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Read an article by Matt Buehler, Postdoctoral Fellow at CIRS and Assistant Professor in the department of political science at the University of Tennessee.

Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, Mehran Kamrava, comments on the Iranian nuclear deal.  Read the complete Reuters article here: “Hardliners Hold Fire on Iran…

“Bahrain’s Fractured Ruling Bargain: Political Mobilization, Regime Responses, and the New Sectarianism” by Quinn Mecham featured on the ISN Network. This is part of a larger CIRS study on “The Evolving Ruling…

“Bahrain’s Fractured Ruling Bargain: Political Mobilization, Regime Responses, and the New Sectarianism” by Quinn Mecham featured on the ISN Network. This is part of a larger CIRS study on “The Evolving Ruling…

Law and Citizenship in the Gulf Roundtable, Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme in partnership with Qatar University, December 2-3, 2013, Doha, Qatar – Zahra Babar, CIRS Associate Director for…

Law and Citizenship in the Gulf Roundtable, Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme in partnership with Qatar University, December 2-3, 2013, Doha, Qatar – Zahra Babar, CIRS Associate Director for…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), talks about his book Qatar: Small State, Big Politics (Cornell University Press, 2013) and the outsized influence of Qatar in…

An interview with Mehran Kamrava, Director of Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS). 

An interview with Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, on NPR’s “How Tiny Qatar ‘Punches Above Its Weight'” by Robert Siegel, December 23, 2013.

Zahra Babar, Associate Director for Research at CIRS, delivered a CIRS Monthly Dialogue ‎lecture titled “Working for the Neighbors: Arab Migrants in Qatar” on December 11, 2013. Babar ‎proposed to examine some…