Timsal Masud is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Urdu language and literature, translator, editor, and textbook author. He completed a Ph.D. at Lucknow University in 2008, where he studied trends in Urdu translations of modern Persian short-stories. Since completing his Ph.D., he has continued to remain interested in translation. He published Urdu translations of The Little Prince and Patrick Süskind's The Story of Mr. Sommer. While teaching language classes, he noticed the need for a consice, user-friendly Urdu dictionary. This inspired him to write the Essential Urdu Dictionary (2015). He has also revised an Urdu textbook, and he is completing a co-edited reader of Urdu texts for the classroom. Welcome to SALC!