Zohra Saed
Dr. Zohra Saed | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Occupation | Poet and Editor |
| Education | MFA, Brooklyn College PhD, The CUNY Grad Center |
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Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn-based Afghan-American poet and editor and Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Saed is a first-generation New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn. She was born in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In an interview with Asia Society about her writing, Saed explains that her parents traveled with her through the Middle East and found themselves trapped outside their home country after Afghanistan's Communist Coup.[2]
Saed has been a Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean as well as the Schomburg Center for Black Culture.[3]
In an interview with Massachusetts Review, Saed reports that, as a child, she wandered through Brooklyn neighborhoods with groups of cousins and friends, and she wrote stories and drew pictures, inspired by Uzbek and Afghan fairy tales, in the blank pages of her elementary school library's books.[4]
Career[edit]
Saed is an expert on American and Afghan-American literature diasporic identity, and food writing, and has edited numerous anthologies and journal issues on these topics. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative).[5] Publishers Weekly reviewed Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan, writing that Saed "provides an informative foreword explaining literary politics in Soviet Central Asia under Stalin, and a moving afterword about her family's flight from Uzbekistan." [6]
She has also published about the Central Asian diaspora in Eating Asian America (NYU Press).[7] For her research on Langston Hughes, she was awarded a Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Digitization Fellowship in partnership with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).[8]
Phati'tude Literary Magazine, in a special issue Bridging the Cultural Divide around September 11th, Gabrielle David writes that Saed is part of a new effort among Afghan Americans "to present a more accurate picture of Afghanistan and Islam" and "to develop their own media outlets and create cultural organizations."[9]
Saed co-founded UpSet Press with poet Robert Booras, whom she met while they were both pursuing their MFAs in poetry at Brooklyn College.[10] UpSet Press is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit indie press based in Brooklyn.[11]
In 2021, The New York Times and City University of New York profiled Saed's efforts to evacuate an Afghan writers' family from Afghanistan after the US withdrawal and Taliban takeover.[12][13]
Saed's literary and editorial work has been featured in numerous literary magazines. In 2021, Poetry Foundation interviewed Saed about Afghan cooking and culture, and operations to rescue Afghans at risk after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.[14]
In 2020, Saed gave a TEDxCUNY talk on historical research + storytelling.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "New Faculty Announced". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Restoring Afghan Memory: An Interview with Zohra Saed". Asia Society. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Macaulay Honors College". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "10 Questions for Zohra Saed | Mass Review". massreview.org. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "One Story Thirty Stories". One Story Thirty Stories. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ Foundation, Poetry (2021-09-27). "Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan Reviewed at Publishers Weekly by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Eating Asian America". NYU Press. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "GC Announces New Schomburg Center Fellows". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ David, Gabrielle. ""Zohra Saed: Recognizing Unique Voices in Afghan American Literature," Phati'tude Literary Magazine Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 58". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-10-03. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "UpsetPress | UpsetPress". Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ Kilgannon, Corey (2021-10-15). "'My Homeland': A Poet's Quest to Help a Family Flee Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ "CUNY Lecturer Mounts High-Stakes Effort to Help Imperiled Writer and His Family Flee Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ↑ Foundation, Poetry (2021-10-02). "Leaving and Loving Afghanistan - Poetry Off the Shelf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "TEDxCUNY | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
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