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On February 15, 2015, Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, discussed the state of contemporary Iranian politics at a recent luncheon for Doha-based ASEAN ambassadors hosted by the Singaporean Embassy. Kamrava highlighted…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, took part in a conference on the “Internationalization of Universities” at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Social Science, held on January 30, 2016. Kamrava examined the reasons…

TEHRAN – Mehran Kamrava, a professor of the Middle East Studies in Georgetown University of Doha, says officials at Riyadh are uneasy as the sanctions against Iran are being removed…

CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava recently published an article in Hamshahri Diplomatic, one of Iran’s main foreign policy journals titled “Decline of American Influence.” To read the complete article in Farsi, please click…

The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar’s flagship research institution, recently hosted a roundtable on Iran-GCC Dialogue. The day-long meeting brought together distinguished scholars and…

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) professor, Dr. Anatol Lieven, spoke to a packed on-campus audience in a lecture titled “Afghanistan: War Without End?” where he shared his observations as a…

Despite its small size and demographic limitations, over the last two decades Qatar has emerged as one of the most consequential, and in many respects influential, actors in the Persian…

TEHRAN – Scholars from different countries will be gathering at the Qatar Foundation to discuss cultural relations between Iran and the Arab countries in a meeting to be held on…

A lecture held by the Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) recently, entitled “managing the Saudi-Iranian rivalry” offered possible solutions to the political tensions between the two countries.Dr Ibrahim Fraihat, a…

Students, scholars, and members of both the diplomatic and broader community in Qatar converged at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) to attend a vibrant Monthly Dialogue Series lecture titled “Managing…