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Debra Shushan was the 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. Qataris went to the…

In this interview with CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava, the British Council asks him “How is Islam represented in the visual arts and architecture?” Listen to Dr. Kamrava’s answer to the…

In this interview with CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava, the British Council asks him “Is the source of most conflict in the Middle East religious or political?” Listen to Dr. Kamrava’s…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, speaks at the American University of Beirut Symposium on “Arab Uprisings: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players” on May 31st – June1st, 2012,…

On October 4, 2012, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration ‎‎(ISIM) hosted a book launch for the CIRS edited volume on Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf by ‎Mehran…

“Middle East’s Changing Geopolitics:” A speech made by Dr. Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS and professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, at the 6th annual conference of…

On October 4-5, 2012 CIRS participates in a conference jointly convened by ‎Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service ‎in Qatar, and the Peking…

Zahra Babar, Assistant Director for Research at CIRS writes on “The Arab Spring: 18 Months Later.” The Arab uprisings, which commenced in December 2010, continue to be an unfolding story,…

The review states that the book “provides an interesting source book for the curious and, as a work of academic research, each essay emerges as both in-depth and insightful.”