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The breadth and depth of this minor and related research are made possible through the joint efforts of professors who identified a need and creatively leveraged the Qatar Education City multiversity ecosystem to craft a program which serves the community of learners and the nation as a whole. Through our joint efforts, everyone benefits.”
In support of the mission to provide a world class education and advance knowledge and understanding locally and globally, five new faculty members are joining QF partner Georgetown University in…
The Arab Spring uprisings of a decade ago were rooted in demands for dignity and economic opportunity, complex notions tied to the relationship between citizens and the state. A new book titled the Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge 2021) co-edited and co-written by QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) researcher Zahra Babar highlights how various conceptions of citizenship played critical roles in these events as well as other contemporary issues in the region, knowledge which makes an important contribution to an understudied field.
Only days before the start of the summer Olympic games in Japan, Visiting Associate Professor at GU-Q Dr. Danyel Reiche hosted a webinar on “The Politics of the Tokyo Olympics”, presented by The Political Studies Association (PSA) Sport and Politics Working Group. Dr. Reiche, who heads GU-Q’s Building a Legacy: Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 research initiative at GU-Q’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), is also the chair of the PSA working group.
When the pandemic swept across the globe, impacting the lives of millions, one of the topmost priorities was to develop health protection measures to curb the spread of the virus and manage its impact. The historical background of these measures within the Muslim context is the focus of a newly published research article by Dr. Ayman Shabana, Associate Research Professor of Theology at QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q).
World literature is often understood as a category within a wider field of literature rooted in European culture and history. But a new book by QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) scholar of literature, Dr. Ian Almond, flips this script by asking the reader a provocative question: What would world literature look like if we stopped referring to the “West”?
Syed Taha Kaleem, a senior at QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), has been selected as the Berkley Center-Pulitzer Center international reporting fellow for summer 2021. His project will explore the important role of religious shrines in Kashmiri society and examine the ways they foster peacebuilding.
QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and Teach for Qatar (TFQ) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to underscore their long-standing and increasingly diverse partnership and to further…
Climate change has already had a significant impact across South Asia and will continue to affect the region at an even higher rate in the coming decades, said experts at…
With the aim of contributing to new thinking about the impact and future of fossil fuels, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) launched its newly-formed Energy Humanities research initiative with a public webinar titled “Everyday Energy: Approaches to Lived Experience.” The event featured leading experts in the field of Energy Humanities, a rapidly emerging field of study in the humanities and social sciences that examines the connections between energy and society.
