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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…

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is celebrating the first 40 books published by its premiere in-house research institute, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), featuring the research of…

In past viral outbreaks, the U.S. played a vital international leadership role. With a well-funded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the ability to mobilize resources quickly, U.S.…

For over forty years, since 1977, International Museum Day has been celebrated annually on May 18th.[1] This year, 2020, marks the first time these celebrations took place wholly online all…

Gulf countries face a challenging fiscal environment The six counties of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are facing economic challenges on two fronts. Like other countries, their top priority had…

  As cases of COVID-19 mount across the Middle East, not everyone is equally vulnerable.  As with most illnesses, increased vulnerability to both contracting and surviving the virus is partly a…

SARS-CoV-2 hit a world unprepared for such a breakout. While responses to contain its spread have been driven by medical expertise, the impacts on national economic systems were accepted as…

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of the attention on Gulf migrant workers has focused on their vulnerability to exposure to the virus as well as the financial…

The numbers are staggering: by early April 2020, over 1.5 billion learners—more than 90 percent of the world’s student population across 188 countries—were affected by school, college, and university closures…