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Yelena Biberman (Skidmore College) writes this report in support of a renewed US interest in a Kashmir Peace Deal. Citing the recent US administration change as an opportunity, Biberman makes the case that now is the most opportune time for the US to begin negotiations and bring the conflict closer...
By exploring the February 14th suicide bombing in Kashmir that killed 46 Indian security personnel, Yelena Biberman offers insight into the border disputes between Pakistan and India in Kashmir. Both sides appear to be engaging in state-sponsored violence in hopes of gaining the upper hand in the...
Matt Cook (NCCU) and Maya Khemlani David (University of Malaya) discuss the Diaspora of Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia and how language and identity have shifted as a result. They argue that "language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspora Sindhis."
Safoora Arbab was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for four months. Arbab's research "is centered on the Khudai Khidmatgar movement begun by Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the late 1920’s. As one of the largest nonviolent organizations they were also thus allied with the Al...
In this policy and international affairs discussion, a series of 5 articles seek to examine the relationship and rising tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing on issues ranging from the Kashmir border crisis to escalating nuclear hostilities, the future of policy discussion and political...
Sameer Lalwani was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for 2 months. Lalwani "seeks to explain how the social terrain of ethno-nationalist and civil conflicts— specifically the geography and identity of the insurgent group—shapes state strategies to manage, combat, and defe...
Brian Bond was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in India for nine months. Bond "examines ways in which Sindhi Sufi poetry performance is used as a tool for imparting Islamic teachings to rural Muslims in Kachchh, Gujarat, a region in western India on the border with Sindh, Pakistan."
Jennifer Dubrow examines the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India's Citizenship Amendment Act. Pakistani Marxist poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poem "Hum Dekhenge" have served as a rallying cry in protests in India and abroad against the Citizen Amendment Act which seeks to...
Uzma Rizvi was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Arab Emirates for three months. Rizvi writes: "At the core of this project is the desire to contextualize the many relationships between the UAE and Pakistan/Northern India through time, to theorize the concept of a ‘coast’ ...