1. Fatima Shaik is an Indian-American and African-American author and former journalist.
19 Facts About Fatima Shaik
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Fatima Shaik is the subject of a film by director Kaveri Kaul, who takes the author to her paternal grandfather's birthplace in Kolkata.
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Fatima Shaik is included in The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans and the Encyclopedia of African American Writers.
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Fatima Shaik was born in New Orleans and raised in the Historic Creole 7th Ward.
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Fatima Shaik's father was one of the first black aviators in the state.
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Fatima Shaik's mother was Lily Shaik, a native Louisiana French speaker and poet.
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Fatima Shaik attended Xavier University of Louisiana for two years before graduating from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science, and New York University with a Master of Arts.
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Fatima Shaik reported for the Miami News and New Orleans Times-Picayune before joining McGraw-Hill and working in editorial positions for a decade.
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Fatima Shaik began teaching at Saint Peter's University in 1991.
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Fatima Shaik served as the first director of the Communications program until 2001.
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Fatima Shaik served as an assistant professor, and retired in 2020.
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Fatima Shaik was the subject of the 2022 documentary The Bengali, which covers her journey to discover her family roots in India.
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Fatima Shaik's essays written for In These Times cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from 2005 to 2015.
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Fatima Shaik's stories have appeared in the anthologies: African-American Literature; Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience; Breaking Ice: Contemporary African-American Fiction; and in journals: Killens Review of Arts and Letters; Callaloo; and the Southern Review.
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Fatima Shaik is the co-chair of the Children's and Young Adult Book Committee for PEN American Center, and has participated in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
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Fatima Shaik received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study Aesthetics and Popular Culture at the University of Chicago in 1981.
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Fatima Shaik held a literature residency at the New Orleans Public Schools Africana Studies Program in October 2002.
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Fatima Shaik was a Scholar in Residence at New York University in 2004.
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Fatima Shaik is a member of the board of trustees for PEN American Center and former board member of the Writers Room in New York City.