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Abdur Raheem Kidwai Author & Editor

Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Professor of English and Director of the UGC Human Resource Development Centre at Aligarh Muslim University, has a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University and a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has been the Honorary Visiting Professor/Fellow at the Department of English, University of Leicester, and has delivered lectures on literary Orientalism at the universities of Oxford, Mauritius, Sunderland, and Leicester. Some of his books include Orientalism in Lord Byron’s Turkish Tales, Stranger Than Fiction: Image of Islam/Muslims in English Fiction, and Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslims.