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Asad Ali Author & Editor

Kamran Asdar Ali is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (UT Press, 2002) and Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-1972 (I.B Tauris 2015). Ali has been the President of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS: 2011-2017), the Director of the South Asia Institute, UT, Austin (2010-2017) and the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Asad Ali is an independent scholar based in the UK. He is the co-editor of Love, War and Other Longings: Essays on cinema in Pakistan (OUP 2020) and has taught at North American Institutions including New York University, Rutgers and Harvard. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Languages of the Law: Islam, Liberalism and Moral Community in Pakistan.