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Since its establishment in 2007, Georgetown University in Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) has sponsored and supported major cross-disciplinary research initiatives focused on the Gulf, Middle East,…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar, comments on Saudi Arabia’s Dollar Diplomacy in Jordan. He notes, “Over the course of…

A new book authored by CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava explores the complex relationship dynamics in the Gulf. Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf examines the deep and pervasive origins of…

How Iran Can Check Trump Mehran Kamrava After a few fruitful years of proactive diplomacy, following the US pullout of the nuclear agreement Iranian foreign policy has reverted back to…

Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2018), edited by Osama Abi-Mershed, is a product of a group of researchers covering a wide range…

CIRS recently published a new book titled Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council, which offers a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary study about these evolving fields. The book highlights issues…

How digital transformations and enhanced connectivity are affecting Middle Eastern societies is the focus of a new book released by Georgetown University in Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar, comments on the impact of the GCC blockade on universities in Qatar and remarks…

Members of Center for International and Regional Studies traveled to attend the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) 51st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC from 18 to 21 November, 2017. Dr. Mehran Kamrava, director CIRS; Zahra Babar,…

On French Hypocrisy Mehran Kamrava   Over the last few months, France has taken the lead among European countries in pressing Iran on its ballistic missile program, calling on the…