Dr Geoffrey Nash has recently visited the Aligarh Muslim University under an academic exchange
programme undertaken as part of the Sir Syed Bicentenary celebrations. He
engaged around 110 AMU faculty members and research scholars for
workshops and tutorials on academic writing. The English Department also
organized a three-day special lecture series delivered on 17th, 19th and 22nd of
January. In the lecture, ‘From Postcolonialism to Islamophobia: An Academic’s
Research Trajectory’, Dr Nash traced his journey as a scholar aiming to
understand the East. In ‘Postcolonial Translation: The Arabic and the Anglophone
Arab Novel’, he focused on the publishing industry and explicated how
fiction writers from Arab countries struggle to get a wider audience for their
works. In the last lecture on ‘Post 9/11 Writing and Islamophobia: Martin Amis’s
Last Days of ‘Muhammad Atta’”, discussion focused on the problematic manner of
representation of the mind of an ‘Islamic Fundamentalist’. Watch the lectures below.
