March 25, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

From Revolution to Fragmented Authoritarianism: The Proxification of the Syrian Uprising

1A16 (Executive Program Suite) Speakers Bassam Haddad Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of…
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March 18, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

Women and the Sikh Diaspora

This talk will chart the alternative transoceanic history in the South Asian diaspora among Sikh women through their speech and songs across the twentieth century.
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March 12, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion

America’s Game in the Middle East: The 2027 Qatar Basketball World Cup

This panel discussion serves as the launching event for a new CIRS research project titled “America’s Game in the Middle East.
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March 5, 2024
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Lecture

Consumption Governance: The Role of Production and Consumption in International Commerce and International Law

The lecture will provide insights into how international economic conflict has dramatically increased over the last two decades.
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March 4, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series

On Public Architecture and Arab Modernity

How can architecture learn from its past histories of public building, while also designing for contemporary and future forms of participation?
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February 20, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Center for International and Regional Studies

Qatar’s Creative Culture: Fostering Development and Diplomacy

Room 1D02, Georgetown University in Qatar About This event will be followed by a light reception. Speakers Nouf M. S. Al-Thani, J.D. Related Events
Nouf Al-Thani
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 18, 2024
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Black History Month

An Evening of Jazz featuring Doha Jazz

Please join us for a special evening of jazz featuring the band Doha Jazz.
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February 7, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Faculty Seminar Series

Rethinking the Global Autocracy Paradigm

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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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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