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Mehran Kamrava, director of the center for international and regional studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, on fraying GCC ties after the visit of President Trump to Saudi Arabia. 

CIRS Georgetown University in Qatar Associate Director for Research Zahra Babar moderated Qatar Professional Women’s Network panel on gender equality and women empowerment. The panel included three distinguished speakers Dr…

CIRS Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on religion and the environment has been translated into Turkish and was recently published by the Journal of Conservative Thought.

Abdullah Al Arian, a CIRS faculty fellow, shared details of his new book, tentatively titled Brothers Behind Borders: Islamism and Nationalism in the Middle East, which focuses on the historical…

Inside the Islamic Republic is a CIRS book by Mahmood Monshipouri. It was featured by the prestigious Times Literary Supplement (TLS) as one of six recent published books on Iran which “assess the different cultural,…

CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava talked about to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) on Trump’s foreign Policy options in Syria.  

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Editor’s Picks included CIRS upcoming book Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC edited by Zahra Babar.

Read more at World Politics Review In a recent interview, Zahra Babar, director of research at CIRS, discussed whether labor reforms in the UAE will improve life for migrant domestic…

In a speech at the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mehran Kamrava appreciated the important role played by Algeria in solving conflicts on both regional and international level. Read more at…