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Diplomacy and International Affairs (EMDIA)
GU-Q developed a new custom Executive Master’s in Diplomacy and International Affairs for the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Diplomatic Institute.
The program draws from the experts at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and the School of Foreign Service. It has received program approval through Georgetown University and the Qatar Ministry of Education and Higher Education for a one-year executive program with 18 courses and one capstone residency in Washington, DC.
International Emergency and Disaster Management (IEDM)
The International Emergency and Disaster Management professional degree offered through Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies educated its fourth cohort in 20202021. September of 2020 saw the third cohort of 20 graduates from the Ministry of Interior, Hamad Medical Corporation and diverse private sector organizations complete the program.
The success of the program assisted in the development of a customized emergency management degree for the Joaan Bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College.
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Georgetown University in Qatar
GU-Q facilitates a number of executive master’s degrees and custom programs, drawing from experts at Georgetown University.
In addition to Executive Master’s programs, the university provides targeted programs that respond to specific institutional needs of both public and private entities.
Custom Programs
EXPORT DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS
GU-Q helped to facilitate a series of webinars for Qatar Development Bank taught by faculty from the McDonough School of Business (MSB) and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. There were five two-hour webinars aimed at training QDB clients, Qatari entrepreneurs, and SME executives on export development. Topics included supply chain management, marketing, the global economy, future of global business, and innovation.
PROGRAMS FOR QATAR LEADERSHIP CENTER (QLC)
The McDonough School of Business taught a module on Strategic Analysis of Qatar’s Political and Economic Effectiveness on the Global Stage delivered by Professor Emeritus Stanley Nollen and Associate Professor Raj Desai for the QLC Executive Leaders program.
Under QLC’s Rising Leaders Program, MSB offered a module on Political Advocacy and Trade Development in Qatar delivered by Baratta Chair in Global Business Ricardo Ernst and Jeff Peck. Recruitment efforts for QLC’s Executive Master’s in Leadership included a webinar with Brooks Holtom discussing “Human Capital and High Performing Teams” and an online interactive session on “Business, Governance and Global Economy” by Mark Busch, the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown.
Outreach Using a Qatari Dialect Phrasebook App
The Qatari Phrasebook, a free mobile application for Android and iOS devices developed through GU-Q’s Arabic language program under the guidance of Arabic Language Instructor Hany Fazza, has been updated with a new French language interface, and other layout enhancements.
The Qatari Phrasebook app is a quick reference guide that provides users with both the written and spoken form of more than 1500 common Arabic words and phrases in the Qatari dialect which has over 40,000 downloads and is expected to be used during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Fazza also used the app to train FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020 match volunteer hosts on commonly used Arabic phrases in Qatar.
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Georgetown University in Qatar
Appendices
Appendix I: Student Research ............................................. 63 Appendix II: Faculty Publications......................................... 65 Appendix III: CIRS Research ................................................ 68
