Rashid Saleem

Muhammad Rashid Saleem is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Vice Principal at one of the public colleges in Islamabad. With 28 years of experience, he has been involved in teacher training at both national and international levels and has represented his country in China and the US in the education sector. He has been a core member of the National Curriculum Framework Writers Team, 2006, and has developed the National Curriculum of English, 2006, for Grades I to XII. He is a poet, translator, and intellectual who frequently delivers lectures at The Black Hole, Islamabad, on diverse fields ranging from philosophy, literature, and education to linguistics, neuroscience, physics, electronics, and computer science. He also frequently appears at other academic and literary forums in the twin cities and on PTV World programs. Apart from writing his poetry in Urdu, he has translated selected poetical works of English poets such as Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost into Urdu. He has also translated some ghazals of the great Persian poet, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil. His original and translated works have been published in various Urdu literary magazines.