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.
Director of Balochistan Archives, Hafeez Jamali, is a past AIPS fellow and current PhD student at UT Austin. Balochistan Archives is an executive agency of the Government of Balochistan that serves as the main repository for official records and documents of historical significance.
We encourage you to visit the Balochistan Archives website to learn more about this agency.
Dr. Robert Nichols, Visiting Fulbright and AIPS Trustee gives a lecture in Islamabad
Dr Robert Nichols (Visiting Fulbright Specialist and Trustee AIPS) gave at AIPS-Islamabad on September 05, 2013. Dr Nichols spoke about his recently published book "Frontier Crimes Regulations: A History in Documents"
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 to commencing the fellowship.