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  • American Arts Festival Jazz Week

    American Arts Festival Jazz Week

    Doha Jazz Band The Doha Jazz Quintet, formed in 2003, is a collective of Qatar's ex-patriot jazz musicians. Many different musicians have come and gone through the 4 years since its inception, however the two main stays throughout this time have been Chris Coull (Trumpet) and John Petrie (Bass) who are currently joined by Richard Perks (Guitar), Fraser Dodd (Saxophone) and Adil Rhassan (Drums). The Doha Jazz quintet can be seen at the Ritz Carlton every Friday for brunch and at the fortnightly jazz evenings in Habanos cigar bar. 

  • Education and Change in the Arab World Conference

    Education and Change in Qatar and the Arab World

    This paper will present findings from a World Bank research paper. It examines (i) the case for education reform in MENA region, (ii) Learning from past education reforms in MENA and (iii) maximizing the benefits from education. 

  • Mehran Kamrava on the United States and Iran

    Mehran Kamrava on the United States and Iran

    On September 10, 2007, Dr. Mehran Kamrava, head of the Center for International and Regional Studies housed at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, spoke to an overflow crowd at the Diplomatic Club in Doha. He prefaced his talk, entitled “The United States and Iran: A Dangerous but Contained Conflict,” by noting the cloud of uncertainty…

  • Gary Wasserman on the 2008 US Presidential Elections

    Gary Wasserman on the 2008 US Presidential Elections

    On October 5th 2007, CIRS hosted a luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Doha in which Dr. Gary Wasserman discussed the 2008 presidential elections in the United States. Wasserman, who is professor of Government at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, spoke before a small audience of Doha-based diplomats and business…

  • America's Role in the World

    America’s Role in the World

    On October 23, 2007, the Center for International and Regional Studies and the Institute for the Study of Democracy hosted a private seminar of the working group members and prominent scholars and observers of US foreign policy from across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and East Asia. Beginning in the Fall of 2006, Georgetown University’s Institute for the…

  • America and the Middle East after the Bush Presidency: the View from the Outside

    America and the Middle East after the Bush Presidency: the View from the Outside

    On October 24, 2007, in conjunction with Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Democracy, CIRS hosted a conference involving key members of the America's Role in the World Working Group — including Co-Chairs Thomas Pickering (former US Ambassador to the UN) and Chester Crocker (former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs). A day earlier, on…

  • Amira Sonbol on Cairo Women of the Darb

    Amira Sonbol on Cairo Women of the Darb

    On October 30, 2007, CIRS hosted its inaugural Monthly Dialogue Series event with a presentation by Professor Amira Sonbol. Professor Sonbol discussed her research on Cairo women's lives with an audience of over fifty guests, who ranged from Education City students and faculty to ambassadors and other diplomats posted in Doha. In her portrayal of Cairo women of…

  • Environmental Degradation and Conservation: Challenges and Prospects

    Environmental Degradation and Conservation: Challenges and Prospects

    Experts from Education City and around the world came together on Monday, 12 November 2007, to discuss the environmental consequences of Qatar’s rapid industrialization. Panelists from each of the branch campuses at Education City took part in the discussion. The event was sponsored by the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and the Georgetown…

  • Patrick Laude on the Ambassadors of Inner Islam

    Patrick Laude on the Ambassadors of Inner Islam

    On November 28, 2007, forty invited guests gathered in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar Library to listen to Professor Patrick Laude speak about "The Ambassadors of Inner Islam and the Encounter of Religions."This lecture was part of CIRS's on-going Monthly Dialogue Series. Laude is Professor of French, a Sorbonne graduate and author of nine books,…

  • Sherene Seikaly on Palestinian Businessmen and the British Colonial State

    Sherene Seikaly on Palestinian Businessmen and the British Colonial State

    As part of the Monthly Dialogue Series, Dr. Sherene Seikaly, the 2007-2008 Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in Washington, DC, gave a lecture titled "A Public Good? Palestinian Businessmen and the British Colonial State 1939-1948." On December 10, 2007, Seikaly spoke to a local audience in Doha, where she defended the view…

  • Hany El Banna

    Hany El Banna and Azhari Gasim Ahmed

    Earlier in the day, the Working Group symposium was held at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. The symposium focused on institutions; relationships among public, private, and religiously inspired actors; financing issues; and other issues such as children, education, health, and gender.