{"id":1056,"date":"2025-08-04T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/?page_id=1056"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:00:14","slug":"asha-salim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/people\/asha-salim\/","title":{"rendered":"Asha Salim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/people-asha-salim.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Salim\" class=\"wp-image-1062\" style=\"width:292px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Asha Salim<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab759c5f7f0d80b410358a310290cc31\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\"><strong>MFA candidate, Temple University; writer and researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asha Salim is a writer and scholar interested in African and African American Literature focusing on the intersection of social norms, literature and cultural traditions. Currently she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Zegna Founder\u2019s Scholarship pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on Cultural Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Her research and writing practices primarily concentrate on the African presence across the diaspora, and African American literature &#8211; more specifically on the experience of Afro-descendants Women in Southern Italy unravelling a literary and social parallelism with Black and Southern Womanhood in the Deep South of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asha Salim MFA candidate, Temple University; writer and researcher Asha Salim is a writer and scholar interested in African and African American Literature focusing on the intersection of social norms, literature and cultural traditions. Currently she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Zegna Founder\u2019s Scholarship pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1056","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"page_structure_type":"type-3","styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"qubely_landscape":false,"qubely_portrait":false,"qubely_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"bjt297","author_link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/author\/bjt297\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Asha Salim MFA candidate, Temple University; writer and researcher Asha Salim is a writer and scholar interested in African and African American Literature focusing on the intersection of social norms, literature and cultural traditions. Currently she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Zegna Founder\u2019s Scholarship pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing with&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions\/1093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}