Born and raised in Pakistan, Hamad completed his undergraduate from LUMS, Lahore in 2019. His undergraduate research thesis critically analyzed the orientalist underpinnings of the attempts to define Urdu literature and Pakistani culture in the (otherwise erudite) essays of Hassan Askari and the autobiographies of Mumtaz Mufti, Ashfaq Ahmed, Bano Qudsiya, and Qudratullah Shahab.
He completed his MA in history from University of British Columbia, Canada in 2022. His MA thesis focused on the Punjabi oral traditions of vār. More specifically, his thesis argued how these traditions offer the possibilities of critically analyzing the more colonial forms of history writing as, for example, entailed in SM Latif’s History of the Panjab.
Hamad’s research interests include Urdu and Punjabi literatures/traditions of 19th century North India, Orientalism, Islam in South Asia, and Persianate cultures