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Tag: Urdu

Translation as Homecoming

13th December 202013th December 2020  Naima Rashid

Learning both English and Urdu at school, and teaching French after university, Naima Rashid initially felt dislocated from her “mother tongue” and land. But, on reading Urdu again, she’s discovered it’s ‘the space between languages’ that feels like home.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: bi-lingual, Defiance of the Rose, French, French Language, Languages, learning languages, Life in Languages, Multi-lingual, Naima Rashid, Pakistan, Poetry, Shadow Heroes, Translation, Urdu
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