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In this episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Claire Pamment to discuss her book, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bh?nd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Pamment's book "centers on the Punjabi folk art of the Bh?nd, or comic performance. Pamment explores the...

This study by Waheed Alam, Abdul Hameed, Shakir Ullah, and Muhammad Wali Ullah examines the pictograms (rock paintings) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. By studying the type and prevalence of different designs (including human, zoomorphic, and artificial structures), the researchers are able to make cultural...

Brian Bond was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in India for nine months. Bond "examines ways in which Sindhi Sufi poetry performance is used as a tool for imparting Islamic teachings to rural Muslims in Kachchh, Gujarat, a region in western India on the border with Sindh, Pakistan."

Jennifer Dubrow examines the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India's Citizenship Amendment Act. Pakistani Marxist poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poem "Hum Dekhenge" have served as a rallying cry in protests in India and abroad against the Citizen Amendment Act which seeks to...

Gemma Sharpe (City University of New York) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Sharpe's dissertation "places key developments in Pakistani art in their global and institutional contexts. The constellation of exhibitions that provide its archival backbone reveal how Pakistani artists...

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...