IIUI appoints new vice president academics

ISLAMABAD:

Dr Ayaz Afsar assumed his duties on Monday as the vice president academics at the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI).

According to a spokesperson, Dr Afsar was earlier serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literature. He has also served as the chairman of the Department of English for three years.

Dr Afsar did his MPhil in Applied Linguistics (2000) and PhD in English Literature (2004) from the University of Manchester in the UK.

He is recognised for interdisciplinary research in Biblical and Quranic literary narrative discourse and has written widely on areas combining classics, theory, cultural identity, language, linguistics, and stylistics and narrative studies. APP

Published in The Express Tribune, February 2^nd, 2021.