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Everybody’s Cairo
Following Oxford Maqam’s two-day visit to Georgetown University in Qatar, a look at how, for generations, you could feel you knew Cairo without ever having been there. In Casablanca in…
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GU-Q NewsExperts examine Israel’s new death penalty law and its unequal application
In 1954, Israel abolished the death penalty for murder. Haim Cohn, the country’s attorney general at the time and later a Supreme Court justice, was among the strongest supporters of…
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GU-Q NewsRethinking sustainability through Islamic heritage
For Ambassador Fahad Al Attiyah, sustainability is not a modern concept imported into the Gulf in response to climate change. Its foundations, he argued, are deeply rooted in Islamic understandings…
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ResearchCan fiction about animal minds help us bridge the human divide? This professor thinks so.
Book available from UVA Press 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…
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ResearchPreserving 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…
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ResearchZahra 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….
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AlumniHistory 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…
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StudentsGeorgetown 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,…
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AlumniHow 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…
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StudentsFinding 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…