KOI

Dr. Syed Zaidi

Lecturer

Teaching Areas

Linguistics;

Creative Writing;

Professional Communication;

Media

School/Department: TESOL

Qualifications:

PhD (UNSW)

MLitt (Glasgow)

BA and MA (Lahore)

Research Areas

Linguistics

Media Discourse

Brief Bio

Syed Abbas Zaidi is the author of Two and a Half Words and Other Stories (short stories), Land Below the Wasteland (a collection of short stories), The Infidels of Mecca (novel), and Language Shift: Sociolinguistic Lives of Two Punjabi Generations in Brunei Darussalam (sociolinguistics), and several research papers. He has worked as a reporter, sub-editor, columnist, and feature writer. He has published over 500 journalistic pieces (features, reviews, editorials, etc.)

Publications

Zaidi, Abbas. (2014) Exiled in its own land: Diasporification of Punjabi in Punjab. South Asian Diaspora, 6(1), 209-224 (Special issue on Punjabi Diaspora).

Zaidi, Abbas. (2016). Covering faith-based violence: Structure and semantics of news reporting in Pakistan. In Jawad Syed, Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran, and Abbas Zaidi (Eds.), Faith-based violence and Deobandi militancy in Pakistan, pp. 93-132. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zaidi, Abbas. (2016). The Shias of Pakistan: Mapping an altruistic genocide. In Jawad Syed, Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran, and Abbas Zaidi (Eds.), Faith-based violence and Deobandi militancy in Pakistan, pp. 273-311. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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