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On September 3, 2015, Suzi Mirgani presented her paper on “Tweeting Terrorism: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Media Spectacles” at the Middle East Institute Conference in Singapore. In the paper, Mirgani highlighted…

Zahra Babar, Associate Director of Research at CIRS, moderated the “Fifth Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretariats of Regional Consultative Processes (RCPs) on Migration” hosted by the IOM and the…

A different take on the Iran deal with Mehran Kamrava of Georgetown University in Qatar. Hear the entire discussion here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8085756/chat-about-iran-deal-w-dr-kamrava

Catholic University of Milan, May 19, 2015, Milan Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, delivered a lecture on the geopolitics of the Gulf region, and the relationship between the Kingdom of…

Geneva, June 10-11, 2015 At the second annual think thank symposium on terrorism sponsored by the Gulf Research Center, participants discussed some of the root causes for the eruption of…

Berlin, June 20-21, 2015 Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, focused on three separate but interrelated themes. First, he emphasized the importance of consistency in the European Union’s approach to the…

Members of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and Georgetown University in Qatar faculty traveled to Singapore on June 2-4, 2015, where they engaged in a series of…