Message from the Chair
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One would find it hard to believe that a sports enthusiast and winner of the best sportsman award for four years running at LUMS, would also be a brilliant student, topping the Cambridge International Examinations and setting a record with a score of 339 out of 340 in his GREs. However, like most LU...
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Have you ever used filters on your Snapchat? Of course, you have! We love filters that can make us look older, younger, or just outright funny. However, a sinister extension of this technology, appropriately named ‘Deepfake’, can recreate anyone’s voice and video with unprecedented accuracy and can...
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MGSHSS is pleased to announce that from September 1, 2020 Dr. Hadia Majid will take over as the new director of the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI). Dr. Nida Kirmani has completed her 3 years as director during which she has put the SWGI on the map. Her contribution to establishing the centre...
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It is perhaps a fact not well known but practically every year several LUMS undergraduates are admitted to top journalism and writing programmes in North American universities. This year, five LUMS undergraduates will join MFA and MA programmes in creative writing and journalism in various North Ame...
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Dr. Kashif Z. Malik, Assistant Professor in Department of Economics at Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) at LUMS, has recently published an article titled COVID-19 and Future of Microfinance: Evidence and Insights from Pakistan in Oxford Review of Economics Poli...
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For details please visit: https://lums.edu.pk/coronavirus-updates
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Ali Raza publishes book on the Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India Dr. Ali Raza, Associate Professor at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) at LUMS, has recently published a book titled “Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internat...
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MGSHSS Faculty Writes on the Socio-Political Impact of the Corona Virus in Pakistan Rasul Bakhsh Rais (Professor, HSS) publishes an op-ed titled “In Pakistan, cycles of wheat and sugar scandals rob the poor” in Arab News (April 13, 2020). For details: https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1658176 Umair...
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Faculty at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Social Sciences and Humanities continue to publish their research on a variety of subjects ranging from Feminism to Economies in South Asia. A list of the publications and their abstracts is as follows: Dr. Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor ‘Can Fun B...
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MGSHSS co-organized a workshop on cities with colleagues from American University of Cairo on Everyday Life in Times of Ruination, which was held at LUMS on March 12 and 13. The workshop combined a discussion of AbdouMaliq Simone’s Improvised Lives and Veronica Galo’s Neoliberalism from Below with p...