Macaulay Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Zohra Saed is co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press, 2010); the editor of Langston Hughes in Turkestan 1932-1933: Notebooks, Photos, and Poems (Lost & Found, 2015). She is preparing her manuscript on Langston Hughes’s trip to Soviet Central Asia in the 1930s.
Dr. Saed is Faculty Editor of “Lost and Found: CUNY Poetics Document Initiative,” published by The Center for Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center, 2023; the 2023 Guest Poetry Editor of Turkoslavia Journal; and Co-Founding Editor of UpSet Press Inc.
RECENT LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS
Keynote Lecturer: “Entwined Poetics: Langston Hughes’ Travels to Soviet Central Asia,” The Archive Revisited: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production. Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The University of Ohio. March 24, 2023
“My Homeland: A Poet’s Quest to Help a Family Flee Afghanistan” Zohra Saed, who teaches at the City University of New York, has rallied the literary community to help another poet and his family get to safety. Corey Kilgannon. New York Times. October 15, 2021.
“Gazelle Samizay: Claustrophobic Spaces, the Art of Tucking Away and Radical Self-Making” Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from the Middle East, Dubai, UAE, 2011.
