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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...

Sharmeen Mehri was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi for two months. Mehri's research documents the history of the Dr. Dastur Dhalla Library (popularly known as the YMZA library) and its contents, grasping the full picture of what affluent and/or...

Ahmed Afzal was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Lahore for two months. Afzal's research focuses on the uses of Grindr, a mobile social networking app, among gay and bisexual men in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Lahore.

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."

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

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."

Rajbir Judge was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, India, and Hungary for five months. Judge "examines the key alliances the Theosophical Society formed between Sikhs in the Punjab through the narrative of Maharaja Duleep Singh."

Ghazal Asif (Johns Hopkins University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of fieldwork in Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. Asif's research was in support of her dissertation which "is concerned with the way religious minorities in Pakistan encounter and recreate...

Rajender Kaur was a "2019 participant in the CAORC-AIPS Faculty Development Seminar to Pakistan. In this essay, she discusses the history and legacy of several abandoned Sikh temples (or gurudwara) she visited while in Lahore and Islamabad."

Murard Mumtaz was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in England, France, Ireland, and Switzerland for four months. Mumtaz "focuses on iconic representations of Sufi saints in Indian miniature painting."