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  • Faculty

    GU-Q faculty’s new book explains how China managed to maintain unity despite its diverse ethnic and religious minorities.

    Two centuries after the Qing dynasty designed a new ritual to tighten its grip over Tibet, Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) professor of Asian history, Max Oidtmann, takes a fresh…

    Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
  • Faculty

    Georgetown Students Prepare to Lead in an Unpredictable World

    Ministers, government officials, ambassadors, industry experts, students, and guests gathered at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) Thursday to celebrate the inaugural cohort of students in Georgetown’s International Executive Master’s in…

    Closing ceremony of the first cohort of international Emergency and Disaster Management students.
  • Students

    Georgetown Alumnus Receives Leadership Award from Queen

    Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) alumnus Haroon Yasin (SFS ‘15) was recently honored by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his work to educate underprivileged children. Yasin was one of…

    Haroon Yasin (SFS ‘15) honored by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
  • Faculty

    Georgetown Professor’s Book on Social Movements Wins Multiple Prestigious Awards

    Georgetown University in Qatar Professor Mohamed Zayani’s book Networked Publics and Digital Contention (Oxford UP) has been recently recognized by a cluster of prestigious awards. These multiple accolades were bestowed by leading academic and professional…

    Networked Publics and Digital Contention
  • Faculty

    GU-Q Professor Embarks on a Book Tour of Digital Middle East

    Award-winning author and Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) Professor Mohamed Zayani has hit the road to share the finding of his newly released book Digital Middle East: State and Society…

    Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age
  • Faculty

    CIRS Celebrates 10 Years of Research

    Since its establishment in 2007, Georgetown University in Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) has sponsored and supported major cross-disciplinary research initiatives focused on the Gulf, Middle East…

    CIRS Director Dr. Mehran Kamrava
  • Faculty

    CIRS’ New Book Explores Troubled Waters of the Gulf

    A new book authored by Georgetown Professor Mehran Kamrava explores the complex relationships in the Gulf. Titled Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (Cornell University Press, 2018), the book…

    Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf
  • Faculty

    Georgetown Arabic Book Club Discusses the Intellectual Project of Taha Abdul Rahman

    The Arabic Book Club at Georgetown University in Qatar recently resumed its meetings with a preliminary discussion of the intellectual project of Moroccan thinker Taha Abdul Rahman. Participants in the…

    The Arabic Book Club
  • Faculty

    New CIRS book examines impact of Arab Spring on North African countries

    Doha, Qatar – Seven years after the revolution in Tunisia sparked revolts across the Arab world, how deep has the impact of the Arab Spring been on the Maghreb countries?…

    Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring
  • Faculty

    CIRS new book explores art and cultural production in the Gulf

    Global news headlines have been buzzing with commentary regarding the state of art and cultural production in the Gulf societies, and Georgetown University in Qatar’s (GU-Q) Center for International and…

    The new book titled Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council