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On March 4, 2015, Deputy Director at the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Azerbaijan (SAM) Dr. Gulshan Pashayeya, Head of SAM Foreign Policy Analysis Department Dr. Cavid…

The award winning short film titled “Hind’s Dream” by CIRS’ Manager and Editor for Publications, Suzi Mirgani, along with a cast and crew of students from the school’s Georgetown Film Society,…

Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development (QF),has this month welcomeda significantly expanded cohort of participants to form the second intake…

Mehran Kamrava was recently interviewed by Radio Sputnik to comment on the talks between the representatives of Damascus and the Syrian opposition in Moscow. 

Georgetown University in Qatar Professor of History, Dr. Abdullah Al-Arian, presented a reading from his book, “Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt” at a recent event hosted…

Visiting professor at the faculty of Islamic Studies at HBKU in Doha, Neha Vora, was a guest speaker at a distinguished public lecture held at Georgetown University in Education City…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, delivered a talk at a Doha Bank sponsored conference on January 17, 2015. Top corporate and community leaders gathered in Doha to discuss the challenges and…

Buthaina Al Ansari, founder and Chairperson of Qatariat T&D Holding Company and Senior Human Resources Director at Ooredoo, delivered a CIRS Monthly Dialogue on the topic of “Sheroes—How Female Leaders are Changing…

Members of CIRS traveled to attend the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference in Washington, DC on November 22-25, 2014. Zahra Babar, Associate Director of Research at CIRS delivered a paper titled, “Arabs and…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS at Georgetown University in Qatar, begins the discussion with ETH Zurich by describing CIRS’ ongoing attempts to examine the evolution and dynamics of urban space in the Persian Gulf region. He…