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    Faculty Seminar: From “Ergenekon” to “Mastermind”: Political Melodramas of Conspiracy in Turkey

    On April 23, 2019, Dr. Erdag Goknar, Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, discussed his research on conspiracy theory discourse as a political force in Turkish culture…

    Faculty Seminar: From
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    Roundtable Discussion with Leading Turkish Think Tank Highlights Shared Research Interests

    A delegation from one of Turkey’s leading think tanks, the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), was recently on a campus visit to learn about GU-Q’s role in…

    Rountable Discussion
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    Georgetown Professor who Revolutionized Arabic Instruction Retires after 12 Years of Service

    After a 12 year tenure at Georgetown University in Qatar, Senior Language Instructor Abbas Al-Tonsi will retire home to Cairo, Egypt this year, leaving behind an innovative and thriving Arabic…

    Dr. Abbas Al-Tonsi
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    Georgetown Hosts Workshop on Re-imagining Regional Security in the Middle East

    A recent full day workshop at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) titled “Re-imagining Regional Security in the Middle East” brought together leading academics and experts working in the fields of…

    GU-Q Professor of Government
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    Georgetown Holds First Annual Conference on Teaching Arabic to Heritage Learners

    The Arabic Language Department at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) organized a two-day conference titled “Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects.” The international gathering of leading scholars in the…

    Dr. Abbas Al-Tonsi
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    Book Launch Features New Publication on Universal Basic Income

    Georgetown University in Qatar hosted a Book Launch event for Associate Professor Karl Widerquist’s book, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens on April 9,…

    Dr. Karl Widerquist
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    Faculty Seminar Series:”Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania”

    Shilpa Aggarwal, an assistant professor at the Indian School of Business, presented her research paper titled  “Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania,” which quantifies the…

    Shilpa Aggarwal
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    Faculty Research Seminar: “Intersectional Theology”

    Grace Ji-Sun Kim, an Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana (U.S.A.), shared her work on the application of the concepts of intersectionality to the…

    Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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    CIRS Lunch Talk: A Local East African Newspaper v. The State and Market Forces

    On Monday, March 11, 2019, Phoebe Musandu, an Assistant Professor and scholar of African history at GU-Q, was invited to deliver a CIRS Lunch Talk on her research into the…

    Phoebe Musandu
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    Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Attends Celebration Shining the Spotlight on Georgetown University in Qatar’s Research Impact

    Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation (QF), attended Georgetown University in Qatar’s “GU-Q 100: A Celebration of Knowledge”, a gala to commemorate more than one hundred…

    Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser