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Item Adeem Suhail Interview(Hindi-Urdu Flagship) Hindi-Urdu FlagshipItem Architectural History of the Bangladesh Region as Background of Louis Kahn's Dacca Project(0000-00-00) Ali, Meer MobashsherAudio files are EID restricted. Individuals without an EID should send an email request to apl-aaa@lib.utexas.edu.Item Attachment, articulation and agency : a glimpse into the world of women digest writers in Pakistan(2024-02-05) Ahmed, Kiran Nazir; Ali, Kamran Asdar, 1961-; Harlow, Barbara; Stewart, Kathleen; Strong, PaulineThis dissertation presents an ethnographic account of women fiction writers’ engagement with digest genre and the community (of readers and writers) formed around it. Digest genre is published in Urdu monthly magazines, usually known as women’s digests. These fictional stories are extremely popular and have the highest circulation of all fictional genres in Pakistan. However, they are socially perceived as “low brow” and disavowed as having no literary merit. In this context, this ethnography traces the specific forms attachment, articulation and agency take in the lives of women whose stories resonate with many, but who also face the critique of not being authentic writers. It does so by exploring questions such as: How do digest writers develop attachments and bonds of friendship in the absence of physical proximity (since writers rarely meet each other or their readers)? How do digest writers articulate lived realities—both of attachments in the digest community and the larger dynamics of living as a woman in Pakistan’s changing social milieu? How do they see fiction writing and what role do they see it playing in their individual lives? What challenges or opportunities do writers experience as they enter the arena of script writing for television, and how do they speak back to notions of their writing as inauthentic and frivolous? Methodologically, this research draws on twenty months of fieldwork, carried out in four urban cities (Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi) and villages in two provinces (Sindh and Punjab). Fieldwork took the form of archival work, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation. I closely followed the daily lives and work of digest writers of varying ages, ethnicities, and educational backgrounds. In addition, I conducted work with editors (who select and tailor digest narratives), admins (volunteers who manage readers’ groups through social media), readers and voluntary non-readers (individuals who are familiar with this genre but choose not to read it), television channel heads (who employ digest writers as script writers) and content managers at production houses (who select and tailor digest narratives for television audiences).Item 'But you haven't told me about yourself' : women's digests in Pakistan as an affective space of belonging(2013-12) Ahmed, Kiran Nazir; Ali, Kamran Asdar, 1961-This report demonstrates how encounters between readers, writers and editors of a low-brow genre of Urdu fiction, create an affective space of belonging. This genre is published in commercial monthly magazines (commonly known as women’s digests) that contain narratives of feminine domesticity, primarily written by and for women, in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic work (archival and interviews) with authors, readers and editors of two monthlies, this study traces the contours of digest community as an affective space of belonging that provides a ‘complex of confirmation and consolation’ on how to be a woman in Pakistan’s changing social milieu. It further argues that recent proliferation of cell phones has led to a new sensibility in this community that has its own rhythm of sound. Previously readers would communicate through published letters mediated by editors. However, now there is direct contact between these two groups, through cell phones. Digest narratives are now also being drawn from experiences readers share with authors over cell phone conversations. This sharing is not factual as such, but rather an affective exchange of feelings about facts. Thus, these conversations can be seen as a shared emotional experience where the lack of visual cues regarding social class, age and ethnicity (since readers and writers rarely meet each other) leads to voices becoming just that – voices that share life stories and experiences. There is thus a transient coming together of women who are mostly unrelated by kinship or ethnicity; and a sociality is formed between strangers with its own sensory feel of rhythm and sound, through the medium of the cell phone. This work contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on how media and technology is a negotiation between material properties of technologies being introduced and the particular effects in forming new affects and sensibilities; and how dominant representations of Muslim women as a singular and stable category of analysis, can be spoken back to, by highlighting their myriad voices and understanding them beyond the usual tropes of victimhood and emancipation.Item Communists in a Muslim Land: Cultural Debates in Pakistan's Early Years(Cambridge University Press, 2011-05) Ali, KamranThis paper will introduce intellectual debates from Pakistan's early years to show how the country's future culture was being discussed, deliberated and reshaped in these circles at the moment of its own inception as an independent state. By focusing on the communist perspective on Pakistan's independence, it will seek to illuminate some of those historical moments in Pakistan's history that have not received much attention either from historians or from the public. Within this context, the paper will present contesting voices that are critical of one another—particularly regarding the place of Islam in the new state—in order to rethink Pakistan's early history as a period that could have led to a range of possible future historical trajectories.Item Deconstructing urban utopias : the case of Bahria Town, Pakistan(2021-08-09) Mysorewala, Raviya; Sletto, BjørnThis report outlines the rationalities behind planning practices in Pakistan using the case of Bahria Town. Studying themes used in the promotion and design of Bahria Town, this report argues that planning in Pakistan takes inspiration from cities of the Global North, resulting in mechanisms that are incompatible with Pakistan’s context. Such practices focus on aesthetics and adversely affect the urban majority of the country which is poor. The report details the implications that planning practices of Bahria Town, if unregulated and taken forward, can bear on the future of planning in Pakistan.Item Emmad Mazhari Interview(2022-06-16) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Emmad Mazhari, a software designer and photographer living in Houston, TX. Emmad talks about his childhood in Pakistan and his move and adjustment to the United States. He talks about his relationships to the places he has lived as well as his relationship to his Pakistani Muslim culture. Emmad describes the artistic projects he is planning and working on and shares some of his artistic inspirations.Item Faiza Susan Interview(2021-03-25) Institute for Diversity and Civic LifeThis interview is with Faiza Susan, an Ahmadi Muslim woman and aspiring counselor. Faiza talks about her experiences growing up in an insular minority community and the bigotry she was subjected to at a young age in North Texas. She tells the stories of her mother and grandfather who experienced persecution in Pakistan for being Ahmadi. Having seen and felt traumas common among South Asians, Faiza is working toward her masters in rehabilitation counseling in order to become a counselor for the Desi Muslim community.Item Hadi Jawad Interview(2023-04-05) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Hadi Jawad, an activist in Dallas, TX. Hadi shares memories of growing up in Pakistan and coming to the US for college. He talks about his business and how he began activism work against US military involvement in Iraq. Hadi describes the impacts of post-9/11 Islamophobia on his community and his own interactions with the FBI.Item A harbor in the tempest: megaprojects, identity, and the politics of place in Gwadar, Pakistan(2014-05) Jamali, Hafeez Ahmed; Ali, Kamran Asdar, 1961-This dissertation seeks to understand the ways in which Pakistani government’s attempts to initiate large-scale infrastructure development projects in Balochistan Province have transformed its social and political landscape. Ethnographically, the study focuses on Gwadar, a small coastal town in Pakistan’s western Balochistan Province to show how colonial and postcolonial projects of progress and development suppress or subsume other kinds of lived geographies and imaginations of place. Keeping in mind the centrality of everyday experiences in generating social forms, this dissertation describes how development, transnationalism, and ethnic identity are (re)configured. It is based on ethnographic encounters that foreground the lived experiences and imaginations of fishermen from Med kinship and occupational group who occupy a subaltern position within the local status hierarchy in Gwadar. On the one hand, the promise of becoming modern citizens of the future mega city incites new desires and longings among those fishermen that facilitate their incorporation into emergent regimes of labor and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, Pakistani security forces have tightened their control over the local population by establishing a cordon sanitaire around Gwadar Port and the town. These mechanisms of control have disrupted local fishermen`s experiences of place and intimate sociality and introduced elements of exclusion, fear, and paranoia. By interrupting the fishermen`s expectations of their rightful place in the city, it compels them to think of alternate ways to confront the state’s development agenda, including peaceful protest and armed struggle. The dissertation concludes, tentatively, that the imposition of political violence by state authorities that accompanies the structural violence of mega infrastructure projects tends to create a mirror effect whereby the victims of development adopt a language of violence and a different idiom of identity.Item Hasan Abbas Interview(2021-06-21) Institute for Diversity & Civic LifeThis interview is with Hasan Abbas, a Pakistani first-generation American who works in accounting. Hasan talks about his interest in culture, from American pop culture to traditional Pakistani culture, and his continuing efforts to participate in and learn about both. He compares his experiences of different places, having lived in New York and Texas and visited Pakistan many times with his family. Hasan also shares how his religious, cultural, and family backgrounds influenced his life path and his values of empathy and respect for others.Item Husaina Yusuf Interview(2020-03-02) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Husaina Yusuf, a young Muslim woman who was born in California and raised in Texas. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing in Houston, the cultural dynamics of her religious sect, and her life experiences. Yusuf was raised as a Bohri Muslim, a subsect of Shia Islam. She shares stories of her family dynamic, her community, and observations of Bohri culture. She also discusses her experiences as a woman navigating gender roles in her religion and personal life.Item Influence of advertising on gender roles and stereotypes in Pakistan(2018-05-07) Fahim, Sarah; Lee, Wei-Na, 1957-In a region where the world’s largest mass displacement took place in 1947, socio-political and religious influencers have been long-established drivers of societal evolution. On a historic backdrop, gender roles and stereotypes are embedded in culture and religions of the sub-continent. This research study investigates gender roles and stereotypes in modern-day Pakistan, which was created in 1947 as a result of the partition of British India. Inspiration for this thesis is drawn from personal life experiences and the complex evolution of gender roles in the country. Gender roles are studied in relation with advertising in this study. Whether or not advertising reframes and influences gender roles in the minds of the Pakistani consumers will be investigated through in-depth, qualitative interviews.Item Josh Malihabadi: Devotion and Doubt(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2011-04-19) Naghmi, Abul HasanItem Letter to Bernhard Kummel from H.B. Stenzel on 1966-10-26(1966-10-26) Stenzel, H.B.Item Letter to Francis Hemming from Hubert G. Schenck on 1957-05-15(1957-05-15) Schenck, Hubert G.Item Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Curt Teichert on 1964-03-17(1964-03-17) Teichert, CurtItem Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Curt Teichert on 1969-12-31(1969-12-31) Teichert, CurtItem Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Jorgen Wind on 1950-11-15(1950-11-15) Wind, JorgenItem Letter to Rex T. Prider from Curt Teichert on 1961-05-02(1961-05-02) Teichert, Curt
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