Abbas Zaidi

Abbas Zaidi lives in Sydney, Australia with his family where he has taught linguistics, journalism and academic writing at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and Western Sydney University. In Lahore, he worked as a sub-editor, columnist, and editor with a national daily. He is the author of Two and a Half Words and Other Stories and Language Shift: Sociolinguistic Lives of Two Punjabi Generations in Brunei Darussalam. He is an editor-contributor to Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan. Zaidi is currently writing The Virtuous City, his second novel.