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CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in languages other than English. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all...

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."

Asif Akhtar was a 2018-19 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for six months. Akhtar aimed to "study the contemporary ‘media system’ in Pakistan in terms of technological change, the regulatory impetus it has driven, and the discursive and practical impact these have had ...

Kiran Ahmed (The University of Texas at Austin) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sialkot, Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ahmed's pre-dissertation research focused on Urdu popular fiction and how those stories have emerged in contemporary media.

Elizabeth Bolton was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 5 months. Bolton's research seeks "to understand the ways in which religious cable television programming re/mediates the process of spiritual guidance and reconfigures viewers’ relationship to religious authorit...

Zain Mian was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on Lahori media for ten weeks. Mian "worked in close collaboration with the GC University archives, which house the entire print run of Nuq?sh, a significant post-Partition literary magazine then edited by Ahmed...

Shundana Yusuf was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in India and Iran for four months. Yusuf "explores the importance of audition in the history of Islamic architecture."