Research Dissemination

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book chapters by GU-Q faculty this year

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books facilitated by CIRS this year (two were edited by GU-Q faculty members)

PUBLICATIONS

GU-Q faculty and CIRS researchers produce scholarship across a range of disciplines. Their work addresses topics that include economics, literature, bioethics, history, law, media, politics, and religion, with a particular focus on Qatar and the wider region.

GU-Q’s annual research output constitutes a robust body of work, which in turn, contributes to Qatar’s emergence as a global center of knowledge production.

12 books authored or edited by GU-Q scholars in 2018-2019

BOOKS (AUTHORED & EDITED) Gómez, Braulio, Laura Cabeza, and Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger, eds. 2019. En busca del poder territorial. Cuatro décadas de elecciones autonómicas en España. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. Inside the Arab State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Koons, Jeremy. 2018. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars. New York: Routledge. Meadows, Patrick. Le Testament D’Allan Berg. Paris: Infolio, 2018. Miller, Rory, ed. 2018. The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar. Doha: HBKU Press. Mirgani, Suzi, ed. 2018. Art and Cultural Production in the GCC. New York: Routledge. Musandu, Phoebe. 2018. Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector. Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. London: Cambridge University Press. Siddiqui, Sohaira, ed. 2019. Locating the Shari’a: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice. Boston: Brill. Widerquist, Karl. 2018. A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. CIRS FACILITATED BOOKS Buehler, Matt.* 2018. Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa. Ithaca: Syracuse University Press. Oruc, Firat, ed. 2019. Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press/Hurst. Verhoeven, Harry, ed. 2018. Environmental Politics in the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press/ Hurst.

BOOK CHAPTERS Almond, Ian. 2018. “Looking at Myth in Modern Mexican Literature.” In Language and Literature in a Glocal World, edited by Sandhya Rao Mehta. Singapore: Springer. 139-161.

Babar, Zahra. 2018. “Enduring ‘Contested’ Citizenship in the GCC.” In The Middle East in Transition: The Centrality of Citizenship, edited by Nils A. Butenschøn and Roel Meijer. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 115-132.

Laude, Patrick. 2018. “A Gnostic Concept of the Avatāra: Meditating Frithjof Schuon’s ‘Divine Anthropology.’” In Oikosophia - From the Intelligence of the Heart to Ecophilosophy, edited by Daniela Boccassini. Milan, Italy: Mimesis Edizioni. 285-307.

Lieven, Anatol. 2019. “Pakistan’s Counter-Insurgency Victory.” In Countering Insurgencies and Violent Extremism in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. New York: Routledge. 166-190.

Lieven, Anatol. 2019. “The Afghan Peace Process.” In Comparing Peace Processes, edited by Alpaslan Ozerdem and Roger MacGinty. New York: Routledge. 37-56.

BOOK EARNS FIFTH AWARD

Professor of Critical Theory, Mohamed Zayani, won the International Communication Book Award from the International Studies Association for his book, Networked Publics and Digital Contention—the fifth major award the book has received to date.

Zayani’s book narrates the story of the co-evolution of technology and society in Tunisia, explores the emergence of digital media and new forms of online engagement, and charts how all of this has impacted the relationship between the state and its subjects.

Miller, Rory. 2018. “Introduction.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller. Doha: HBKU Press. 9-16. R e s earch

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR Miller, Rory. 2018. “Qatar, the Gulf Crisis and Small State Behavior in International Affairs.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller. Doha: HBKU Press. 89-97. Shabana, Ayman. 2018. “Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition.” In Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Anver Emon and Rumee Ahmed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 231-248.

Nonneman, Gerd. 2018. “The Qatar Crisis Through the Lens of Foreign Policy Analysis.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller. Doha: HBKU Press. 90-100.

Nonneman, Gerd and John E. Peterson. 2018. “Saudi Arabia: History.” In The Middle East and North Africa 2019, 65th ed., edited by Europa Publications. London: Routledge. 991-1005.

Pirbhai, Mohammed Reza. 2018. “A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire.” In The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 493-510.

Ruiz-Rufino, Rubén and Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger. 2019. “Gobiernos impotentes, ciudadanos desconcertados: la percepción ciudadana de la autonomía de los gobiernos en la Eurozona (2002- 2014).” In Política de la Unión Europea: crisis y continuidad, edited by Cristina Ares and Luis Bouza. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. 1-17.

Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “Transformation of the Concept of the Family in the Wake of Genomic Sequencing: An Islamic Perspective.” In Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question, edited by Mohammed Ghaly. Leiden: Brill. 80-112. Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “The Place of Custom in Islamic Law: Past and Present.” In Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ahmad Atif Ahmad, and Said Fares Hassan. New York: Routledge. 286-300.

Shabana, Ayman. 2019. “Bioethics and Islamic Law.” In Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ahmad Atif Ahmad, and Said Fares Hassan. New York: Routledge. 112-124.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2018. “Religious Arguments and Counter Arguments During the Gulf Crisis.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller. Doha: HBKU Press. 49-57.

Verhoeven, Harry. 2018. “The Other Gulf Cold War: GCC Rivalries in Africa.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller. Doha: HBKU Press. 136-144.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Akinade, Akintunde E. 2018. “Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization.” Religions, 11.

Aktas, Emel, Hafize Sahin, Zeynep Topaloglu, Akunna Oledinma, Abul Kalam Samsul Huda, Zahir Irani, Amir M. Sharif, Tamara van’t Wout, and Mehran Kamrava. 2018. “A Consumer Behavioural Approach to Food Waste.” Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 31 (5).

Almond, Ian. 2018. “Divine Needs, Divine Illusions: Preliminary Observations on the Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Ibn Al’ Arabi.” Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches, 2 (3).

Babar, Zahra, Michael Ewers, and Nabil Khattab. 2019. “Im/mobile Highly Skilled Migrants in Qatar.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (9).

Chandra, Uday. 2018. “Review EssayMegan Moodie, ‘We Were Adivasi: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe’.” Journal of South Asian Development, 13 (3).

Fahy, John. 2018. “International Relations and Faith-based Diplomacy: The Case of Qatar.” The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 16 (3).

Hassan, Islam. 2018. “Review of Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula by Karen Exell.” Museum and Society, 16 (3).

Hassan, Islam. 2018. “Social Stratification in Qatari Society: Family, Marriage, and Khalījī Culture,” HAWWA: CIRS Special Issue, 16 (144–169).

Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. “Multipolarity and Instability in the Middle East.” Orbis, 62(4). Laude, Patrick. 2018. “Qu’est-Ce Que L’absolu?” Ultreia!, 15.

Miller, Rory and Harry Verhoeven. 2019. “Overcoming Smallness: Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Strategic Realignment in the Gulf.” International Politics, 56 (4).

Musandu, Phoebe. 2018. “Tokenism or Representation? The Political Careers of the First African Women in Kenya’s Legislative Council (LEGCO), 1958–1962.” Women’s History Review, 28 (4).

Nonneman, Gerd. 2019. “Europe and the Middle East in the Face of Regional Shifts and U.S. Policy Under Trump.” Chuto Dokobunseki, 17 (10). https://jime.ieej.or.jp/en/report_detail. php?article_info__id=10818

Oruc, Firat. 2018. “Rewriting the Legacy of the Turkish Exile of Comparative Literature: Philology and Nationalism in Istanbul, 1933–1946.” Journal of World Literature, 3 (3).

Oruc, Firat. 2019. “Transoceanic Orientalism and Embodied Translation in Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete’s Memoirs.” HAWWA, 17 (1).

Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2018. “Sunni Authority’s Legitimate Plurality.” Oasis: Christians and Muslims in the Global World, 27. https://www.oasiscenter.eu/ en/sunni-islam-many-authorities R e s earch

Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. “Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf.” Journal of Arabian Studies: CIRS Special Issue, 8 (S1). Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Navigating Colonial Power: Challenging Precedents and the Limitation of Local Elites.” Journal of Islamic Law and Society, 26 (3).

Koons, Jeremy. 2018. “Theism and the Criminalization of Sin.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 10 (1). Van Parijs, Philippe, and Karl Widerquist. 2019. “Why Private Property?” Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, 1. ∕

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articles in 22 peer-reviewed journals by GU-Q faculty and CIRS scholars this year

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Verhoeven, Harry. 2018. “The Gulf and the Horn: Changing Geographies of Security Interdependence and Competing Visions of Regional Order.” Civil Wars, 20 (3).

Wanucha, Elizabeth, and Zahra Babar. 2018. “Guest Editors’ Introduction; Family in the Arabian Peninsula: An Analytical Framework.” HAWWA: CIRS Special Issue, 16 (1–25).

Widerquist, Karl and Thomas Straubhaar. 2018. “Universal Basic Income–New Answer to New Questions for the German Welfare State in the 21st Century.” CESifo Forum, 19 (3).

special issues of scholarly journals produced by CIRS

Widerquist, Karl. 2018. “The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments.” CESifo Forum, 19 (3).

K-10 QATAR ARABIC TEXTBOOK SERIES Associate Professor of Arabic, Mahmoud Al-Ashiri, led the curricular development and testing of the official Arabic Textbook series for Native Arabic speakers, grades K-10, in Qatar. Sponsored by the Qatar Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the textbook series includes scannable barcodes that allow users to download video and audio content.

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Widerquist, Karl. 2019. “The Pursuit of Accord: Toward a Theory of Justice with a Second-Best Approach to the Insider-Outsider Problem.” Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, 1.

Wolf, Michael P. and Jeremy Koons. 2018. “The Ordinary Language Case for Contextualism and the Relevance of Radical Doubt.” Contemporary Pragmatism, 15 (1).

CIRS SPECIAL ISS UES Wanucha, Elizabeth, and Zahra Babar, eds. 2018. “CIRS Special Issue: Family in the Arabian Peninsula.” HAWWA, 16.

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2018. “CIRS Special Issue: The Resource Curse in the Persian Gulf.” Journal of Arabian Studies, 8 (S1).

FACULTY BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS

Faculty book launches showcase the successful publication of books authored or edited by faculty, and involve members of the community.

• Arabic Textbooks K-10, edited by Mahmoud Al-Ashiri • A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments, by Karl Widerquist • Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, by Max Oidtman • Environmental Politics in the Middle East, by Harry Verhoeven, ed. • Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf, by Mehran Kamrava

CIRS REPORTS

CIRS facilitates and publishes research of regional and international significance in the form of peer-reviewed occasional papers and summary reports in Arabic and in English. This work is available to the public and includes:

OCCASIONAL PAPERS Benthall, Jonathan. 2018. The Rise and Decline of Saudi Overseas Humanitarian Charities. Occasional Paper Series, no. 20. Doha: CIRS.

Goldsmith, Leon T. 2018. The ‘Alawī Shaykhs of Religion: A Brief Introduction.

شـيوخ الديـن العلويـن: مقدمـة موجزة. (Translated by Naser Dumairieh). Occasional Paper Series, no. 21. Doha: CIRS.

ARABIC SUMMARY REPORT TRANSLATIONS .٢٠١٨الشـباب يف الرشق األوسـط، [Youth in the Middle East.] Summary Report, no. 15. Doha: CIRS.

العدالـة االنتقاليـة يف الرشق األوسـط .٢٠١٨وشـال أفريقيا، [Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa.] Summary Report, no. 16. Doha: CIRS. .٢٠١٨اللعبـة الكـرى يف غرب آسـيا، [The Great Game in West Asia.] Summary Report, no. 17. Doha: CIRS. اإلنتـاج الفنـي والثقـايف يف دول مجلس .٢٠١٨التعـاون الخليجـي، [Art and Cultural Production in the GCC.] Summary Report, no. 18. Doha: CIRS. .٢٠١٩ديناميكيـات األمـن املتغـرة يف الخليج، [ The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf.] Summary Report, no. 19. Doha: CIRS. إشـكاليات سياسـات الرعايـة الصحيـة يف .٢٠١٨دول مجلـس التعـاون الخليجـي، [Critical Issues in Healthcare Policy and Politics in the GCC States.] Summary Report, no. 20. Doha: CIRS.

النجمـة الحمـراء والهـال: الصـن و الرشق .٢٠١٨األوسط، [The Red Star and the Crescent: China and the Middle East.] Summary Report, no. 21. Doha: CIRS. .٢٠١٨الرشق األوسـط الرقمي، [Digital Middle East.]Summary Report, no. 22. Doha: CIRS .٢٠١٨عيـة يف شـال أفريقيا، امـارات االجت ّ التي [Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring.] Summary Report, no. 23. Doha: CIRS. M a h m o u d A l - A s h i r i

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occasional papers and summary reports facilitated by CIRS in 2018-2019

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES & INITIATIVES

The Arabic Heritage Education Conference is the first of its kind in the region at the academic level. It tackles the issues of Arabic heritage learners, a group rapidly growing in the Arab world due to cultural and social changes in recent years.

—Yehia Mohamed, Associate Professor of Arabic Faculty research and expertise is disseminated through participation in conferences, symposia, workshops, study groups, and other similar activities in Doha and around the world. GU-Q hosts a variety of academic events for its faculty, staff, and students, as well as for the broader community in Qatar. Events include the faculty seminar series, faculty book launches, and conversations with colleagues from leading global institutions. In 2018-2019, GU-Q hosted the following events:

ANNUAL FACULTY RESEARCH CONFERENCE Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought, this year’s faculty research conference, brought together leading scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries. The two-day conference featured research on topics in social and intellectual history, law and politics, reason and ethics, and culture and literature, all in the Muslim world across these centuries. The conference involved the British Library and leading universities from Qatar, the U.S., Europe, and more.

ARABIC HERITAGE EDUCATION CONFERENCE The Arabic language faculty organized the first annual conference, Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects. The two-day conference held in April 2019, convened leading scholars and educators to address the special learning requirements of students who speak colloquial Arabic and/or have a cultural connection to the language yet often lack proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). GU-Q offers robust Arabic programming including MSA Foreign Language, MSA Heritage Language, and the option of a minor in Arabic. Gábor Ágoston, Faculty Research Conference

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOOK SERIES WORKSHOP This year, GU-Q hosted a launch workshop for the Cambridge University Press Book Series on Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East. GU-Q professors Rory Miller and Harry Verhoeven collaborated with professor Clive Jones of Durham University to recruit talented authors to the project.

The workshop featured experts from GU-Q and:

• Durham University • Qatar University • King’s College London • University of Pretoria • Austrian National Defense Academy • Paris Institute of Political Studies

9 GU-Q faculty members were moderators for events in the 2018-2019 Faculty Seminar Series

Sohaira Siddiqui, Faculty Seminar Series

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES The Faculty Seminar Series provides a forum for discussion and offers GU-Q faculty the opportunity to present research, receive feedback from peers, and connect with colleagues from various regional and international universities. This year’s series incuded the following presentations:

Current Approaches to World Literature: Reviewing the Debates Presenter: Ian Almond, GU-Q

The Past as Prologue: NATO Enlargement and the Origins of Russian Revisionism Presenter: Joshua Shifrinson, Boston University Moderator: Amanda Garrett, GU-Q

Pluralism and Contentious Politics in France Presenter: Amanda Garrett, GU-Q

Oil Documentaries of Arabia Presenter: Firat Oruc, GU-Q

Revolutionary Nonviolence Presenter: Mark Lance, Georgetown University Moderator: Jeremy Koons, GU-Q

Shaikh Qasim Al-Thani and the Emergence of Qatar Presenter: James Reardon-Anderson, GU-Q

Staging the Incas in Colonial Lima Presenter: Maria Soledad Barbón, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Moderator: Ian Almond, GU-Q

Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania Presenter: Shilpa Aggarwal, Indian School of Business Moderator: Jose Asturias, GU-Q

Intersectional Theology Presenter: Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham School of Religion Moderator: Akintunde Akinade, GU-Q

Just Labour Markets: Asset Equality vs. Workplace Democracy? Presenter: Christian Schemmel, University of Manchester Moderator: Karl Widerquist, GU-Q

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Developing Future Pasts: Recalibration of Islamic Tradition in Intensive Education Settings Presenter: Zainab Kabba, Cambridge Muslim College Moderator: Sohaira Siddiqui, GU-Q

From ‘Ergenekon’ to ‘Mastermind’: Political Melodramas of Conspiracy in Turkey Presenter: Erdağ Göknar, Duke University Moderator: Firat Oruc, GU-Q

countries represented by visiting participants at the Annual Faculty Research Conference

ACADEMIC SERVICE TO THE PROFESS ION GU-Q faculty serve in editorial roles on academic journals, are active members of scholarly associations and scientific councils, and advise on the programming of at least five universities.

ACADEMIC JOURNALS

ADVISORY & EDITORIAL BOARD Abusharaf, Rogaia. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill.

Agoston, Gabor. Turkish Historical Review. Cambridge: University of Cambridge/Brill. Miller, Rory. Middle Eastern Studies. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

Mirgani, Suzi. Journal of Arabian Studies. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

Nonneman, Gerd. Civil Wars. New York: Taylor Francis.

Volume 4 Issue 2 December 2014 ISSN 4764-2153

Arabian Studies Journal of Arabia, the Gulf, and the Red Sea

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editorial roles on 19 scholarly journals are held by GU-Q faculty

Agoston, Gabor. Hadtörténelmi Közlemények/Quarterly of Military History. Budapest: Zrinyi Honvéd Kiadó.

Alonso, Sonia. Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi. Castello de la Plana: Jaume I University.

Chandra, Uday. Contention. New York/ Oxford: Berghahn.

Chandra, Uday. Journal of Contemporary Asia. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

Garrett, Amanda. EuropeNow. New York: Council for European Studies.

Kamrava, Mehran. Journal of Arabian Studies. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

Lieven, Anatol. Russia in Global Affairs. Kent: Foreign Policy Research Foundation.

Miller, Rory. Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Book Series. Nonneman, Gerd. Ethnopolitics. New York: Taylor Francis.

Nonneman, Gerd. Journal of Arabian Studies. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

Nonneman, Gerd. International Affairs. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs Review and Advisory Board for Middle East and North Africa.

Pirbhai, M. Reza. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill.

Shabana, Ayman. Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics. Oxford Islamic Studies Online.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. Sapientia Islamica: Studies on Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Siddiqui, Sohaira. ShariaSource. Cambridge: Harvard Law School.

Sonbol, Amira. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill.

Miller, Rory. Middle East Papers Series. Durham: University of Durham.

Verhoeven, Harry. Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Book Series.

Wilcox, Clyde. Extrapolation. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Wilcox, Clyde. Social Science Quarterly. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. Lieven, Anatol. Valdai Discussion Club, Russia. Academic Advisory Board.

Miller, Rory. Annual Middle East Congress, Sakarya University, Turkey.

Nonneman, Gerd. College of Applied and Supporting Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia.

SCIENTIFIC COUNCILS

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Dallal, Ahmad. Arab Social Science Monitor. Beirut: Arab Council for the Social Sciences.

Nonneman, Gerd. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development, Qatar.

UNIVERSITY ADVISORY ROLES

Nonneman, Gerd. College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Promotions and Appointments Committee Member.

Nonneman, Gerd. Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University.

Walther, Karine. Michael Hogan Fellowship Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE MEMBER Laude, Patrick. Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Religious Studies at Nur Mubarak University, Kazakhstan.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Dallal, Ahmad. Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. Board of Trustees.

Kamrava, Mehran. International Advisory Board of the Foreign Service Academy of Kenya. Founding Member.

SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER Nonneman, Gerd. Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies.

Nonneman, Gerd. World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies.

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL MEMBER Alonso, Sonia. Apuntes Electorales. Toluca de Lerdo: Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico. R e s earch

FACULTY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

GU-Q provides an environment that facilitates and incentivizes meaningful research. Support includes the provision of research opportunities, resources, grant management, research dissemination, and more.

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INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (IRB) The Institutional Review Board (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.

FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS (FRGs) GU-Q annually awards Faculty Research Grants for new and ongoing projects, based on proposals, to support the research of full-time faculty members. The research reflects a variety of academic interests and issues of concern to Qatar and the broader region.

SCHOLARS BY PUBLICATION

GU-Q faculty and CIRS scholars wrote or edited a total of 65 publications in 2018-2019.

11 occasional papers or summary reports BOOKS

12 authored or edited

Max Oidtmann Book Launch

UNIVERSITY SUPPORT FOR FACULTY LIBRARY The library assigns a subject matter expert librarian to each member of the faculty to facilitate identification of relevant research resources.

FINANCE & RESEARCH COMPLIANCE The Office of Finance and Research Compliance assists researchers in the identification, submission, and administration of grants, and supports ethical compliance with international standards.

CIRS PAPERS

ARTICLES

25 articles written in scholarly journals

17 chapters written

BOOK CHAPTERS

65 publications 2018-2019 CIRS SUPPORT CIRS provides a number of research opportunities for faculty, including fellowships, lectures, book launch events, workshops, and more.

EVENTS & COMMUNICATIONS Events and Communications support faculty members in planning and publicizing research-related events.

American Indian Histories and Cultures Documents covering American Indians and their involvement in territorial disputes, U.S. Government relations, missionary activity, education, colonialism, and more.

American Indian Newspapers More than 9,000 issues of periodicals produced by and for Indiginious people between 1828 and 2016.

AMERICAN INDIANS The GU-Q Library added important academic collections to the existing repository of more than 1.9 million digital and 90,000 physical items. Students and faculty can access the libraries of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Qatar National Library (located next to GU-Q) that contains the largest collection of books and digital editions in the Middle East. The support librarians provide is integral to the GU-Q research environment.

ACADEMIC VIDEOS

More than 67,000 streaming video titles, including full-length films, documentaries, newsreels, and advertisements covering anthropology, history, business, film, health, music, and more.

The American West Maps, photographs, manuscripts, and other materials relating to exploration of the American West.

Borderlands, Settlement, and Colonial Encounters Documents relating to the European settlement of Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand—including maps, exploration diaries, diplomatic correspondence, and business records.

AMERICAN WEST FRONTIER LIFE

96,000 movies and documentaries available

GENDER

Identity and Social Change A collection of primary source documents on women’s suffrage, feminism, and gender history between the 1800s and the 2000s. POPULAR CULTURE

Popular Culture in Britain and America Underground content from in 1950-1975—including magazines, photographs, videos, and more—from libraries across the the U.K. and the U.S.

800 + databases in the library’s online collection

MARKET RESEARCH

Market Research and American Business Historical market research reports (1935–1965), authored by Ernest Dichter and the Institute for Motivational Research.

ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 49 RACE RELATIONS Race Relations in America (1943–1969) Surveys, speeches, audio records, and other documents from the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.