Aksar and reprinted serially in Fire, an Urdu-language newspaper in Lucknow.







