Paige Hendricks AIPS Pakistan collaborated with the Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology in Islamabad to host an event on “Artificial Intelligence in the Field of Education: Opportunities and Challenges.” Nearly 70 graduate students and faculty attended the discussion on February 16, 2026. Presenters and graduate students showcased locally developed apps and projects that addressed and came up with … Read more
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and Vanguard Books Pakistan are happy to announce a collaborative reprint series. The series focuses on reprinting humanities and social science monographs and edited volumes for sale in Pakistan. Prospective applicants must be individual AIPS members or scholars from an AIPS member institution. For accepted books, AIPS will … Read more
AIPS will be hosting the 10-week “Introduction to Urdu Language and Culture” online course in 2026 (dates TBD). Enrollment will be open to all interested in exploring Urdu language and culture. To receive information and updates about this course, subscribe to our email list! Please see the AIPS website for more details about the course. Photo of Badshahi … Read more
The annual AIPS Newsletter is now available on our website! AIPS was busy this past year. As noted in the Newsletter, we signed 13 MOUs with universities across Pakistan. We also welcomed Dr. Aalia Sohail Khan as the new Director of the AIPS Islamabad Office and hosted our fourth Introduction to Urdu Language & Culture online course. Members … Read more
The journal of Critical Pakistan Studies has published several new articles that are available on the Cambridge University Press website: Memorializing the Nation-State: Minar-e-Pakistan between Memory and HistoryHashim Ali Border Bureaucracy and Discourses: Demarcation and Surveillance of the Punjab Border in the Wake of 1947 PartitionIlyas Chattha Seventy-five Years of Partition: Rupture and Connectivity: India-Pakistan … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Sanaa Alimia (Associate Professor, Aga Khan University) for receiving the 2025 AIPS Book Prize! Her book, Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, was the committee’s unanimous choice for this award given its enormous contribution to Pakistan Studies. As noted by the AIPS Book Prize Committee, this book “explores … Read more
Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in UrduGuest Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Fatima Z. Naveed We invite scholars and translators of Popular Urdu literature and art—broadly defined as texts intended to be read by mass audiences—to contribute to a special issue, “Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary … Read more
AIPS and the Suhail Zaheer Lari Memorial Fellowship Fund support scholars to conduct research on Sindh through our Fellowships and Short-Term Research Grants. The recipients should be pre-doctoral or post-doctoral scholars of South Asia and members of AIPS. Interested individuals can apply for this opportunity through an AIPS Fellowship (before 2/1/22) or AIPS Short-Term Research … Read more
AIPS is now on LinkedIn! Connect with us and learn more about all that AIPS has to offer! https://www.linkedin.com/company/aips-pakistanstudies
For the first two years of membership, AIPS is waiving the Institutional Membership fee ($250) for two-year colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions. Representatives of these institutions serve on the Board of Trustees, have full voting rights and are eligible for numerous funding opportunities available through AIPS. Please see our Institutional Membership page for eligibility requirements and how … Read more