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Azfar Nisar (Arizona State University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore for 2 months. Nisar's research centered on the Hijra community, specifically the intersection of citizenship, identity, and inclusion in society.

Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University)was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted library research in Islamabad on the history of the Kh?j? people and their culture.

Salman Hussain was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UAE for five months. Hussain's research focuses on the implications of migrations of men from Sahiwal, a small city in Pakistan, to the Arabian peninsula, exploring their work, visa, and living circumstances in the Arabian...

Maria-Magdalena Fuchs (Princeton University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Lahore, Pakistan. Fuchs' research centers on "how Muslim associations (so-called Anjumans) contributed to the creation of an Urdu public sphere in late colonial...

Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen discusses with Cabeiri Robinson her new book, "Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists" (University of California Press, 2013). Cabeiri explores the implication of violence...

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 Allison Leigh sits down with Uzma Quraishi to discuss her book, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Leight wites, "Quraishi...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Samee Siddiqui speaks with Manan Ahmed Asif about his book, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard University Press, 2020). In his book, "Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India...