Sophia Smith Galer

Digitising Urdu’s cascading calligraphy

An interview with Abeera Kamran and Zeerak Ahmed, by Sophia Smith Galer...

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As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency In 1780, one of America’s founding...

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