[1] He is the founder of the South Asia blog Chapati Mystery[2] and co-founder of Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research.
[11] At Chicago, Ahmed studied under Muzaffar Alam, Fred Donner, Ronald Inden, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Shahid Amin.
Ahmed argues instead, that we recognize that presence as “lived spaces” (A Book 49), interconnected with each other across the region, and full of particularities that must be understood in their own terms.
[15] In 2014, he helped co-found Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research, which focuses on “mobilized humanities” and innovations in scholarly methodologies.
One of the recent projects, Torn Apart/Separados, a series of rapidly produced data visualizations, responded to the Trump administration family separation policy announced by the United States government in 2018.