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With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar only two years away, and a resolution of the three-year-old Gulf rift nowhere in sight, government officials, soccer governance executives, and pundits are…

On October 6, 2020, Zahra Babar, CIRS Associate Director for Research, participated at a roundtable on “Citizenship and Belonging in the Arabian Peninsula”. The roundtable was held as part of the…

The specter of national identity has lingered more intensely over Qatar’s national football team than any other national team in recent years.[1] The common claim often portrayed in the Western media…

This article was originally published under the title “Op-ed: Why the Education City Stadium is built to last,” by Qatar Foundation Community Story. The Education City Stadium, which was officially opened in…

As part of a new CIRS research initiative, Building a Legacy: Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022, best selling British author, journalist, and sociologist, David Goldblatt, delieverd a lecture titled “The 2022…

The COVID-19 pandemic shares a number of structural similarities with the great environmental crises that define our time—climate change and biodiversity loss—inviting a slew of reasoned comparisons between planetary disasters.…

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, global attention has been focused on two main issues, the human and health consequences and the huge cost and loss of economic activity…

Europe emerged very early on as one of the world’s first COVID-19 “hotspots.” Initially, a series of haphazard policies, including uncoordinated lockdowns and border closures, and even nations refusing financial…

Zahra Babar, Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), published a new piece on Gulf Migrant Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic…