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    Ghalib and After

    Dr. Fatima Sheikh

    Lighthouse Studies in Literature2026Literature & Cultural Studies

    …for sixty years, and what it could do instead. Sheikh reads Ghalib across eleven English versions, then turns to Faiz, Parveen Shakir and Agha Shahid Ali to trace how the ghazal's formal machinery survives, mutates or disappears in transit.…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.ghalib-and-a

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    The untranslatable refrain: radif, rhyme and the limits of the English ghazal

    Dr. Fatima Sheikh

    Lighthouse Review of Literature & Cultural Studies2025Literature & Cultural Studies19 citations

    …s otherwise unconnected couplets. Through close readings of Ghalib in three English translations alongside Agha Shahid Ali's formal ghazals, I argue that the English ghazal is best understood not as a translation of the form but as a distin…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/lrlcs.2025.10.3.288