The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) hosted a thought-provoking book talk with Professor Hasan Mahmud, author of Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home…
"The Anticipation Gap: South Asian Students in Georgia and the Intersecting Burdens of Discrimination and Aspiration" and “Echoes of Martial Law: Memory, Politics, and the Marcos Restoration in the Philippines”…
From October 30 to November 1, 2025, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GUQ) hosted a workshop under its research initiative, Sudan in…
Join us for the launch of the Migrant Stories from Qatar project website! This project brings together oral histories from migrant workers across Qatar, offering rare insight into their lived…
In the 1990's, the world began to see a massive growth in transnational traffic in images, ideologies and commodities, a process which popularized the term globalization. Today, almost four decades…
Speaker: Marlene Schäfers, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University On November 13, CIRS hosted a lunch talk in collaboration with the Critical Security Studies Hub at the Institute…
On November 16 and 17, 2025, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GUQ) held a brainstorming session under its research initiative Migration Studies…