Barbara Nimri Aziz

Barbara Nimri Aziz (born 1940) is an anthropologist, journalist and writer based in New York City, US. She is best known for her anthropological research contributions to Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. She is prominently credited for her early work introducing and publicizing the career of the early 20th Century Nepali ascetic and political activist Yogmaya Neupane. Aziz is credited for leading the founding efforts for the establishment of the Arab American literary collective RAWI, where she also served as the director for 12 years.

Early life Aziz was born in a small town in Ontario, Canada to Arab immigrants who arrived in the country at the turn of the 20th century. At high school in Toronto, she grew up among other working class children whose families, like hers, formed a core of the city's slowly expanding immigrant population. She was one of students in her high school and the third member in her extended Arab family to attend university.

In 2007, Aziz was awarded a one-year Fulbright Research Professorship to Algeria. She taught at the University of Oran in northwest Algeria while also traveling widely across many parts of the country.

Selected works

Soundings in Tibetan civilization : Seminar : Papers. Aziz, Barbara Nimri, Kapstein, Matthew, International Association for Tibetan Studies. New Delhi: Manohar. 1985. . OCLC 497263285

Aziz, Barbara Nimri. (2001). Heir to a silent song : two rebel women of Nepal. Nepāla ra Eśiyālī Anusandhāna Kendra. Kathmandu: Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University. . . Yogmaya & Durga Devi: Rebel Women of Nepal, 2020.