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Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, presented a paper at the 13th Annual Foreign Policy Conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation on “Democracy and Security in the Middle East – How…

The Center for International and Regional Studies participated in the 2012 annual Middle East ‎Studies Association (MESA) Conference held in Denver, Colorado, November 17 – 20, 2012. In ‎addition to…

A recent article written by Zahra Babar, the Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) takes on the issue of citizenship in Qatar by…

The Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Mehran Kamrava, delivered a paper at the “Arab-Iranian Relations in the Gulf” symposium that took place the the W Hotel…

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…