Tabrez Ahmad is a research scholar at the Centre for West Asian Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India. He holds a master's degree in Arabic and African studies, from the School of Language, Literature, and Culture studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New Delhi, India. He also has a diploma in Urdu mass communication from JNU and has been an Urdu teacher at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Lucknow, India.