Shamoon zamir biography of abraham

"In one sense, all of my work so far has been about forms of cross-cultural encounter," said Shamoon Zamir, NYU Abu Dhabi associate professor of Literature and Visual Studies.

Shamoon zamir biography of abraham

Indeed, for the past 30 or so years, this has been his primary academic focus. An Americanist working in the areas of literature, photography, and intellectual history, Zamir turned to cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural studies after studying with Professor Eric Mottram, a pioneer of American studies at the University of London and a key figure in the experimental poetry scene in the UK.

Zamir arrived in England from Pakistan when he was ten and developed an interest in literature, in part under the influence of his father who was a journalist and fiction writer.

"I had a passion for Milton and wanted to study the 17th century, but the encounter with Mottram fundamentally transformed everything that I was doing as an undergraduate and, therefore, as a graduate student,” said Zamir.

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