na07959@st.habib.edu.pk
Qualitative researcher specializing in oral history, digital archiving, and interview design. Experienced in migration projects, heritage research, and archival documentation. Strong record in project coordination, metadata tagging, and research communication.<\/p>\n
na07959@st.habib.edu.pk
itsnaymaahmed@gmail.com
https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nayma-ahmed
Portfolio<\/p>\n
+923361186893<\/p>\n
School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
BA (Honors) Comparative Humanities<\/p>\n
2026
Digital Archiving|
\nFieldwork & Project Coordination|
\nMetadata Tagging + Transcripts|
\nOral History Interviewing|
\nZotero|
Acts with Ownership; Agility; Problem Solving
Qualitative Research ; Archival Management ; Teacher ;
Dean’s List 2023, 2024, 2025|
\nHigh Achievement Scholarship 2023, 2024|
\nPresident’s List 2023, 2025|
Vice President,Multiverse Club|
Research Fellow,
\n Wow Foundation Pakistan
\n (October 2025 \u2013 March 2026)
\n|<\/p>\n
Undergraduate Researcher,
\n Office of Research, Habib University
\n (June \u2013 October 2025)
\n|<\/p>\n
Research Fellow, Ohp Department,
\n The Citizens Archive of Pakistan
\n (January \u2013 May 2025)
\n|<\/p>\n
Undergraduate Researcher,
\n Office of Research, Habib University
\n (September 2023 \u2013 January 2025)
\n|
N\/A
Songs from a Burning Harmonium: Sonic Reconstruction of Identity among Afghan Refugees in Urban Karachi
This thesis examines how Afghan refugees in urban Karachi reconstruct identity, belonging, and memory through sonic practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Afghan refugee youth and families, the project explores how music, language, and everyday listening function as modes of self-making in conditions of displacement.<\/p>\n
This study argues that identity reconstruction is not merely cognitive or narrative but fundamentally auditory and relational. Afghan refugees navigate Karachi\u2019s dense and often hostile sonic terrain, while simultaneously sustaining sonic continuities through Afghan songs, raga-based musical traditions, and Persianate linguistic forms. Rather than framing these practices solely as hybridity, this thesis highlights tensions between cultural continuity and imposed political borders.<\/p>\n
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