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SUMMARY:CIRS Monthly Dialogue: What Arab Authoritarianism Tells Us About the World
DESCRIPTION:rEGISTER nOW\n\n\nThis panel highlights contributions in the new Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World\, forthcoming open access from Bloomsbury Politics. The Handbook highlights the specificities of authoritarianism in the Arab world while placing the region in the context of global trends. The panel will feature Dana Al Kurd (Associate Professor at University of Richmond) Yasmeen Mekawy (Assistant Professor at Northwestern Qatar)\, Alexei Abrahams (Assistant Professor at HBKU)\, and Abdullah Al Arian (Associate Professor at GU-Q)\, moderated by Diana Buttu\, to discuss trends in research on authoritarianism\, emotions in the Arab Spring uprisings\, and digital authoritarianism. \n\nModerator: \n\n\nDiana Buttu\, a Palestinian lawyer specializing in international law and human rights\, returns to GU-Q as a Practitioner-in-Residence for the academic year. She will teach Palestine and the Law and Negotiation and Organizational Conflict\, offering students a practitioner’s lens on diplomacy\, accountability\, and resistance. A former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team and fellow at Stanford and Harvard\, she is a frequent commentator on Palestine and international law in global media.  \n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\nDana El Kurd is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Richmond\, in Richmond\, Virginia\, USA. She specializes in Palestinian and Arab politics\, particularly on topics related to mobilization\, public opinion\, and international intervention. Her first book\, titled Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine\, was published in January 2020 with Oxford University Press. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Global Studies Quarterly\, PS: Political Science & Politics\, and Democratization\, as well as media outlets such as The Nation\, Foreign Policy\, Jewish Currents\, Financial Times\, and more. El Kurd is a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington\, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as the Board of Directors of Jewish Currents.  \n\n\n\nAlexei Abrahams is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha\, Qatar. His research examines information manipulation and cybersecurity using big data and social science methods\, with a current focus on designing digital observatories to assess the health of media ecosystems. His work has appeared in journals including Journal of Information Technology & Politics\, Political Science Research & Methods\, and International Journal of Communication\, and has informed reporting in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, Reuters\, and CBC News.Previously\, he served as Digital Lead for the Canadian Media Ecosystems Observatory at McGill University and held research fellowships at Harvard\, the University of Toronto\, Princeton University\, and UC San Diego. He earned his PhD in Economics from Brown University and frequently consults for the World Bank. \n\n\n\nYasmeen Mekawy is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago\, specializing in the comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Her research and teaching focus on social movements and revolution\, digital media and popular culture\, and the politics of emotion. She examines how emotions mobilize and demobilize collective action\, and how affect circulates through social media and cultural forms. Her work has been published in Mediterranean Politics. She is currently working on her book project on the role of affect and emotion in the making and unmaking of Egypt’s 2011 revolution. affect circulates through social media and cultural forms. Her work has been published in Mediterranean Politics. She is currently working on her book project on the role of affect and emotion in the making and unmaking of Egypt’s 2011 revolution. \n\n\n\nAbdullah Al-Arian is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar wherehe specializes in the modern Middle East and the study of Islamic social movements. He is theauthor of Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt\, editor of Football inthe Middle East: State\, Society\, and the Beautiful Game and co-editor of the forthcoming GlobalHistories and Practices of Islamophobia. He is also editor of the Critical Currents in Islam pageon the Jadaliyya e-zine.
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cirs-monthly-dialogue-what-arab-authoritarianism-tells-us-about-the-world/
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SUMMARY:CIRS Book Talk: Halfway to Freedom: The Struggles and Strivings of African American in Washington\, DC by Maurice Jackson
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Professor Maurice Jackson \n\nThe book\, set to be published next year\, traces the struggles of African Americans for equality and human rights from 1780 to 2020. Through the history of Washington DC\, it shows how Black lived experiences\, political mobilization\, and resistance mirror broader national struggles. By centering the city as both a symbolic and material site of power\, the book tells the history of the United States through Black Washingtonians. \n\n\nMaurice Jackson  teaches in the History and African American Studies  Departments and is Affiliated Professor of Music (Jazz) at Georgetown University. Before coming to academe\, he worked as a longshoreman\, shipyard rigger\, construction worker and community organizer. He  is author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet\, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism\, co-editor of African-Americans and the Haitian Revolution\, of Quakers and their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause\,1754-1808 and DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington\, DC. Jackson wrote the liner notes to the 2 jazz CDs by Charlie Haden and Hank Jones\, Steal Away: Spirituals\, Folks Songs and Hymns and Come Sunday. He has recently lectured in France\, Turkey\, Italy\, Puerto Rico\, and Qatar. He served on  Georgetown University Slavery Working Group. A 2009 inductee into the Washington\, D.C. Hall of Fame he was appointed by the Mayor and the DC Council as Inaugural Chair of the DC Commission on African American Affairs (2013-16) and presented “An Analysis: African American Employment\, Population & Housing Trends in Washington\, D.C.” to the Mayor and elected leaders of the D.C. government in 2017. He is completing work on Halfway to Freedom: The Struggles and Strivings of African American in Washington\, DC to be published by Duke University Press. His next books will be We Knew No Other Way: The Many-Sided Struggle for Freedom and  Black Radicalism: A Very Short Introduction.
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cirs-book-talk-halfway-to-freedom-the-struggles-and-strivings-of-african-american-in-washington-dc-by-maurice-jackson/
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SUMMARY:(Re)Collecting Sudan: Art and Culture Archives Workshop II
DESCRIPTION:On September 21\, 2025\, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) hosted its second workshop for the “(Re)Collecting Sudan: Art and Culture Archives” research initiative. ​This workshop served as a platform for project contributors to engage in detailed discussions and receive constructive feedback on their submitted papers.  \n\nTo ensure a thorough review process and provide robust feedback for all submissions\, the workshop was organized into five thematically focused sessions. These sessions included Historical Archives\, Digital Archives\, Art Archives\, Lyrical Archives\, and Archives of Exile. This strategic segmentation allowed for in-depth engagement with each paper\, ensuring that discussions were contextualized within their specific scholarly domains and fostering specialized insights. \n\nThe “Historical Archives” section initiated the discussions\, featuring two prominent papers. Eiman Hussein\, Talal Afifi\, and Erica Carter’s paper “Experiencing Hussein Shariffe: Encounters with the Archives—A Collective Auto-Ethnography\,” offered a unique\, shared exploration of historical interactions. This was followed by Ahmad Sikainga’s “The Archives of Leisure and Popular Culture in Colonial and Post-Colonial Khartoum\,” which meticulously examined the cultural nuances preserved within these historical records. \n\nTransitioning to contemporary approaches\, the “Digital Archives” session showcased three insightful papers. Amna Elidrissy\, Zainab Gaafar\, and Helen Mallinson co-authored “Live Museums: An Ecosystem for Safeguarding Heritage\,” highlighting innovative digital platforms for cultural preservation. Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann and Aya Hassan then explored modern archiving in “Instagram as Archive: Sudanese Artists and Political Memory\,” demonstrating the role of social media in capturing historical narratives. The session concluded with Marilyn Deegan\, Wahbi Abdalfattah Abdalrahman\, and Locale’s “Sudan Memory: Building and Narrating the Digital Archive\,” detailing efforts in constructing comprehensive digital repositories. \n\nFurther expanding the scope\, the “Art Archives” session addressed the intersection of art and historical documentation through two compelling papers. Reem Aljeally and Katarzyna Grabska’s “Accidental Archiving? Questioning Curation and Research as Forms of Archiving in the Midst of Political Violence and War in Sudan” critically examined spontaneous archiving practices during conflict. Rahiem Shadad then presented “What Can We Learn from Sudan’s Collective Image-Making History?” emphasizing the value of visual cultural heritage.  \n\nThe “Lyrical Archives” session highlighted the power of oral and poetic traditions\, featuring Qutouf Elobaid’s “Songs of the Barracks: Sudanese Poetic Archives of the 2018 December Revolution\,” and Ruba El Melik and Reem Abbas’s “Women Archiving Sudan: How Women Use Fashion\, Songs\, and Poetry to Preserve History\,” both illustrating the profound role of lyrical expression in documenting historical events.  \n\nThe workshop concluded with the “Archives of Exile” session\, which explored the preservation of cultural memory in diaspora. Bentley Brown’s paper\, “Despite the Distance Between Us: Attempts to Preserve Cultural Memory through Filmmaking-in-Exile\,” showcased cinematic endeavors to bridge geographical divides. Finally\, Anna Reumert’s “An Archive of Exile: Sudanese Migrant Labor and Political Solidarity in Lebanon” shed light on the archival significance of migrant experiences and collective action. \n\nThe final revised drafts will be collected by CIRS with an aim of publishing either an edited volume or a special issue of a journal in the future. \n\n\nTo view the working group agenda\, click here\n\n\n\nRead more about this research initiative\n\n\nParticipants and Discussants:  \n\n\nWahbi Abdulrahman\, Nile Valley University\, Sudan\n\n\n\nRund Alarabi\, The Städelschule (Hochschule für Bildende Künste)\, Germany\n\n\n\nMuez Ali\, Earthna: Center for a Sustainable Future at Qatar Foundation\n\n\n\nReem Aljeally\, The Muse Multi Studios\n\n\n\nZahra Babar\, CIRS\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nMisba Bhatti\, CIRS\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nBentley Brown\, American University of Sharjah\n\n\n\nErica Carter\, King’s College\n\n\n\nMarilyn Deegan\, King’s College\n\n\n\nAmna Elidrissy\, Safeguarding Sudan’s Living Heritage (SSLH)\n\n\n\nRuba El Melik\, Independent Researcher\n\n\n\nQutouf Elobaid\, Locale\n\n\n\nNafisa Eltahir\, Locale\n\n\n\nLarissa-Diana Fuhrmann\, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt\n\n\n\nKatarzyna Grabska\, University of Geneva\n\n\n\nSuha Hasan\, Mawane\n\n\n\nAya Hassan\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nNoor Hussain\, CIRS\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nEiman Hussein\, King’s College\n\n\n\nAla Kheir\, Independent Researcher\n\n\n\nHelen Mallinson\, Safeguarding Sudan’s Living Heritage (SSLH)\n\n\n\nSuzi Mirgani\, CIRS\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nAnna Simone Ruemert\, The New School\, US\n\n\n\nRahiem Shadad\, Downtown Gallery\n\n\n\nAala Sharfi\, Locale\n\n\n\nOmnia Shawkat\, Andariya\n\n\n\nHaneen Sidhahmed\, Sudan Tapes Archive\n\n\n\nAhmad Sikainga\, Ohio State University\n\n\n\nSabreen Taha\, CIRS\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\nArticle by CIRS Research Analyst Misba Bhatti
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/recollecting-sudan-art-and-culture-archives-workshop-ii/
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