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Unconfirmed results from last week’s elections in Iran show growing support for allies of President Hassan Rouhani, and a setback for rival conservatives who have dominated parliament for a decade.…

A high-level delegation from Sweden, led by the Swedish Minister of Higher Education, HE Helene Hellmark Knutsson, visited the campus of Georgetown University-Qatar and its Center for International and Regional…

Allies of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made significant gains as preliminary results from last week’s twin election were announced, with reformist and moderate candidates capturing all 30 parliamentary seats in…

Iranians will on Friday elect a new parliament and the body of theologians that traditionally picks the country’s supreme leader. Coming six weeks after international sanctions on Iran were lifted,…

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…