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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...

Kamran Bokhari talks with National Defense University Professor Hassan Abbas about his latest book, which covers the development of the Pakistani nuclear program and its role in the spread of nuclear technology. Abbas, author of “Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence a...

Sundas Amer was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Amer's research focuses on " the historical relationship between Iran and the Indian subcontinent and the close ties between Persian and Urdu language and...

In this policy and international affairs discussion, a series of 5 articles seek to examine the relationship and rising tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing on issues ranging from the Kashmir border crisis to escalating nuclear hostilities, the future of policy discussion and political...

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...

Zayad Bangash was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in England for two months. Bangash sought out information on "the development of military sponsored primary and secondary schools during the late period of the British Empire."

Following several meetings with senior religious scholars including the four Grand Ayatollahs based in Najaf, Iraq, Hassan Abbas discusses the succession of 89-year-old Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani. Abbas reflects on his meeting with al-Sistani and gives a brief summary of the impact the Grand...