Hiwar Scholars Seminar

A Hyderabadi Begum in Ottoman Lands: An Indian Muslim Woman’s Search for Islamic Sisterhood, 1909-1910

Speaker

Daniel Majchrowicz

Associate Professor
Northwestern University

Daniel Majchrowicz is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. His work is committed to thinking about South Asia and its place in the world as it is envisaged, imagined, and expressed through the medium of language and literature. His teaching and research particularly consider the history and culture of Muslims and Islam in South Asia, with a special emphasis on Urdu literature, travel writing, popular culture, and language politics.

He is a translator from Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Persian, and the director of the South Asia Research Forum, vice-president of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and a board member of the Modern Endangered Archives Program.

Moderated by

Ibrahim N. Abusharif
Associate Professor in Residence
Northwestern University in Qatar

Event information

DATE

Sunday, April 13, 2025

TIME

1:00 p.m.

LOCATION

Room 1-300
Northwestern Qatar