Podcasts
The CIRS Long View: Understanding Regional Dynamics
The CIRS explainer series is a podcast platform that brings together academics and leading experts to deliver historically grounded, policy relevant analysis of regional dynamics across the Middle East. Each episode offers a concise and analytically rigorous exploration of unfolding developments, situating current events within their broader political, economic, and strategic contexts. Moving beyond a crisis specific lens, the series engages with the structural forces shaping the region, from geopolitical shifts to evolving state-society relations.
Migrant Stories from Qatar
This podcast series is an oral history project that documents the lives of migrant workers from diverse nationalities and employment sectors. Each of the episodes in the CIRS podcast series chronicles an individual’s unique experiences, and is also representative of a much larger story—the story of millions of temporary labor migrants living and working all around the world.
An Insight Into the Israel-Iran Conflict with Professor Mehran Kamrava
Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar. He also directs the Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. An expert on Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the politics of the Middle East, Kamrava is the author of a number of journal articles and books.
Moderator: Misbah Bhatti, Research Analyst, CIRS
Global Energy Cultures: How Energy Shapes Our Everyday Lives
In collaboration with Msheireb Museums, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) hosted a forum on “Global Energy Cultures: How Energy Shapes our Everyday Lives.” Every aspect of our contemporary lives is shaped by energy; societies are fully dependent on the accessibility and availability of energy products, whether in the form of hydrocarbons or alternative energy sources. At the intersection of academic and artistic perspectives, scholars, artists, and practitioners engage in discussions around the broad theme of “energy.” These podcasts are generated from the various conversations that were hosted at the forum.
Migrant Voices in Qatar
This podcast series, which features participants from a number of African and Asian sending countries, seeks to give migrants in Qatar an opportunity to tell their stories, in their own words and in their own way. While each of the episodes in this podcast chronicles an individual’s unique experiences, it is also representative of a much larger story—the story of millions of temporary labor migrants living and working all around the world.
Energy Humanities
These interdisciplinary and trans-regional podcast discussions focus and draw attention to different material or experiential facets of energy culture. Convening scholars and experts from around the world these discussions aim to draw connections between past and present, and between one locality and another in the global network of energy circulation.
Building a Legacy: Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022
This podcast series provides insights into various aspects of staging the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Moderated by Professor Danyel Reiche, these informal conversations touch upon different impacts of the World Cup on the social, cultural, and political fabric of Qatari society.
