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Ammar Aziz

‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity

An excerpt from ‘The Missing Prayer,’ by Ammar Aziz.

Ammar Aziz
· Mar 31, 2025 · 05:30 pm
‘Don’t weep, my child; your mom will come’: A ghazal for a child in war-ravaged Gaza

‘There won’t be wounds, blood or debris. In sleep, my child; your mom will come.’

Ammar Aziz
· Nov 18, 2023 · 02:30 pm
Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia

Translator Ammar Aziz writes that [his] strategy is to be ‘loyal to the form, the grandeur, the silences, and the shadows in Elia’s verses’.

Ammar Aziz
· Sep 03, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Why do young readers and social media find Jaun Elia's poetry so relevant today?

The poet reinvented the ghazal-scape of Urdu.

Ammar Aziz
· May 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm