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
“Plaintiffs in Paper Robes: The First Ghazal of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib” Frances Pritchett and Mustafa Menai will discuss the poetry of Ghalib and the ghazal form by looking at the first verse of the first ghazal of his divan. In Pritchett’s words, “An Urdu ghazal consists of a series of miniature poems, each two... read more! »