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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....

Ameem Lutfi was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Manama, Zanzibar, and Mumbai for six months. Lutfi "investigates discourses and practices around recruitment of military-laborers from the Pakistani province of Balochistan, for deployment in the Bahraini National Guards."

Shayan Rajani (Tufts University) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research on the colonial rule of the frontiers of British India, specifically the organization of Balochistan.

Zoya Sameen (University of Chicago) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research fieldwork in Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta. Sameen sought to explore the "engagement between sex buyers and sex markets, and to understand the role of buying clienteles in effecting...

Ali Mehdi Zaidi was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research within communities in Pakistan. Zaidi's work aimed to study "an ethnography of a drug rehabilitation center in Alamdar Road, Quetta."

Ahsan Kamal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted fieldwork in Lahore, Islamabad, and Turbat, Pakistan. Kamal's research contributed to the discourse of water politics and the complex experiences surrounding water and policy in...

Ali Mehdi Zaidi was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted fieldwork with the Hazara community in Pakistan in the Summer of 2019. Zaidi "sought to place the problem of drug addiction within Quetta in a broader socio-political context connecting it to the multiple violences in...