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SUMMARY:CURA Seminar: Football in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:On March 19\, 2020\, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) held a CURA seminar under its Undergraduate Research Advancement program. This is an opportunity for CURA Fellows to discuss new articles from scholars who have submitted to CIRS’s regional research initiative on “Football in the Middle East.” In observing local regulations for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19\, the seminar was hosted online through Zoom. Two papers were critiqued\, and feedback from the CURA Fellows was gathered to later share with the research working group.  \n \n \nKhushboo Shah (class of 2022) opened the seminar by presenting Danyel Reiche’s paper “Playing in the triple periphery: Exclusionary policies towards Palestinian football in Lebanon.” The paper explores the development of policy toward Palestinian football players in Lebanon through a chronological survey of policies and interviews with scholars and players. The author describes a gradual restriction of Palestinian football players through a series of quotas and fees imposed to restrict their number. Through a comparative perspective\, Reiche emphasizes the relative lack of opportunities and flexibility Palestinian players have in Lebanon compared to those in Israel and Jordan. \n \n \nChaïmaa Benkermi (class of 2021) led the second half of the seminar by presenting Thomas Ross Griffin’s “Who Kisses the Badge? The Player’s Perspective in the Performance of National Identity in the Qatar National Team.” Griffin uses literary and social media analysis to understand the performance of nationalism of players in the Qatari National Football team. The author divides the players into three categories: those who were born Qatari (jus sanguinis)\, non-Qataris born in Qatar (jus soli)\, and naturalized players from Europe and North Africa (jus talenti). Griffin argues that players from all three groups express Qatari nationalism in similar ways despite their different origins\, particularly in their embrace of the image of the Emir and the anthem Shoomila Shoomila. \n \n \nFollowing the presentations\, CURA fellow engaged in an in-depth discussion about the structure\, theoretical framework\, sources\, and clarity and strength of each paper. While analyzing the papers’ significance to the current scholarship of Football in the Middle East\, CURA fellows use the research and analytical skills they learn on the job and through various CURA activities to contribute to their assessments.  \n \n \nFollowing the seminar\, Salma Hassabou (class of 2022) and Shaza Afifi (class of 2022) will serve as ambassadors to present the comments to the working group on “Football in the Middle East\,” which will be held on a virtual platform in early April. \n \n \n\nFor the participants’ biographies\, please click here\n\n \nArticle by Ngoc Nguyen\, CURA Research Fellow
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-seminar-football-middle-east/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Regional Studies,Student Engagement
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SUMMARY:CURA Paper Series Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, 2020\, CIRS held the CURA Paper Series Seminar with a presentation by Adithi Sanjay\, a GU-Q junior majoring in International Politics\, and the winner of the Spring 2020 CURA Paper Series Competition. The CURA program launched the competition under its paper series initiative\, which allows selected research papers to be published after editorial review\, feedback\, and revisions. Sanjay’s paper\, titled “The Creation and Mobilization of Anti-China Sentiment by Interest Groups in Indian Society (2012-2018)\,” was chosen as the winner of the competition from a competitive pool of submitted papers. \n \n \nThe winner of the competition had the opportunity to work with CIRS staff to elevate her research work with the goal of being published by the end of the semester. The seminar was organized to provide the student with professional development experience through presenting the paper to GU-Q peers and receiving their feedback. Due to COVID-19 related restrictions and to accommodate participants from various countries\, Sanjay presented her research on anti-China sentiment in India via a Zoom meeting\, which was attended by CURA fellows and CIRS staff.   \n \n \nSanjay’s research methodology allowed for a micro-level analysis of the contemporary mobilization of anti-China protests in India. Using a global news monitoring and aggregation database that sourced more than 30\,000 newspaper articles\, she was able to compile a unique dataset cataloging anti-China protests on a state and regional level in India. The research scope covered anti-China protests from 2012 to 2018\, a period spanning the incumbency of two Indian prime ministers as well as two military confrontations at the Sino-Indian border. Sanjay emphasized that anti-China sentiment in India has significant “implications for the level of [Sino-Indian] cooperation on economic\, sociocultural\, and political bases.” Her analysis focused on the six major drivers of anti-China sentiment that emerged as recurring themes across various anti-Chinese protest events: border tensions\, economic tensions\, religious tensions\, historical and current oppression of Tibetans\, Chinese support for Pakistan\, and Chinese ministers’ visits to India. \n \n \nSanjay stated that “given the sheer size of the Indian population\, [the] generalization of anti-China sentiment on a national level is problematic in that it glosses over the nuances of the issues driving public opinion of China in India\,” As such\, her research fills the gap in the preexisting literature on perceptions of China in India by analyzing the creation and mobilization of anti-China sentiment by three broad categories of stakeholders: non-political civil society organizations\, political parties\, and their affiliates\, and the Indian central government.  \n \n \nThe seminar began with the presenter’s remarks on the results and findings of her research and was followed by the question and answer portion that allowed for a fruitful discussion with every participant offering input. Sanjay shared that a limitation of her methodology is media bias\, given that “small-size protests are not reported [in regional and national-level newspapers] and therefore considered ‘non-existent.’” As such\, Sanjay suggested that data triangulation would enhance her research\, as it would allow for the incorporation of ethnographic sources with her existing analysis of news reports. Sanjay concluded\, “I enjoyed this experience\, and I am grateful for all of your suggestions to improve on my paper and get it ready for publication.”  \n \n \nSanjay’s winning paper will be published by CIRS in June 2020 and will be the inaugural paper published under the CURA Paper Series.  \n \n \n\nFor the participants’ biographies\, please click here\n\n \n  \n \n \nArticle by J.I\, CURA Research Fellow
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-paper-series-seminar/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Student Engagement
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SUMMARY:Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia Working Group I
DESCRIPTION:On August 8 and 9\, 2022\, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) organized the first research meeting under its initiative on Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia. The meeting was held as a virtual event\, with scholars participating from various geographical locations. The meeting aimed to discuss the submitted abstract proposals\, which were solicited through a Call for Papers and submissions by invited scholars. The convened academics and experts from various multi-disciplinary backgrounds discussed issues related to global Islamophobia beyond the question of war on terror and fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims post 9/11.The conversation was initiated by Anne Norton\, who argued that despite Western political thought relying  upon Muslim philosophy\, it was often figured only as an allusive erasure in portrayals of the canonical.  The palimpsest formed by this layering of influences and erasures conceals and reveals the place of Muslim thought\, philosophical and religious\, in Western religion and philosophy. The objective of the paper will work to articulate the constitutive effects of this palimpsest. Along with the sequestration of Muslim thought in politics and philosophy\, the paper will show how the West bounded and confined aspects of its own intellectual inquiries.  Norton will diagnose the effects of an  Enlightenment settlement that foreclosed both a full engagement with thinking about the divine in the West.Salman Sayyid shifted the discussion to the question of the emergence of the Islamophobic State. He argued that there was a need to broaden the geography and deepen the history to understand Islamophobia. The term is often understood as a problem that applies to Muslim minorities but not to Muslim majority states. The emergence of an Islamophobic state\, which is a specific form of state\, has a distinct ensemble of institutions and administrative processes and covers an astonishing range of political forms. The Islamophobic State not only targets expressions of Muslimness but in its efforts to discipline the Muslims\, builds up an internationally sanctioned system of surveillance and restriction\, which can be easily applied to other social actors. The paper will aim to explain this emergence of the Islamophobic State as a project to rewrite social contracts and transform relations between the ruled and the rulers. The question of self-determination in relation to Islamophobia in Indian-Occupied Kashmir was raised by Hafsa Kanjwal. She stated that the development of Islamophobia in India is a combined result of both secular-liberal and Hindutva ideologies. While secularism is used in India to forcibly depoliticize Muslim identity\, Hindutva views Muslims as being subservient to the Hindu identity of the nation. Using the example of Occupied Kashmir\, the paper will look at how the relevance of Islam is dismissed as a category for the modern state and how the state attempts to subvert Muslim agency and self-determination. The main argument made was that the essential character of Indian nationalism is Islamophobic\, which not only erases Muslim markers in public sites and normalizes violence and bigotry toward Muslims\, but also views the Muslim demand for sovereignty or self-determination with suspicion and as a rejection of the liberal secular nation-state order.Shereen Fernandez then directed the conversion to examine the sea as a site for practices of Islamophobia. She argued that there is a gap in the literature that neglects to examine how the sea has been used as a space to practice Islamophobia. To fill this gap\, her paper will look at the historical practices of transporting Muslim prisoners\, by the British in the 1850s\, to a penal colony in the Andaman Islands on a ship and study their experiences as colonial convicts. The latter part of the paper will link this history to the Islamophobia experienced by detainees at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) during the War on Terror post 9/11. With this contribution\, Fernandez aims to explore the centrality of the sea as a site which perpetuates the spatialization of Islamophobia as exemplified in the treatment of Muslim prisoners.Oli Charbonneau’s discussion examined the role of Islam and manifestations of Islamophobia in the Colonial Philippines from 1899 to the 1920s. He argued that prejudicial thinking about Muslims in the region is the result of several discourses. These resulted in systematic control over the Muslim population via militarized violence and cultural-political overhaul. Charbonneau’s paper will aim to study the archival materials from U.S. foreign relations\, Philippine Studies; and Islamic Southeast Asian Studies to illustrate the contemporary American ideas about and actions towards Islamic societies. Using Southern Philippines as a case study Charbonneau will also aim to present Islamophobia in Southeast Asia as a set of beliefs rather than a uniform practice.Valentin Duquet led the discussion on Islamophobia in “Algerianist” settler colonial literature which came out in the first half of the 1900s. During this era\, Algeria was a region of the French Republic. Analyzing three “pied-noir” novels of the Interwar period as historical archives\, his paper will examine the representation of the Muslim native\, which Duquet explains is key to understanding Islamophobia under French colonialism as well as its brutal unwinding a few decades later. In these novels\, the Muslim figures are often relegated to the background\, erased\, or replaced with “Berber” characters which are often Christian\, pagan\, or vaguely Mediterranean. This erasure\, he argues\, is symptomatic of the symbolic violence of French assimilation which denied even the name “Algerian” from Maghrebi Muslims.Ali Alsmadi discussed the role of Spanish Islam and highlighted the treatment of the Moriscos’ literature in the scholarship. Alsmadi argued that Islam is viewed by the orientalist scholars as an imported religion and not part of indigenous Spanish culture and heritage. In his paper\, Alsmadi will shed light on the current political denial to recognize the Moriscos’ language and literature which is deeply rooted in past practices. His analysis will demonstrate how the 19th and 20th-century scholarship and its understanding of the Moriscos were biased and show literary and cultural linkages between Morisco literature and contemporary Spanish authors that reflect cross-religious influences that are unique to the Iberian Peninsula.First Oruc then shifted the focus of the discussion to Islamophobia in Turkey and the fear of Islam in the Turkish Republican era. Oruc narrated that after the demise of the Ottoman Empire\, the Kemalist founding elites and the Turkish intelligentsia claimed Islam to be a “spiritual malaise” from which the Turkish nation had to recover. Their concept of modern Turkey envisioned the adoption of Westernizing state nationalism. The Ottoman era was viewed as the repression of the Turk and Turkish cultural values\, with Islam seen as the main threat to Turkey’s emergence as a modern republic state. Through examining Turkish cultural and literary texts Oruc aims to explore the historical manifestation of fear of Islam and its aftermaths in Turkey and also examine how some of the similar paradigms of Islamophobia may reoccur in other Muslim majority societies.Thomas Simsarian Dolan addressed the question of “Arab Money” and Global capitalism. Dolan argued that in the selective economic discourse\, Muslims are seen as non-normative economic actors. This form of Islamophobia\, Dolan stated\, builds on Orientalist theory that deepened during the Cold War\, and labels Muslims as a security threat to the Western financial system in need of economic and political discipline. Adding to the existing work of scholars such as Deepa Kumar\, Moustafa Bayoumi\, and Mahmood Mamdani\, Dolan and his co-author Zaynab Quadri aim to explore this strand of Islamophobia by tracing the transnational political economies in which both the flow of global capital and people are simultaneously curtailed. \n\nMuneeza Rizvi highlighted contestations over the Palestinian struggle being characterized as an “Islamic issue.” She focused on voices that\, on one hand\, are critical of the orientalist accounts that portray the creation of Israel as a feud between Muslims and Jews\, and on the other\, suggest that the designation “Islamic” necessarily excludes other analytical framings of the issue\, such as settler colonialism. Rizvi argued that secular assumptions about politics and religion structure these colloquial debates\, as well as parallel academic trajectories within Middle East Studies.Farid Hafez directed the discussion toward the geopolitics of Islamophobia and stated that the notion of political Islam has been used by centrist governments in Europe to exclude Muslims from the public sphere\, silence critical voices\, and crack down on Muslim communities. This discourse is an extension of the narrative on countering extremism and the global war on terror. Hafez aims to study how attempts to silence Muslims transcends beyond the West. Using a geopolitical lens\, he will look into UAE’s attempts to shape the discourse on domesticating Muslims in Europe and US and into pro-Israeli interest in cracking down on Muslim political agency in the West. He will try to draw linkages and differences between these practices and Islamophobia in Europe.Abdullah Arian shared Sanober Umar’s thoughts on race-making and religion in colonial and post-colonial India. The participants were encouraged to deliberate over issues such as; prevailing colonial attitudes towards Islam in India\, the use of religion to differentiate between Hindus and Muslims as separate “races” and the viewing of Muslims as being dangerous and barbaric compared to Hindus who could be co-opted into the British colonial system.The participants will take the constructive feedback their abstracts received and begin writing draft papers\, which will be circulated among the group before the second working group meeting. At the subsequent meeting\, scholars will critique each other’s papers and provide in-depth commentary. \n\n\nTo view the working group agenda\, click here\n\n\n\nTo read the participants’ biographies\, click here\n\n\n\nRead more about this research initiative\n\n\nParticipants and Discussants:  \n\n\nAbdullah Al-Arian\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nAli Alsmadi\, Indiana University Bloomington\, US\n\n\n\nZahra Babar\, CIRS – Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nMisba Bhatti\, CIRS – Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nOli Charbonneau\, University of Glasgow\n\n\n\nThomas Simsarian Dolan\, American University in Cairo\n\n\n\nValentin Duquetis\, University of Texas at Austin\n\n\n\nShereen Fernandez\, London School of Economics and Political Science\n\n\n\nFarid Hafez\, Georgetown University\n\n\n\nHafsa Kanjwalis\, Lafayette College\n\n\n\nSuzi Mirgani\, CIRS – Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nAnne Norton\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n\n\nFirat Oruc\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nZaynab Quadri\, Ohio State University\n\n\n\nMuneeza Rizvi\, University of California\, Berkeley\n\n\n\nSalman Sayyid\, University of Leeds\n\n\n\nSanober Umar\, York University\n\n\n\nElizabeth Wanucha\, CIRS – Georgetown University Qatar\n\n\n\nKarine Walther\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\n\nClyde Wilcox\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n\n\nArticle by Misba Bhatti\, Research Analyst at CIRS
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/global-histories-and-practices-of-islamophobia-working-group-i/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:American Studies,Regional Studies
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SUMMARY:CURA Workshop: Writing Women into Wikipedia: Information Creation and Peer Review
DESCRIPTION:On August 11 and 18\, 2022\, CIRS hosted a two-part workshop for undergraduate students titled\, “Writing Women into Wikipedia: Information Creation and Peer Review.” The workshop was offered under the CIRS Undergraduate Research Advancement (CURA) Program\, and was co-led by GU-Q Faculty Professor Phoebe Musandu\, and Paschalia Terzi\, GU-Q Librarian. \n\n\nThis workshop taught me to create and edit the websites\, but also learn to respect other works as well by giving valuable and reasonable feedback while making the necessary edits/suggestions. Throughout this process\, I got to further develop my research skills\, especially when you need to find out an information about someone who is not well known in online platforms when you try researching in English. \n– Nafisa Sagdullaeva\, GU-Q Class of 2026\n\nOver the course of two days\, 15 Georgetown University in Qatar and Northwestern University in Qatar students learned about the information creation and peer review process using Wikipedia articles as a model. The workshop was adapted by Terzi from a recent project report published in the Journal of Information Literacy (Thomas\, Jones & Mattingly\, 2021). Professor Musandu opened the workshop with a presentation contextualizing the themes and goals of the workshop in the bigger picture of the bias that is presented in Wikipedia. Her presentation highlighted the importance of analyzing information sources to determine whose voices are represented\, and whose are being left out. \n\nWikipedia is an online encyclopedia that relies on a community of editors to create\, revise\, and remove articles from the website based on Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines. It is a common misperception that anyone can write or edit anything on Wikipedia at any time without oversight. While this is true to an extent\, what is often not known is that every article and edit is reviewed by experienced Wikipedia editors who will remove the edits or article itself if found to be outside of Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines. Information presented in Wikipedia articles should be from a neutral point of view\, verifiable\, and not original research. \n\nProfessor Musandu explained how bias enters into Wikipedia – evidenced not only in the authors and subjects of articles\, but also within the community of editors. Since Wikipedia’s guidelines require all information in articles to be verifiable\, only secondary sources may be used to source articles. Professor Musandu explained why this can be an issue – authors of secondary sources may insert their own biases into their work\, which is then replicated in the Wikipedia article. Secondary sources reflect the social norms\, mores\, and values that were evident at the time of writing\, thus perpetuating the biases through generations. \n\n\n\nI learnt how I can critically review the articles posted on Wikipedia\, and post my own and ultimately become a Wikipedian. \n– Zarrish Ahmed\, GU-Q Class of 2026\n\n\nIn this workshop\, students focused on the underrepresentation of women in the world of Wikipedia. Regarding the content of Wikipedia itself\, women are underrepresented in articles. Within articles themselves\, how women are represented is often very narrow and reduced to their role in relationship to a male\, or relegated to matters of social and purely feminine affairs\, advancing unhelpful stereotypes. For example\, in the Wikipedia article “Women in Qatar\,” the first sentence is “Women’s rights in Qatar are restricted by the country’s male guardianship law and influenced by the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam” (Wikipedia\, 2022). \n\nWomen are also underrepresented in the community of Wikipedia editors. In addition to the fewer number of women editors\, Shane-Simpson and Gillespie-Lynch (2017) suggest five reasons for the gender gap\, including the inclination of women to discuss more and edit content less\, perception and interaction with other editors\, and gender issues in quantity of leisure time available. This is why the workshop focused specifically on women and Wikipedia. It is the hope of the facilitators that students will choose to become Wikipedia editors themselves. \n\nAfter the presentation\, students worked in groups to write articles about Qatari women in the fields of politics\, science\, education\, art\, and business. During the second session on August 18\, the facilitators gave each group the article of another group in an anonymous manner to review in a peer review exercise. At the end of the two-part Workshop\, students had the opportunity to publish their articles and engage with the global community of Wikipedia editors on their biographical contributions. As Anupa Khanal\, GU-Q class of 2026 stated after the workshop\, “I would like to devote more time on writing articles on women who are unrepresented and also work on peer reviews.” \n\nWatch a video of the presentation by Professor Phoebe Musandu and Paschalia Terzi here. \n\n\n\n\n\nArticle by Elizabeth Wanucha\, CIRS Operations Manager
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cura-workshop-writing-women-into-wikipedia-information-creation-and-peer-review/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Student Engagement
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SUMMARY:Football in the Middle East: State\, Society\, and the Beautiful Game
DESCRIPTION:A tour d’horizon exploring how the world’s best-loved game is affecting people\, societies and governments across the region. \n\nFar and away the most popular sport in the world\, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies\, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup\, this region has been cast into the global footballing spotlight\, raising issues of geopolitical competition\, consumer culture and social justice. \n\nPanelists: Zahra Babar (Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar)\, Ross Griffin (Qatar University)\, Craig LaMay (Northwestern University in Qatar)\, and Danyel Reiche (Georgetown University in Qatar)  \n\nModerator: Abdullah Al-Arian (Georgetown University in Qatar) \n\nLocation: 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/football-in-the-middle-east-state-society-and-the-beautiful-game/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:Panels,Regional Studies
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SUMMARY:The World Cup and Women's Empowerment in Qatar
DESCRIPTION:In 2010\, Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Only two years later in 2012\, the first Qatari woman competed in the Olympic Games. This panel discussion will look at the impact of hosting the first World Cup in the Middle East on women’s participation in sports\, as well as their rights and lived experiences in the country. \n\nPanelists: Zarqa Parvez Abdullah (Georgetown University in Qatar)\, Afraa Al-Noaimi (Josoor Institute)\, Susan Dun (Northwestern University in Qatar) \n\nModerator: Danyel Reiche (Georgetown University in Qatar) \n\nLocation: CIRS Conference Room\, Georgetown University in Qatar
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/the-world-cup-and-womens-empowerment-in-qatar/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:FIFA World Cup Series,Panels,Regional Studies
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