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  • Faculty

    Can fiction about animal minds help us bridge the human divide? This professor thinks so.

    In her new book, Animal Minds, Other Minds: Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction (University of Virginia Press), Victoria Googasian, a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, argues…

  • Faculty

    A region is more than its headlines: Preserving the history of the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier 

    When you look at headlines about Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past few weeks, you’ll find coverage of the fifth anniversary of the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s…

  • Research

    Zahra Babar earns prestigious fellowship to bring Gulf migrant voices to the global conversation

    Zahra Babar, executive director of GU-Q’s Center for International and Regional Studies, has been selected for the prestigious CERC Scholars of Excellence program at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Global Migration Institute….

  • Alumni

    History in the making: How one alumna is putting her degree to work in Ethiopia

    International History (IHIS) major Ayah Mohammed (GU-Q ’24) has a hard time explaining what she does in just one sentence. One day, she is advising on investment opportunities, trade and…

  • Students

    Georgetown Qatar welcomes 150 new students, announces new major and minors

    Georgetown University in Qatar is pleased to welcome 150 students in its incoming Class of 2030. The talented cohort was among just 9.4% of all applicants selected. All are bilingual,…

  • Alumni

    How a QSTP startup founded by GU-Q students is taking education innovation to Sierra Leone

    Written by Reve Chaaban, for QSTP Muallemi began at Qatar Science & Technology Park as a GU-Q student founded edtech startup focused on a specific problem: helping students in Qatar close gaps in…

  • Students

    Finding your place here: What current students want you to know

    Get an inside look at academics, campus life, community and more through the firsthand experiences and advice of current students, shared on Desert Hoya, the student blog run by the…

  • Alumni

    26-year-old GU-Q alum is helping build the world’s youngest government in Nepal

    When he is not meeting with Nepal’s new foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, to think through policy, Nikhil Sangroula (GU-Q ’23) sits at his desk inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,…

  • Admissions

    How GU-Q gives the next generation a head start

    The GU-Q community celebrates the conclusion of the three-week Georgetown Pre-College Summer Program. At 4:25 pm on a Thursday in July, Ruth Kidane (GU-Q ’29) stepped to the podium in…

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    Admissions

    Georgetown University in Qatar to accept Common Application starting fall 2026

    Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) has announced the official opening of the fall 2027 admissions process on August 1, 2026, marking a significant milestone as the university begins accepting applications…