The 2021-2022 CIRS Annual Report contains information about all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the publication of newly published…
To cite this publication: Al-Arian, Abdullah, ed. Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game (London: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022). Far and away the most popular sport…
To cite this publication: Nikolay Kozhanov, ed. Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: New Trends, Old Traditions (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2022). This book sheds light on Russia’s motives in…
To cite this publication: David B. Roberts, ed. Reflecting on the GCC Crisis: Qatar and Its Neighbours (London & New York: Routledge, 2022). In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE,…
To cite this publication: Patrick Laude, Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi’s Message for the Present (London: Hurst, 2022). The Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is perhaps the most widely…
The 2020-2021 CIRS Annual Report contains information about all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the publication of newly published…
To cite this publication: Amal Sachedina, Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). Cultivating the Past,…
To cite this publication: Suzi Mirgani, ed. Informal Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2021). The culture of politics within any system of governance is influenced by how state…
In 2019, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar launched “The GCC Crisis: Qatar and its Neighbors” research initiative. The result is this Special…
The articles in this special issue emerged from a research initiative focused on the political economy of the contemporary Middle East, which was organized by the Center for International and…
