Tag Archives: Humanities & Languages

The English Literary Association (ELA) of Jamia screened a 45-minute video lecture by the Queen of Jordan, Rania al-Abdullah, held at the Yale University, USA, on the topic of the Palestine and Israel conflict and the role of the USA as a leader on the issue. The video screening was held at the English department on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. ...

The fourth Ahmed Ali memorial lecture was organized by the Department of English on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. The event was held at Edward W Said Hall, which was presided by Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung. According to Wikipedia: Ahmed Ali was born in the year 1910 in New Delhi and died in 1994 in Karachi. He was an Indian novelist ...

Jamia’s Outreach Programme, in association with the department of English organized a session of book readings, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. The readings in the session were by Tania James and H.M. Naqvi, both short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011, from their respective novels nominated for the prize. The session was held at the Dayar-I Mir ...

The department of English organized a seminar titled “The Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean: A focus through V.S. Naipaul’s ‘A House For Mr. Biswas'” on, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. The seminar was conducted by Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak from the department of English at the Universite Paul Vale- Montpellier III, France. The seminar, attended by students from the department, irrespective of ...

By Sadaf Ali Khan; Edited by Khalid Jaleel The department of Hindi at Jamia held its third Devdas Gandhi Memorial Lecture titled, “Bhasha Aur Rachnatmak Avrodh,” which loosely translates to, lack of innovation in the Hindi language. It was held at the Nehru guest house on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The guest speaker for the occasion was Rajendra Yadav, editor ...

The India-Arab Cultural Center at Jamia, kicked start a three day long Arab Film Festival on Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. The festival was inaugurated by the Egyptian Ambassador to India, Khaled al Baqly. Ambassador al Baqly is a new arrival to India and this was his first public appearance since he took charge of office. The ambassador was also joined ...