Bi Bi Ameena

Bi Bi Ameena currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Urdu at the International Islamic University, Islamabad. She has sixteen years of teaching and research experience and has presented papers at both national and international conferences. She has contributed seventeen research articles to renowned journals and serves on the review board of various national research journals. Ameena is a sub-editor for ‘Me’yar’, the research journal.

Ameena played a vital role in reviewing the syllabus and curriculum of the USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project as a subject expert. She has also developed the syllabus and curriculum for Urdu language and linguistics at the International Islamic University, Islamabad.

Furthermore, she is the author of four books: ‘Khalida Hussain: Shakhsiat aur Fun’ (2017), ‘Urdu Lughat (Tareekhi Usool Per): Tehqeeqi aur Tanqeedi Mutalia’ (2020), ‘Yasmeen Hameed: Shakhsiat aur Fun’ (2024) and is one of the co-authors of ‘Lisaniyat: Aik Jame’ Ta’aruf’ (2022). Her book ‘Urdu Lughat (Tareekhi Usool Per): Tehqeeqi aur Tanqeedi Mutalia’ received the prestigious 2020 Baba-i-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq Award for research and criticism from the Pakistan Academy of Letters.