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in memoriam

Former UW-Madison Professor passes away

Posted on June 21, 2018

Muhammad Umar Memon, a UW–Madison professor who was an internationally renowned scholar of the Urdu language and literature, died June 3. He was 79. Memon’s lifelong work was to raise the awareness of Urdu in …

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