Asher Ghaffar is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada. His research monograph, Muslims in World Literature: Political Philosophy and Continental Thought, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2019. His most recent essay on Zulfikar Ghose and Hanif Kureishi will appear in The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing, edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. He is also working on a second poetry collection.