{"id":1214,"date":"2017-04-14T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2017-04-14T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:32:24","slug":"kellogg-college-creative-writing-seminar-series-prof-tabish-khair-11th-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series:  Prof Tabish Khair, 11th May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThinking in Stories: Or why the process of reading literature is the antidote to fundamentalism\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tabish-Khair.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?attachment_id=1215\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tabish-Khair.jpg?fit=146%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"146,146\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tabish Khair\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tabish-Khair.jpg?fit=146%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tabish-Khair.jpg?fit=146%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tabish-Khair.jpg?resize=146%2C146&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTabish Khair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mawby Room, Kellogg College,<br \/>\n62 Banbury Road<br \/>\n5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All are welcome and no bookings are necessary<\/p>\n<p>Born and educated in Gaya, a small town in Bihar, India, <strong>Tabish Khair<\/strong> is the author of various acclaimed books, including the novels <em>The Bus Stopped<\/em>; <em>Filming: A Love Story<\/em>; <em>The Thing About Thugs<\/em>; and <em>How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position<\/em>. He has also published the poetry collections <em>Where Parallel Lines Meet<\/em> and <em>Man of Glass<\/em>. In 2016, he published a study <em>The New Xenophobia<\/em> and a new novel, <em>Just Another Jihadi Jane<\/em>, to critical acclaim. Khair is currently a Leverhulme guest professor at the School of English, Leeds University.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW\"> http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThinking in Stories: Or why the process of reading literature is the antidote to fundamentalism\u201d Tabish Khair Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary Born and educated in Gaya, a small town in Bihar, India, Tabish Khair is the author of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-jA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2381,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2381","url_meta":{"origin":1214,"position":0},"title":"Chris Barkley at the Oxford Centre for Creative Writing","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"January 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Award-winning novelist and MSt alumnus Chris Barkley will speak at the Oxford Centre for Creative Writing, Kellogg College on Wednesday, February 4th at 5pm. 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