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Shahnaz Rouse was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Rouse "examines the physical, social, and ideational landscape of Lahore from 1849-1947." The project explicates how space and sociability relate to each other.

SherAli Tareen delivers a lecture for the Hast o Neest Institute for Traditional Studies and Arts. The lecture, "Colonialism & Disagreements of Fiqh in Sunni Ulema" is part of the Peoples, Cultures, and Languages lecture series.

CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in languages other than English. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all...

In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and gi...

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."

This special edition of the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research focuses on the Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Drawing on a multi-author, interdisciplinary approach, the journal examines the political geography, anthropology, history, and civil society in the Hunza...

Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

Zunaira Komal was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Azad Kashmir. Komal "shadowed psychiatrists in several cities, interviewing them about their research in the region and asking about post-2005 earthquake changes in the region."

Azfar Nisar (Arizona State University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore for 2 months. Nisar's research centered on the Hijra community, specifically the intersection of citizenship, identity, and inclusion in society.

Mubbashir Rizvi (Georgetown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Rizvi conducted research to support his book manuscript "Masters Not Friends. Land, Labor and Politics of Place in Rural Pakistan." The book "is a historical and ethnographic investigation of a peasant...