Lala Mammadova, from Baku, Azerbaijan, is a double major in English and American studies and general and comparative literature at Ruhr University Bochum. She was an exchange student at the University of Oklahoma, a WLT Student Advisory Board member, and a WLT intern. She enjoys creative writing and aims to pursue a career in writing and publishing.
Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
The satirist and poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir (1862–1911) is one of those prominent voices known t…