The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and education organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan.
Dr. SherAli Tareen recently delivered a talk in Pashto and Urdu on his book Defending Muhammad in Modernity for the inaugural Peshawar Literature Festival. Click here for the video of the talk and discussion.
Dr. Mashal Saif and Dr. Amen Jaffer, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), recently published a co-edited volume titledState and Subject Formation in South Asia.
Ken LeBlond is the co-host/producer of a new podcast specifically focused on Pakistan/US relations called Chai and Coffee: Pakistan-Talks with co-host/producer Nuaman Ishfaq Mughal, a journalist based in Islamabad.
It is with great pleasure that AIPS awards the 2013-14 AIPS Book Prize to Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, Associate Professor of International Studies & South Asian Studies at the University of Washington, for her book, Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists.
AIPS awarded an international travel grant to Dr. Sean Pue, Michigan State University AIPS Representative, to attend the Karachi Literature Festival. Please see Dr. Pue's blog on the event!