About Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan is a professor at Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma and has also taught at the University of Oklahoma as a guest lecturer. She's an author, lecturer, public speaker, and activist. Her accomplishments are unparalleled. She has spent time studying, writing, and presenting her findings to empower all women. Her findings are mostly concerned with the political unrest and bloodshed in her home state of Jammu & Kashmir, India, which she visits frequently.
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
Biography
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan is a professor at Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, OK, and taught as a visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Formerly, she was a professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and her Masters in Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of Oklahoma.
Author of several published articles, book reviews and editorials, she edited Parchment of Kashmir, a collection of essays on Jammu and Kashmir, and written four books, including The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan. Several of her articles have appeared in academic journals, newspapers and magazines in the United States and South Asia.
They focus heavily on the political issues and strife of her homeland, Jammu and Kashmir, India, where she visits frequently. She has reading competence in Arabic and Hindi, and is fluent in Urdu and Kashmiri.
Dr. Khan has presented lectures on Kashmir at several universities, including American University, Columbia University and New York University. She is an Oklahoma Humanities Scholar, presenting public talks statewide, including women’s correctional facilities, where she focuses on education and women’s empowerment. She has also been interviewed by many major media outlets, including NPR and Voice of America.
Policy Brief
The partially autonomous northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is my homeland, a beautiful part of the world – and also one of three areas of Kashmir divided into areas of control by India, Pakistan, and China and marred by a history of violent political and ethic struggles. Women in my homeland are gaining new rights and increasingly asserting themselves in politics – and this momentous shift in traditional gender relationships opens up new possibilities for the pursuit of democracy and regional peace. This can happen if women involved both in civic associations and in government lead the way toward a peaceful pluralistic democracy and support international negotiations for a sustainable peace in the Kashmiri region. The process can make a strong start in my own home state within the Indian federation.
Empowering women.
Uniting the community.
Khan talks about her passion for empowering women, improving the lives of women and children, and uniting the community through her involvement in various organizations. She brings her experiences and knowledge into the classroom with her inspiring college lectures.
Most Recent Book
Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting, Trauma
By Dr. Nyla Ali Khan, December 2020
OUT NOW
I am delighted to share my Introduction to the Special Issue of "South Asian Review," which in now on Taylor & Francis Online:
"Educators strive to create conceptual frameworks for facilitating students’ ability to critically analyze the past and connect events of past eons to the contemporary world. How can we connect the concept of periods of progression and regression in Kashmiri society to the students’ world in thought-provoking ways? How can we connect discussions and academic debates about the richness and erosion of Kashmir society to the students’ world in ways that would enable them to not just identify contemporary problems, but to provide solutions as well?
To that end, in this special issue of South Asian Review on Kashmir, we have sought to include voices that have steered clear of unidimensional readings of the region. On the contrary, those scholars whose writings we have included in this issue have plumbed the depths of the multidimensionality of the region.
The articles that this special issue comprises foreground the plight of those craving a world in which social justice, political enfranchisement, cultural pride, and self-realization are the order of the day.
The authors of these articles acknowledge, either explicitly or implicitly, the yearning of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for a world in which the living tradition of legends, myths, fables of yore is resuscitated and their imaginative life is revived.
In the greatly circumscribed 'narrative public space' of conflict and war-torn zones, the multi-genre and multilayered narratives that we have included provide a much needed breath of fresh air. These narratives are interdisciplinary interventions that could potentially bridge ethnic, religio-cultural, and political divides.
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years"~ Lincoln.
Upcoming Events
Book Signing for "Educational Straegies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones" with Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
Venue: Full Circle Bookstore, Okalahoma City, OK
Date: October 20th, 2021
Time: 6pm
Previous Events
"Informative and eloquent, Dr. Nyla Khan was an excellent keynote speaker for the Oklahoma City Community College’s Fall Women’s Alliance Meeting. Dr. Khan masterfully depicted for us what the circumstances are like for women in Kashmir and related it to issues women face in the United States. Using powerful anecdotes from her first-hand experience in the region, Dr. Khan explained how the identities prescribed to women are rooted in culture, and the danger of passively accepting that culture without questioning our own ideals. Dr. Khan graciously allowed time for a lively question and answer session where even more connections were made between the lives of United States and Kashmiri women."
Gena Ford, M.Ed., President, Women’s Alliance, Oklahoma City Community College
