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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.

Muntasir Sattar was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 4 months. Sattar conducts an "ethnographic study of the transition of young men as they complete their undergraduate degrees and move on to full time employment in the formal economy."

Syed Eisar Haider was a 2022 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Haider's research focuses on "the role of global pilgrimage with respect to the religious practice in everyday life of Shia Muslims in Pakistan."

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen speaks with Ammara Maqsood to discuss her book "The New Pakistani Middle Class" (Harvard University, 2017). Maqsood's book navigates the relationship between class and religious piety among the urban Pakistani middle...

In this policy and international affairs discussion, a series of 5 articles seek to examine the relationship and rising tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing on issues ranging from the Kashmir border crisis to escalating nuclear hostilities, the future of policy discussion and political...