Sir Tim Lankester on Britain’s Foreign Aid
Sir Tim Lankester, Chairman of the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Advisor on South East Asia to the consulting firm Oxford Analytica, delivered a…
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Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran Working Group I
On October 20–21, 2012, The Center for International and Regional Studies launched one of its new research initiatives for the 2012–2013 academic year, “Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran,” through a two…
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William Beeman Lectures on Iranian-Arabian Biculturalism
William O. Beeman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, delivered a…
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Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani on the Digital Generation
H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Qatar Telecom (Qtel), delivered a CIRS Distinguished Lecture on “Technology and the Digital Generation” on November…
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Causes and Consequences of Food Insecurity in the Middle East
In collaboration with partner organizations, Qatar’s National Food Security Program hosted the “International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands” in Doha on November 14th and 15th, 2012. National, regional,…
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CIRS and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Discuss Climate Change in the Arab World
Rabi Mohtar founded the Global Engineering Program at Purdue University where he was a Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering since 1996. His professional activities addressed the important issues of Water – Energy Food nexus and its inter-linkages; more specifically in developing and maintaining the environmental aspects of sustainable development.
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Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al Thani on Qatarization and Gender Quotas
Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al-Thani delivered a Monthly Dialogue lecture on the subject of “Women in Qatar: Quotas, Qualifications, and Qatarization” on December 4, 2012. Sheikha Al Thani is the chairperson and…
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Weak States in the Greater Middle East Working Group I
On December 8–9, 2012, CIRS convened its first Working Group meeting under the research initiative “Weak States in the Greater Middle East.” Participants employed a multi-disciplinary approach to critically analyze the…
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Politics and the Media in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East Working Group I
On January 5–6, 2013, CIRS held a working group meeting under the research initiative “Politics and the Media in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East.” Given the profound socio-political transitions within Arab…
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H.E. Kasit Piromya on Southeast Asia’s Role in Global Food Security
Former Foreign Minister of Thailand and career diplomat Kasit Piromya was the featured speaker for a CIRS Monthly Dialoguelecture on January 22, 2013. His Excellency Piromya’s talk, titled “Southeast Asia’s Role…
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Richard Schofield on Britain Territorializing when Decolonizing the Gulf
Richard Schofield, an expert on the study of historical territorial disputes, delivered a CIRS Monthly Dialogue lecture on “Territorializing when Decolonizing: Britain Tries to Square its Circles in the Gulf, 1968-1971” on…
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Ambassador Munir Ghannam Lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
H.E. Munir Ghannam, Ambassador of Palestine in Qatar, delivered a Focused Discussion lecture on February 13, 2013, on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Ambassador introduced the lecture by noting that…