Dr. Syed Ali
Hamid retired as Professor of
English from Kumaun University Campus, Almora, India in 2019, after holding posts like
Head of the Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts. In addition to research
publications, he has published four books of poems in English, including a
collection of selected poems The Ontology of Desire: New and Selected Poems
(New Delhi: Authorspress, 2015). His translations of poetry from English into
Urdu/Hindi and vice versa have appeared in various journals. He was awarded by
the UP Urdu Academy in 1990 for his translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The
Old Man and the Sea into Urdu. He
can be reached at hamidalmora@gmail.com