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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…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Georgetown University in Qatar, spoke at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, about his recent book Qatar: Small…

R. Seetharaman, Group Chief Executive Officer of Doha Bank‎, delivered the first ‎CIRS ‎Monthly ‎Dialogue of 2014 with a lecture on “Sustainable Development for ‎Economies ‎and ‎Corporations”‎ ‎on January 20, 2014‎.…

An interview with Zahra Babar, Associate Director of CIRS.

Omran Al-Kuwari, co-founder and CEO of GreenGulf, delivered a CIRS Focused Discussion lecture on “The Paradox of Renewable Energy in Qatar” on February 12, 2014.

Zahra Babar, CIRS Associate Director for Research, participated in a panel discussion titled, “Responding to Emergencies: Delivering the Food” in the World Food Security Summit, February 23-24, 2014, Dubai.

“Gas and Alternative Fuels: Present and Future Shares and Challenges,” featured H.E. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, the Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).   Read more here.

Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS, gave a briefing titled, “Visions of Gulf Security” at the Visions of Gulf Security, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 25 — March 25,…

Zahra Babar, CIRS Associate Director for Research participated in a panel discussion.

Members of CIRS traveled to the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada, on March 26-29, 2014. The title of the conference was “Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era…