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Zahra Babar, Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar interviewed by Hayden Vernon in Vice Sports on January 9, 2017.…

Zahra Babar, Associate Director for Research at CIRS, served as one of the organizers and participants of a conference titled “Migration in a Turbulent World,” which took place at the…

In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, argues that European countries are often considered hypocrites who lecture the…

Zahra Babar, Associate Director of Research at CIRS, along with Veronika Deffner from Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, and Aurel von Richthofen The Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, served as co-directors of the…

Many fields are explored when looking at Middle Eastern and North African politics, ranging from sectarian politics, tribal affairs and regional power struggles to the analysis of governing styles.Fragile Politics:…

In Mehran Kamrava’s powerful new book, The Impossibility of Palestine, he presents a penetrating and pessimistic overview of the prospects for a future Palestinian state. His thesis is simple: there is no…

Georgetown’s Mehran Kamrava believes Georgia is a vulnerable small state, surrounded by potential enemies and, as such, must follow a middle road between NATO and Russia. Read more from Parallax…

In a Global Times interview, Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar says, “The foreign policy team…