Noor Mohammed, more commonly known as Noon Meem Danish or N. M. Danish (Urdu: ن۔ م۔ دانش; born 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani poet of African and Baloch descent. Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. (ڪراچي) is the largest city in Pakistan. It is the world's second largest city proper behind Mumbai in terms of population which exceeds 10 million Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The term African people can refer to people who live in Africa, or people who trace their ancestry to Indigenous inhabitants of Africa. The Baloch ( بلوچ; alternative transliterations Baluch Balouch Bloach Balooch Balush Balosh Baloosh Baloush) are an Iranian people inhabiting He was raised in a working class family in Lyari, a largely African neighbourhood, which he describes as "Karachi's Harlem". Lyari Town is one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi, in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center He did his early education at the Okhai Memon School in Kharadar, and began writing poetry in 1974. Kharadar is one of the neighbourhoods of Saddar Town in Karachi, Pakistan. His African appearance often led people around him to assume he was a foreigner; he describes being asked frequently where he was from and why he spoke Urdu so well. After receiving his master's degree in Urdu from the University of Karachi in 1984, he began teaching at the Urdu College. Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised The University of Karachi ( Urdu: جامعہ كراچى) is located in the city of Karachi, Province of Sindh, Pakistan. The Federal Urdu University of Arts Science & Technology is located in Pakistan. ^[1] He invited Indian poet Bashir Badr to recite poetry at Karachi University one time; Badr was delayed, and the students began to become restless; he responded to their complaints about their pre-lunch hunger with the comment to the effect that he would not have arranged for such an eminent poet to come if he had known that "the students of the Urdu Department had their brains in the stomach and not the head. Bashir Badr is an Indian poet of Hindi and Urdu. He lives in Bhopal. The University of Karachi ( Urdu: جامعہ كراچى) is located in the city of Karachi, Province of Sindh, Pakistan. "^[2]

Bachay, Titli, Phool, Danish's first collection of poems, was published in 1997. He quickly garnered recognition for the anger he expressed through his works, in which he often made reference to his experiences as a member of the African diaspora; his work attracted the attention of leading Urdu critic Shamsur Rahman Farooqi, who had them published in Indian literary journal Shabkhoon. The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world - predominantly to the Americas, then later to Europe, the Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (born 1935 is an eminent Urdu Critic, Poet and theorist who has nurtured a whole generation of Urdu writers since the 1960s India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Shabkhoon is an Urdu literary journal published by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi from Allahabad in India. ^[1] In 2000, he emigrated to the United States; he had remarked to a friend that he would prefer to be "a third class citizen of a first class country than a first class citizen of a third class country," but put off going through the procedures for almost two years due to his ambivalence about leaving his home. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[2][3] He first took up residence in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York City; he chose it because of its diversity, which helped him to feel less of a stranger as well as affording him the opportunity to study others' cultures. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive Gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and The City of New York ^[3] At first, he could only find job as a security guard, but he eventually joined the faculty of New York University; he later moved to the University of Maryland as a language consultant. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research ^[1][2]

Danish cites Urdu poets such as Mustafa Zaidi, Obaidullah Aleem, Noon Meem Rashid, and Sirajuddin Zafar as his major influences; he is also an admirer of Langston Hughes and hopes to translate his works into Urdu. Syed Mustafa Hussain Zaidi ( Urdu: سید مصطفی حسین زیدی) (b Obaidullah Aleem was a famous modern Ahmadi poet of Urdu language Nazar Mohammed Rashid ( Urdu: نذر محمد راشد) (b 1910 &ndash October 9, 1975) commonly known as Noon Meem Rashid Langston Hughes (February 1 1902 &ndash May 22 1967 was an American Poet, Novelist Playwright, Short story writer and Columnist ^[1][2][3] He is married and has two children. ^[3]

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