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Mehwish Nasir highlights 2024 Pakistan Independence Day Celebrations in the Greater Bay Area, CA as part of the celebration of 15 years of the American Pakistan Foundation and APF Heritage Week.
The American Pakistan Foundation hosted a February 2024 retreat in New York City with its Board members, Leadership Council, and the extended APF community.
Three members of the Citizens Archive of Pakistan discuss how to protect Pakistan’s heritage and culture for future generations.
Jahan Yousaf of Krewella, the electronic dance music duo spoke to APF about her musical journey, her relationship to her Pakistani heritage, and how she gives back to Pakistan.
APF Leadership Council member Mehwish Nasar reviews Zareen’s, a Bay Area restaurant where people from all walks of life enjoy Pakistani and Indian home-cooking.
The neo-miniaturist artist Shahzia Sikander has always explored contrast and juxtaposition in her work, analyzing the difference and distinction of the spaces she has entered throughout the course of her impressive career as an artist.
On a Saturday evening this summer, APF Leadership Council member Rabeya Jawaid visited the Chai Spot in New York City, where everything depicts Pakistani culture, from the menu consisting of Pakistani chai and snacks to the artifacts and artwork on the walls and the seating surrounded by Baloch carpets.
Salma Hasan Ali, a storyteller, wife, mother and recently published author met virtually with the American Pakistan Foundation to chat about her journey as a writer, which led to the recent publication of her first book, 30 Days - Stories of Gratitude, Traditions, and Wisdom.
As a very high-level summary, this memoir is simply my journey over months and years with long term COVID and illness from previously never having any major health conditions over my 20+ years of life.
An interview with activist Zubair Torwali who works to empower marginalized communities in northern Pakistan through linguistic and cultural revitalization.
On May 5th, I suddenly lost the ability to walk. I am a 24 year old COVID Long Hauler, who has dealt with chronic fatigue, heart and breathing issues ever since I contracted the virus during my first quarter of graduate school.
“I only related to Pakistan very distantly throughout my childhood, as I did not set foot in the country from the ages of two to eighteen.”
As a new immigrant from Pakistan to Texas, Saadia Faruqi saw pervasive backlash against Muslims after 9/11. It sparked her interest in building interfaith dialogue and led to the creation of a book series about a charismatic young girl named Yasmin.
As a half-Pakistani American, I constantly caught snippets of Urdu through conversations with extended family, but never became fluent. Consequently, when I visited my relatives in Pakistan for the first time at the age of eighteen, I was looking forward to finding myself immersed in a sea of Urdu words and expressions. I experienced quite the opposite…
On March 8, thousands of people across Pakistan are marching for gender equality in the Aurat March. Those marching seek to improve the gender gap in Pakistan, which remains pronounced.
APF Pakistan Fellows Laiba Khan, Farva Batool, Daniel Waqar, and Roshan Chudhry providing an update on the tremendous challenges facing Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United States opened its first Embassy in Pakistan in the port city of Karachi in 1961.
Mifrah Malik was in 4th grade when she enjoyed her first Thanksgiving meal at the home of a family friend in the Bronx. It is now an annual tradition in her American Pakistani household.
Myreen Malik is a thirteen year old get out the vote leader and volunteer in Austin, Texas. In 2020, she founded Teen PACT, an organization for Pakistani American Teenagers that promotes civic engagement.
The NewsRun helps Pakistanis around the world keep up with a cluttered news cycle and stay informed about Pakistan.
The thought of leaving the United States to live in Pakistan had never crossed my mind. But then one day, it did.
This reading list is meant to be a starting point for the community to take part in the work that needs to be done to fulfill our country's great promise of equality.
APF’s Get Out the Vote team spotlighted six personal narratives on Pakistani-American identity and exercising our right to vote.
Meet the creative voices behind a 108,000+ strong Urdu-focused culture and language community on Instagram.
Papercutting artist Tusif Ahmad shares his creative process and discusses art as a vehicle for building bridges.
PakStockPhoto is Pakistan’s first and only digital image library which offers authentic, quality photography for use in professional contexts.
UpTrade is a Pakistan-based social enterprise that aims to improve the lives of vulnerable rural communities through a unique bartering finance mechanism using goats.
