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2019-2020

Faculty Annual Report 2019-2020

This is a report on the teaching, research, and service of faculty at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Contents MESSAGE FROM THE FACULTY CHAIR ................................................................ 1 MEET THE FACULTY ............................................................................................... 2 ACADEMIC DEANS ................................................................................................ 13 PUBLICATIONS ...................................................................................................... 15 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES ........................................................... 20 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES ............................... 28 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INITIATIVES ........................................................ 31 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................... 33 ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ............................................................. 39

Message from the Faculty Chair The academic programs delivered at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), centered on the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree, require a diverse faculty of the highest caliber. The GU-Q faculty are established scholars from across the disciplines of anthropology, economics, government, international relations and political science, history, languages and literature, philosophy, and theology. Their qualifications have been earned from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, while most have also been affiliated with eminent centers of research and teaching before joining GU-Q. Although the strength of our faculty ensured academic excellence was maintained, teaching and learning during the 2019-2020 academic year experienced a sea change due to physical distancing requirements imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The fall semester embraced the usual academic activities, while the spring semester will be remembered as a time that demanded a high level of resilience and flexibility. Extensive work related to emergency preparedness and more specifically to instructional continuity was necessary to quickly and effectively transition to an online environment. Pedagogical and practical resources to support the delivery and enhancement of online and hybrid teaching were also designed. Within the realm of the virtual environment, new ways of accommodating events and meetings were implemented. Online meeting platforms became an essential part of the educational mandate. As in-person events had to be put on hold, online events replaced them. Students and faculty continued gathering remotely to discuss their current projects, research, or global issues, including the Black Lives Matter movement, a new U.S. administration, and the global health crisis, with GU-Q faculty taking part in one of three “Pandemic Panels” to explore COVID-19 through the lens of governance, regional recovery, and historical and cultural perspectives. The challenge of facing a global pandemic while continuing to offer the academic excellence for which GU-Q is known, enabled us to develop new administrative and instructional continuity concepts that have prepared us for both an in-person and virtual future.

Meet the Faculty PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS • • •

Jose Asturias was promoted to Associate Professor Dennis McCornac was appointed to a three-year term as Assistant Professor of Economics Peter Neary, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, was appointed Research Professor

ANTHROPOLOGY ROGAIA M. ABUSHARAF Ph.D., University of Connecticut Professor of Anthropology Research interests: culture and politics; anthropology of gender; human rights; and migration and diaspora issues in Sudan, the Gulf, USA, Canada, and the U.K.

ECONOMICS ALEXIS ANTONIADES

JOSE ASTURIAS

Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of Economics; Director of International Economics

Ph.D., University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Economics

Research interests: international macroeconomics; global markets; big data; and the economies of the Gulf countries

Research interests: international trade and macroeconomics, with a special interest in growth

TOKA MOHAMED

MONGOLJIN BATSAIKHAN

MSc., Hamad Bin Khalifa University Instructor

Ph.D., Brown University Assistant Professor of Economics Research interests: development and experimental economics, with a special interest in industrial organization; entrepreneurship; SMEs; and social capital

ZHAOYANG HOU Ph.D., George Washington University Assistant Professor of Economics Research interests: development economics; applied econometrics; and international economics, with a special interest in micro-economic development issues in China

DENNIS MCCORNAC Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate School Visiting Assistant Professor

Research interests: microfinance; and Islamic finance

JACK ROSSBACH Ph.D., University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Economics Research interests: international trade and growth, with a focus on how linkages across firms and countries shape the global economy

M. DANIEL WESTBROOK Ph.D., Ohio State University Associate Professor of Economics; Curricular Chair of International Economics Research interests: applied microeconometrics; and economic development in Vietnam

Research interests: migrant workers in Japan; and education in developing countries

GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, POLITICAL SCIENCE ADEL ABDEL GHAFAR Ph.D., Australian National University Visiting Assistant Professor Research interests: state-society relations; and socio-economic development and foreign policy in the MENA region

NOHA ABOUELDAHAB Ph.D., University of Durham Visiting Assistant Professor

SONIA ALONSO SAENZ DE OGER Ph.D., Juan March Institute Associate Professor of Government; Curricular Chair of International Politics Research interests: federalism and devolution; party competition in Western democracies; the democratic deficit in the European Union; electoral behavior in Western Europe; and democratization and ethnic conflict in Western democracies

UDAY CHANDRA Research interests: public international law; transitional justice; international criminal law; Arab region; Arab Spring; and civil society

FAHAD AL-MARRI MPA, University of Bradford Adjunct Instructor Research interests: security studies; international relations; foreign policy analysis; Middle Eastern security and foreign policy; sovereign wealth funds; and soft power

Ph.D., Yale University Assistant Professor of Government Research interests: critical agrarian studies; political anthropology; postcolonial theory; South Asian studies, with a special interest in state-society relations; power and resistance; political violence; agrarian change; rural-urban migration; popular religion; and the philosophy of the social sciences

AMANDA GARRETT

RORY MILLER

Ph.D., Harvard University Assistant Professor of Political Science

Ph.D., King’s College London Professor of Government; Director of the Certificate in Media and Politics

Research interests: comparative and international politics, with a focus on the implications of migration and ethnic diversity in advanced democracies

MEHRAN KAMRAVA Ph.D., University of Cambridge Professor of Government; Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) Research interests: comparative politics; political development; and Middle Eastern politics

ANATOL LIEVEN Ph.D., University of Cambridge Professor of Government

Research interests: external intervention in the contemporary Middle East; the politics of small states in the international system; comparative peace processes; political and economic development of regional groupings; Ireland and the Middle East; private sector development and conflict resolution; and British Middle East policy

GERD NONNEMAN Ph.D., University of Exeter Professor of Government Research interests: politics and international relations of the Middle East; Muslim communities in Europe; and comparative political and economic liberalization

DANYEL REICHE Research interests: Islamist terrorism and insurgency; contemporary warfare; U.S. and Western strategy; countries of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East, especially Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran

Ph.D., Leibniz University Visiting Associate Professor Research interests: energy; sport policy; and politics

CLYDE WILCOX

MOHAMED ZAYANI

Ph.D., Ohio State University Professor of Government; Director of the Certificate in American Studies

Ph.D., Indiana University Professor of Critical Theory

Research interests: American and comparative politics: religion and politics; gender politics; interest groups; public opinion and electoral behavior; campaign finance; and science fiction and politics

Research interests: cultural studies; and communication studies and political science, with particular focus on the evolving dynamics of global communication in the Middle East and the Arab World

HISTORY ABDULLAH AL-ARIAN Ph.D., Georgetown University Assistant Professor of History Research interests: Islamic social movements; modern Egypt; Muslims in the U.S.; and the history of U.S. policy towards the Middle East

M. REZA PIRBHAI Ph.D., University of Toronto Associate Professor of History; Faculty Chair

EDWARD JAMES KOLLA Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor of History Research interests: European international relations; and political, cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on the history of international law

JAMES REARDONANDERSON Ph.D., Columbia University Professor of History Research interests: modern Chinese history

Research interests: South Asian and world history, with a focus on Islamic thought and institutions in modern South Asia; colonialism; nationalism; and gender

PHOEBE MUSANDU

MAX OIDTMANN

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Assistant Professor of History

Ph.D., Harvard University Assistant Professor of History

Research interests: African history; African historical methodology; and mass media and women’s history

Research interests: Chinese history, with a focus on late imperial China (1368-1912) and inner Asia: Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria

AMIRA SONBOL KARINE WALTHER Ph.D., Georgetown University Professor of History Research interests: modern Egypt; and Islamic history and law, with a focus on women, gender and Islam

Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of History Research interests: U.S. history; and the U.S. in the world, with a focus on the Middle East

ISLAMIC STUDIES RAJNAARA AKHTAR

AHMAD DALLAL

Ph.D., University of Warwick Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Columbia University Dean of GU-Q; Professor

Research interests: marriage formalities/family law; unregistered religious-only marriages; legal pluralism; gender, care and social reproduction; children's rights; and human rights

Research interests: Islamic disciplines of learning in medieval and early modern Islamic societies; the development of traditional and exact Islamic sciences; Islamic medieval thought; the early- modern evolution of Islamic revivalism and intellectual movements; and Islamic law

AYMAN SHABANA

SOHAIRA SIDDIQUI

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Assistant Professor of Theology

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Associate Research Professor of Theology

Research interests: classical Islamic legal theory and political thought; legal and political thought from the 9th to 11th centuries; and secularism and modernity in relation to Islamic law and Muslims in the West

Research interests: Islamic legal and intellectual history; Islamic law and ethics; human rights; and bioethics

LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE ARABIC MAHMOUD AL-ASHIRI

ALAA AMER

Ph.D., Fayoum University (Cairo University) Associate Professor of Arabic

Ph.D., Ain Shams University Visiting Assistant Professor

Research interests: Arabic language; literary criticism; and poetry

MUNTASIR AL-HAMAD Ph.D., University of Manchester Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arabic Research interests: Arabic linguistics

Research interests: teaching Arabic for non-native speakers

ABDUL RAHMAN M. CHAMSEDDINE M.A., American University of Beirut Instructor, Arabic Research interests: Arabic terminology of early Islam, with a focus on Quranic terms that describe religious identities and other social groupings

AMIRA EL-ZEIN

YEHIA MOHAMED

Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Professor of Arabic; Director of the Certificate in Arab and Regional Studies

Ph.D., Cairo University Assistant Professor of Arabic

Research interests: Arabic classical and contemporary literature; and Sufism in medieval and contemporary Islam

Research interests: applied linguistics; phonology; and language changes and sociolinguistics

HANA ZABARAH Ph.D., Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Arabic

HANY FAZZA M.A., American University in Cairo Instructor, Arabic Research interests: teaching Arabic heritage students; computer language assisted learning; and Arabic linguistics and literature

OMAR KHALIFAH Ph.D., Columbia University Assistant Professor of Arabic

Research interests: Arabic language, literature, and linguistics

ENGLISH ADILE ALMOND Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Visiting Instructor Research interests: comparative literature; Ottoman Armenian literature; Jewish Austrian literature; and minority literatures

Research interests: modern Arabic literature; world literature; representations of memory; and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world

IAN ALMOND

RODNEY SHARKEY

Ph.D., University of Edinburgh Professor of English

Ph.D., Trinity College Visiting Associate Professor

Research interests: comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal, and Turkey

Research interests: English literature

FRENCH VICTORIA GOOGASIAN Ph.D., Stanford University Assistant Professor of American Literature Research interests: 20th - and 21st century American literature; narrative theory; animal studies; and the environmental humanities

PATRICK MEADOWS Ph.D., Princeton University Associate Professor of French Research interests: French/ Francophone literature and its relationship with philosophy and symbolism

FIRAT ORUC Ph.D., Duke University Assistant Professor of English Research interests: postcolonial global literatures; cultural and literary studies of the Middle East; translation studies; and transnational cinema

PHILOSOPHY DAVID GRAY

MARK LANCE

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Pittsburg Visiting Professor of Philosophy

Research interests: ethical theory; political philosophy; and decision theory

Research interests: philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, and philosophical logic

ANJANA JACOB Ph.D., University of Pittsburg Visiting Assistant Professor Research interests: overlap between logic and the philosophy of perception; and Kantian ethics

KARL WIDERQUIST Ph.D., Oxford University; Ph.D., City University of New York Associate Professor of Philosophy Research interests: distributive justice or the ethics of “who has what”

JEREMY KOONS Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Professor of Philosophy Research interests: ethics; social and political philosophy; epistemology; philosophy of mind and language; metaphysics; and philosophy of religion

SCIENCE STELIOS TZORTZAKIS Ph.D., École Polytechnique Visiting Professor Research interests:

DIEGO LORENZETTI Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine Visiting Assistant Professor

physics; optics; lasers; and photonics

Research interests: biology

THEOLOGY AKINTUNDE E. AKINADE

FR. ROBIN SEELAN, S.J.

Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary Professor of Theology; Curricular Chair of Culture and Politics

Ph.D., University of Madras Visiting Fellow

Research interests: African religions; religion and immigration; inter-cultural studies; comparative religions; Christian thought; and Christian-Muslim relations

Research interests: philosophy of religion; and intercultural philosophy

PATRICK LAUDE Ph.D., Indiana University Professor of Theology Research interests: comparative mysticism; poetry and mysticism; and Western representations and interpretations of Asian spiritual/ wisdom traditions

Academic Deans Deans are responsible for curricular oversight, student well-being, and the overall research and learning environment. They provide support to faculty members and staff, ensure cohesive and collaborative teaching and learning across a variety of platforms and disciplines, and holistically mentor and care for GU-Q students’ education. They also occasionally offer courses in their fields of specialization.

BRENDAN HILL

JAMES MACGREGOR

Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Dean for Students

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Research interests: church and legal history, focusing specifically on the criminalization of sin and the creation of a godly society at the dawn of the modern era in England

Research interests: books of hours and prayer to saints in late medieval England

ANNE NEBEL KAI-HENRIK BARTH Ph.D., University of Minnesota Senior Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Administration Research interests: nuclear proliferation and international security; nuclear energy; energy policy; climate change; and science and technology in international affairs

Ph.D., Lancaster University Senior Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Director of Academic Services Research interests: critical discourse analysis; stylistics; writing pedagogies; and writing across the disciplines

JULIEN MOUTTE MBA, Institute Supérieur du Commerce de Paris Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Research interests: higher education management

CHRISTINE SCHIWIETZ Ph.D., American University Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Research interests: new technologies and society; gender roles; and peace, security, and international development

GEHAN SAMARAH MBA, American University in Cairo Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising Research interests: higher education management; social change in the Middle East; and student success

Publications Members of the GU-Q faculty are prolific and award-winning authors, with publications that reflect a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research interests. Their works address such topics as economics, literature, history, international law, media, metaphysics, politics, and religion. They range in focus from the Gulf and the Middle East, to Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia. The importance of the research findings is reflected in the prestige of the presses that publish them, which include Brill, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Springer International Publishing, to name a few. GU-Q faculty have also published with Qatari institutions such as HBKU Press. The academic year’s publications together constitute a major body of work of the highest standards, and significantly help to establish Qatar as a global center of knowledge production.

Yehia A. Mohamed speaks at an Arabic Book Club event.

BOOKS: AUTHORED AND EDITED Phoebe Musandu was awarded the 2020 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association for her book, Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector. Max Oidtmann was awarded the 2020 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies for his book, Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet.

Aktar, Rajnaara and Conrad Nyamutata. 2020. International Child Law, 4th edition. New York: Routledge.

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2020. Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics. London: Routledge.

Kamrava, Mehran. 2019. A Concise History of Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lieven, Anatol. 2020. Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case. London: Penguin.

Jonkers, Peter and Patrick Laude, eds. 2019. Philosophy as Love of Wisdom: Its Relevance to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning. Washington, DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.

Kendall, Elisabeth, and Yehia A. Mohamed. 2020. Diplomacy Arabic: An Essential Vocabulary. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2019. The “Resource Curse” in the Persian Gulf. London: Routledge.

Wilcox, Clyde and Mark J. Rozell. 2019. Federalism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

TRANSLATIONS Darwish, Mahmoud. 2019. Palestine as Metaphor. Translated by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché. Northampton: Interlink Publishing.

BOOKS BY FACULTY PUBLISHED IN OTHER LANGUAGES Almond, Ian. 2019. Historia Islama u Njemackoj Misli [The History of Islam in German Thought]. Translated by El Kalem. Sarajevo: El Kalem. Almond, Ian. 2019. Sufizmi Dhe Dekonstruksioni [Sufism and Deconstruction]. Translated by Edin Q. Lohja. Tirana, Albania: Logos Publications.

Almond, Ian. 2019. Nirod C. Chaudhuri Mone [The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri]. Translated by Sarker Hasan Al Zayed and Raihan Rahman. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited. Miller, Rory, ed. 2019. ‫ رؤﯾﺔ ﻣن‬:‫اﻷزﻣﺔ اﻟﺧﻠﯾﺟﯾﺔ‬ ‫[ ﻗطر‬The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar]. Translated by HBKU Press. Doha: HBKU Press.

BOOKS CHAPTERS Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “Islamists and the Arab Counterrevolutions.” In The Middle East: Thinking About and Beyond Security and Stability, edited by Lorenzo Kamel, 137-54. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Akinade, Akintunde. 2019. “Indigenization, Translation, and Transformation.” In Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Vol. 4, edited by Jehu Hanciles, 73-85. New York: Oxford University Press. Kamrava, Mehran. 2020. “Politics in Persian Gulf: An Overview.” In Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, edited by Mehran Kamrava, 1-4. London: Routledge.

Kamrava, Mehran. 2020. “Speak Truth to Power: The State of Social Science in the Middle East.” In Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalization and Transnationalism: Within the Knot, edited by Mark van de Logt and Hyun Wu Lee, 2-6. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Laude, Patrick. 2019. “The Silence of Sound: Crystallizing Nondual Metaphysics Through the Invocation of a Divine Name or Mantra.” In The Problem of Religious Experience, 39-55. Cham: Springer. Oruc, Firat. 2019. “The Book of Dede Korkut and the Nomadology World Literature.” In A Companion to World Literature, edited by Ken Seignurie. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Williams, J.A. and Schiwietz, C. 2020. “Current Understandings of Global Competency in Shaping Globally Engaged Citizens.” In Leadership Strategies for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education, edited by E. Sengupta, P. Blessinger, P. and C. Mahoney, 45-62. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley

Walther, Karine. 2020. “The Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations of the Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States, 1821-1830.” In American and Muslim Worlds before 1900, edited by John Ghazvinian and Arthur Mitchell Fraas, 18-32. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Sonbol, Amira. 2020. “Evolving Family Patterns in the Arabian Peninsula.” In Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, edited by Mehran Kamrava, 83-98. London: Routledge.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Jose Asturias and his co-authors won the 2020 Hicks-Tinbergen Award from the Journal of the European Economic Association, which recognizes the best paper published in the journal during the previous two years. Akinade, Akintunde. 2020. “Holy Dilemma: Engaging Prayer and Power in African Pentecostalism.” Journal of World Christianity 10, no. 2.147-169.

Googasian, Victoria. 2019. “Bothering to Believe: Acts of Faith in J.M. Coetzee’s Late Novels.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 52, no. 2. 284-303.

Almond, Ian. 2020. “Representing the representers: Non-Western depictions of Orientalists and Orientalism in Turkish, Mexican, and Bengali writing.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 1-18.

Kamrava, Mehran. 2020. “Nation-Building in Central Asia: Institutions, Politics, and Culture.” The Muslim World 110, no. 1. 623.

Asturias, Jose. 2020. “Endogenous Transportation Costs.” European Economic Review 123, no. C.1-33.

Lieven, Anatol. 2020. “Climate Change and the State: A Case for Environmental Realism.” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 62, no. 2. 7-26.

Chandra, Uday, and Irene Promodh. 2020. “A Divided City in a Time of Pandemic: Dispatches from Doha.” City and Society 32, no. 1.

Nonneman, Gerd. 2019. “Europe and the Middle East in the Face of Regional Shifts and US Policy Under Trump.” Chuto Dokobunseki 17, no. 10.

Shabana, Ayman. 2020. “Science and Scientific Production in the Middle East: Past and Present.” Sociology of Islam 8, no. 2.151-158. Shabana, Ayman. 2020. “Islamic Ethics and the Legitimacy of Scientific Innovation: Reproductive Genetic Counseling within the Muslim Context.” Sociology of Islam 8, no. 2. 265-289. Shabana, Ayman. 2020. “Genetic Counseling and Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Jurisprudence.” Journal of Sharia and Islamic Studies. 137-170. Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “In Pursuit of Consonance: Science and Religion in Modern Works of Tafsīr.” Journal of Qur'anic Studies 21, no. 3. 7-31.

Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “Custom and Modern Constructions of Sharīʿa: Transnational Juristic Discussions on the Status of ʿUrf.” Journal of Islamic Ethics 3, 1-2: 30-63. Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2020. “Good Scholarship/ Bad Scholarship: Problematics of the Heuristic in Islamic Studies.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88, no. 1. 142-174. Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Jadal and Qiyās in the Fifth/Eleventh Century: Two Debates between al-Juwaynī and al-Shīrāzī.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139, no. 4. 923-944. Zayani, Mohamed, and Joe F. Khalil. 2020. “De-territorialized digital capitalism and the predicament of the nation-state: Netflix in Arabia.” Media, Culture & Society. 1-18.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS Lieven, Anatol. 2020, May 28. “Uniting Nations.” Royal Society of the Arts Journal.

Laude, Patrick. 2020. “Postmodernism and the Signs of Time.” Aditi 2. 47-58.

Academic Activities and Initiatives In addition to their publications, faculty research and expertise is disseminated in a variety of other ways in Qatar and beyond. As members of the global intellectual community, faculty members regularly deliver keynote addresses and are invited to lecture on their areas of expertise. They both participate in and host international conferences, symposia, workshops, and study groups. Initiatives and activities hosted by GU-Q provide opportunities to invite renowned colleagues from leading global institutions to speak and interact with faculty and students, those of other academic institutions in Qatar, as well as members of the Qatari public. The public is also invited to participate in book launches by GU-Q faculty members and benefit from faculty expertise at the Faculty Seminar Series. Online and media presence furthers the university’s aims of disseminating knowledge and bringing together scholars, the business community, and other members of the public across the region and beyond. GU-Q builds and maintains a number of websites, provides expert opinions for the media, and maintains an active social media presence.

Faculty Seminar Series event hosted by Max Oidtmann.

KEYNOTE SPEECH Oidtmann, Max. 2019. “Legislating the Possible: How the Qing State Attempted to Eliminate the Oracles of Tibetan Buddhism.” Keynote speech at Leiden University, November 8, 2019.

INVITED LECTURES Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2020. “Football as a Form of Regime Legitimation.” Invited virtual lecture, Center for Islam and Global Affairs, Istanbul Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4, 2020. Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “Brothers Behind Borders: Islamism and Nationalism in the Middle East.” Invited lecture, Duke University, Durham, USA, November 8, 2019. Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “Narratives of the 2013 Egyptian Coup.” Invited lecture, Duke University, Durham, USA, November 7, 2019. Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “The Evolution of American Muslim Politics: 1965-2015.” Invited lecture, Center for Islam and Global Affairs, Istanbul Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 17, 2019. Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “Political Islam and the Challenge of Nationalism.” Invited lecture, Center for Islam and Global Affairs, Istanbul Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2019. Al-Arian, Abdullah. 2019. “Political Islam and the Question of Political Violence.” Invited lecture, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA, June 26, 2019.

Antoniades, Alexis. 2019. “Qatar 2020.” Invited lecture, Euromoney Qatar Conference: Qatar and the Future, Doha, Qatar, December 8-9, 2019. Asturias, Jose. 2020. “Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India.” Invited virtual lecture, World Bank Office of the Chief Economist of Middle East & North Africa, May 2020. Oidtmann, Max. 2020. “The Legal Culture of Qing-period Tibetan Areas and Social Change.” Invited lecture delivered in Chinese, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 6, 2020. Oidtmann, Max. 2019. “When Tibetans Came to Court: Indigenous Agency and Colonial Anxieties on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier.” Invited lecture, Ludwig Maximilian University, Institute for Sinology, Munich, Germany, November 11, 2019. Pirbhai, M. Reza. 2020. “Fatima Jinnah: Mother of the Nation.” Invited lecture, Adab Festival Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan, January 31-February 2, 2020.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Epistemology in Islamic Intellectual History.” Invited lecture, University of Notre Dame Madrasa Discourses, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, December 28, 2019.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Methodologies in Feminist Approaches to the Quran.” Invited lecture, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany, December 18, 2019.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Classical Islamic Family Law and Contemporary Challenges.” Invited lecture, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, September 26, 2019.

PRESENTATIONS Akinade, Akintunde. 2020. “Beyond Exclusivism: Exploring, Engaging, and Expanding Interreligious Hospitality in Yorubaland.” Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference, Lamin Sanneh Institute, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, February 26-29, 2020. Akinade, Akintunde. 2019. “The Almajiri System. Violence, and Peace in Northern Nigeria.” Paper presented at the Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Bangkok, Thailand, November 15-17, 2019. Akinade, Akintunde. 2019. “An Abiding Engagement” Prayer, Power, and Politics in Pentecostal Spirituality in Africa.” Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality, University of Granada, Spain, April 25-57, 2019. Antoniades, Alexis. 2019. “Distribution as Expenditure.” Paper presented at Peking University, Peking, China, September 20, 2019.

Asturias, Jose. 2019. “Endogenous Transportation Costs.” Paper presented at the Urban Economics Association Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA, October 1112, 2019. Googasian, Victoria, and R. Heuser. 2019. “Digital Animal Studies: Modeling Anthropomorphism in Animal Writing, 18701930.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 9-12, 2019. Oidtmann, Max. 2020. “Introducing ManchuLanguage Archival Sources Concerning Qinghai.” Paper in Chinese presented at the Manchu Documents Workshop, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 24, 2020. Oidtmann, Max. 2019. “The Laws of the Kökenuur Oirats: Ramifications for the Legal Culture of Amdo.” Paper presented at the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Triennial Conference, Paris, France, July 9, 2019.

Oruc, Firat. 2020. “On the Shore: Indian Ocean Littoral Life in Film.” Paper presented at the GU-Q Annual Faculty Conference, Oceanic Circularities: The Indian Ocean in the Modern World, Doha, Qatar, February 16-18, 2020. Shabana, Ayman. 2020. “Shari`ah, Law and Bioethics: Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World.” Paper presented at the 2nd International Bioethics Conference: Ethical and Legal Issues of Emerging Biomedical Sciences and Research, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, February 2-4, 2020. Shabana, Ayman. 2020. “Islamic Discourses on Bodily Enhancement in the Wake of the Genetic Revolution.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics, Washington, DC, USA, January 9-12, 2020.

Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “The Mental Health of the Elderly from an Islamic Perspective.” Paper presented at the Religion and Medical Ethics Symposium, Pontifical Academy for Life, Rome, Italy, December 11-12, 2019. Walther, Karine. 2019. “‘To the Slave in Bondage Bleeding’: The Reformed Church of America and the Freed Slave School in Muscat, Oman, 1896-1901.” Paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Annual Conference, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA, November 5-9, 2019. Walther, Karine. 2019. “Teaching Imperial Subjects: Moro Industrial Schools and the Global History of Industrial Education.” Paper presented at the Annual Philippines Studies Conference, Mindanao: Cartographies of History, Identity and Representation, SOAS University of London, London, U.K., July 5-6, 2019.

Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “Islamic Moral Principles Undergirding Fatwas on Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” Paper presented at the Symposium on Challenges of Developing Fatwa-Making Methodology for Medical Issues, Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR), Istanbul, Turkey, December 21-22, 2019.

Annual Faculty Conference

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA

“OCEANIC CIRCULARITIES: THE INDIAN OCEAN IN THE MODERN WORLD” ANNUAL FACULTY CONFERENCE February 16-18, 2020 Conference Chair: Uday Chandra This conference brought together new and established scholars producing cutting-edge research on topics ranging from the political economy of trade to the sociocultural dynamics of interlocking littoral societies across this vast oceanic space. Conference organizers received an overwhelming number of excellent abstracts from around the globe. The selected papers represented the very best of scholarship in the emerging field of Indian Ocean studies. The papers and panels in the conference centered around the theme of "circularities," encompassing the mobile connections between people as well as their literary, aesthetic, and religious worlds. Thinking through the myriad crisscrossing circularities that define the Indian Ocean, the conference explored new core concepts and theories of culture, society, migration, diaspora, diversity, hybridity, and postcoloniality.

“ECONOMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST” WORKSHOP March 1, 2020 Convener: Karine Walther Guest speaker: Laleh Khalili In this workshop, the guest speaker introduced her methodological approach and her research on political economy in the Middle East. Attending faculty gave insight into their own research. It followed a broader discussion with questions being raised about how certain issues can be addressed in different ways and from differing disciplinary fields.

Will Wilson

“CYBER SECURITY AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN A SMALL STATE” October 1, 2019 Convener: Rory Miller This launch event for the Cyber Security Research Group (CSRG), a joint initiative between GU-Q and the Community College of Qatar (CCQ), drew a large audience of security experts, scholars, and leaders from government and business to discuss “Cyber Security in a Small State: Protecting the Homeland.” Sponsored by Commercial Bank of Qatar and featuring cyber security expert Will Wilson as a keynote speaker, the event delivered the important message that cyber security is one of the most vital issues facing individuals, institutions, and nation states today, and set the stage for future collaboration on the critical issue of security risks and strategies.

Sohaira Siddiqui

“EXPLORING THE FEMININE WITHIN ISLAM” September 17-18, 2019 Convener: Sohaira Siddiqui The cooperative project “Exploring the Feminine within Islam” with the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, worked to enrich the discourse on Islam and gender—which has so far been conducted mostly in the field of sociology and anthropology—with the voices of Muslim women theologians. In order to address theological concepts on “femininity in Islam,” the project first laid a foundation for an international network. The network aims to bring together women scholars from different countries of origin, discourse spaces, and age groups to contribute new perspectives to scholarly discourse.

GU-Q FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES The Faculty Seminar Series provides a forum for GU-Q faculty and guests to present their work with the goal of furthering their research through presentation and feedback. The seminars also serve to connect faculty with their colleagues at other regional and international universities by bringing in outside speakers and creating a forum for peer review and discussion. From mid- spring semester 2020 until the end of the academic year, the Faculty Seminar Series had to pause due to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. Speakers included:

Eric Schluessel, Professor of Chinese History and Politics, University of Montana. “A Colonial Muslim History of Chinese Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī.” Moderator: Max Oidtmann, October 22, 2019.

Angie Heo, Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago. “Anticommunist Supplements: Christianity and Politics in South Korea.” Moderators: Uday Chandra and Sohaira Siddiqui, February 12, 2020.

Dimitrios Xefteris, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus. “Econ Talk: Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion.” Moderator: Alexis Antoniades, October 27, 2019.

Tarik Sabry, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. “Cultural Time and Everyday Life in a Small Moroccan Village.” Moderator: Mohamed Zayani, February 3, 2020.

John Lyndon, Global Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace and Research Fellow at King’s College London. “Re-Learning How Societies Transform and Conflicts End: Investing in Long-Term Social and Political Change in Israel/Palestine.” Moderator: Rory Miller, November 26, 2019.

Mario Kozah, Director of Islamic Studies Program at the American University of Beirut. “Qaṭrāyīth: A Gulf Colloquial in Early Islamic Eastern Arabia.” Moderator: Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, January 15, 2020.

Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. “Thinking About Tankers: Labor Port-Making and Capitalism.” Moderator: Karine Walther, March 1, 2020.

Eleanore Hargreaves, Reader in Learning and Pedagogy, University College of London. “Employers’ Perceptions of the Arabic Language Competencies and Skills of GU-Q Graduates.” Moderator: Hany Fazza, December 4, 2019. Peter Neary, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Merton College Oxford. “Econ Talk: Sales and Markup Dispersion: Quantifying Misallocation.” Moderator: Alexis Antoniades, December 1, 2019.

PUBLIC LECTURES In addition to the Faculty Research Seminars that take place during the day, GU-Q also organizes lectures in the evenings, allowing subject matter experts to share their expertise with the broader public. Speakers include distinguished experts who define their fields, and scholars from GU-Q and other academic institutions. Public Lecture: “FUNDESA, Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India.” Virtual, May 2020. Lecturer: Jose Asturias Panel Discussion: “Impeachment, Iran and WW3.” Organized by the Legal and Political Studies Association. January 2020. Panelists: Clyde Wilcox, Anatol Lieven, Leonard Williams Film Screening and Panel Discussion: “13th” January 2020. Panelists: Maurice Jackson, Clyde Wilcox, Karine Walther Public Lecture: “The Blockade against Qatar: A Blessing in Disguise?” Qatar National Library, November 2019. Lecturer: Alexis Antoniades

Webinar Panel Discussion: “Black Lives Matter: Police Brutality and Racial Injustice in America.” Organized by the Black Student Association, July 2020. Panelists: Maurice Jackson, Clyde Wilcox

THE PANDEMIC PANELS

Pandemic Panel I: “Historical and Cultural Perspectives.” May 2020. Panelists: Edward Kolla, M. Reza Pirbhai, Ayman Shabana, Amira Sonbol Moderator: Dean Ahmad Dallal

Pandemic Panel II: “Regional Concerns in Pandemic Recovery.” May 2020. Panelists: Rogaia Abusharaf, Alexis Antoniades, Rory Miller, Gerd Nonneman Moderator: Dean Ahmad Dallal

Pandemic Panel III: “Governance in a Time of Pandemic, A Global View.” May 2020. Panelists: Amanda Garrett, Maurice Jackson, Anatol Lieven, Clyde Wilcox Moderator: Dean Ahmad Dallal

Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) CIRS provides a number of research opportunities for faculty at GU-Q, and sponsors day-long workshops in which faculty engage with international participants in discussions on a forthcoming publication. In addition, CIRS offers grants to faculty researchers interested in carrying out original fieldwork on issues related to the Gulf, the Middle East, Asia, and beyond.

CIRS STEERING COMMITTEE This standing committee is chaired by the Director of CIRS and includes the Associate Director of CIRS as well as four members of the faculty. The committee’s main objective is to reinforce the integration of CIRS and the GU-Q faculty by ensuring faculty input and perspective in planning CIRS events. It furthermore promotes the activities of CIRS among the faculty. Committee Members • Mehran Kamrava, Director of CIRS • Zahra Babar, Associate Director of CIRS • Abdullah Al-Arian, Faculty Member • Rory Miller, Faculty Member • Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger, Faculty Member • Mohamed Zayani, Faculty Member

CIRS FACULTY FELLOWSHIP The CIRS Faculty Fellowship is a one-year appointment to encourage original research in support of the center’s research agenda. Fellows are asked to give a presentation of their research at a CIRS-sponsored lecture. Since 2012, CIRS has granted eight GU-Q Faculty Fellowships.

The 2019-2020 GU-Q CIRS Faculty Fellows: • Uday Chandra • Karine Walther

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In support of its ongoing research discussions, CIRS invites faculty from GU-Q to deliver a variety of public lectures on topics of their expertise in the form of Dialogues and Focused Discussions directed at the community in Qatar. This year, the work of two GU-Q faculty members were featured at CIRS community outreach events.

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Karine Walther: Dialogue Series “American Missionaries, ARAMCO, and the Birth of the US-Saudi Special Relationship, 1889-1955” Uday Chandra: Lunch Talk “Fascism 2.0: Lessons from Democracy in India” Uday Chandra: CURA Workshop “The Art of Hearing and Seeing Data”

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS THROUGH CIRS BOOKS Oruc, Firat, ed. 2019. Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East. Oxford University Press/Hurst.

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2020. Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics. London: Routledge.

Kamrava, Mehran. 2020. A Concise History of Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. King, Marcus Dubois, ed. 2020. Water and Conflict in the Middle East. London: Hurst.

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2019. The “Resource Curse” in the Persian Gulf. London: Routledge.

Saouli, Adham, ed. 2020. Unfulfilled Aspirations: Middle Power Politics in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press/Hurst.

Reiche, Danyel and Tamir Sorek, eds. 2019. Sports, Politics and Society in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Hurst.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES Kamrava, Mehran. guest ed. 2019. “Nation-Building in Central Asia.” CIRS Special Issue of The Muslim World 110, no. 1.

Shabana, Ayman guest ed. 2020. “Science and Scientific Production in the Middle East.” CIRS Special Issue of Sociology of Islam 8.

THE COVID PROJECT This CIRS project provides a focused understanding of how a subset of Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, and the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies are being affected by and responding to the ongoing global pandemic.

Contributors to the project include individuals from a number of international academic institutions, GU-Q faculty, and CIRS staff.

Collaborative Research Initiatives GU-Q engages in a number of fruitful research collaborations that lead to conferences, symposia, colloquia, publications, and research grants.

THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD WORKING GROUP The researchers of the Indian Ocean Working group at GU-Q meet regularly to discuss books, plan conferences, symposia, and other events that promote research around connectivities in the Indian Ocean World.

One of the aims is to provide a “remapping” of the region through case studies that offer a wide variety of perspectives on circularities and identities forged in the wider Indian Ocean region. The group’s core team is from GU-Q, Qatar University, and Northwestern University in Qatar.

FUNDED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Managing National Security Risk during and after the Blockade: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Qatar’s Energy Sector

Structure of the Nuclear Family in the Wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies Principal Investigator: Ayman Shabana

Principal Investigator: Rory Miller This project (NPRP12S-0210-190067) examines the challenges and opportunities that Qatar’s energy sector has encountered in managing national security risk since the start of the blockade launched against it in June 2017 and how the evolving strategic environment will result in new challenges and opportunities in the future.

New genetic and reproductive technologies pose considerable challenges to the established structure of Islamic regulations concerning the nuclear family, marital connections, and lineage regulations, especially traditional definitions of both paternity and maternity and the extent to which these two concepts should be tied to marriage. This project (NPRP8-1478-6-053) aimed to identify research lacunae in current scholarship on this important topic and suggest ways to fill these gaps.

Uday Chandra, Annual Faculty Conference

RESEARCH GRANTS Exploring the Feminine in Islam Principal Investigator: Sohaira Siddiqui This German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant concluded in January 2020. Informal Security Alliances in the Arab and Muslim World Principal Investigator: Rory Miller This $37,910 USD Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded project on alliances in the Arab and Muslim World concluded in August 2019.

Philosophical Responses to Empiricism in Kant, Hegel and Sellars Recipient: Jeremy Koons $3,300 USD in funding for the NEH Summer Seminar led by James O’Shea, University College Dublin, and Willem DeVries, University of New Hampshire. India’s Politics in Its Vernaculars Co-investigator: Uday Chandra This $1.67 million USD European Research Council five-year research grant investigates the terminology used by India’s politicians. The project started in February 2020 and involves 20 scholars across four continents.

Student Development The vast majority of the academic activities and initiatives in this report are open to students and they are encouraged to participate. Members of the GU-Q faculty are committed to expanding opportunities for student learning beyond the classroom. Students are engaged outside the classroom in a number of ways considered essential for their growth as intellectually curious and socially conscious individuals. GU-Q faculty are also active in advising student-led conferences, organizations, and clubs through which students pursue interests in various intellectual, cultural and social realms. Nurturing the research and writing skills of their own students as well as contributing to the development of the broader education landscape in Qatar is a top priority for GU-Q faculty. Their efforts are contributing to the development of future generations of academics, both Qatari and non-Qatari. Mentoring student theses at GU-Q is an activity faculty greatly value, and one that has produced a fine body of student research and writing. Faculty also act as mentors and examiners for graduate theses produced at other institutions. The Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace program is a further initiative that combines creditbearing classroom learning with field work in the area of focus. Together, these activities help students to develop their skills and provides an opportunity to serve in leadership roles in Qatar and beyond.

Irene Promodh, SFS’21

ZONES OF CONFLICT, ZONES OF PEACE (ZCZP)

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP)

The Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace (ZCZP) program at GU-Q enables students to study conflict management and resolution in their real-life application across the globe in zones of ethnic, political, religious, and social conflict, with the goal of better understanding both the causes of the conflict and the difficult process of reconciliation.

The Community Engagement Program (CEP) program addresses the needs and issues affecting local and international communities, and encourages global citizenship. With a base in Georgetown’s Jesuit values, the program emphasizes critical reflection through personal, experience-based learning, analytical writing, and discussion.

Each spring, a faculty member teaches the course on a topic of their expertise and then leads a student group travel experience with staff from the Office of Student Development to the country or region under study.

Each spring, a faculty member chooses a topic and integrates a global experiential learning component, leading a travel group with staff from the Office of Student Development to the country or region under study to bridge academic learning with the lived realities of those affected by the subject of study.

SPRING 2020 Rogaia Abusharaf taught the ZCZP course Narratives of Genocide and Revolution in Postcolonial Zanzibar (CULP 226). The course focused on the lessons of the expulsion of Arabs during the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar. Due to the COVID19 pandemic the accompanying trip was cancelled.

SPRING 2020 Dennis McCornac taught the CEP course Economies of East Asia (ECON 377). Students examined the economies of East Asia with a focus on Cambodia’s current economic environment, contemporary reconciliation, and development efforts post the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge genocide. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the accompanying trip was cancelled.

THESIS MENTORING HONORS IN THE MAJOR THESIS TOPICS In the 2019-2020 academic year, ten GU-Q students received Honors in the Major and were mentored by eight faculty members. International Politics • Wesley Chen. “The United States, China, and the New Rules of World Trade.” Mentor: Uday Chandra • Al Anoud Al Kuwari. “Righteous Diplomacy: Human Rights and International Relations in Post-2017 Qatar.” Mentor: Uday Chandra • Ameena Almeer. “Loyal to the Royals: Nationalism in the Collective Imaginary of Post- “Blockade” Qatar.” Mentor: Gerd Nonneman Culture and Politics • Aiza Khan. “Beyond Activity and Passivity: The Oral Life History of an Afghan Refugee Woman in Pakistan.” Mentor: M. Reza Pirbhai • Sara Abdelghany. “Making Space: Muslim-Americans and ‘Progressive’ Gender Activism in Mosques after 9/11.” Mentor: Karine Walther International History • Murchhana Dash. “Navigating Ethnic Minority Literature in the Modern Chinese State, 1978-Present.” Mentor: Max Oidtmann • Sara Mohammed Al-Attiyah. “Dorothy Thompson’s Second Awakening: Activism on Behalf of Palestine (19391961).” Mentor: Karine Walther

International Economics • Noor Rajab Al-Esmail. “Export Growth and Educational Attainment in Vietnam.” Mentor: Alexis Antoniades • Nadine El-Dehaibi. “Gender and Competitive Attitudes: A Cross-Cultural Approach.” Mentor: Mongoljin Batsaikhan • Salma Hassan. “Migration and Wage Determination: Wage Seeking Attitudes of Migrants in Egypt.” Mentor: Jose Asturias

CERTIFICATE RESEARCH PROJECTS In the 2019-2020 academic year, 11 GU-Q students completed their Certificate Capstone Research and were mentored by seven faculty members. Certificate in American Studies • Sara Al-Mulla. Thesis: “A Most Nefarious Business: The Origins of Georgetown University's 1838 Slave Sale.” Mentor: Karine Walther Certificate in Arab and Regional Studies • Amna Fallah. “The Islamization of the Qatar Central Bank.” Mentor: Jack Rossbach • Dana Y. Darwish. “Contemporary Gulf Politics: Political Reform in the Gulf.” Mentor: Mehran Kamrava • Abeedah Diab. “Theorizing Civil Society in Syria.” Mentor: Firat Oruc • Fiza Shazad. “Arab and Jewish Responses to British Policy Making in Palestine: Anti-Imperial Insurgency during the Later Mandate Period 193647.” Mentor: Rory Miller

Certificate in Media and Politics The Certificate in Media and Politics is offered jointly with Northwestern University in Qatar. Students may complete an E-Portfolio or Thesis Capstone Research Project. • Lolwa Al-Saigh. E-Portfolio: “The Online Activism of Qatari Women.” Mentor: Rory Miller • Yasmine Fade. E-Portfolio: “Cash Cropping Culture: Interrogating Negrophilia in American Popular Culture.” Mentor: Rory Miller

• Danielle Wait. E-Portfolio: “Beauty and The Bleach: Examining the Skin Bleach Phenomenon through Global Media Contexts.” Mentor: Firat Oruc • Leena Noureldin. E-Portfolio: “Media and The Sudanese Revolution.” Mentor: Rogaia Abusharaf • Khansa Maria. Thesis: “Exploring the Intersection: Migration & Identity Formation and the Role of Media in the Postcolonial World.” Mentor: Uday Chandra • Irene Promodh. Thesis: “The Malayali Diaspora and FM Radio in Qatar: At Home Overseas?” Mentor: Uday Chandra

STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS GU-Q was awarded three new Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) grants from Qatar National Research Fund during the 2019-2020 year, and work was completed on three other grants from previous cycles.

UREP GRANTS 2019-2020 Baladna: Qatari Articulations of Sovereignty and Self-Sufficiency in the Wake of the Siege

Humanizing Resources: Analyzing Employment Opportunities for the Disabled in Qatar

Faculty Mentor: Rogaia Abusharaf

Faculty Mentor: Sonia Alonso

The project explored the significance of the farm as a case study for the State's efforts to implement food-security measures all the while securing its sovereignty over the control of food production. Although Baladna was established before the blockade, its role in supplying much needed dairy products assumed paramount importance after it. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches in political science, economics, food sciences, and anthropology, this project is the first of its kind to document broader national visions through the lens of a dairy farm.

The last census with reference to disabilities, conducted in 2010, found out how many disabled people from a total of 1.78 million nationals and residents lived in Qatar. According to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, the employment percentage for people with disabilities in 2011 was 25% in Qatar, clearly indicating that more is needed to remedy the situation. The overarching purpose of this study is to gauge the effectiveness of current efforts to promote equality with regards to people with disabilities in wider Qatari society.

Understanding Royalist, Nationalist, and Tribal Affiliations in the Post Blockade States of the Gulf Faculty Mentor: Amira Sonbol Prior to the blockade, GCC citizens could freely associate themselves with other Gulf countries by means of a collective Khaleeji (Persian Gulf) identity or through associating themselves with family members from other countries within the Gulf. However, popular discourses within the Gulf since June of 2017 suggest that there has been a sharp rise in nationalist and royalist sentiments throughout the region, most notably in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. This project examines the effects of the blockade on these sentiments by collecting data on GCC citizens’ perceptions of royalism, nationalism, and loyalties towards their tribal affiliations.

COMPLETED UREP PROJECTS Jidariya: Every Day is National Day in Qatar

Qatar's Establishment of Infant Industries in Response to the Blockade September 2018-2019 Faculty Mentor: Alexis Antoniades The project examined the establishment of infant industries in the country as a response to the blockade against the State of Qatar and how the State can protect them from competition until they are able to mature and compete. Investigating the Resilience of Qatar’s Trade Network January 2019-2020 Faculty Mentor: Jack Rossbach This project investigated the resiliency of Qatar's trade network using state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical tools from economics. A model to simulate the 2017 crisis and blockade of Qatar by neighboring countries was used and the predictions of the model were compared to Qatar's response to the crisis in order to qualitatively evaluate the performance of the model.

September 2018-2019 Faculty Mentors: Rogaia Abusharaf, Suzi Mirgani, Yehia Mohamed This research project examined some of the most important subjects in visual anthropology, a field that devotes itself to examination of the nuances of cultural and social phenomena, through the deployment of documentary films and photography to convey important messages about the “vernacular of everyday life” in societies experiencing fundamental transformation.

STUDENT CLUB FACULTY MENTORSHIP In addition to teaching, GU-Q faculty members devote their time to supporting students in their self-organizing and leadership development efforts outside of the classroom, including acting as club advisors. During the 2019-2020-year, faculty members acted as advisors for the following student clubs: • • • • • • • • •

African Students Association - Phoebe Musandu and Akintunde Akinade Animal Welfare Society - Victoria Googasian Arabic for All - Yehia Mohamed and Hana Zabarah Black Students Association - Phoebe Musandu Brainfood - Julien Moutte Diversity Initiative - Rogaia Abusharaf Georgetown Gazette - Anatol Lieven Hoyas Beyond the Margins - Sohaira Siddiqui Hoya Spikers - Alexis Antoniades

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Legal and Political Science Association Kai-Henrik Barth Literature and Poetry Club - Victoria Googasian Muslim Students Association - Sohaira Siddiqui Peace and Conflict Club - Uday Chandra Photography Club - Kai-Henrik Barth SFS Hoya Starfleet - Kai-Henrik Barth South Asian Society – M. Reza Pirbhai Track and Field Club - Jose Asturias and Max Oidtmann

Academic and Community Service GU-Q faculty are actively involved in providing academic and community services locally and internationally, contributing to global research production. Faculty members hold editorial roles, are members of scholarly associations and scientific councils, and advise the programs of numerous universities.

BOARD, COUNCIL, AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS Akintunde Akinade, Member of the International Advisory Board, Trinity Journal of Church and Theology Akintunde Akinade, Member of the Advisory Board, World Christianity Book Series, Penn State University Akintunde Akinade, External Examiner, MA Thesis, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Islamic Studies. Student: Muhammad Waseem Ashraf. March 24, 2020 Akintunde Akinade, Dissertation Committee, Fuller Theological Seminary, “Staurocentric Pathways to Peacebuilding: PeacebuildingContextual Theology in Nigeria’s Context of Acute Violence,” Candidate: Uchenna Anyanwu. April 13, 2020

Max Oidtmann, President, Manchu Studies Group M. Reza Pirbhai, Member, Board of Governors, Pakistan International School, Doha, Qatar. Karine Walther, Chair, Michael Hogan Fellowship Committee for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Karine Walther, Member, Council of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

EDITORS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS Akintunde Akinade, Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Sohaira Siddiqui, Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Islam and Society

Abdullah Al-Arian, Editor, Critical Currents in Islam page, Jadaliyya e-zine

Sohaira Siddiqui, Contributing Editor, Harvard Islamic Law Blog

M. Reza Pirbhai, Member, Editorial Board, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World

Sohaira Siddiqui, General Editor, Sapientia Islamica

IN THE MEDIA Faculty members are often called on to serve as experts for television, newspapers, magazines, podcasts, radio, and online media, with national, regional and global reach. They also publish their own analysis and opinion pieces in major publications worldwide. BLACK LIVES MATTER Maurice Jackson “A Just Response to the DC Protests,” Washington Post “How Divisive is Politics in the United States?” Al Jazeera CORONAVIRUS Mehran Kamrava “Coronavirus Outbreak Casts Doubt on Trump’s Victory,” Mehr News Agency Anatol Lieven “The Pandemic and International Competition: How the U.S. Can Save Itself with a ‘Green New Deal’,” Responsible Statecraft Karl Widerquist “America is in Crisis. We Need Universal Basic Income Now,” The Guardian EDUCATION Ian Almond “On the Quiet Capture of the History of the West–by the Islamophobic Right,” Islamic Human Rights Commission

ENVIRONMENT Anatol Lieven “Nature’s Fury,” The National Interest “Patriotism Could Be the Unlikely Answer to Solving the Climate Crisis,” The Guardian “How to Heal the Planet,” Financial Times “How Climate Change Will Transform the Global Balance of Power,” Financial Times IRAN Mehran Kamrava “No U.N. Breakthrough as Iran Snubs Talks until U.S. Lifts Sanctions,” Al Jazeera “Do Sanctions against Iran Work?” Al Jazeera REGIONAL GOVERNANCE Mehran Kamrava “Oman’s Sultan Haitham and the Strategic Musandam Peninsula,” Al Jazeera “The Gulf after Oil,” Monocle “The Ongoing GCC Crisis,” ARD German Public Radio Abdullah Al-Arian “Mohamed Morsi: An Egyptian Tragedy,” Al Jazeera English “Hosni Mubarak’s Legacy is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,” Al Jazeera English “Political Islam and the Endurance of American Empire,” Jadaliyya

REGIONAL SECURITY Rory Miller “Negotiating Insecurity—Small States and Multinational Security Coalitions in the Middle East,” Middle East Insights

U.S. GOVERNMENT Joshua Mitchell “Citizens Adrift: Globalization Dissolves Local Cultures, Even as Technology Turns Us Inward,” City Journal

SPORTS AND CULTURE M. Reza Pirbhai “Why Art Is Indispensable to Progress,” Qatar Foundation Stories

“Why Conservatives Struggle with Identity Politics,” National Affairs

Danyel Reiche ‫ﻟﻣﺎذا ﻋﺎد اﻟدوري اﻷﻟﻣﺎﻧﻲ دون ﺳواه؟‬ “Why did the German Soccer League Return Alone?” Al Mayadeen News

“Is Christian Realism Enough?” Providence Magazine

“Embarrassed by Our Nations,” First Things

GU-Q INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD Human subject research at the university is governed by the GU-Q Institutional Review Board (IRB). This review body has been established in accordance with the requirements of the Qatar Ministry of Public Health policy and governs research conducted or supported by GU-Q. The IRB is responsible for the review and approval of investigator protocols as well as development and implementation of university policy and procedures governing human subject research.

In 2019-2020, the IRB included the following GU-Q faculty members: • • • • • • • • • •

Jeremy Koons - Chair Ayman Shabana - Vice Chair Zahra Babar - Member Rory Miller - Member Anne Nebel - Member M. Reza Pirbhai - Alternate Member Jose Asturias - Alternate Member Hana Zabanah - Alternate Member Kristen Katapol - Alternate Member Hasan Mahmud - Alternate Member

Members of the IRB generally serve twoyear terms on a rolling basis. This practice allows the board to benefit from the fresh perspectives of new members, widely disseminate knowledge of committee policies and procedures among the faculty, and distribute the workload of regulatory compliance while still maintaining the continuity and institutional memory of the committees.

HELP PROGRAM GU-Q faculty members volunteer their time to teach members of the community who would otherwise not have access to quality instruction through the Hoya Empowerment and Learning Program (HELP). HELP is a student-led initiative that delivers English and Arabic language, as well as financial

and computer literacy classes for members of the GU-Q service provider community. Participating instructors spend four hours a week teaching classes. Uday Chandra is due recognition for dedicating his time and effort to the HELP program in 2019-2020.

GU-Q COMMUNITY EDUCATION INITIATIVES The Impact of Movement and Displacement on Education A partnership with Education Above All resulted in a joint event on “The Impact of Movement and Displacement on Education,” in the lead up to the official launch of UNESCO’s regional report on education. Panelists included: • Ahmad Dallal, Dean, GU-Q • Susan L. Karamanian, Dean, Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law • Noha Aboueldahab, Foreign Policy Fellow, Brookings Doha Center • Mustafe Axmed (SFS’21) Qatar and the Lessons From a 1,000 Day Blockade H.E. Dr. Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs, marked the 1,000th day of the blockade by speaking at GU-Q to a packed audience of students, faculty, staff, QF colleagues and special guests from the government and diplomatic sectors about “Qatar and the Lessons from a 1,000 Day Blockade.” The event was built on the Small State security course taught by Rory Miller and Fahad Al-Marri.

Arabic Book Club The Arabic Book Club (ABC) at GU-Q continued its regular meetings during the academic year in 2019-2020 in collaboration with the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. In January 2020, ABC started a new collaboration with the Qatar National Library, but club activities were unfortunately suspended due to the pandemic. The club meetings during this academic year discussed a variety of titles: • Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise by Sari Hanfi and Rigas Arvanitis • My Intellectual Journey by Abdelwahab El-Messiri • Al Mihna: Research into the PoliticalReligious Dialectic by Fahmi Jadaan • Contemporary Arab Society by Halim Barkat In addition to the news story produced by the GU-Q Office of Communications, which is covered in Doha newspapers, the Arabic Book Club also has a Facebook page, Soundcloud channel, and iTunes podcast. Hundreds of people around the world are already accessing the content and following the meetings.

Beyond the Headlines Series Designed to elicit student and faculty engagement in researching and thinking critically about the historical and political precedents of the news, Beyond the Headlines panel discussions feature experts from GU-Q and elsewhere giving insight on a current event, thereby modeling critical thinking and engagement to students.

This year the following faculty were involved as moderators and panelists:

Due to the pandemic “Beyond the Headlines” was put on hold during the 2020 spring semester.

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“Kashmir: What is going on?” Panelists: M. Reza Pirbhai, Uday Chandra, Sadam Hussain (Ashoka University), Taha Kaleem (SFS’22). “Does Internationalism have a future?” Panelists: Amanda Garrett, Joshua Mitchell, Edward Kolla. “Is this Africa’s democratic moment?” Panelists: Rogaia Abusharaf, Phoebe Musandu, Zachary Wright (NU-Q). “The Arab Spring 2.0.” Moderator: Max Oidtmann.

QATAR FOUNDATION FACULTY FORUM PARTICIPATION Offered several times each semester, the Qatar Foundation Faculty Forum invites faculty from across Qatar Foundation to present their research on shared areas of interest. In the academic year 2019-2020

the events took place at GU-Q, organized by Sonia Alonso and James ReardonAnderson. However, due to the pandemic, two sessions were cancelled.

BRIEFINGS AND CONSULTANCY Abdullah Al-Arian •

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“The Foreign Relations of Islamist Movements,” CCAS Newsletter, Georgetown University, May 2019 “Teaching the Middle East in the Middle East,” Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative, MESPI Newsletter 1.2, April 2020

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Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Economic Model Briefing, Ministry of Commerce and Industry Board Member Briefing, Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority (postponed due to COVID19) Member Briefing, American Chamber of Commerce (postponed due to COVID-19)

EXECUTIVE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Institute

Modern Protocol and Business Etiquette

Executive & Professional Education (EPE) at GU-Q developed a customized training program for the Diplomatic Institute of the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs aimed at Qatari diplomats and government leaders.

This open enrollment community course on protocol management taught participants how to optimize relationships by maximizing personal attention and systemizing logistics through lectures, case studies, group discussions, role play exercises, and an etiquette dinner exercise. Course instructors included:

The program includes four short intensive courses, which included the following faculty-taught courses:

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Advanced Skills and Rules of Political Analysis taught by Sonia Alonso

• Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Management taught by Anatol Lieven

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Christine Schiwietz, Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising Jean Paul Wijers, Director and Founder of the Protocol Bureau William Hanson, British Etiquette Expert

VIRTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING Faculty members, with the support of academic and technical units across GU-Q, adapted to the virtual environment and identified best practices in the Spring 2020 semester. In the transition to a virtual teaching and learning environment, digital tools, such as e-books and Zoom, were integrated and implemented and the use of Canvas was extended. Faculty increased one-on-one interactions and individualized learning through extended office hours and tutoring.

supported by the expertise of librarians to curate content, connect students with resources, and provide relevant tutorials. Thanks to the diligence and flexibility of the faculty, combined with the hard work and perseverance of the students, the global pandemic did not inhibit research, teaching, and learning at GU-Q, resulting in the successful completion of the academic year 2019-2020.

Students were offered both synchronous and asynchronous interactions and small group work. Furthermore, assignments were modified to include alternative ways of presenting. Faculty and students were

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