1. Body of Victim, Body of Warrior Cabeiri Robinson
2. Development Changes Confronting Pakistan, ed. Anita Weiss and Saba Khattak
3. Urdu Literary Culture, Mehr Afshan Farooqi
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AIPS Announces Summer Research Grant
AIPS is delighted to be able to offer research/travel grants to Pakistan for summer of 2013. These grants are open to all and we strongly encourage graduate students enrolled in a US university to apply. If you are selected, you will be asked to become an AIPS Individual Member prior to receiving your award. For eligibility and application instructions, please click "read more".
AIPS Spring Newsletter
The AIPS Spring Newsletter is here for 2013!
AIPS 2013-14 Long-Term Fellows Awarded
AIPS is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2013-2014 Long-Term Fellowship!
- Andrew Amstutz, Junior Fellow from Cornell University, awarded 8 months in Dhaka, New Delhi, Mumbai, Aligarh, and Patna
- Sameer Lalwani, Junior Fellow from Syracuse University, awarded 2 months in London
- Sean Killen, Junior Fellow from the University of Texas at Austin, awarded 5 months in the UK, India, Switzerland, and the Netherlands
Abstracts and more information on these fellowships can be found here.
Long-Term Fellowships are funded by Council of American Overseas Research Centers
AIPS 2013-14 Short-Term Fellows Awarded
Congratulations to the recipients of AIPS's first round of awardees for 2013-2014 Short-Term Fellowships!
- Dr. Cabeiri Robinson, Professor at University of Washington, awarded 4 months in Islamabad
- Dr. Marcia Hermansen, Professor at Loyola University Chicago, awarded 3 months in Islamabad
- Muntasir Sattar, PhD candidate at Columbia University, awarded 3 months in Lahore
- Dr. Syed Akbar Hyder, Associate Professor at University of Texas at Austin, awarded 2 months in Lahore
Short-Term Fellowships are funded by Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstracts and more information on these fellowships can be found here.
Announcing AIPS Summer Grantees!
AIPS would like to congratulate the following individuals on winning the AIPS Summer Fellowships awards: Kiran Ahmed Maira Hayat Mariam Chughtai Safoora Arbab Shayan Rajani We thank everyone for their interest in this grant, and wish the winners the best with their travels!
William Johnson, AIPS Fellow’s Recent Travel Experience
Interested in learning more about AIPS Fellowship experiences? William is a recent AIPS fellow, and a J.D./ MA student at University of Oregon, and wrote an article on his experiences while over in Pakistan for his fellowship. To read more about William and his experience, click here!
Pakistan’s Elections
Pakistan's Tyrannical Majority
Manan Ahmed Asif is Assistant Professor at Columbia University, an AIPS Trustee Institution. He also has a blog called Chapati Mystery at http://www.chapatimystery.com/
Pakistan elections: how Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan and what happens next
Mohammed Hanif is BBC Urdu's special correspondent based in Karachi. He is the author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.
Short-Term Fellowship Application Deadline Extended
We are pleased to announce that we are extending the deadline for the 2013 AIPS Short-Term Fellowship applications through August 1, 2013! To be eligible for this fellowship, applicants must be U.S. citizens and enrolled/employed full-time in an institution of higher education in the USA. All fellowship recipients should enroll as AIPS individual members prior … Read more
2012-13 Book Prize Awarded!
Author Naveeda Khan Title Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan Description In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the … Read more