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2 publications · 2 types · 2021–2025

2 publications found

  1. Journal article

    From Aid to Trade: Pak-US Critical Minerals Partnership

    Shabnam Yousaf and Dr. Sajid

    Pakistan Journal of American Studies

    Argues that US-China competition over rare-earth processing has structurally shifted the US-Pakistan relationship from aid toward trade, and traces the sequence of steps that led to the September 2025 memorandum of understanding between Pakistan's Frontier Works Organization and US Strategic Metals.

  2. Conference paper

    American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture

    Shabnam Yousaf

    Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin

    Traces how Halloween travelled from the Celtic festival of Samhain, carried to America by Irish migrants in the mid-19th century, to the hybrid consumer celebration it is today, drawing on Marvin Harris's cultural materialism to show how its myths are passed on through enculturation and turned into commerce.