Rizwan Ahmad

Linguistic landscapes

Sacred Font, Profane Purpose

*** Yasser S. Khan and Rizwan Ahmad *** The offending dress (Image credit: BBC) Recently, a woman in Lahore was accused of blasphemy for wearing a dress printed with Arabic…

Rizwan AhmadApril 23, 2024

Language learning Multilingual histories

Why Are Uzbek Youth Learning Arabic?

Map of Transoxania (Source: Wikipedia) Editor’s note: Arabic language learning is experiencing a revival in many parts of the world, such as China, where it may be a source of…

Rizwan AhmadJanuary 16, 2024

Next Gen Literacies

Is Arabic under threat on the Arabian peninsula?

Editor's note: UNESCO has declared December 18 as World Arabic Language Day. Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It has around 400 million speakers…

Rizwan AhmadDecember 10, 2023

Linguistic landscapes

Mal Lawwal: Linguistic landscapes of Qatar

New documentary explores identity in the linguistic landscape with a focus on Qatar Focusing on official street signs in Qatar written with non-standard Arabic spellings, Mal Lawal explores the complex interplay of…

Rizwan AhmadOctober 11, 2022

Language politics

“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India

Akhlaq Ahmad at work on the mural in Shahdara for the ‘Delhi, I Love You’ project. (Image Credit: Delhi, I Love You) On July 8, 2020, The Wire published an…

Rizwan AhmadJuly 24, 2020

Covid-19

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…

Rizwan AhmadApril 14, 2020

Sacred Font, Profane Purpose

Why Are Uzbek Youth Learning Arabic?

Is Arabic under threat on the Arabian peninsula?

Mal Lawwal: Linguistic landscapes of Qatar

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

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