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April 24, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Public Talk

A Grammar of Arabic Grammar: An Epistemic Anatomy

Yasir Suleiman is Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Yasir Suleiman
February 19, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Public Talk

Cultural Disruption and the Ancient Greek Tradition, or : How to Write Literature in a Brand New World

Please join us for this talk that explores how these writers negotiated this tension, and it raises larger questions about the way that artists operate in times of epochal change.
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February 6, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Public Talk

Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood and Iran’s Axis of Resistance Narrative

Daniel Brumberg is Senior Advisor to the Democracy and Governance program at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Center.
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January 28, 2024
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Public Talk

Higher Education in an Increasingly Unstable World

How might universities change over the next decade?
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November 19, 2023
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Public Talk

Gaza After October 7: One or Two Turning Points?

Join us for a live broadcast from New York by Professor Norman Finkelstein.
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November 14, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Public Talk

Arabic Script Technologies: From Calligraphy to Unicode

J.R.Osborn is an award-winning author, scholar, and experimentalist of communication with Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, and Technology Program and co director of the CCT Technology Design Studio.
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November 12, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Public Talk

Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Dean Masri

Auditorium, Georgetown University in Qatar Speaker Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers – The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global…
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November 9, 2023
3:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Public Talk

Global Governance in an Age of Fracture

Georgetown University in Qatar About The Lloyd George Study Group was launched by Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and LSE’s Phelan US Center in 2022, and has 10 core members with wide regional representation. The group focuses on global governance, broadly defined, and is currently working on a series of papers under the theme…
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November 8, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Public Talk

Practitioner’s Proposals for the Improvement of Diplomatic Practice

Ambassador Androulla Kaminara, GU-Q Distinguished-Diplomat-in-Residence for 2023-2024, is a former EU Ambassador to Pakistan.
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November 6, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Public Talk

Book talk by Ibrahim M. Jaidah: Discovering Arabian Deco: Early Modern Architecture in Qatar

The architectural journey through the three most significant decades (1950-1970s) of urban development since the discovery of oil.
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