Dr. Nyla Khan: “The Cost of Conflict in Southeast Asia”
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Club member Dr. Nyla Khan gives her presentation on "The Cost of Conflict in Southeast Asia." She is pictured with club president Randy Woods.
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan is a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma and former professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She did her Masters in Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of Oklahoma and obtained her Ph. D. at OU. Kahn has recently been working as an editor for a publication on the region of Jammu and Kashmir with Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Her personal history, education, and scholarship have made her sensitive to the diversity of cultural traditions and to the questions and conflicts within them.
She is the author of two books, including The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan, and several articles that focus heavily on the political issues and strife of her homeland, Jammu and Kashmir. To learn more visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyla_Ali_Khan