A Mellon-funded digital archive of the video-taped readings, personal documents, letters, and manuscripts of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). The Beloved Witness project is a Mellon-funded digital archive of the video-taped reading, personal documents, letters, and manuscripts of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). The archive is a collaborative effort wichi will expand through contributions of letters, documents, critical perspectives and creative responses from colleagues, friends, and readers of Shahid's works.