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Dr. Zohra Saed | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Occupation | Poet and Editor |
| Education | MFA, Brooklyn College PhD, The CUNY Grad Center |
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Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn-based Afghan-American poet and editor and Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College.[1]
Early life and education
Saed is a first-generation New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn.
She was born in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In an interview with Asia Society about her writing, Saed explains that her parents traveled with her through the Middle East and found themselves trapped outside their home country after Afghanistan's Communist Coup.[2]
Saed has been a Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean as well as the Schomburg Center for Black Culture.[3]
In an interview with Massachusetts Review, Saed reports that, as a child, she wandered through Brooklyn neighborhoods