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Selected publications

Kazmi, Zehra. 2025. “Romancing Ruins: Architectural Memory in Gulabo Sitabo.” In Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance: Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia, edited by Isha Dubey, 88–104. Abingdon: Routledge.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2024. “Angel Undone: Interrogating Hyderabadi Muslim Femininity, Colonial Modernity and Sharafat in Zohra.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 (4): 791–808.
Naveed, Fatima, Sheelalipi Sahana, and Zehra Kazmi. 2024. “Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 (4): 675–87.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2022. “‘Golden Hour’: Nostalgia and the Demise of the Muslim Urban Space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58 (6): 839–53.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2022. “Nostalgia to (Un)Make the Nation: Partition and Intizar Husain’s Fiction.” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, 15 August 2022.

Naveed, Fatima, Sheelalipi Sahana, and Zehra Kazmi, eds. 2024. “Writing Muslim Women in South Asia.” Special issue, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 (4). Forthcoming as an edited volume in Routledge’s Special Issues as Books series.

Kazmi, Zehra. 2025. “Romancing Ruins: Architectural Memory in Gulabo Sitabo.” In Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance: Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia, edited by Isha Dubey, 88–104. Abingdon: Routledge.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2024. “Angel Undone: Interrogating Hyderabadi Muslim Femininity, Colonial Modernity and Sharafat in Zohra.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 (4): 791–808. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2370141.
Naveed, Fatima, Sheelalipi Sahana, and Zehra Kazmi. 2024. “Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 (4): 675–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2372995.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2022. “‘Golden Hour’: Nostalgia and the Demise of the Muslim Urban Space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58 (6): 839–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2083769.
Kazmi, Zehra. 2019. “Misfit of Modernity: The Anxiety of Belonging in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column.” Harf: A Journal of South Asian Studies 4: 103–18.