U.S.-Pakistan Leaders Forum

11/06/2015

Read "Getting Opponents to We" in the Opinionator section of the New York Times for a profile on Convergence, one of the organizations that organized the US-Pakistan Leaders Forum: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/the-art-of-getting-opponents-to-we/?_r=0

Lessons learned in conflict resolution are helping once-implacable opponents on social issues like education, nourishing food and health care find common ground.

10/30/2015

Friends in NYC, get your tickets to Burq Off! on November 5th! http://www.eventbrite.com/e/burq-off-tickets-18512620747

Navigating the Tensions Between Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century Whether in Karachi or Canarsie, the dilemma confronting young people today is how to reconcile the mantle of traditional family values with the dream of independence and self-expression. In scenes from her critically accl…

11/08/2014

Friends in Lahore and Islamabad may be interested in attending Ajoka's play "Lo Phir Basant Ayee" or "Bulha", which are being performed this month in both cities.

10/24/2014

Our latest blog post: An Interview with this year's class of students studying Urdu at the Lahore University of Management Sciences through the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP) in collaboration with the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.

http://ow.ly/DgIJw

Earlier this fall, the first class of American graduate students arrived at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to study Urdu as...

10/18/2014

One of the seven men behind Apple's latest innovation--Apple Pay-- is a Pakistani named Ahmer Ali Khan, who hails from Rawalpindi.

One of the seven men behind tech giant Apple’s latest innovation — Apple Pay — is a Pakistani named Ahmer Ali Khan who hails from Rawalpindi.

Read more here: http://www.dawn.com/news/1138799/p

10/10/2014

Congratulations to Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi for winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee awarded them the prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and the right of all children to education". http://ow.ly/CykHy

The girls

10/06/2014

Eid Mubarak to all Pakistani friends!

09/29/2014

Pakistani playwright Shahid Nadeem recently attended the Culture and Conflict Summit in DC on September 9th and 10th. His Lahore-based theatre group, Ajoka has a partnership with Georgetown University as part of the "Myriad Voices" festival.

09/24/2014

Asma Jahangir is one of the winners of this year's Right Livelihood Award, awarded annually "to honor and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."

Asma Jahangir, Snowden honoured with 'alternative Nobel'

Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award is awarded annually “to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."

Read more here: http://www.dawn.com/news/1134056

08/28/2014

Our latest blog post: George Mason University has two partnerships with Pakistani universities: One with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the other with Karachi University (KU).

http://ow.ly/APQxt

In my last post, I highlighted two examples of collaboration between US and Pakistani universities: the partnerships between Arizona State...

08/27/2014

Support OPEN's Mansoor Ahmed, who has two short films playing at this year's DC South Asian Film Festival in September.

Community Event!

Remember our speaker Mansoor Ahmed?
He is back with some short films that will be playing at the DC South Asian Film Festival in September--SUPPORT THE FILMS and vote them for the People's Choice Award this year.

Both of Mansoor's short films will be shown in conjunction with a feature-length film. Here are the times:

Sunday, September 14, 12:00 PM: The Ring, shown in conjunction with Prakash Jha's film, "Bamul"

Sunday, September 14, 3:00 PM: Hospitality, shown in conjunction with the Pakistani film "Josh".

Check out the festival website and for purchasing tickets (early bird rates end in August): www.dcsaff.com

08/14/2014

Happy Independence Day to all our Pakistani friends!