Dohra Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 185528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dohra Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dohra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | COMSATS University Islamabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3991-805X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Climate change flood risks and post-flood agricultural and non-agricultural economic losses in flood-prone Bait households Muzaffargarh district of Punjab, Pakistan
Livelihood diversification strategies adaption determinants in flood-prone Bait areas of Punjab, Pakistan
Climate change vulnerability and multidimensional poverty in flood prone rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan
Climate change effects on riverbank erosion Bait community flood-prone area of Punjab, Pakistan
Psychological distancing and floods risk perception relating to climate change in flood-prone Bait communities of Punjab, Pakistan
Impact of violent conflicts and environmental hazards on pastoral sustainable development in Punjab, Pakistan
Impact of climate change on pastoralists’ resilience and sustainable mitigation in Punjab, Pakistan
Farmers’ adaptation decisions to landslides and flash floods in the mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan
Flood hazards adaptation strategies
Conjunctions (Mostly)
Landscapes of Hope
This book examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book contributes to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the 20th century, the intellectuals of the coloni…
Not Yet Beyond the Veil
Following a brief discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, this essay examines the newly burgeoning genre of “oppressed Muslim women” narratives. For each of the texts under consideration—Jean Sasson's Princess, Latifa and Shékéba Hachemi's My Forbidden Face, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Suzanne Fisher Staples's Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind—Ahmad examines its claims toward authenticity and also notes the places in which th…
The Home, the World and the United States
This essay examines how the New York-based nationalist periodical Young India selectively reprinted the works of Rabindranath Tagore that accorded with its message of pluralist nationalism. Though Tagore used his poetry, fiction and lectures to express his vehement opposition to Western-style (and Japanese-style) nationalism, the exile periodical carefully culled his work in order to capitalize on his high status in the West while deflecting his …
"This fundo stuff is really something new"
“This fundo stuff is really something new”:Fundamentalism and Hybridity in The Moor’s Last Sigh Dohra Ahmad (bio) What can literature teach us about fundamentalism? Since September 11, 2001, social scientists have rushed to offer their interpretations of radical Islam, the "clash of civilizations," jihad, and other purportedly relevant phenomena. Rarely do commentators turn to literary sources. There is much contemporary fiction that would in fac…
Not Yet Beyond the Veil
Following a brief discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, this essay examines the newly burgeoning genre of “oppressed Muslim women” narratives. For each of the texts under consideration—Jean Sasson's Princess, Latifa and Shékéba Hachemi's My Forbidden Face, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Suzanne Fisher Staples's Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind—Ahmad examines its claims toward authenticity and also notes the places in which th…
The Home, the World and the United States
This essay examines how the New York-based nationalist periodical Young India selectively reprinted the works of Rabindranath Tagore that accorded with its message of pluralist nationalism. Though Tagore used his poetry, fiction and lectures to express his vehement opposition to Western-style (and Japanese-style) nationalism, the exile periodical carefully culled his work in order to capitalize on his high status in the West while deflecting his …
"This fundo stuff is really something new"
“This fundo stuff is really something new”:Fundamentalism and Hybridity in The Moor’s Last Sigh Dohra Ahmad (bio) What can literature teach us about fundamentalism? Since September 11, 2001, social scientists have rushed to offer their interpretations of radical Islam, the "clash of civilizations," jihad, and other purportedly relevant phenomena. Rarely do commentators turn to literary sources. There is much contemporary fiction that would in fac…
The Home, the World and the United States
This essay examines how the New York-based nationalist periodical Young India selectively reprinted the works of Rabindranath Tagore that accorded with its message of pluralist nationalism. Though Tagore used his poetry, fiction and lectures to express his vehement opposition to Western-style (and Japanese-style) nationalism, the exile periodical carefully culled his work in order to capitalize on his high status in the West while deflecting his …
Landscapes of Hope
This book examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book contributes to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the 20th century, the intellectuals of the coloni…
Not Yet Beyond the Veil
Following a brief discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, this essay examines the newly burgeoning genre of “oppressed Muslim women” narratives. For each of the texts under consideration—Jean Sasson's Princess, Latifa and Shékéba Hachemi's My Forbidden Face, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Suzanne Fisher Staples's Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind—Ahmad examines its claims toward authenticity and also notes the places in which th…
Conjunctions (Mostly)
Impact of climate change on pastoralists’ resilience and sustainable mitigation in Punjab, Pakistan
Farmers’ adaptation decisions to landslides and flash floods in the mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan
Flood hazards adaptation strategies
Impact of violent conflicts and environmental hazards on pastoral sustainable development in Punjab, Pakistan
Climate change vulnerability and multidimensional poverty in flood prone rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan
Climate change effects on riverbank erosion Bait community flood-prone area of Punjab, Pakistan
Psychological distancing and floods risk perception relating to climate change in flood-prone Bait communities of Punjab, Pakistan
Climate change flood risks and post-flood agricultural and non-agricultural economic losses in flood-prone Bait households Muzaffargarh district of Punjab, Pakistan
Livelihood diversification strategies adaption determinants in flood-prone Bait areas of Punjab, Pakistan
Geography (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (7 works) · Flood myth (7 works) · Socioeconomics (7 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 works) · Livelihood (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Climate change (5 works)