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  style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-language:HI'>Afroz Taj</span></span></b></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=HI
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  ER'>افروز<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>تاج<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b>Associate Professor</b>, Department of Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel
Hill</b></p>

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<b>E-mail</b>: <a href="mailto:taj@unc.edu">taj@unc.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:taj@unity.ncsu.edu">taj@unity.ncsu.edu</a><br>
<b>Telephone</b>: office 919.962.1060 home 919.851.1119 fax 919.843.7817<br>
<b>Address</b>: 201 New West, Campus Box #3267 UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3267 USA</p>


<p><font size=-1>Afroz Taj has been teaching university level Hindi and
Urdu since 1983, first at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and then
at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). In 1995 he came to UNC and NCSU to establish a pioneering program of teaching Hindi-Urdu through
interactive televideo. His research interests include Hindi-Urdu poetry
and poetics, Indian drama and musical theater, and the Indian cinema. Originally
from District Etah, Uttar Pradesh, Afroz did his undergraduate and master's
degrees from Aligarh Muslim University, and his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.</p>

<p><a href="CVTAJ2008.pdf">Curriculum Vitae</a></p>

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