ASIYA ZAHOOR(2017)

Writer, Academic And Filmmaker

Asiya Zahoor teaches Literature at Baramulla College, Kashmir. Asiya is a poet, a linguist, a filmmaker and an academic. Asiya has studied Psycholinguistics at Oxford University and Caribbean diasporic
literature at the University of Kashmir. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Westminster for a research investigating the representation of Kashmir in literature and cinema. She has authored books, made films and written articles and poems on issues like politics of place, diaspora, the literature of exile, the Muslim identity and psychology of language learning. Asiya has curated a website www.bolbosh.net to help documents languages and literature of Kashmir.

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