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Shelby House's book review for Muhammad Kavesh's publication, "Animal Enthusiasms: Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan," was published in South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies. A full version of the review is available to read online.

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar moderated the 2022 FIU Mahavir Jayanti Lecture & Award Ceremony. The Mahavir Jayanti lecture "highlighted contemporary research being done in Pakistan to explore the country's Jain heritage leading scholars." The lecture and subsequent awards ceremony were recorded and are available...

Sayyeda Zehra Razvi was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Razvi's "project aims to identify the critical possibilities offered by the intersection of storytelling and collective memory in the short stories of the Urdu writer Intizar Husain (b. 1925)."

Filomena Critelli a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Critelli "examines the strategies, methods of intervention and perceived impact of NGO’s that empower women and seek to delimit gender based violence in Pakistan."

Omar Gondal was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Okara and Lahore for three months. Gondal's research uses a novel field experiment to explore how introducing a new technology to potato farmers affects informal bargaining and contracting between farmers and...

Yasmin Saikia was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 14 weeks. Saikia was able to "examine and document the historical and processual development of azadi (freedom) ideas of Illahi, Sindhi, and Shedai that are of particular relevance in understanding the...

Chad Haines was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 1.5 months. Haines's research "interweaves three arenas of analysis, each reflecting a particular tension of urbanity: formality vs. informality; control vs. disruptions; and front spaces vs. back spaces."

Chai and Coffee episodes are devoted to interviews with both Americans who have traveled to Pakistan and Pakistanis who have traveled to the United States. The conversations are informal and meant to challenge and break down the cultural stereotypes of each country to promote a softer image....

Sahar Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee who spent 2 months conducting fieldwork in Lahore and Islamabad. Khan summarizes, "this project analyzes the role of civil institutions in combating Islamist militant and terrorist groups within Pakistan."

William Johnson was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 2 months. Johnson's project "focuses on how lawyers and non-lawyers alike work with (and within) judicial systems that the international community considers extremely corrupt. It focuses on perceptions and...