Umer Bilal Mukhlis

Urdu Literature Director, CLS

Director of Urdu literature, keeping ghazal, nazm, and the older cadences of the language at the center of campus life.

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What the Ghazal Still Asks

Umer Bilal Mukhlis

A ghazal is not nostalgia. It is a demand: that feeling be given form, that form be given patience, and that patience be shared in a room of listeners who know when to be quiet.

At COMSATS, Urdu is not an archive. It is a living craft. Mukhlis has spent years asking students to treat that craft with the seriousness it deserves — and the joy it still offers.

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