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English scholar

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Born1958
Lahore, Pakistan
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materTufts University
OccupationProfessor
EmployerMontclair State University
Known forLahore with Love (memoir)
Websitefawziaafzalkhan.webs.com

Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Urdu: فوزیہ افضل خان; born 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a professor of English and director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Montclair State University in New Jersey, United States. Afzal-Khan received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan, and her MA and PhD in English Literature from Tufts University. A University Distinguished Professor, Afzal-Khan was awarded The "Excellence in Public Life Award" by the American Muslim Alliance in 2008. Afzal-Khan also serves on the editorial board of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.

Scholarly work

Author of three monographs and two edited volumes, Afzal-Khan has published extensively in academic journals as well as in newspapers and on public blogs on issues related to postcolonial studies, feminism, and political Islam.

Memoir: Lahore with Love

Afzal-Khan's memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, was published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press. The memoir was immediately received as a fine contribution to the women's rights issues in Pakistan. The first edition contained commending blurbs from prominent authors and scholars: Nawal El Saadawi called it a "beautiful memoir which challenges stereotypes, universal fanatic fundamentalism and religious, political, and sexual taboos" and Henry Louis Gates Jr. found it to be a memoir that "weaves together memory and desire to create a tale that is marvelously compelling and endlessly entertaining, at once poignantly personal and richly political."

However, despite its positive reception, the book was soon dropped by Syracuse University Press due to the fear of a lawsuit from a prominent Pakistani woman who claimed that a character depicted in the book was based on her. The cancellation of the book by an academic press for fear of a lawsuit became an important issue in academic circles. Since the cancellation of the book, various academics, writers, and editors have supported Afzal-Khan in her right to free speech. In an editorial, Richard Schechner and Katherine Lieder of The Drama Review castigated the Syracuse University Press for not standing up for the rights of free speech of one of their own authors.

Afzal-Khan has now published the memoir independently through the Amazon publishing platform. In 2011, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies published a special cluster of articles about the book, along with an interview with Afzal-Khan about the controversy. Pakistaniaat had previously published an interview with Fawzia in 2009, which was conducted by Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Montclair State, Women and Gender Studies". Archived from the original on 3 August 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  2. "WISE Muslim Women". Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  3. "Montclair State University - Fawzia Afzal-Khan". www.montclair.edu. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012.
  4. "Excellence in Public Service Award". American Muslim Alliance. 12 October 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  5. "People". Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  6. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (1993). Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-271-03295-5.
  7. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (2004). Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out. New York: Olive Branch Press. pp. 338. ISBN 978-1-56656-569-1.
  8. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (5 July 2010). "Mullahs and music in Morocco". Express Tribune. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  9. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. "Author Page". The Pakistan Forum. Pakistaniaat. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  10. "Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  11. "Lahore With Love An affair to remember". Daily Times. 30 March 2010. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  12. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (2010). Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends, Pakistani-style. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815609247.
  13. "'Lahore With Love' -- Without a Publisher". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  14. Raja, Masood. "Statements in Support of Fawzia Afzal-Khan's Lahore with Love". Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. 2 (3): 122–136. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  15. Schechner, Richard; Katherine Lieder (2011). "Shame on Syracuse University Press". The Drama Review. 55 (1): 7–12. doi:10.1162/dram_e_00044. S2CID 57568709.
  16. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (2010). Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani-Style. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1456462192.
  17. "Pakistaniaat: Vol. 3, No. 2 (2011)". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  18. Stringer, Hillary (2011). "Lahore with Love Today: An Interview with Fawzia Afzal-Khan". Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. 3 (2). Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  19. "Shattering the Stereotypes: An Interview with Fawzia Afzal-Khan". Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2013.

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