Tazin Abdullah

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Islam in English

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia.…

Tazin AbdullahJune 11, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Found in Translation

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North…

Tazin AbdullahFebruary 26, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

The Social Impact of Automating Translation

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in the…

Tazin AbdullahAugust 3, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Intercultural communication

Chinese in Qatar

Is Chinese becoming a major linguistic player in Qatar? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied…

Tazin AbdullahJune 19, 2025

News

Research participants needed to evaluate multilingual online communications

If you are proficient in one or more languages other than English, please help me investigate how linguistically diverse Australians find information about support services for domestic violence online. The…

Tazin AbdullahMay 27, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Lingua Napoletana and language oppression

Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella, a…

Tazin AbdullahApril 7, 2025

Research reflections

Lifelong learning from academic mentorship

Tazin speaks at Talent Day, Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement Every year, the Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement in Sydney, Australia hosts an event called ‘Talent Day’ to acknowledge the…

Tazin AbdullahFebruary 20, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Covid-19

Multilingual crisis communication

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan University, China. Tazin and Jia discuss crisis…

Tazin AbdullahJanuary 22, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe…

Tazin AbdullahJanuary 14, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Linguistic landscapes

How did Arabic get on that sign?

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics in the College…

Tazin AbdullahOctober 30, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language and law

Police first responders interacting with domestic violence victims

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West of England, in Bristol, UK.…

Tazin AbdullahSeptember 29, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Next Gen Literacies

Muslim literacies in China

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies of Chinese Muslims, who weave Arabic into their distinct language,…

Tazin AbdullahJuly 24, 2024

Intercultural communication Next Gen Literacies

New ways to answer old questions about Ramadan

Image 1 Like many parents of teenagers, I delightedly welcome any occasion to connect with a generation I don’t always understand and that doesn’t always understand me. As a Muslim…

Tazin AbdullahApril 19, 2023

Covid-19

Supporting ELICOS students through Covid-19

Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted…

Tazin AbdullahNovember 27, 2020