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When the movie Star Wars was released in 1977, it redefined cinematic history and introduced generations of audiences to a classic storytelling structure called the monomyth, where a hero goes…
The War in Darfur has been covered by international media as a long-held ethnic conflict between Arab and Black African Sudanese. But in her newly published book titled Darfur Allegory…
Scholar and crossword creator, Visiting Professor at QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) Dr. Leonard Williams, offers a unique way to explore key concepts in political science with the…
The Arab Spring uprisings took place a decade ago, but a panel of experts hosted by QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) say the events continue to have a…
The Indian state of Goa’s historical connections to the Arabic speaking world and its colonial past play an important role in Goan identity. However these connections have faced erasure through…
Professors from Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and Northwestern Qatar, QF partners, are collaborating to offer “The Doha Seminar on Migrants and Megacities” in the fall 2021 term, bringing together…
What do the social sciences and humanities have to do with nuclear physics? According to Dr. Kai-Henrik Barth, the professor teaching Georgetown University in Qatar’s first required natural science course…
Qatar’s Minister of State, H.E. Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, has joined Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) as the school’s first Ambassador in Residence. During his tenure at GU-Q, H.E.,…
To fulfill his father’s dying wish that he memorize the Holy Qur’an, nine year old Ousman Camara was sent to the Quranic School for Boys in the small village of…
At a recent Faculty Seminar, Dr. Zainab Kabba, the Executive Director of Cambridge Muslim College spoke about the transmission of knowledge in short term intensive Islamic education settings. The talk,…
