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The speaker's name is Shabnam Nasimi.  She is a British-Afghan social activist, writer, and political commentator.

Ghaznavid; Urdu; Arabization; Turkish; Afghanistan; Turandot

Selected readings

• "The Story of Puccini & Turandokht" — Puccini turned this Central Asian heroine into a Chinese princess; if readers ask for it, I may devote a separate post about how this happened
• "Turandot and the deep Indo-European roots of 'daughter'" (3/16/20)
• "More on Persian kinship terms; 'daughter' and the laryngeals" (3/18/20)
• "Correspondences between Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' and 奴隷 Jpn dorei / Tw lô·-lē" (10/9/25)
• "A cricket writer enlightens us on the Urdu tense system" (8/31/10)
• "Language in Pakistan", (12/28/2007)
• "Camp language" (12/31/2007)
• "Scripts, scriptures and scribes" (1/2/2008)

April 28, 2026 @ 2:34 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and music, Language and politics

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