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  • GU-Q News

    From Gulags to the Gulf: One Georgetown Student’s Mission to Research What Others Overlook

    Photos of prisoners including women and children. Photo Credit: Alzhir Museum/ Photo credit: Aibarshyn Akhmetkali/The Astana Times In the quiet halls of the ALZHIR Memorial in Kazakhstan, Raikhan Primbetova sifted…

  • Faculty

    Mohamed Zayani’s Award-Winning Scholarship is Redefining Global Digital Studies

    As debates over digital governance, AI, and social media’s role in shaping public life dominate headlines worldwide, Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) celebrates the continued global recognition of Dr. Mohamed…

  • GU-Q News

    Japan, Jordan, and Georgetown: Advancing Regional Public-Private Partnerships

    How do you turn global expertise into national impact? By connecting people, policy, and practice. Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), brought…

  • Faculty

    With Dialogue Comes Understanding: Dr. El-Zein Offers New Insights Into Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr 

    As a young scholar and poet at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Dr. Amira El-Zein found herself drawn to the work of Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a philosopher now recognized…

  • Energy Studies

    Five Important Lessons on Pursuing Energy Justice From The “Decolonizing Energy” Conference

    At Georgetown University in Qatar’s eleventh Hiwaraat conference, Decolonizing Energy: The Past, Present, and Future of Energy Justice, scholars and creatives offered key insights into the future of energy justice….

  • GU-Q News

    Things We Learned from Asking “Is International Law Dead?”

    Could international law still be humanity’s best hope for justice—or has it already failed? At Georgetown University in Qatar, students, faculty, and guests packed the auditorium for “Is International Law…

  • Energy Studies

    Taking Back Power: Georgetown in Qatar To Host Energy Justice Conference

    In order to confront global inequities and pave the way for a clean energy future, Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) will host a symposium on “Decolonizing Energy: The Past, Present,…

  • Faculty

    New Book Reveals Islamic Law Wasn’t Erased Under the British Raj—It Fought Back

    Think colonialism wiped out Islamic law in India? Think again. In her provocative new book, Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (University of California Press, 2025),…

  • GU-Q News

    POV: The Surprising Way the Duterte ICC Case Inspired Me To Embrace My Role in the Filipino Diaspora 

    By Daphne Soriano, Class of 2028  “Justice is rarely linear,” stated Dean Safwan Masri in his welcome to the recent public talk “Duterte at the International Criminal Court: Global Implications”…

  • GU-Q News

    Art as History, Art as Future: Sudan Retold at Georgetown’s Seeing Sudan Conference

    At Georgetown University in Qatar’s Seeing Sudan Hiwaraat conference, art was not ornament but testimony—memory stitched into color, fantasy sharpened into line. Over three days, artists, musicians, and thinkers explored…