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Zubair Torwali

Executive Director and leader - Education, Literacy, Language Revitalization at University of Peshawar, | Swat , Pakistan

Subjects:
Culture/Gender Studies
Spoken languages:
English, Urdu
Status:
Open to collaboration.

Work

Subjects:
Culture/Gender Studies
Research Keywords:
Language, Culture, Peace, Conflict, Literacy, Preservation, Documentation
Collaboration interests:
Language documentation. literacy, indigenous languages, language policies, sociolinguistics, decolonization, colonization, post modern theory
Biography:
Zubair Torwali is an activist, researcher, author, and educator based in Swat Pakistan. Zubair has published works in English, Urdu, and in the Torwali language. He has authored and supervised a number of books in and about Torwali. His book in English, Muffled Voices, provides insight into Pakistan’s social, cultural, and political issues. Zubair has dozens of research articles to his credit, along with hundreds of articles in the English dailies and weeklies of Pakistan. He founded Idara Baraye Taleem waTaraqi (IBT), an organization focused on education, development and the empowerment of the marginalized mountain communities of upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Profile website:
https://ibtnorthpakistan.org/
Curriculum Vitae:
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