Shafey Kidwai

Shafey Kidwai (born 8 April 1960) isis an Indian academic, columnist and author. He is the head of the Department of Mass Communications at Aligarh Muslim University. He writes a weekly column for The Hindu.

Kidwai has produced twelve books in Urdu and English. His 2017 work Sawaneh-e-Sir Syed: Ek Bazdeed - a biography of Sir Syed won the 2019Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu. A previous work Urdu Literature and Journalism: Critical Perspective was published by Cambridge University Press India. With this well researched source of information, Shafey Kidwai has turned a new page in the history of Urdu journalism.In 2018, Kidwai was awarded the Iqbal Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh for his service to promotion of Urdu literature. UP Urdu Academy has also conferred its highest literary honour Khusro Award to him in 2018. He is a bilingual critic and communication expert and his fortnightly column on literature, Culture and media Going Native appears in the Friday Review, The Hindu. He is the chief editor of Aligarh Journal of Communication and he is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed communicational journals including research journal jointly published by University of Purdue and Kolkata.