July 11, 2014 
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Six faculty join SAI's Steering Committee
SAI is excited to welcome six additional members to its Steering Committee, joining the 13 current members who provide guidance and advisement to SAI. The new members represent schools from across the university and include Ali Asani, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Homi Bhabha, Faculty of Arts and SciencesJacqueline Bhabha, Harvard School of Public Health,  Martha Chen, Harvard Kennedy School, Sue Goldie, Harvard School of Public Health, and Akshay Mangla, Harvard Business School.
Karachi, Pakistan: Disaster Mitigation in the City of Migrants by Satchit Balsari 
Earlier this year, a SAI delegation from Harvard visited the Aga Khan University Hospital and observed some of Pakistan's unique emergency care challenges. Satchit Balsari, Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard and Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medical College / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, recently published an article about the experience in Emergency Physicians International.
Share your summer experience with SAI!
Are you traveling, studying, or doing research in South Asia this summer? SAI runs a summer blog to share experiences from students and faculty who will be in the region this summer. To submit your photos or blog post, please email Meghan Smith at [email protected].
Upcoming Events
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Summer Film Series: Teesri Kasam

Part of SAI's fourth annual Summer Film Series, this film (India, 1966)  tells the story of a naive bullock-cart driver who falls for a traveling courtesan. The film screening is free and open to the community.

Thursday, July 17, 5:30pm, CGIS S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Musically intense and colorfully raw, Josh (Pakistan, 2013) shows a different side of modern Pakistan.

Thursday, July 24, 5:30pm, CGIS S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA

 

 

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Please note: For SAI's summer schedule, we will be circulating our newsletter every two weeks. Our weekly newsletter will resume in September.
 
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