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Zohra Saed

Writer · Scholar · Editor

“An Infinite Inventory of traces” Gramsci

July 25, 2026

Recognized as a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist!
July 4, 2026

Public Scholarship: “Chasing God’s Shadow: The Dangers of Royal Nostalgia” featured in Ajam Media Collective
January 21, 2026

Public Scholarship: A Century of Hypermasculine Representations of Afghans for the Royal Society for Asian Affairs Blog
January 11, 2026

Academic Research: Langston Hughes / Hurmatlig Dost Longeston Xughez Research 2015 to Present
January 2, 2026

Little Central Asia in South Brooklyn Map: Digital Diaspora Project 2024-Present
January 2, 2026

Exhibit: Langston Hughes in Soviet Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan at The Smithsonian
December 2, 2025

Literary Non-Fiction: Auto-Ethnography in Decolonizing Afghanistan, Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke, 2025)
December 24, 2024

Curriculum Building: A Few Years in Review
December 10, 2024

Literary Non-Fiction: Chiroyli | Chiroyliq | Moonlike Face
September 17, 2022

Public Scholarship on Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and the Diaspora 2021-2022