Patrick B. McGuigan, The Metropolis Sentinel
To rejoice the formal launch of Dr. Nyla Ali Khan’s latest ebook, a SPECIAL EVENT is scheduled for Thursday night, Could 27 at 5 p.m.
Complimentary refreshments shall be served for the gathering at Commonplace Books in downtown Edmond (21 S. Broadway 73074).
Dr. Nyla, who typically contributes to The Metropolis Sentinel as a commentator or reporter, is a revered Oklahoman.
A local of Kashmir, she turned an American citizen solely a number of months in the past.
In a overview of Dr. Nyla’s ebook, Professor Stephen Morrow from Oklahoma Metropolis Neighborhood School (OCCC) noticed:
“Professor Nyla Ali Khan’s latest ebook, ‘Academic Methods for Youth Empowerment in Battle Zones: Reworking, not Transmitting, Trauma’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), is a name to motion: motion formulated in a deep consciousness of understanding and caring.
“Composed out of her personal inborn take care of the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir and their trauma of insurgency and counterinsurgency, Professor Khan asks of her readers to develop a deeper consciousness of the struggling and alienation of the younger folks there and past.
“Merely put, as readers, we’re requested to care.”
In his overview, Morrow additionally wrote:
“I refer Dr. Khan’s work, firstly, to the Western reader although her inclusive analysis and evaluation of trauma take us across the traditionally traumatized globe.
“This consciousness of care is about out by way of the researchers, thinkers, sociologists, psychologists, and organizations who make it their life work to take care of the traumatized.
“Khan’s insights lay out the deeper human situation that traumas impose injury upon. A fragility of life, that after conscious of and aware of, provides larger perception to the connection and accountability we have now to one another throughout the globe.
“The care work she calls us to are remodeling the ills of trauma to the company of well-being and alter agent.”
Talking for myself, I admire Dr. Nyla Ali Khan.
She has a coronary heart for the dispossessed — particularly for college kids dwelling in zones of battle around the globe. For individuals who learn her works commonly, this will look like a press release of the plain. That’s okay: Stating the plain, as I’ve written elsewhere, could be an act of braveness in many circumstances.
Since first I met her in June 2019 (after having learn by way of a few of her works within the months earlier than), every change of various minutes has turned to our shared issues for modern college students in America, and in lots of different locations.
Whereas flowing from the custom of her previous scholarly works, there’s on this new work a deeper private and reflective tone.
Sure, it’s an educational work. Nonetheless, the clever non-academic can research it with deep profit, ought to they possess or in the event that they vogue a coronary heart open to sensible, methodical, caring steps towards a greater world.
People are blessed – privileged, if you’ll – to reside in a rustic the place concepts are literally taken significantly, a minimum of by many people.
Noble titles as a method to privilege are banned right here, but noble spirits have the freedom to discover and flourish. And, every American has the liberty to acknowledge, and honor, one of the best amongst us.
Historical past teaches classes, however the previous doesn’t bind anybody to pre-determined outcomes. Social situations can appear limiting, but America is a spot uniquely open to the shattering of expectations for these born with out fortune or a well-known final title.
America is a spot the place a girl of particular benefit, an immigrant, can emerge as an area chief inside a matter of years – a mere fraction of 1 human lifetime.
America is a land of potentialities – as was supposed by one of the best of our ancestors.
Nyla Ali Khan is an excellent instance of potentialities, lots of that are realized already.
Her ebook affords means to assist others. It’s a ebook for we, the dwelling, reaching for a brighter future.
Observe: Make certain you go to the right location! This occasion is at Commonplace Books, 21 S. Broadway within the coronary heart of downtown Edmond.
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