Nida Kirmani is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where she has been teaching since 2011. She served as a Research Fellow with the Religions and Development Research Programme at the University of Birmingham (2007-10) and has publishedwidely on issues related to gender, Islam, women's movements, and development and urban studies in India and Pakistan. She completed her PhD from the University of Manchester. Kirmani is the author of Questioning 'the Muslim Woman': Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality (Routledge2013). Her current research focuses on urban violence, gender, and insecurity in Lyari, Karachi.