Ali Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4508282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0042-552X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Afghan Migration and its Impacts on Community of Afghanistan
The history of migration is by far one of the very harshest and difficult topics in this new era of modernization. This article is going to define a particular part of the migration history and its aspects, which will be focusing mainly on a far-distant and barely remembered land called Afghanistan. Here we take you to the times of despair and hopelessness of a nation which has had war over war, conflict over conflict and which has seen empires c…
Performance management challenges at Chinese business incubators: A systematic literature review
The number and types of incubators have increased considerably worldwide, especially in China. A large proportion of such facilities are set up via public sector funding, resulting in heightened public scrutiny on their mandate as ‘start-up engines’. There is an expectation within the Chinese national context that researchers investigate ‘how best to evaluate the performance of different types of Chinese incubator archetypes’. This systematic lit…
A stormy future? Financial impact of climate change-related disruptions on nuclear power plant owners
Pain and Analgesia in Children with Cancer after Hemipelvectomy: A Retrospective Analysis
A paucity of data exists centering on the pain experience of children following hemipelvectomy performed for primary bone and soft tissue sarcomas. In this study, we aimed to describe the incidence, severity, and evolution of perioperative pain and function in pediatric oncology patients undergoing hemipelvectomy, and, additionally, we sought to detail the analgesic regimens used for these patients perioperatively. A retrospective chart review wa…
Implementing Rounding Checklists in a Pediatric Oncologic Intensive Care Unit
Standardized rounding checklists during multidisciplinary rounds (MDR) can reduce medical errors and decrease length of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and hospital stay. We added a standardized process for MDR in our oncologic PICU. Our study was a quality improvement initiative, utilizing a four-stage Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model to standardize MDR in our PICU over 3 months, from January 2020 to March 2020. We distributed surveys to PICU…
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
Concept of Nationalism Employed in the Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Purpose of the study: The main purpose of this study is to analyze the novel The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam in the light of the concept of Nationalism given by Benedict Anderson in Imagined communities. Methodology: The entire data is evaluated by the entire text related to nationalism. This research is based on qualitative research skills. The basic resource of this research is the novel of Nadeem Aslam, named The Golden Legend. Further, the …
From dysfunctional to functional corruption: The politics of decentralized electricity provision in Lebanon
Dysfunctional and corruption-prone power sectors are a persisting challenge in many developing countries. Drawing from the theoretical framework about corruption from Khan, Andreoni and Roy [1] and applying it to electricity, this paper explores the service provision model of Electricite du Zahle (EDZ), a decentralized local utility in Lebanon. Our analysis shows that although EDZ has succeeded in improving the service experienced by its customer…
“Sell-outs, Fatsos or Whores?”: Representation of Politically Active Pakistani Women on Social Media
The democratic nature of social media coupled with its unprecedented growth due to easy access and somewhat anonymity of users have had implications for various social groups during the last few years. A natural corollary to the vast amount of discourse on social media is the competition and conflict among individuals and groups to gain control and dominance. Like the male politicians, the politically active women in Pakistan also take to Twitter…
Distributed energy cost recovery for a fragile utility: The case of Électricité du Liban
Shedding Light on Female Talent in Lebanon’s Energy Sector
This policy brief aims to contribute to \n filling the knowledge gap and presenting a sex-disaggregated \n snapshot of the distribution of students across energy \n related higher education educational programs as well as the \n traditional Science, Technology, Education, and Math (STEM) \n fields, in tertiary education institutions across Lebanon’s \n different regions. The objective is to better understand the \n supply side of female talent, s…
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism in South Asia: Perspectives on Ecology from India and Pakistan
A curious transformation has occurred along Pakistan's highways in the last ten years or so: where previously highway travel entailed dodging an armada of cars, busses, trucks, tractors and the occ
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam: By Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 2002. 184 pages.)
Modern Muslim thinkers who try to locate and construct constitutional tenets based on the Islamic tradition face various difficulties, for they have to address a segment of an audience that expects an exposition comparable to the West's in terms of terminologies, institutions, and remedies, as well as to draw from the best practices of Islamic history and modern Muslim societies. It is always fustrating to learn that Islam's constitutional histor…
Ali G ‐ just who do We think He Is: A response to Rachel Garfield
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
From dysfunctional to functional corruption: The politics of decentralized electricity provision in Lebanon
Dysfunctional and corruption-prone power sectors are a persisting challenge in many developing countries. Drawing from the theoretical framework about corruption from Khan, Andreoni and Roy [1] and applying it to electricity, this paper explores the service provision model of Electricite du Zahle (EDZ), a decentralized local utility in Lebanon. Our analysis shows that although EDZ has succeeded in improving the service experienced by its customer…
Distributed energy cost recovery for a fragile utility: The case of Électricité du Liban
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence
Ali G ‐ just who do We think He Is: A response to Rachel Garfield
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam: By Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 2002. 184 pages.)
Modern Muslim thinkers who try to locate and construct constitutional tenets based on the Islamic tradition face various difficulties, for they have to address a segment of an audience that expects an exposition comparable to the West's in terms of terminologies, institutions, and remedies, as well as to draw from the best practices of Islamic history and modern Muslim societies. It is always fustrating to learn that Islam's constitutional histor…
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism in South Asia: Perspectives on Ecology from India and Pakistan
A curious transformation has occurred along Pakistan's highways in the last ten years or so: where previously highway travel entailed dodging an armada of cars, busses, trucks, tractors and the occ
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Shedding Light on Female Talent in Lebanon’s Energy Sector
This policy brief aims to contribute to \n filling the knowledge gap and presenting a sex-disaggregated \n snapshot of the distribution of students across energy \n related higher education educational programs as well as the \n traditional Science, Technology, Education, and Math (STEM) \n fields, in tertiary education institutions across Lebanon’s \n different regions. The objective is to better understand the \n supply side of female talent, s…
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
“Sell-outs, Fatsos or Whores?”: Representation of Politically Active Pakistani Women on Social Media
The democratic nature of social media coupled with its unprecedented growth due to easy access and somewhat anonymity of users have had implications for various social groups during the last few years. A natural corollary to the vast amount of discourse on social media is the competition and conflict among individuals and groups to gain control and dominance. Like the male politicians, the politically active women in Pakistan also take to Twitter…
Distributed energy cost recovery for a fragile utility: The case of Électricité du Liban
Concept of Nationalism Employed in the Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Purpose of the study: The main purpose of this study is to analyze the novel The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam in the light of the concept of Nationalism given by Benedict Anderson in Imagined communities. Methodology: The entire data is evaluated by the entire text related to nationalism. This research is based on qualitative research skills. The basic resource of this research is the novel of Nadeem Aslam, named The Golden Legend. Further, the …
From dysfunctional to functional corruption: The politics of decentralized electricity provision in Lebanon
Dysfunctional and corruption-prone power sectors are a persisting challenge in many developing countries. Drawing from the theoretical framework about corruption from Khan, Andreoni and Roy [1] and applying it to electricity, this paper explores the service provision model of Electricite du Zahle (EDZ), a decentralized local utility in Lebanon. Our analysis shows that although EDZ has succeeded in improving the service experienced by its customer…
Pain and Analgesia in Children with Cancer after Hemipelvectomy: A Retrospective Analysis
A paucity of data exists centering on the pain experience of children following hemipelvectomy performed for primary bone and soft tissue sarcomas. In this study, we aimed to describe the incidence, severity, and evolution of perioperative pain and function in pediatric oncology patients undergoing hemipelvectomy, and, additionally, we sought to detail the analgesic regimens used for these patients perioperatively. A retrospective chart review wa…
Implementing Rounding Checklists in a Pediatric Oncologic Intensive Care Unit
Standardized rounding checklists during multidisciplinary rounds (MDR) can reduce medical errors and decrease length of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and hospital stay. We added a standardized process for MDR in our oncologic PICU. Our study was a quality improvement initiative, utilizing a four-stage Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model to standardize MDR in our PICU over 3 months, from January 2020 to March 2020. We distributed surveys to PICU…
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
Afghan Migration and its Impacts on Community of Afghanistan
The history of migration is by far one of the very harshest and difficult topics in this new era of modernization. This article is going to define a particular part of the migration history and its aspects, which will be focusing mainly on a far-distant and barely remembered land called Afghanistan. Here we take you to the times of despair and hopelessness of a nation which has had war over war, conflict over conflict and which has seen empires c…
Performance management challenges at Chinese business incubators: A systematic literature review
The number and types of incubators have increased considerably worldwide, especially in China. A large proportion of such facilities are set up via public sector funding, resulting in heightened public scrutiny on their mandate as ‘start-up engines’. There is an expectation within the Chinese national context that researchers investigate ‘how best to evaluate the performance of different types of Chinese incubator archetypes’. This systematic lit…
A stormy future? Financial impact of climate change-related disruptions on nuclear power plant owners
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (5 works)