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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....

Sidra Kamran was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who explored the "interplay between class, commodification and intimacy" in the rise of beauty salons that cater only to women in Karachi, Pakistan.

Hamza Iqbal was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan at Habib University about contemporary Urdu poet Jaun Elia. Iqbal "conducted over 15 in-depth interviews with individuals as well as received access to Ismaili Tariqah Board library which Jaun...

Natalya Rahman was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in primarily Karachi, Pakistan for three months. Rahman's "outcome variable, i.e., equitable gender attitudes, has direct implications for the nature of women’s political participation in Pakistan, moving beyon...

Sohaib Khan (Columbia University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. Khan's research focused on the Deobandis of Pakistan and their capitalistic inroads through Islamic banking and finance

Hamza Iqbal was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant who conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan in Summer 2019. Iqbal was able to "visit and interview several friends and family members of the contemporary Urdu poet, Jaun Elia. He conducted over 15 in-depth interviews with individuals as well as...

Suneel Kumar was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on the Indus River and delta for two months. Kumar collected data through traveling to different creeks, villages, working with fishermen and interviewing multiple government and non-government officials.

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Elliot Montpellier was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for one month. Montpellier's work " focuses on Pakistani television dramas, examining how this entertainment genre uses religion as a discursive and visual theme."