Twalha Twaha Abbass

Twalha is a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, majoring in Folklore. He graduated from the same university in 2023 with a master’s in African studies. Twalha was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching scholar who taught Swahili (Kiswahili) at IU for the year 2019/2020. In 2021, he continued teaching Swahili until 2024, including the Summer Language Workshop. Currently, he works as a Graduate Assistant in Latino Studies. Twalha is also an author. His first novel, Kilio cha Mfamaji (The Drowner’s Cry), was published in 2020, and his second novel, The Cost of Dreams, was published in 2024. He is interested in languages and storytelling.