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Currently, there are 5 Faculty Fellows living on the South 40 with their families. Andrea Heugatter served as the first-ever Faculty Fellow for Wayman Crow Residential College, from 2004-2008, and Asad Ahmed joined us as the new Faculty Fellow in fall 2008. He lives in Nemerov with his wife, Asma Kazmi, and their beautiful daughter, Marjaan. Wayman Crow Faculty Fellow Office: Dardick Asad Ahmed (Faculty Fellow), with wife Asma, and daughter Marjaan Assistant Professor of Arabic Asad's Biography I have lived a good part of my life as an itinerant between the United States, Pakistan, France, Germany, and Egypt. I have studied in Christian missionary schools, while also haphazardly attending madrasas (religious schools) as a child. I have also had unhealthy obsessions with languages, basketball, and various sixties and seventies rock bands. I met my wife, Asma Kazmi, in Chicageo, where she was completing her Masters in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I think it was our mutual fascination with literary theory and our shared critical attitude towards cultural and political comfort zones that first brought us together. We thrive off of each other's works: Asma is a sculptor by training and has lately been experimenting with relational art that aims at shattering myths of established interpretations; and I try to challenge modern perceptions of medieval Islamic history and its intellectual traditions. On February 19, 2008, Asma and I welcomed our little daughter, our treasure, Marjaan, into this world. We have all kinds of troublesome plans of raising her in non-traditional ways: these include speaking to her only in classical Arabic and exposing her early on to cutting-edge art. We hope that the Crow family will share its gifts with her, even as we ourselves settle into more traditional parenthood. Asma's art was featured in the September 2008 issue of Alive Magazine! *Please note that some images are extremely graphic. |
