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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...

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."

In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and gi...

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."

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?"