Abid Ali

Happy to announce that my first review of @Mubbashir_R book "The ethics of staying: Social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan" is published by @JournalTaja . You can find it here doi.org/10.1111/taja.1…

Details for our talk next Monday from 4-5.30pm UK time with Chris Moffat! Teams link registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event/e…

Op-ed: "The pitch is that five-star hotels will pop up on what is currently the rubble of thousands of homes in the vicinity of Bari Imam." dawn.com/news/1994575

We have organized against evictions of working class households in Islamabad since 1999. The Pakistani state & CDA in particular, have always employed the language of violence to deal with katchi abadis. But the present regime is unhinged in a way we have never seen before. 1/n

fully residential and sponsored workshop at LUMS, is for early-career scholars, as well as untenured humanities and social sciences faculty based at institutions of higher learning, specially outside provincial capitals & metropolitans Application Link: forms.gle/VfmHXJGj4dxsgs…

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Delighted to be co-convening a training workshop for graduate students and early-career scholars on writing regional histories! While the workshop is primarily designed for historians, we warmly welcome participants from other disciplines whose work resonates with the theme. Our aim is to rethink the region or locale as a central unit of historical analysis for a more intimate understanding of the past and to explore its richness and complexities beyond the frame of national or state-centric narratives. The workshop will be led by an inspiring mix of young and senior scholars, including Ilyas Chattha, Abdul Aijaz, Saman Tariq, and Shandana Waheed. It promises to be an excellent learning opportunity, so don’t miss out, apply now!

Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Review: 'Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore' by Dr Manan Ahmed Asif Reviewer: Dr Maria-Magdalena Pruss @thenewpress bloomsburypakistan.org/book-review-di…

@MaryamShKhan Yes Pashtuns migrated there mostly because of the war on terror(most of which settled there now) and Humeira Iqtidar beautifully described their experiences in Lahore as how they are producing alternative narratives to citizenship and belongings in lahore. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A wonderful piece from 2016 on multi-regional Pashtun communities living and/or working in the old Walled City of Lahore. Some estimate the total current migrant Pashtun population of Lahore to be 2.5 million+. Our census doesn't capture migration patterns tanqeed.org/2016/01/pashtu…

Before the advent of the internet, sending Eid greetings to friends and family was a special tradition, and one popular way to do so was through postcards. I'm sharing an old "Eid Mubarak" postcard that features the renowned Indian classical singer, Kajjan Bai, from Patna, Bihar.

@shayaaan Congratulations Shayan

Delighted to report that my book, Leaving Legacies: The Individual in Early Modern South Asia, has been published by Cambridge University Press. Folks with access to Cambridge Core should be able to read online. Print copy to follow next year. 1/🧵 cambridge.org/core/books/lea…

@khanzamankakar ډير ډير دي او مبارک شه کاکړ صیب. خوشحاله شومه چې ده کتاب نوم مو په دغه شعر ايخې دې.

زېری مې درباندې... زما لومړۍ شعري مجموعه "لوبې په پنسل" خپره شوه او مارکېټ ته را ورسېده. ځلاند صحاف خپروندويه ټولنه کوټه یې د چاپ د ډېر ښه معیار امتیاز لري. د ځلاند صحاف کتابپلورنځي کاسي روډ کوټې تر څنګ یې تاسو د ډاک په ذریعه پر لاندیني نمبر تر لاسه کولی شی👎 03318082948

@_SophieSchol You can find a list of notable works being done on Pashtun's historiography. Though some of books/articles connect with what you have asked but not all of them. My own thesis is on PTM, if interested, shot me a mail at abidalimn121@gmail.com acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Any credible books to read on the historical context and evolution of the current Pashtun Movement? The more recent, the better.

Congratulations to one of finest historian of our time and indeed a well-deserved position.

@AmmarRashidT Rest in peace.

My mother finally breathed her last today. Grateful to have had her love and guidance in my life, and to have gotten to spend her last months by her side. If you can, please say a prayer for her soul.

Grateful to know folks can get Refugee Cities (2024) in Pakistan (and hopefully across border in Afghanistan) now - thanks to @Folio_Books. The new foreword is in the book & published here with @jamhoormedia jamhoor.org/read/a-peoples…

Congratulations to @SanaaAlimia and @kasmani_o

@MaryamShKhan Hamza Alvi

Who are your favorite social scientists on Pakistan? Especially with reference to the period of decolonization and the first decade.

@ghazalfarrukhi @AmEthno Congratulations 👏