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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends at Harvard, I'll be presenting a paper at the annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium next Friday - would love to see some of you there!

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I was a child, my best friend's father advised him not to play with me and my brother. "Don't play with the Baloch kids," he said, "They are only destined to be bus drivers." Read my first substack: don't play with the Baloch - from Basra to the bus hammadrind.substack.com/p/dont-play-...

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Don’t play with the Baloch...

From Basra to the bus

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Black nightshade, called عنب الذئب ʕinab aḏ-ḏiʔb (literally, "wolf's grapes") in Arabic, ایت اوزومی it üzümü in Turkish, and سگ انگور sag angūr in Persian (the latter two literally meaning "dog's grapes")

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very happy to announce that my translation of a collection of short stories by contemporary Urdu writer Rafaqat Hayat has been shortlisted for a Pen Presents award

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thrilled to be one of the winners of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Travel Fellowship to attend the annual ALTA conference in Portland, Oregon, this year. I'll be reading my translation of an Urdu short story by contemporary Urdu writer and dear friend Rafaqat Hayat

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎉 We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships! buff.ly/DeTJ9EL 📚 Venka, 2026 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Telugu) 📚 Cynthia Shin (Korean) 📚 @hammadrind.bsky.social (Urdu, Panjabi, Welsh, Persian, Arabic) 📚 Naomi Harris (Hittite) 📚 Piera Chen (Chinese)

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mae'n bleser ac yn anrhydedd bod yn Fardd Mis Medi BBC Radio Cymru a Barddas Honoured to be the Poet of the Month for September for BBC Radio Cymru & Barddas یہ میرے لئے بڑے اعزاز کی بات ہے کہ مجھے ماہ ستمبر میں بی بی سی ریڈیو کمری اور مجلہ بارذاس کا بارذ ءَ میس یعنی اس مہینے کا شاعر منتخب کیا گیا ہے

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thrilled to see the Indian edition of my Urdu novel Panchwen Darvesh ka Qissa at the Chinar Literary Festival, Kashmir. Also very glad to share that the book is now officially available in India. Friends in India can reach out to the publisher Matterlink Books, Lucknow, to get a copy.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Delighted to be holding my Urdu novel, پانچویں درویش کا قصہ Panchwen Darvesh ka Qissa (Tale of the Fifth Dervish), which was published two months ago by City Press, Karachi. It is the Urdu adaptation of my English novel Four Dervishes. The Indian edition will be out soon.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Got Plato's republic in Cymraeg for 'mond two punt in a charity shop in Llanelli... Falch iawn!

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you're in Dublin, visit Chapters on Parnell Street. It has a fantastic selection of new and second-hand books at very reasonable prices. The book I'm holding is a Finnish translation of Ulysses, and in the background you can see a set of One Thousand and One Nights in Arabic.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

From the Celtic Students Conference in Dublin. In my paper, I discussed the similarities between two unrelated elegiac traditions: the Shia marsiya (in Persian and Urdu) and the Welsh marwnad. My focus was on a marsiya by Josh Malihabadi and two poems titled Cilmeri by Gerallt Lloyd Owen.

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kadxudā @kadagxwaday.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yeah Arabs here call it biṯīṯ بثيث too. We call it čangāl چنگال in Achomi. Baloch call it čangāl too. Here's my aunt's čangāl.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Word of the day: خردماغ xar-dimāġ (Eastern/Dari Persian, Urdu, Panjabi, Sindhi), har-dimağ (Ottoman Turkish): adj. "stubborn", "stupid", literally, "ass-brained" from Persian خر xar "donkey" and Arabic دماغ dimāġ "brain" (poster of a Panjabi film titled خردماغ xar-dimāġ, starring Sultan Rahi)

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Stuck on the motorway. Might as well revise for the next مشاعره*. Send your favourite bayts. *(poetry reciting competition called bayt-bazi in Urdu).

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"اس ناول کی رواں دواں خوب صورت نثر، اس کے دلچسپ کردار اور ان کے ساتھ پیش آچکے اندوہناک اور ہیبت ناک واقعات کا پُر تفنن بیان اور دلچسپ روداد پڑھتے ہوئے یہ گمان بالکل نہیں گزرتا کہ یہ کسی مصنف کی اولین تخلیق ہو سکتی ہے مگر یہ حقیقت ہے کہ یہ حماد رند کا اولین ناول ہے۔" humsub.com.pk/n/45499/2026...

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“مملکتِ ساقیہ کی دلچسپ داستان: حماد رند کا پہلا ناول، ”پانچویں درویش کا قصہ » ہم سب

جب گزشتہ برس حماد رند کے پہلے ناول ”پانچویں درویش کا قصہ“ کے ترجمے کا تقریباً نصف حصہ اردو کے موقر ادبی جریدے آج میں شایع ہوا تو میں ان کے نام سے ناآشنا تھا۔ اس لیے میں کہہ سکتا ہوں کہ ان سے میرا پہلا...

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

And the Urdu equivalents: apricot: خوبانی xūbāni plum: آلو بخارا / آلو بخارہ ālū-buxārā / آلوچہ ālūčā peach: آڑو āṛū / شفتالو šaftālū cherry: شاہ دانہ šāh-dānā / چیری čeri

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I liked this graphic, so here are the Algerian Arabic equivalents: apricot: مشماش məšmaš plum: ʕina عينة peach: خوخ xux cherry: حبّ الملوك ħəbb əl-mluk (lit. fruit of kings/angels)

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tonogenesis @tonogenesis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

the loss of gutturals and p > f in punic give it quite a charming feel. canaanite with maltese characteristics

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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic @pharyngealschwa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Listening to the Mosul dialect, which many claim is “identical” to Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic. Among many differences I notice, one that might be missed by casual observers is a in unstressed syllables: ‘good’ مليح Maslawi: malīḥ BJA: mlīḥ ‘flour’ طحين Maslawi: ṭaḥīn BJA: ṭḥīn

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a flourishing of interest in the Arabic language across Christian Europe. This in-person short course examines the reasons for studying Arabic in England, the manner in which it was done and the results to which it led.

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Crossing the world without an interpreter - Arabic studies in England 1550-1640

The object of this course is to examine the reasons for studying Arabic in England between 1550 and 1640.

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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic @pharyngealschwa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

One of the most common usages of this is fǝd-yōm…פִד יוֹם فد يوم to begin narrating a story.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

میرے اردو ناول پانچویں درویش کا قصہ کا سرورق میرا ناول اس ماہ پاکستان میں سٹی پریس، کراچی کی جانب سے شائع ہو رہا ہے۔ اس کا ہندوستانی ایڈیشن بھی جلد شائع ہوگا۔ حوصلہ افزائی اور کتاب کو آپ سب تک پہنچانے کے لیے اجمل کمال صاحب کا شکرگزار ہوں۔ قبل از اشاعت خریداری کے لیے ناشر سے رابطہ کیجیے۔

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Cover reveal Excited to share the cover of my Urdu novel Panchwen Darvesh ka Qissa (The Tale of the Fifth Dervish) to be published this month in Pakistan by City Press, Karachi. An Indian edition will be released soon. My thanks to Ajmal Kamal sahib for his trust in my story. Pre-orders are now open

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

From an interview on language learning I gave on Prynhawn Da

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Our incredible International Translator in Residence, Deepa Bhasthi, will be leading two more workshops on translation this spring. If you are an early-career translator in any language, then these workshops are for you. Spaces are going fast!

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How to Be or Not Be a Translator: Workshop Series by Deepa Bhasthi

Attend four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, Deepa Bhasthi.

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

And this one is a thing of beauty: yʌn gɑ-kʷəy=yu "our family members"

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Laila Majnu aka Pak Muhabbat (Pure Love) - a two-act play in Judeo-Urdu published 1888 in Bombay Laila / Laili Majnu urf Pāk Muhabbat - nātak do-bāb kā - zabān-i Urdu bi harf-i Hibru (Hebrew) sab dāvā mahfūz hai لیلی مجنو عرف پاک محبت ناٹک دو باب کا زبان اردو بہ حرف ہیبرو (عبرانی) سب دعویٰ محفوظ ہے

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Special Issue Call for Submissions: The Yiddish Archive 🦚 For our pedagogy section we are interested in reflections on new initiatives that use archival sources as a way to teach Yiddish language, literature, and culture. ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

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Special Issue Call for Submissions: The Yiddish Archive | In geveb

We are seeking submissions for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artis

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Delighted to share that my translation of contemporary Urdu writer Rafaqat Hayat's short story انڈونیشی سگریٹ (Indoneshi Sigret) has been published in The Dial as Indonesian Cigarettes Read it here www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

5. Last one for today (I’m down to 488 open tabs now!) Khalid Bakdash and the Tragedy of Syrian Communism - Jens Hanssen & Christin Sander Rich account of the degeneration of one major stream of Middle Eastern Marxism, ending on a surprise optimistic note. jacobin.com/2025/12/khal...

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Khalid Bakdash and the Tragedy of Syrian Communism

Khalid Bakdash became the first communist MP in any Arab country when he was elected to the Syrian parliament in the 1950s. Bakdash’s party was once a major political force, but it faded into irreleva...

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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds قمبری/ویلش: ایک زبان سو رکاوٹیں One of the poems that Hammad Rind has translated for Avaaz, into Urdu from Welsh, is 'Marwnad i ieithoedd' by Menna Elfyn. The Urdu title is زبانوں کا مرثیہ. lakeermag.com/avaaz-welsh/ @hammadrind.bsky.social

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Flamur Vehapi, PhD @fvehapi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"Almahdi's poems delve into themes that resonate with millions yet have often been overlooked in English-language publications..." @hammadrind.bsky.social, author of Four Dervishes amzn.to/4qoig6L #lovethybooks #crescentbooks #waelalmahdi #poems #bookrecommendations #MasHriQi

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Greece’s brown bears rebound as protections reshape rural landscapes. Brown bear numbers in northern Greece have risen to an estimated 870, roughly four times their 1990s population, after hunting bans and long-term conservation efforts. buff.ly/jOlqmxK #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Greece’s largest predator has made a remarkable comeback

It’s an issue that isn’t unique to Greece

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We’ll be starting our reading circle this coming Tuesday with Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and a hikayat by Sa’adi Shirazi. I still have a few spots available, which I’m happy to offer to readers outside Balochistan on a first-come, first-served basis. Please feel free to spread the word!

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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We told you our line up is 🔥. Meet our readers for our upcoming virtual event, Lakeer Kahaniyan, on November 16, Sunday at 8pm Pakistan Time: Irta Usman Muneeb Ilyas Saad Jabbar

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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social Fatima Sajjad Waqas Manzoor

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"While corporations urge us to embrace – and even celebrate – their imagined, supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics and their allies must take a principled stand and defend universities and scholarly institutions by barring toxic, addictive technologies from classrooms." 3/

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sibawayhi.bsky.social @sibawayhi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Reading Sibawahi (www.sibawayhi.org) is devoted to the study of the Kitāb, Sībawayhi's massive study of the Arabic language. Full text, full tashkeel, hyperlinks, lookup by article number or edition/volume/page, and much much more! #sibawayhi #arabic #arabicgrammar

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Reading the Kitāb of Sībawayhi

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Feels strange to think I had no Welsh at all two years ago Mae'n teimlo'n rhyfedd meddwl nad oedd gen i unrhyw Gymraeg o gwbl ddwy flynedd yn ôl colegcymraeg.ac.uk/newyddion/ne...

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'm starting a free online course for readers and learners in Balochistan to explore literature and translation across Urdu, Persian, and English. Places limited to the first fifteen sign-ups. Message me here or email at hammadhrind@gmail.com to register

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How to laugh properly in the US of A

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Stumbled upon these during my stroll by the sea. I recognize образ "image"/"shape" and дом "house" from a few Slavic languages. Does anyone know what оборище and образцов mean?

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Have you ever heard a tale / nursery rhyme / whatever along similar lines to this Galician Yiddish one? (Several of its details remind me very much of one I've discussed in Korandje, but there must be similar forms somewhere in between...)

Ele, bele, Yoske,
You have a black bride.
She goes in red shoes,
She stands on the green tree.
- What are you standing on the green tree (for)?
- To gather leaves.
- What do you need leaves (for)?
- To give to the cows.
- What do you need cows (for)?
- To milk milk.
- What do you need milk (for)?
- To cook kasha.
- What do you need kasha (for)?
- To give to the kids.
- What do you need kids (for)?
- To study Torah.

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Two interesting things going on in this sentence: تلبرل talabrala from English liberal, “to liberalise (superficially?).” And إخونجي ikhwanji, with the Turkish suffix -ji, meaning “Ikhwan guy” in a dismissive way. Good examples of how confidently Arabic absorbs foreign element, often to add nuance.

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