• Challenges of Communication and Identity in the Gulf: Insights from Qatar and the UAE 

      Ahmad, Rizwan ( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)
      In this chapter, I present the case studies of the State of Qatar and the UAE, two countries in the Arabian Gulf where although Arabic is the de jure official language, many foreign languages are widely used for communication ...
    • The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Khanh Bao, Tran; Lang, Justin J; Compton, Kelly; Xu, Rixing; Acheson, Alistair R; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      BackgroundUnderstanding the magnitude of cancer burden attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors is crucial for development of effective prevention and mitigation strategies. We analysed results from the Global ...
    • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 

      Kanyin Liane, Ong; Stafford, Lauryn K; McLaughlin, Susan A; Boyko, Edward J; Vollset, Stein Emil; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      BackgroundDiabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global ...
    • Industry Insights: Multilingualism and Safe Workplace Communication in a High-risk Industry in the Gulf 

      Van den Hoven, Melanie; Ahmad, Rizwan ( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Book chapter)
      While organizations with a linguistically and culturally diverse workforce may face communication challenges, high-risk industries are required to address barriers to effective communication. The nuclear industry is unique ...
    • Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change 

      Ahmad, Rizwan; Kulikov, Vladimir; Iqbal, Noorin ( De Gruyter , 2023 , Article)
      Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we ...
    • My name is Khan… from the epiglottis: Changing linguistic norms in Bollywood songs 

      AHMAD, RIZWAN ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2018 , Article)
      Many recent studies, academic and non-academic alike, have argued that the use of Urdu in Bollywood has started to decline. These studies, important as they are, however, suffer from some limitations. They are either ...
    • Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi 

      Ahmad, Rizwan ( Cambridge University Press , 2011 , Article)
      In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...