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Alexis Saba was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who "traveled to Pakistan for six weeks for the purpose of conducting preliminary dissertation research in Islamabad on educational narratives and discourses within development, philanthropic, and non-governmental sectors."

This special edition of the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research focuses on the Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Drawing on a multi-author, interdisciplinary approach, the journal examines the political geography, anthropology, history, and civil society in the Hunza...

Mubbashir Rizvi (Georgetown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Rizvi conducted research to support his book manuscript "Masters Not Friends. Land, Labor and Politics of Place in Rural Pakistan." The book "is a historical and ethnographic investigation of a peasant...

Miriam Chughtai (Harvard University) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Pakistan to collect data in order to address the research question: "In what ways do agendas of nationalism manifest themselves through the education system in Pakistan?"

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen sits with Nosheen Ali to discuss her book, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier" (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Tarren writes, "Ali presents a lyrical and at many times...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Asad Dandia talks with Simon Wolfgang Fuchs about his book, "In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). In his book, Simon examines the history of Shi'i Islamic...

In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Anita Weiss to discuss her book, "Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). "By exploring how multiple state and non-state actors have engaged the question of gender and women's rights over...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Madhuri Karak talks with Mubbashir Rizvi to discuss his book, "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford University Press, 2019) Rizvi's book explores new land and agricultural policies...

Maira Hayat (University of Chicago) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan relating to water politics, specifically the community response to the New Lahore Ravi Megaproject

Amna Qayyum (Princeton University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Islamabad. Qayyum's research sought to understand postcolonial economic development and policy in Pakistan during the period from 1947 to 1971.