Authors

Sarah Waheed

Sarah Waheed is Visiting South Asia Fellow at George Mason University where she teaches in the Department of History, and also teaches at Georgetown University. She has previously taught at Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Waheed completed her PhD in Modern South Asian History from Tufts University (2011). She has taught courses on Islam in South Asia and History of the Indian Ocean. She lives in Washington DC.

ARTICLES BY Sarah Waheed

  • الأدب في زمن النفط: أيام الماعز

    الأدب في زمن النفط: أيام الماعز

    "منذ تلك اللحظة، بالضبط مثل ذبابة مانيان، بدأ خوف مجهول يغلف عقلي. شك غير منطقي بدأ يتملكني، أن هذه الرحلة لم تكن تقودني إلى حياة الخليج التي كنت أحلم بها وأشتهيها. ذاك الخليج الذي عرفت عنه الكثير من العديد من الأشخاص، لا يشبه ما أراه. يلفحني الخطر، ولا شيء واضح أمامي ." (أيام الماعز، بنيامين، دار نشر بنغوين 2012)

  • Literature in the Oil Age: Goat Days

    Literature in the Oil Age: Goat Days

    From that moment, like the maniyan fly, an unknown fear began to envelop my mind. An irrational doubt began to grip me, a feeling that this journey was not leading me to the Gulf life that I had been dreaming about and craving for. The Gulf I had learned about from so many people was n..