Ambreen Salahuddin

Ambreen Salahuddin is a Pakistani poet and author. She is the grand-daughter of Muhammad Munawwar Mirza. Her father Salahuddin Ayyubi is a religious scholar and author of books on religious studies, Iqbal, Qur'anic terminology and interpretations. Her husband, Sajjad Bloch is a prominent poet of Ghazal genre of Urdu Poetry with an esteemed collection of ghazals titled as Hijrat-o-Hijr.

Books

Ambreen Salahuddin has authored three books. Ambreen Salahuddin has two books of Urdu poetry to her credit and one of research work. Her first book, "Sar-e-Dasht-e-GumaaN" appeared in 2004, published by Al-hamd Publications, Lahore and second EDition of the book came in the year 2010, published by Multi-media Affairs. The book was awarded "PEN Pakistan First Book Award", by PEN Pakistan Center in category of poetry, for the years 2004 and 2005.

Ambreen Salahuddin's second book of Urdu Poetry "Sadyon Jaise Pal" was published in the year 2014.

Ambreen Salahuddin's third book is her research work titled as "Feminism in Modern Urdu Poetesses" was published in the year 2005 by West Pakistan Urdu Academy. The book discusses Urdu women poets from 1857-2000. Poets included in the book are Ze Khe Sheen, Ada Jafri, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, Zehra Nigah, Parveen Shakir, Noshi Gilani etc.

Education

Ambreen Salahuddin did her graduation from LCWU in Philosophy and English Literature. She did her MA in Philosophy and MA in History from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Later, she enrolled in M Phil leading to PhD in Gender Studies at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, University of the Punjab. Currently, her PhD in Gender Studies dissertation is in the review process.