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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…

As of the time of writing, Taiwan has recorded thirty consecutive days with no domestic transmission of Covid-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic in January, Taiwan has recorded only…

  “A church which ‘goes forth’ is a church whose doors are always open.”                    Pope Francis Introduction: The Lure of Creative…

The current COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted life across the globe, including closures of schools, businesses and commerce remote work for some, and reduction or loss of employment for others.…

The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) has launched the Covid Project, a data portal to support research into the societal, economic, cultural, religious, and…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments across the globe to impose a number of restrictions on everyday life, including on peoples’ mobility, in order to limit community transmission of the…

On April 14, 2020, Irene Promodh, International Politics student at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and Research Fellow at its Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), presented her research titled, “FM Radio and…

Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), was interviewed by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on the topic of UAE…

Zahra Babar, Associate Director at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), took part in a Brookings Doha Center live webinar titled, “Covid-19 and…

The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies⁠—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates⁠—are home to one of the densest global migrant populations. Recent estimates suggest that…