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Neelum Sohail was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom and Pakistan for two months. Sohail "aims to provide a new perspective on histories of, and debates around, citizenship, race, gender, and labor in Pakistan Studies through a multidisciplinary and multi-locational...
In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Shobhana Xavier sits down with Shahla Haeri to discuss her book, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, and Gender" (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Haeri's book serves as a biography of the various Muslim women...
Aqil Shah offers an analysis of the Pakistan's 2018 Parliamentary elections that scored a key victory for Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf and brought Imran Khan into power as Prime Minister. Shah notes that despite this being the second peaceful turnover of power in Pakistan, the election has been marred...
Safoora Arbab (UCLA) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan to learn from newly found 'Pakhtun' journal copies.
Farhat Haq sits down for a discussion with SherAli Tareen on a podcast about her recent book publication, "Shari?a and the State in Pakistan." Farhat talks about the history of blasphemy politics in Pakistan and how discourse has shifted over the recent decades. Blasphemy politics in Pakistan...
SherAli Tareen delivers this virtual talk as part of a course on People, Cultures, and Languages in Pakistan for the Hast O Neest Institute in Lahore. The talk follows the themes of "Religion and Colonial Modernity in South Asia" and is delivered primarily in Urdu.
Ghazal Asif was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Sindh, Pakistan in the summer of 2019. Asif "was interested in examining the record of the Sindh Scheduled Caste Federation and understanding the role it played during the 1940s when Sindhi leaders joined the...