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On November 2, 2019, Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), gave a talk titled “Emerging Trends in the Middle East” at the Fusion Center for Security…

Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), Mehran Kamrava, remarked that, “[the Gulf countries] are also interested, particularly UAE, in exploring nuclear…

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, Mehran Kamrava, said the nuclear deal was “all but dead,” despite…

Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, Mehran Kamrava, was quoted by InDepth News on the topic of NGO action on Persian Gulf tensions, as stated…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), gave a recent interview with Tehran Times, asserting that a “reduction of tensions in the Persian…

Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, Mehran Kamrava, in a recent interview with Tehran Times remarked that, “This latest attempt, to create a new military coalition,…

“The significance of this book for the current ongoing academic debates about the role of new communication technologies in facilitating democratization in authoritarian and repressive contexts is one of the…

Suzi Mirgani, Managing Editor at CIRS, delivered a paper at the 2019 Museums in Arabia conference titled “Enter through the Gift Shop: Constructing a Contemporary Qatari National Identity through Qatar…

As part of the CIRS research initiative on “Russia and the Middle East,” a delegation of CIRS scholars traveled to Moscow on April 28–May 2, 2019. Mehran Kamrava, Zahra Babar,…

On May 29, 2019, Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), gives a talk titled “The Changing Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Emerging Dynamics” at the Catholic…