Author: Nida Kirmani

Nida Kirmani is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Her research interests include gender, religion, development and urban studies in India and Pakistan. Her book, Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality, was published in 2013 by Routledge.

Nida Kirmani

The Privileged Discomfort of Border Crossings

December, 2018 / By Nida Kirmani

As social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. […]

City of Fear: Everyday experience of insecurity in Lyari (Karachi)

November, 2014 / By Nida Kirmani

I first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members