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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....

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."

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...