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SUMMARY:Football in the Middle East Working Group II
DESCRIPTION:Between April 6 and 13 2020\, the Center for International and Regional Studies held the second working group for its research initiative on “Football in the Middle East.” In light of the rapidly changing restrictions imposed on international travel as well as to maintain social distancing measures\, this working group was held “virtually”. Paper contributors made use of available technological options to meet\, present and comment on each of the paper submissions. The Working Group welcome and wrap up brought the scholars together for live interaction via Zoom conferencing\, and these group sessions were complemented by asynchronous interaction through prerecorded video discussions using Blackboard. This dual approach enabled CIRS to adapt to the current global situation and ensure the continuation of its research activities and engagement with the academic community. \n\nThe presentations and papers discussed are as follow\, \n\nPlaying in the triple periphery: Exclusionary policies towards Palestinian football in Lebanon- Danyel Reiche \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nGCC Football Fans and Their Engagement: Establishing a Research Agenda – Simon Chadwick \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nEducation in sports administration from scratch: the case of Qatar – John McManus \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWho Kisses the Badge? The Player’s Perspective in the Performance of National Identity in the Qatar National Team – Thomas Ross Griffin \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nRefugees and Football in the Global and Middle East Context – Ramón Spaaij \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nBeyond Soft Power: Football as a Form of Regime Legitimation – Abdullah Al-Arian \n\n\n\n\n\nThe National Game: A Political Prehistory of the Egyptian League – Ibrahim Elhoudaiby \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWomen’s football in Turkey: Trivial\, threatening and ultimately unequal – Yagmur Nuhrat \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nA Study of Football Art as Political Expression in the Algerian Hirak – Maher Mezahi \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThis CIRS project is an attempt to engage and produce new literature on an understudied area in the Middle East by engaging scholars and experts from multiple disciplines\, including political science\, anthropology\, business\, and journalism among others. After final revisions based on peer comments and suggestions\, CIRS will gather the final chapter submissions into an edited volume on Football in the Middle East to be published by a university press. \n\nRead more about this research initiative\n\nParticipants and Discussants:  \n\nShaza Afifi\, Georgetown University in QatarZahra Babar\, CIRS – Georgetown University in QatarMisba Bhatti\, CIRS – Georgetown University in QatarSimon Chadwick\, emlyon Business School\, FranceIbrahim Elhoudaiby\, Columbia UniversityThomas Griffin\, Qatar UniversitySalma Hassabou\, Georgetown University in QatarMehran Kamrava\, CIRS – Georgetown University in QatarJohn McManus\, Qatar UniversityMaher Mezahi\, Independent Football Journalist\, Algeria Suzi Mirgani\, CIRS – Georgetown University in QatarYagmur Nuhrat\, Istanbul Bilgi University\, TurkeyDanyel Reiche\, American University of BeirutRamon Spaaji\, Victoria University\, Australia Jackie Starbird\, CIRS – Georgetown University in QatarElizabeth Wanucha\, CIRS – Georgetown University in Qatar\n\nArticle by Misba Bhatti\, Research Analyst at CIRS
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/football-middle-east-working-group-ii/
CATEGORIES:Focused Discussions,Regional Studies
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SUMMARY:Sonic Connections and Diasporic Belonging: Malayalam Radio in Qatar
DESCRIPTION:Irene Promodh\, a Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) junior majoring in International Politics and a CURA Research Fellow\, presented her research titled\, “FM Radio and the Malayali Diaspora in Qatar: At Home Overseas” in a virtual CURA Focused Discussion on Tuesday\, April 14\, 2020. Promodh undertook this research project as part of the Certificate in Media and Politics (CMAP) program\, which is offered jointly by GU-Q and Northwestern University in Qatar. She used a mixed-methods approach in conducting her research\, deploying both semi-structured interviews with radio producers and listeners and media content analyses of the radio content broadcast itself. As such\, “Malayalis” or speakers of the Malayalam language (the official language of Kerala\, a state in South India) form the demographic focus of her research along the axes of gender\, class\, occupation\, and family status. \n\nPromodh traces the ways in which diasporic vernacular radio mediates the everyday lives of Malayali migrants in Qatar across both home and workspaces\, particularly for single\, lower-income\, male\, and female migrants. In Qatar\, she deploys Radio Yatra FM [pseudonym used] as a case study in her project to examine the role of migrant radio along both radio production and listenership lines and its salience in the everyday work lives of Malayalis in Qatar. Promodh finds that Malayali radio audiences negotiate their “Malayali-ness\,” or the ways of being Malayali\, along gendered and socioeconomic lines through their engagement with diasporic vernacular radio. Paying attention to sonic waves and networks that bind together radio stations and audiences in Qatar across work and home spaces\, she argues that diasporic vernacular radio both reinforces and challenges notions of “Malayali-ness” both within the Gulf Malayali community (bandham) and in non-Malayali urban workspaces in Qatar. Highly affordable and accessible\, Promodh argues that radio uses migrant sabdam or “sound” to create and recreate spaces of sonic belonging\, territorializing Malayalis’ workspaces along ethnolinguistic and exclusionary lines. She premises her findings\, such as the one above\, on her interview data with individuals ranging from Malayali beauticians at small salons and limousine drivers to library staff and\, of course\, radio station staff themselves. \n\nEngaging with the scholarly works of Laith Ulaby\, Neha Vora\, and Fahad Bishara\, among others\, Promodh explores the cultural production histories of the western Indian Ocean and the formation of the Arabi-Malayalam language. She examines through ethnographic methods how the current socio-political realities that Malayalis in Qatar face transfigure Malayalam as a “migrant language” and its usage\, which is regulated in the public sphere. Promodh observes the musical traditions associated with pearl-diving and shipbuilding\, as well as other cross-cultural exchanges between India’s southwestern coast and the Persian Gulf\, to explore the long-standing relationships between the two regions. While language in the past represented interconnectedness Promodh argues that today\, “language is an exclusionary medium in the creation of non-physical space or\, in effect\, “soundscapes\,” even along citizen-migrant lines\, situating just the native speaker within.” \n\n“Radio is central to diasporic Malayalis in Qatar as it creates a space of sonic belonging for them within the community.” \n\nPromodh explores the interaction between the Malayali diasporic community and Radio Yatra\, a prominent radio station in Qatar. She details how the 2017 Qatar Blockade transformed the diasporic radio scene in Qatar\, bringing Radio Yatra to the forefront of the radio scene. Through her case study of this radio station\, Promodh dictates the cross-sections between politics and media narratives which exist in trying to cater to the Malayali audience in Qatar. She argues that Radio Yatra is “central to diasporic Malayali life [because it creates a] sonic belonging . . . within the Malayali community.” She quotes Neha Vora\, an anthropologist\, to suggest that the Malayalis in Qatar experience a “state of permanent temporariness.”[1] The final segment of her presentation reiterates the gendered dynamics at play between radio jockeys and their audiences\, as well as between the female jockeys themselves and their male managers. Through her interviews\, she examines the professional realities of female radio jockeys\, their workplace hierarchies\, and their relationship with their male superiors. Promodh also explores the politics of the “ideal” Malayali family construct and how female Malayali radio jockeys construct and redefine their perceptions of womanhood and diasporic belonging according to norms associated with Malayali femininity and family life in the Kerala context. \n\nIn all\, Promodh’s research deconstructs and demonstrates the symbolism of diasporic vernacular radio in the lives of Malayalis living in Qatar. Promodh concludes that Malayalis in Qatar experience “home away from the Kerala homeland via diasporic vernacular radio.” The radio\, which may be perceived as an ordinary infotainment medium\, accentuates the blurred nature of “work-leisure” boundaries and its profound role in the lives of the Malayali diaspora in Qatar. Through her empirical observations and findings\, Promodh steers towards a refreshing narrative of migrant life in the Gulf beyond parochialisms of migrants as purely “labor.” \n\n[1] Vora\, Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora\, 3.\n\n_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \n\nIrene Promodh is a junior at GU-Q majoring in International Politics and is originally from South India. She works as a CURA Research Fellow and assists CIRS Director\, Professor Mehran Kamrava\, and Associate Director for Research Zahra Babar with their research centered on the region\, while also working to advance the newly established CURA program. Her personal interests are rooted strongly in researching the dynamics of the media in influencing labor migration trends from South Asia to the Gulf\, and she hopes to pursue further research in this field. \n\n  \n\nArticle by Khushboo Shah\, CURA Administrative Fellow
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/sonic-connections-and-diasporic-belonging-malayalam-radio-qatar/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Regional Studies,Student Engagement
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SUMMARY:CURA Spotlight on Undergraduate Publishing
DESCRIPTION:On April 23\, 2020\, CIRS hosted an online CURA workshop titled\, “CURA Spotlight on Undergraduate Publishing\,” featuring presentations by Suzi Mirgani\, Assistant Director for CIRS Publications\, Jackie Starbird\, CIRS Publications and Projects Assistant\, and Chaïmaa Benkermi\, CIRS Publications Fellow. The workshop was centered around supporting undergraduate research and publishing\, with a focus on the path towards academic publishing\, its benefits\, as well as its difficulties. Overall\, the workshop aimed at offering interested students useful resources and information to promote more undergraduate research and publication. \n \n \nSuzi Mirgani led the workshop by sharing her professional experience and advice on research and publishing. Additionally\, the workshop actively engaged participants to share their ideas\, questions\, and concerns. She recommended various venues in which to publish\, including peer-reviewed academic journals\, and advised against engaging with vanity presses or those that demand a fee to publish. She encouraged students to practice their academic writing skills by regularly writing and submitting book reviews to academic journals\, which are relatively short in length and can be smartly integrated into a student’s regular university reading and writing workload. Mirgani shared her experience\, both as an author and as an editor\, regarding the peer-review process\, which she acknowledged to be an exhausting\, but worthy process that becomes easier with practice. Over time\, students learn scholarly writing requirements and the best ways to execute them. Mirgani emphasized the importance of keeping an open mind when it comes to reviewer criticism as well as patience regarding the often-lengthy process. She also stressed the importance of understanding the power relation between author and publisher when entering the publication field. Moreover\, Mirgani engaged students by questioning their research interests and current projects and received questions on how to transform a class paper to a ready-to-be-published submission and how to avoid biased writing. \n \n \nJackie Starbird expanded the discussion and included examples of publishing sites\, offering platforms such as the CURA Paper Series to gain valuable experience in the review and publishing processes. She also gave examples of undergraduate research journals and explained the selection criteria for submissions and requirements for publishing such as word count\, formatting\, and recommendation letters. Starbird concluded with helpful tips on writing and publishing\, including using resources offered by CIRS’s CURA program and GU-Q\, such as seeking out professors for advice and mentorship and setting goals like presenting a paper at a conference. \n \n \nChaïmaa Benkermi\, Annual Undergraduate Research Conference (AURC) President\, followed with an introduction of  AURC as a way to voice\, present\, and publish original research for undergraduate students. This year’s conference theme was “The Road to Peace: Challenges and Opportunities for Peacebuilding.” She explained the process of application and review but also encouraged students to be part of the AURC team. \n \n \nThe workshop concluded with helpful tips on writing and publishing including using resources offered by CIRS and GU-Q\, such as seeking out professors for advice and mentorship and setting goals like presenting a paper at a conference. Overall\, this workshop aimed at offering interested students useful resources and information to promote more undergraduate research and publication. \n \n \nArticle by Salma Hassabou\, CURA Administration Fellow \n \n \n 
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-spotlight-undergraduate-publishing/
CATEGORIES:Student Engagement
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