Zohra Saed

Zohra Saed is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos and Notebook from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative). Her poetry chapbook Misspelled Cities/Falsch Geschrieben with Sahar Muradi was published for dOCUMENTA 13 Notebook Series in English/German. Her essays on the Central Asian diaspora and their food history have appeared in Eat Asian America (NYU Press) and The Asian American Literary Review.

We Too Sing America – Deepa Iyer in Conversation with Zohra Saed

January 12, 2017March 18, 2016 By Deepa Iyer and Zohra Saed

Author and nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer, in conversation with Brooklyn based Afghan American poet Zohra Saed, will discuss her book We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of … Read more

The Halalitization of Asian American Studies?

October 3, 2018February 27, 2009 By Zohra Saed

What does it mean to be a hyphenated Muslim in a post-9/11 world? How do Muslim artists, writers and filmmakers address these issues of identity, assimilation, and recreation in homes they have made outside of what has been called the “Muslim World”? What was earlier Muslim Diaspora cultural production dealing with before 9/11 put them … Read more