Mustafa Menai is Lecturer of Urdu at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Studies Department. His interests include the pedagogy of teaching language through literature and experimenting with different poetic structures such as ghazal, nazm, and haiku.
Mustafa Menai
Lecturer of Urdu in the South Asia Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania
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Feb 16th
2013
Feb 16th
2013
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Urdu Poetry: Ghalib and the Ghazal
This roundtable will examine the poetry of Ghalib and the ghazal form by focusing on a single two-line verse as a way to understand the genre as a whole.