{"id":204,"date":"2020-02-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-02-14T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:46:21","slug":"fel-executive-committee-member-mujahid-torwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/fel-executive-committee-member-mujahid-torwali\/","title":{"rendered":"FEL Executive Committee member Mujahid Torwali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s blog introduces another member of the FEL Executive Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-205\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mujahid.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mujahid.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mujahid-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mujahid-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>   Mujahid Torwali<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bahrain,_Swat\">Bahrain Swat<\/a>, a tourist resort in the extreme north  of Pakistan. I did my Masters in International Relations and History at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uom.edu.pk\/\">University of Malakand<\/a> from 2012 to 2015, and from 2011-19 I was engaged as a language researcher with <em>Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaceinsight.org\/conflicts\/pakistan\/peacebuilding-organisations\/ibt\/\">IBT<\/a>), a  civil society organization in Bahrain Swat. I undertook five weeks of teacher training at the University of Massachusetts in June 2018, and now I am working as a government school teacher in the Torwali belt of Swat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am interested in the indigenous language and culture of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torwali_language\">Torwali<\/a> community, who speak a Dardic language belonging to the Indo-Iranian family.  Since 2011 I have been writing blogs, letters, and articles about various situations in  Pakistan, along with news stories of the indigenous cultures and languages of northern Pakistan in local and national newspapers. I co-organised the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/conferences\/2019\/\">FEL XXIII<\/a> conference in December 2019 at the University of Sydney with FEL Executive Committee member Jaki Troy, for whom I currently work as a research assistant\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s blog introduces another member of the FEL Executive Committee. Mujahid Torwali I live in Bahrain Swat, a tourist resort in the extreme north of Pakistan. I did my Masters in International Relations and History at the University of Malakand from 2012 to 2015, and from 2011-19 I was engaged as a language researcher with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/fel-executive-committee-member-mujahid-torwali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEL Executive Committee member Mujahid Torwali<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fel_ec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}