PublicationsPublications

Journal Articles

 * "The Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom." Radical Teacher. No. (82) 2008: 32-37. 

* "Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, the West, and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity." The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association. Vol.1 (1) 2008: 33-45.

* "Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works."Postcolonial Text [online], Vol. 3 (4) 2007: 1-13.

* “The King Buzzard: Bano Qudsia’s Postnational Allegory and the Nation-State.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol. 40 (1) 2007: 95-110.

* "Operation Enduring Freedom and the Politics of Popular Representation.” Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Winter 2007: 81-90.

* “We is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance. Caribbean Studies Vol. 34 (1) 2006: 111-130.

* “Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Novel and the Politics of Writing Beyond the Nation-State.” Interactions: Ege Journal of English and American Studies. Vol. 15 (2) 2006: 49-60.

* “Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.” South Asian Review: Special Issue on V. S. Naipaul Vol. 26 (1) 2005: 224-239.

* “Death as a Form of Becoming:The Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics.” Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 14 (2) 2005: 8-26.

Books

 

Once Upon a Country, (Novel), Trafford, 2002.

The Eastern Breeze, (Poems), Appledot Publishers, Pakistan, 1999.

Book Chapters

"Ajaibāt-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambal Posh’s Metropolitan Journey and the Ways of Seeing the West." Travels to the West. Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds. 2008. (Forthcoming).

"Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics.” Muslims, Globalization and Secularism. Gabriele Marranci. Ed. Aberdeen: Springer, 2008. (Forthcoming).

“Acts of Translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the Politics of Muslim Identity in British India.” Cultural Transactions: 'Translation' in India and Beyond. Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari. Eds. 2008. (Forthcoming).

“Abul A’ala Maududi: British India and the Politics of Popular Islamic Texts.” Literature of British India. S. S Towheed. Ed. Stuttgart/Germany: Ibidem, 2007: 173-191.

“Doctorow’s Ragtime: Inserting Class in a Literary Discussion.”Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Eds. Munster/Hamburg:LIT Verlag, 2007: 105-116.

“Introduction to Muhammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmad Faiz.” The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Victoria Arana, Ed. New York: Facts on File, Dec 2007.

“When You Look and Sound ‘Un-American’:Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing.”(with three other writers).Finding our Way: A Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell-Teague. Eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Reviews

 * "The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Hundred Years of War." Review. Digest of Middle East Studies

Vol. 17 (2) 2008:134-136. 

* "Confluences." Review. African American Review. (Forthcoming 2008).

* "Nationalistic Rhetoric: The Last Crusade." Review. American Book Review Vol. 28 (6) 2007:10-11.

* “Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith & Sexuality.” Review. Postcolonial Text Vol. 3   (2) 2007.

* “Education as Enforcement.” Review. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. No. 6 (1) 2004.

 

Creative Works

"For Benazir." (Poem). Postcolonial Text Vol.4 (2) 2008.

“Weera.” (Short Story). Belmont Literary Journal, 2002.

“Walking Home on 911” (Essay). Belmont Literary Journal, 2002.

“Beyond my Fingertips.” (Poem). Belmont Literary Journal, 2001.

“Ward Four,” and “Mandela.” (Poems). Belmont literary Journal, 1999.

“An Act of Kindness?” (Short Story). Belmont literary Journal, 1997.

“Shaeedoon Ki Lashen Dekh Kar.” (Poem). Defense Journal, Pakistan, 1991.