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'''Nyla Ali Khan''' is an [[adjunct professor]] at [[Oklahoma City Community College]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=OCCC’s Dr. Nyla Khan Trying To Help Students Who Have Been Traumatized Succeed|url=https://pioneer.occc.edu/occcs-dr-nyla-khan-trying-to-help-students-who-have-been-traumatized-succeed/|url-status=live}}</ref> She is a former Visiting Professor at the [[University of Oklahoma]], Norman,<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Oklahoma website|url=http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/people/faculty/facultypages/Khan.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824074224/http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/people/faculty/facultypages/Khan.html|archive-date=24 August 2010|access-date=12 August 2010|publisher=}}</ref> and former Associate Professor at the [[University of Nebraska-Kearney]].<ref>https://nebraska.edu/-/media/projects/unca/docs/board-of-regents/agendas-and-minutes/2009/september-board-meeting/agenda-9-4-09.pdf, p. 161</ref> She is the author of four books'','' and several articles that focus on the political issues and strife of her homeland, [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India. She is the granddaughter of [[Sheikh Abdullah]].

==Biography==
Khan was born in [[New Delhi]], India. Her family is based in Jammu and Kashmir, India, and she was raised there in the [[Kashmir Valley]] located in the foothills of the [[Himalayas]]. Her mother, Suraiya Abdullah Ali, is a retired professor of literature, and her father, Mohammad Ali Matto, was a retired physician. She is the only child of Suraiya Abdullah Ali and Mohammad Ali Matto—and the granddaughter of [[Sheikh Abdullah]]. She did her master's degree in English at the [[University of Oklahoma]], focusing on postcolonial literature and theory and obtained her Ph.D. at the same institution.

In May 2015, Khan was the first Kashmiri woman to be nominated and accepted as a member of the advisory council for the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women.<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=http://www.normantranscript.com/news/business/business-spotlight/article_cfb913cf-ec2a-5001-92de-2910a64557f8.html | title=Business spotlight}}</ref> The council serves "as a resource and clearinghouse for research and information on issues related to women and gender bias, to act as an advisory entity on equity issues to state agencies, communities, organizations and businesses of the state, and to establish recommendations for action to improve the quality of life for Oklahoma women, children and families."<ref name="auto"/>

Nyla Khan prefers not simply to live in his shadow but to "stand up for myself and be taken seriously ... express my anger without being labeled an 'Islamic militant' ... [and] legitimately question things I don't understand", as she stated in a 2010 interview related to the release of her second book.<ref>{{cite web|last=Epilogue|date=26 January 2010|title=Epilogue Magazine -Jammu and Kashmir: Interview with Nyla Ali Khan|url=http://epiloguemagazine.blogspot.com/2010/01/interview-with-nyla-ali-khan.html|publisher=}}</ref><ref>[http://issuu.com/epilogue/docs/epilogue-november-2009 November 2009 Vol 3 Issue 12 p 38-41]</ref><ref>[http://issuu.com/epilogue/docs/epilogue December 2009 Vol 3 Issue 12 p 27-30]</ref>

==Publications==

===Books===
In her first book, ''The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism'', she "examines the writings of [[V.S. Naipaul]], [[Salman Rushdie]], [[Amitav Ghosh]], and [[Anita Desai]], all four living abroad to explain the aberrant behaviour of emigres from the Indian subcontinent to explain why they support religious fundamentalist groups in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh."<ref name="auto1">{{cite news | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060902/saturday/above.htm | newspaper=The Tribune | location=India | title=Reap what you sow | date=2 September 2006 | first=Khushwant | last=Singh | accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref> In doing so, she strives to provide an objective view of how [[transnationalism]] can distort impressions of reality. In reviewing her book, [[Khushwant Singh]] notes that the transnational subjects examined by Dr. Khan "having settled abroad, [...] develop an exaggerated sense of belonging, swallow fabricated history of their glorious pasts and despite having no intention of returning to the lands of their nativity give emotional and monetary support to subversive elements."<ref name="auto1"/>
*Review by Steven Salaita<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.upj.pitt.edu/7103/ |title=''South Asian Review,'' Vol. XXVII, No. 1 (2006): 274-275. |access-date=12 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030002338/http://www.upj.pitt.edu/7103/ |archive-date=30 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In her second book, ''Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan,'' she examines [[women in Islam]] in "the first th[o]rough study of the tragedy of Kashmir done by a Kashmiri woman."<ref name="auto2">{{cite web | url=http://www.unknews.com/UNK/story/?a=2812 | title=UNK - 'Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan' Focus of New Book by UNK's Dr. Nyla Ali Khan}}</ref> "Khan uses the analytical tools of postmodern, feminist criticism to understand and highlight the role--passive and active--that women have played in Kashmir's history, ranging from the 14th century [[Lalleshwari|Lal Ded]], a mystic poet who laid the foundations of Kashmir's syncretic culture, to the present day Parveena Ahangar who represents the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared People."<ref name="auto3">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/80428/Leisure/Blood+and+tears.html | title=Blood and tears}}</ref> Interspersed within are oral histories from women who serve to defend Kashmir from invasion, women who had previously been long ignored.<ref name="auto3"/>
*Review by Brian Hull in ''Genre'' Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2013, 103–108.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1215/00166928-1722953| title=Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan| journal=Genre| volume=46| pages=103–105| year=2013| last1=Hull| first1=B.}}</ref>
*Review by the University of Nebraska Kearney.<ref name="auto2"/>
*Review by Amitabh Mattoo in ''India Today,'' 22 January 2010<ref name="auto3"/>
*Review by Jaskiran Mathur in ''Journal of International Women’s Studies'' Vol. 11 #1 November 2009, 328–332.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bridgew.edu/Soas/jiws/Nov09/index.htm | title=Journal of International Women's Studies | Journals and Campus Publications | Bridgewater State University}}</ref>
*Review by Dr. Mustafa Kamal, "Of women, politics and Kashmiriyat" in ''Kashmir Times, Srinagar,'' Monday, 9 November 2009, 3–4.
*Review by Seema Kazi in ''Conveyor,'' November 2009, 61–63

She undertakes the role of editor in a third book, ''The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity.'' The book presents a collection of essays by Kashmiri academics who are "well-known, well-established, and well-respected within Kashmiri society", but who haven't had much opportunity to reach an audience outside of Kashmir and outside of South Asia.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://gulftoday.ae/portal/5f067ae9-3eca-4a61-a04e-f8c148aadf8d.aspx | title=Latest news, comments and reviews from the Gulf Today | gulftoday.ae}}</ref>

*Review by Hari Jaisingh in ''Book Bazaar,'' 5 May 2013, 1–2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harijaisingh.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/book-bazaar-The-Parchment-of-Kashmir_brhma.qxd_.pdf |title=Understanding facets of a complex syndrome |last=Jaisingh |first=Hari |date=2013 |website=harijaisingh.info |access-date=2019-06-12}}</ref>
*Review by David Taylor in ''Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies,'' Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013), 137–8.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/view/278/237 |title=Infi |website=pakistaniaat.org |format=PDF |access-date=2019-06-12}}</ref>
*Review by John C Hawley in ''Journal of Postcolonial Writing,'' 23 October 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/edinjnNGsEYJyhfiUvrv/full#.UmpvExL3GAF | title=The parchment of Kashmir: History, society, and polity}}</ref>

Her fourth book, ''The Life of a Kashmiri Woman: Dialectic of Resistance and Accommodation'' examines the life of her grandmother, Akbar Jehan "paint[ing] a loving and personal picture of a powerful woman whose role and actions gave Kashmir a model for women's political action in the critical period before and after the partition of India in 1947."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-life-of-a-kashmiri-woman-nyla-ali-khan/?k=9781137465634&loc=uk | title=Palgrave}}</ref>

*Review by Ellora Puri in ''The Book Review Literary Trust,'' 12 December 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4294/2014/December/12/tale-of-a-formidable-matriarch.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215233629/http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4294/2014/December/12/tale-of-a-formidable-matriarch.html |archive-date=15 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Review by Rehka Chowdhary in ''Oxford Islamic Studies Online,'' 19 April 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blog.oup.com/2015/04/kashmiri-politics-history-gender-perspective/ | title=A woman's journey in Kashmiri politics| date=2015-04-19}}</ref>

She has recently been working as an editor for a publication on the region of Jammu and Kashmir with Oxford Islamic Studies Online,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/ | title=Oxford Islamic Studies Online - Oxford Islamic Studies Online}}</ref> which has been recruiting guest editors for projects that examine the "politics, religious practices, economics, women’s and minorities’ rights, geography, arts and culture, [and] major figures" of various Islamic regions. They will be including a featured article by her and plan to expand upon their partnership to provide additional materials to promote education and scholarship about the region.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://globeistan.com/?p=48214 | title=Oxford Islamic Studies Online (announcement) «}}</ref>

Khan's latest book, ''Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir'', is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of [[Sheikh Abdullah|Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah]], who reigned as prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319501024 | title=Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's Reflections on Kashmir | Nyla Ali Khan | Palgrave Macmillan}}</ref>

===Book chapters===
*"The Land of Lalla-Ded: Negation of ‘Kashmiriyat’ and Immiseration of the Kashmiri Woman." ''Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Notes on the Postcolonial Present.'' Ed. Angana Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. New Delhi: Zubaan Books, 2010.
*"Citizenship in a Transnational Age: Culture and Politics in [[Amitav Ghosh]]’s ''[[The Shadow Lines]].''" In [[Amitav Ghosh]]’s ''The Shadow Lines: A Critical Companion.'' Ed. Murari Prasad. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2007. Forthcoming.

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