Sohail Karmani is an educator, applied linguist, and photographer. He has extensive experience in the field of second language education and applied linguistics. His academic publications have appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, ELT Journal, and the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. He has written and researched in the areas of language policy, the cultural politics of English as an “international” language, and critical applied linguistics.

He also has an interest in visual ethics, and teaches a first-year undergraduate course on ‘Power and Ethics in Photography’ and a core undergraduate course on ‘Ethics of the Image’. He is the author of ‘The Spirit of Sahiwal’, a photography book published in 2019 by international art publisher, Skira Editore. The book is a culmination of a five-year project he began in 2015 to document everyday life in the district of Sahiwal.

In his current photography work, he is documenting the diversity of underrepresented ‘working’ communities that make up the social fabric of the UAE from a wide range of cultural, religious, ethnic, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds in different industrial and service sectors.