Ghazal Farooqi

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Ghazal Farooqi

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My schooling was completed at Beaconhouse School System. Thereafter, I was a student of Pre-Medical at BAMM PECHS College For Women. By the time I completed my college education, it was obvious to me that I should pursue English literature for my university education, as I had always been primarily interested in poetry and story-telling. I completed my Honors degree in English literature and linguistics, and my Masters degree in English literature from the Department of English, University of Karachi. My education at my department was complemented by my subsidiary courses of Psychology and Sociology, and together they have helped me to develop an intellectual and artistic understanding of life. My MPhil thesis titled “The Fictions of Pakistani Muslims: Representing Islam, Muslims, and Pakistan Post 9/11” deals with the issues of misrepresentation in literature, how Muslims have suffered because of that, and how we can emerge from that manipulative matrix. Moreover, through my pedagogic engagements, I have learnt to forward my understanding to my students as well.

About

I am an ardent teacher of World literature and English language at Iqra University North Campus. I hail from a family background rooted in literary, political and intellectual pursuits, and so literature, language, philosophy, politics, psychology and sociology have always been important domains in my life. I have been teaching different courses of English at university-level since 2016. In my World literature course specifically, with the help of various literary texts, I have had the opportunity to discuss many aspects of human life, including the meaning of human existence, the importance of spirituality, and navigating our way through the various (psychological, emotional, spiritual) challenges we all face in our lives. In my language courses like Communications skills and Functional English, I have had the chance to teach my students how acquiring language is

Area of Expertise

My areas of research include: postcolonialism, specifically decolonization, imperialism, colonialism, mimicry, ambivalence, hybridity, appropriation, racism. Also, Iqbaliyat, thematic changes in poetry, and literary theory.

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals.

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.