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SUMMARY:CURA Seminar: Football in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:On March 19\, 2020\, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) held a CURA seminar under its Undergraduate Research Advancement program. This is an opportunity for CURA Fellows to discuss new articles from scholars who have submitted to CIRS’s regional research initiative on “Football in the Middle East.” In observing local regulations for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19\, the seminar was hosted online through Zoom. Two papers were critiqued\, and feedback from the CURA Fellows was gathered to later share with the research working group.  \n \n \nKhushboo Shah (class of 2022) opened the seminar by presenting Danyel Reiche’s paper “Playing in the triple periphery: Exclusionary policies towards Palestinian football in Lebanon.” The paper explores the development of policy toward Palestinian football players in Lebanon through a chronological survey of policies and interviews with scholars and players. The author describes a gradual restriction of Palestinian football players through a series of quotas and fees imposed to restrict their number. Through a comparative perspective\, Reiche emphasizes the relative lack of opportunities and flexibility Palestinian players have in Lebanon compared to those in Israel and Jordan. \n \n \nChaïmaa Benkermi (class of 2021) led the second half of the seminar by presenting Thomas Ross Griffin’s “Who Kisses the Badge? The Player’s Perspective in the Performance of National Identity in the Qatar National Team.” Griffin uses literary and social media analysis to understand the performance of nationalism of players in the Qatari National Football team. The author divides the players into three categories: those who were born Qatari (jus sanguinis)\, non-Qataris born in Qatar (jus soli)\, and naturalized players from Europe and North Africa (jus talenti). Griffin argues that players from all three groups express Qatari nationalism in similar ways despite their different origins\, particularly in their embrace of the image of the Emir and the anthem Shoomila Shoomila. \n \n \nFollowing the presentations\, CURA fellow engaged in an in-depth discussion about the structure\, theoretical framework\, sources\, and clarity and strength of each paper. While analyzing the papers’ significance to the current scholarship of Football in the Middle East\, CURA fellows use the research and analytical skills they learn on the job and through various CURA activities to contribute to their assessments.  \n \n \nFollowing the seminar\, Salma Hassabou (class of 2022) and Shaza Afifi (class of 2022) will serve as ambassadors to present the comments to the working group on “Football in the Middle East\,” which will be held on a virtual platform in early April. \n \n \n\nFor the participants’ biographies\, please click here\n\n \nArticle by Ngoc Nguyen\, CURA Research Fellow
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-seminar-football-middle-east/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Regional Studies,Student Engagement
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SUMMARY:CURA Paper Series Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, 2020\, CIRS held the CURA Paper Series Seminar with a presentation by Adithi Sanjay\, a GU-Q junior majoring in International Politics\, and the winner of the Spring 2020 CURA Paper Series Competition. The CURA program launched the competition under its paper series initiative\, which allows selected research papers to be published after editorial review\, feedback\, and revisions. Sanjay’s paper\, titled “The Creation and Mobilization of Anti-China Sentiment by Interest Groups in Indian Society (2012-2018)\,” was chosen as the winner of the competition from a competitive pool of submitted papers. \n \n \nThe winner of the competition had the opportunity to work with CIRS staff to elevate her research work with the goal of being published by the end of the semester. The seminar was organized to provide the student with professional development experience through presenting the paper to GU-Q peers and receiving their feedback. Due to COVID-19 related restrictions and to accommodate participants from various countries\, Sanjay presented her research on anti-China sentiment in India via a Zoom meeting\, which was attended by CURA fellows and CIRS staff.   \n \n \nSanjay’s research methodology allowed for a micro-level analysis of the contemporary mobilization of anti-China protests in India. Using a global news monitoring and aggregation database that sourced more than 30\,000 newspaper articles\, she was able to compile a unique dataset cataloging anti-China protests on a state and regional level in India. The research scope covered anti-China protests from 2012 to 2018\, a period spanning the incumbency of two Indian prime ministers as well as two military confrontations at the Sino-Indian border. Sanjay emphasized that anti-China sentiment in India has significant “implications for the level of [Sino-Indian] cooperation on economic\, sociocultural\, and political bases.” Her analysis focused on the six major drivers of anti-China sentiment that emerged as recurring themes across various anti-Chinese protest events: border tensions\, economic tensions\, religious tensions\, historical and current oppression of Tibetans\, Chinese support for Pakistan\, and Chinese ministers’ visits to India. \n \n \nSanjay stated that “given the sheer size of the Indian population\, [the] generalization of anti-China sentiment on a national level is problematic in that it glosses over the nuances of the issues driving public opinion of China in India\,” As such\, her research fills the gap in the preexisting literature on perceptions of China in India by analyzing the creation and mobilization of anti-China sentiment by three broad categories of stakeholders: non-political civil society organizations\, political parties\, and their affiliates\, and the Indian central government.  \n \n \nThe seminar began with the presenter’s remarks on the results and findings of her research and was followed by the question and answer portion that allowed for a fruitful discussion with every participant offering input. Sanjay shared that a limitation of her methodology is media bias\, given that “small-size protests are not reported [in regional and national-level newspapers] and therefore considered ‘non-existent.’” As such\, Sanjay suggested that data triangulation would enhance her research\, as it would allow for the incorporation of ethnographic sources with her existing analysis of news reports. Sanjay concluded\, “I enjoyed this experience\, and I am grateful for all of your suggestions to improve on my paper and get it ready for publication.”  \n \n \nSanjay’s winning paper will be published by CIRS in June 2020 and will be the inaugural paper published under the CURA Paper Series.  \n \n \n\nFor the participants’ biographies\, please click here\n\n \n  \n \n \nArticle by J.I\, CURA Research Fellow
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-paper-series-seminar/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Student Engagement
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