Dr. Amna Hafeez Mobeen

Assistant Professor (BPS)

  • MA Gender and Media, University of Sussex, UK
  • PGDp Social Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
  • PhD (Scholar), National Institute of Pakistan Studies, QAU.
  • Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  • +92-51-90642041
  • ahmobeen@qau.edu.pk
  • Status: On Job
  • Feminist Research Methodologies and Ethnographic Practice
  • South Asian Studies from Feminist Perspectives
  • Gender and the City, Urban Spaces and Social Life
  • Feminist Media Studies and Analysis
  • Masculinities and the Making of Men’s Social Worlds
  • Food, Environment, and Feminist Knowledge Systems
  • Indigenous Feminist Epistemologies and Praxis
  • Genealogies of Coloniality, Culture, and the Production of Gender Relations
  • State, Institutions and the Making of Gendered Subjects
  • Gender and the Politics of Everyday
  1. Connected for Gender Equality: Digital Learning and Solidarity Building (2025) co-authored by Karin Astrid Siegmann, Saad Ali Khan, Rabbia Aslam, Bilge Sahin, Alia Amirali, Selin Akyüz, Aurangzaib Alizai, Tuğçe Çetinkaya, Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz, Amna Hafeez Mobeen
  2. Gender Audit Report for Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan (2023) Aisha Anees Malik, Fatimah Ihsan, Rabbia Aslam, Saad Ali Khan and Amna Hafeez Mobeen
  3. Marriages, New Women and Changing Intra-Group Dynamics of the Trader Families in Rawalpindi. (Mobeen, A. H. 2023) Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies, 23 (01), pp. 27–44
  4. ‘Understanding Gendered Dynamics in Pakhtun Society Through Life History and Works of Khushhaal Khan Khattak’ (Mobeen, A. H. & H. Khalil 2020) Pakistan, vol. 56, pp. 166-179
  5. ‘Gendering and Beyond: Analyzing Children’s Early Year Education and Teaching Methodologies Employed in Rawalpindi/Islamabad’s Private Schools’, (Mobeen, A. H. & R. Aslam 2020) Journal of Early Childhood Care and Education, pp. 89-107
  6. ‘Clara Zetkin’s Selected Works, A Review’ (Mobeen, A. H. & R. Aslam 2018) Revolutionary Democracy, September 2018, Dehli University, India
  7. ’Critique of Contemporary Post-Feminist Media Representations’ (Mobeen, A. H. 2014) Revolutionary Democracy, September 2014, Dehli University, India
  8. ‘Marxism and Feminism-A Critique of Feminism in Marxist-Leninist Movement’ (Hafeez, A. 2011) Revolutionary Democracy, September 2011, Dehli University, India
  9. Mehbub-ul-Haq’s Human Development Centre-The Health Challenge in South Asia, Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. http://www.mhhdc.org/html/ahdr.htm

Conferences:

  • Peer reviewer in the Gender and Sexuality Conference organized by TIIKM-The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka (2025 onwards).
  • Attended a conference on Gender, Piety, Secularity: Conversations with Saba Mahmood (1962-2018) – LUMS, School of Human and Social Sciences (December 2023).
  • Selected as a presenter at 71st Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, organized by University of Kansas, USA. Paper title: ‘Contradictory Logics: Understanding Child Marriage in Pakistan’ (September 2022).
  • Presenter at the 4th International Conference on Gender and Sexuality, organized by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka. Paper title: ‘Understanding Micro-Foundations of Power: Intra-Group Politics and Culture of Middle-Class Punjabi Women’ (October 2021).
  • Presenter at international conference on Early Childhood Development in Allama Iqbal University Islamabad. Paper title: ‘Gendering and Beyond: Analyzing Children’s Early Year Education and Teaching Methodologies Deployed in Islamabad’s Private Schools’ (September 2019)
  • Panel discussant and organizer in International Conference on Gender Knowledge Production, Dissemination and Contestation, organized by CEGS, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. Title of the panel: ‘Knowledge Production in Pakistani Media’, paper discussed: ‘Ismat Chughtai’s Short Story Half Women, Half Dreams’ (September 2016).
  • Organizer, stage anchor and media expert in the international conference on ‘(Re) Performing the Posthuman, A Conference on Performance Arts and Posthumanism’, organized by the University of Sussex, UK (March 2010).
  • CEGS-Rozan base-line study project on ‘Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence in Kuri’, conducted fieldwork and developed a report for designing intervention strategies in the community, held in 2018.
  • OXFAM-NOVIB, a project on female child marriage which was completed in January 2017. I was responsible along with a team of other researchers to conduct qualitative and quantitative research and then report writing which will then be used by various think tanks and governmental agencies for their works on eradicating child marriages in Pakistan.

  • Honors & Outreach

    • Panelist in the seminar titled ‘Women Shaping the Future of Justice Sector Institutions’, organized by QAU, UN Women and Mojaz Foundation (December 2025).
    • Moderator of a panel titled ‘Digital Violence Against Women’ focusing on the role of men and masculinitiesin shaping both the problem and the solution, organized by Rozan and Norwegian Church Aid (December 2025).
    • Gender advisor in the consultative session on‘Breaking the Silence: Addressing Child Marriage through Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Lens’, organized by Beydaar Society (November 2025).
    • Panelist in a roundtable discussion on the theme of ‘Intersectional Feminism in Pakistan: Advancing Minority Rights and Building Inclusive Human Rights Spaces’, organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, FES (October 2025).
    • Moderator of a panel discussion in the ‘National Symposium on Masculinities Sharing of Research’ (October 2024).
    • Keynote speaker on the event of International Women’s Day 2025, organized by Asian Development Bank-ADB, (March 2025).
    • Peer reviewer for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities-JSSH, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2024 onwards).
    • Member of the steering committee to analyze and launch the ‘Art of Parenting’ manual developed by NCSW-National Commission on the Status of Women (June 2024).
    • Short term research assistant in the department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA (March-September 2022).
    • Discussant and trans-rights expert to talk on the issue of ‘Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018’, National University of Medical Sciences (September 2022).
    • Producer of the street theatre campaign on ‘Reconstructing Concepts of Masculinity in Quaid-i-Azam University’ (2019).
    • Guest Speaker in QASMS, QAU to talk about ‘Towards Making a Gender Inclusive Society’ (March 2024), National Institute of Pakistan Studies on ‘Women and Islam’ (2019), in Sociology department, Quaid-i-Azam University on ‘Rumors and Realities about Women’s Day’ (2020), Bahria University on ‘Gender Development in the Corporate Sector’ (Nov 2009), in NUST Business School on ‘Economic Imperialism and the Creation of Political-Economic Nightmares’ (March, 2010).
    • Panelist on current affairs shows broadcasted by Pakistan Television Corporation PTV, Islamabad. 1) Talk title: ‘Tolerance and Co-existence on Campus Spaces’ in the program ‘Nuqta-e-Nazar’ (2019) Talk title: ‘Spaces for Women in Public Sphere and the Case of Aurat March’ (2020) and also anchored a pilot episode for a Youth show on PTV Global (2009).
    • Co-examiner for Gender Studies in CSS-Central Superior Services examinations held by the Federal Public Service Commission-FPSC (June-September 2016).
    • Executive member of British Alumni Association of Pakistan-BAAP, constituted under the British Council of Pakistan (2012-15).
    • Worked with Ajoka Theatre group on research project on its play Burqavaganza (Sept 2010).
    • Cultural ambassador of Pakistan at the University of Warwick, organized One World Week (January 2008) and University of Sussex (November 2009).
    • Bronze medalist in an international arts competition on the theme of ‘World Peace’, organized by NIPPON Japan (1996).
    • Silver medalist in national arts competition organized by Rotary Club international (1995).

M.Sc.

  1. Nazir Ahmed, (2022), Influences of Pakistani Urdu Television Dramas on the Marital Relationships of Pashtun Women, District Mardan, Khayber Pakhtunkhawa.
  2. Zarmeen Kausar, (2021), Self-Image and Physical Appearance: Gendered Perceptions of Post-Treatment Cancer Patients.
  3. Manahil Rehman, (2021), Women criminality in Islamabad and Rawalpindi in the perspective of Law Enforcement Department.
  4. Marvi Karim, (2021), Women’s political activism in Pakistan; a case study of Aurat March.
  5. Samra Batool, (2018), Reasons behind out of school’s males in Islamabad
  6. Najeebullah, (2017), Changes in Socio – Economic Conditions and the Emergence of Purdah among Kochian Women of Tehsil Duki, District Loralai, Balochistan.
  7. Huma Nawaz Khan, (2017), The Impact of Ideal Body Image in Bollywood Films on Young Girls.

Workshops & Trainings:

  • Organizer and facilitator of workshops on the theme of ‘Gender Sensitization and Positive Masculinities’ held once annually since 2023, organized by CEGS and Rozan.
  • Selected for a three-day residential training on ‘National Women, Peace, and Security-WPS-Faculty Training’, organized by United States Institute of Peace, USIP (November 2024).
  • Selected for a three-day residential training on ‘Advanced Women Leadership Training: Indigenous Strategies for Women’s Progress’ organized by Mehergarh, A Centre for Learning (February 2024).
  • Selected for a one-day workshop on ‘Agency, Embodiment, Colonial Knowledge, Anti-imperialism and Secularism and Religious Minorities’ in LUMS, School of Human and Social Sciences (December 2023).
  • Trained a group of professionals (enrolled in Diploma in Gender Studies program) on understanding gendered binaries and the impact they have on creating stereotypical mindsets (May 2023).
  • Trained a group of young researchers and activists on understanding feminism in Pakistan, held by Rozan (December 2022).
  • Trained a group of elementary teachers in Rawalpindi on understanding the consequences of gender stereotyping in children (September 2021).
  • Trained a group of specialists (therapists, teachers, school administrators) on gender sensitive approaches to be inculcated in early years’ school interactions (September 2021).
  • Organized and facilitated a series of workshops in various private schools in Rawalpindi/Islamabad on the theme of ‘Debunking Gender Stereotypes and Making Gender Sensitive Classrooms’ (August 2021).
  • Facilitated three-day training workshop on ‘Gender, Leadership and Social Change’ in collaboration with Rozan for students of Iqra University and Quaid-i-Azam University (November 2020).
  • Resource person for the workshop on Gender and Media in Allama Iqbal Open University (2019).

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