Faculty Annual Report 2018-2019
Faculty Annual Report 2018-2019 This is a report on the teaching, research, and service of faculty at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Contents MEET THE FACULTY ......................................... 1 ACADEMIC DEANS.......................................... 10 GU-Q 100 ...................................................... 11 PUBLICATIONS............................................... 13 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES . . ......... 19 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES................................. 37 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INITIATIVES.......... 39 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT................................. 43 ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.............. 48
Meet the Faculty 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 the broad disciplines of anthropology, economics, government, international relations and political science, history, languages and literature, philosophy, and theology. Faculty specializations include migration and diaspora studies, global markets, international trade and development economics (on the micro and macro levels), political economy, comparative and international politics, elite and agrarian politics, media and politics, the history and historiography of social movements, colonialism and nationalism, diplomatic history and world history, Arabic, English and French languages, literature and literary criticism, comparative world literature, ethics, distributive justice, bioethics, metaphysics, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian theology, law, mysticism, and institutions. Professional areas of interest range the globe: from the U.S. to China, Vietnam to India and Pakistan, Ireland and the U.K. to Spain and Russia, to virtually all points within the Middle East and the Gulf. Furthermore, faculty member qualifications to research and teach these subjects have been earned from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, while most have also been affiliated with eminent institutions before joining GU-Q.
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ANTHROPOLOGY ROGAIA M. ABUSHARAF Ph.D., University of Connecticut Professor of Anthropology Research Focus: 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 Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of Economics; Director and Curricular Chair of International Economics Research Focus: International macroeconomics; global markets; big data; and the economies of the Gulf countries
JOSE ASTURIAS
ZHAOYANG HOU Ph.D., George Washington University Assistant Professor of Economics Research Focus: Development economics; applied econometrics; and international economics, with a special interest in microeconomic development issues in China
SULAGNA MOOKERJEE
Ph.D., University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Rochester Assistant Professor of Economics
Research Focus: International trade and macroeconomics, with a special interest in growth
Research Focus: Applied microeconomics; and development economics
MONGOLJIN BATSAIKHAN
JACK ROSSBACH
Ph.D., Brown University Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Economics
Research Focus: Development and experimental economics, with a special interest in industrial organization; entrepreneurship; SMEs; and social capital
Research Focus: International trade and growth, with a focus on how linkages across firms and countries shape the global economy
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M. DANIEL WESTBROOK Ph.D., Ohio State University Associate Professor of Economics Research Focus: Applied micro-econometrics; and economic development in Vietnam
GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SONIA ALONSO SAENZ DE OGER Ph.D., Juan March Institute Associate Professor of Government Research Focus: 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 Ph.D., Yale University Assistant Professor of Government Research Focus: 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
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AMANDA GARRETT Ph.D., Harvard University Assistant Professor of Political Science Research Focus: Comparative and international politics, with a focus on the implications of migration and ethnic diversity in advanced democracies
MEHRAN KAMRAVA Ph.D., Cambridge University Professor of Government; Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) Research Focus: Comparative politics; political development; and Middle Eastern politics
ANATOL LIEVEN
HARRY VERHOEVEN
Ph.D., University of Cambridge Professor of Government
Ph.D., University of Oxford Associate Professor of Government
Research Focus: Islamist terrorism and insurgency; contemporary warfare; U.S. and Western strategy; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the greater Middle East, especially Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran
Research Focus: Elite politics; and ideology and international relations, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East
RORY MILLER Ph.D., King’s College London Professor of Government; Director of Certificate in Media and Politics Research Focus: 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
CLYDE WILCOX Ph.D., Ohio State University Professor of Government; Director of the Certificate in American Studies Research Focus: American and comparative politics, including religion and politics; gender politics; interest groups; public opinion and electoral behavior; campaign finance; and science fiction and politics
MOHAMED ZAYANI
Ph.D., University of Exeter Professor of Government; Curricular Chair for International Politics
Ph.D., Indiana University Professor of Critical Theory; Director of the Certificate in Arab and Regional Studies
Research Focus: Politics and international relations of the Middle East; Muslim communities in Europe; and comparative political and economic liberalization
Research Focus: 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 M eet t h e Faculty
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HISTORY ABDULLAH AL-ARIAN Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Professor of History Research Focus: Islamic social movements; modern Egypt; Muslims in the U.S.; and the history of U.S. policy towards the Middle East
EDWARD JAMES KOLLA Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Associate Professor of History Research Focus: European international relations; and political, cultural, and intellectual history, with a focus on the history of international law
PHOEBE MUSANDU
Research Focus: South Asian and world history, with a focus on Islamic thought and institutions in modern South Asia; colonialism; nationalism; and gender JAMES REARDON-ANDERSON Ph.D., Columbia University Professor of History Research Focus: Modern Chinese history
AMIRA SONBOL Ph.D., Georgetown University Professor of History; Curricular Chair of International History
Research Focus: African history; African historical methodology; and mass media and women’s history
Research Focus: Modern Egypt; and Islamic history and law, with a focus on women, gender, and Islam
Ph.D., Harvard University Assistant Professor of History Research Focus: Chinese history, with a focus on late imperial China (1368-1912) and inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria)
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Ph.D., University of Toronto Associate Professor of History; Faculty Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Assistant Professor of History
MAX OIDTMANN
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KARINE WALTHER Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of History; Director of the Certificate in American Studies Research Focus: U.S. history; and the U.S. in the world, with a focus on the Middle East
ISLAMIC STUDIES AHMAD DALLAL Ph.D., Columbia University Professor; Dean of GU-Q Research Focus: 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
SOHAIRA SIDDIQUI Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Assistant Professor of Theology Research Focus: Classical Islamic legal theory (usul ul-fiqh); classical Islamic political thought; the development and intersection of legal thought and political thought from the 9th to 11th centuries; and secularism and modernity in relation to Islamic law and Muslims in the West
AYMAN SHABANA Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Associate Research Professor of Theology Research Focus: Islamic legal and intellectual history; Islamic law and ethics; human rights; and bioethics
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: ARABIC MAHMOUD AL-ASHIRI
ABBAS AL-TONSI
Ph.D., Fayoum University (Cairo University) Associate Professor of Arabic
M.A., Cairo University Senior Lecturer of Arabic; Director of the Arabic Program
Research Focus: Arabic language, literary criticism, and poetry
Research Focus: Arabic language; literary criticism; and Arabic media and politics
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LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: ARABIC ABDUL RAHMAN M. CHAMSEDDINE M.A., American University of Beirut Arabic Instructor Research Focus: Arabic terminology of early Islam, with a focus on Quranic terms that describe religious identities and other social groupings
AMIRA EL-ZEIN Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Professor of Arabic Research Focus: Arabic classical and contemporary literature; and Sufism in medieval and contemporary Islam
HANY FAZZA M.A., American University in Cairo Arabic Instructor Research Focus: Teaching Arabic heritage students; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Arabic linguistics and literature
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OMAR KHALIFAH Ph.D., Columbia University Assistant Professor of Arabic Research Focus: Arabic literature (modern); world literature; textual and visual representations of memory; and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world
YEHIA MOHAMED Ph.D., Cairo University Associate Professor of Arabic Research Focus: Applied linguistics (language acquisition and error analysis); phonology; and language changes and sociolinguistics
HANA ZABARAH Ph.D., Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Arabic Research Focus: Arabic language, literature, and linguistics
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: ENGLISH IAN ALMOND
FIRAT OR UC
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University Assistant Professor of English
Research Focus: Comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal, and Turkey
Research Focus: Postcolonial global literatures; cultural and literary studies of the Middle East; translation studies; and transnational cinema
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: FRENCH PATRICK MEADOWS Ph.D., Princeton University Associate Professor of French Research Focus: French/ Francophone literature and its relationship with philosophy and symbolism
PHILOSOPHY JEREMY KOONS Ph.D., Georgetown University Associate Professor of Philosophy Research Focus: Ethics (theoretical and applied); social and political philosophy; epistemology; philosophy of mind and language; metaphysics; and philosophy of religion
KARL WIDERQUIST Ph.D., Oxford University; Ph.D., City University of New York Associate Professor of Philosophy Research Focus: Distributive justice, or the ethics of “who has what”
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THEOLOGY AKINTUNDE E. AKINADE Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary Professor of Theology; Curricular Chair of Culture and Politics Research Focus: African religions; religion and immigration; intercultural studies; comparative religions; Christian thought; and Christian-Muslim relations
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PATRICK LAUDE Ph.D., Indiana University Professor of Theology Research Focus: Comparative mysticism; poetry and mysticism; and Western representations and interpretations of Asian spiritual and wisdom traditions
Academic Deans Academic 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 Senior Associate Dean for Students
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Focus: 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
ANNE NEBEL
KAI-HENRIK BARTH
Ph.D., Lancaster University Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment Research Focus: Critical discourse analysis; stylistics; writing pedagogies; and writing across the disciplines
Research Focus: Books of hours and prayer to saints in late medieval England
JULIEN MOUTTE MBA, ISC Paris Business School Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising
Ph.D., University of Minnesota Senior Assistant Dean for Research Support Research Focus: Nuclear proliferation and international security; nuclear energy; energy policy; climate change; and science and technology in international affairs
GEHAN SAMARAH MBA, American University in Cairo Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising Research Focus: Higher education management; social change in the Middle East; and student success
Research Focus: Higher education management
CHRISTINE SCHIW IETZ Ph.D., American University Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising
Research Focus: New technologies and society; gender roles; and peace, security, and international development
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In the spring of 2019, GU-Q recognized the publication of the 100th book produced by its affiliated faculty, staff, and researchers through an event and signature publication. The festivities also served as a launch event for GU-Q’s participation in centennial celebrations for the establishment of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) in 1919 in Washington, DC. GU-Q 100: A Celebration of Knowledge Event An evening event, “GU-Q 100 : A Celebration of Knowledge” was held on campus on April 1, 2019, to mark a major milestone in the collaboration between Qatar Foundation (QF) and Georgetown that began with the launch of the Doha campus in support of the development goals of the Qatar National Vision. Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice Chairperson and CEO of QF, was the honored guest speaker at the event attended by QF Co-founder Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, honored guests, deans of QF partner universities, members of the diplomatic community, students, faculty, staff, and other members of the community. A panel discussion explored perspectives on the role of the humanities and social sciences in Qatar’s development, followed by a reception. GU-Q 100 Publication In celebration of this milestone, the university published GU-Q 100: A Celebration of Knowledge, an indexed compendium of more than 100 book titles, which includes the cover art, a brief synopsis of each project, and a biography of each author or editor. This collection of published works, made possible with the support of QF, reflects a robust array of critical inquiry grounded in rigorous research and encompasses a wide range of topics across international affairs, economics, history, and culture. These scholarly works help to shape our understanding of the world, inspire young scholars, and contribute to the development of a vibrant research culture in Qatar.
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Publications Members of the GU-Q faculty are prolific authors. In the 2018-2019 academic year, faculty members published 12 books, 17 book chapters, and 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) sponsored the publication of two of those faculty books and one additional book. Reflecting a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research interests, these 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, Africa, Europe, North America, and parts of Asia, such as India and China. The importance of the research findings is reflected in the prestige of the presses that publish them, which include Brill, Cambridge University Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Springer International Publishing. GU-Q faculty have also published with local publishers such as HBKU Press. The peer-reviewed journals in which these works have appeared are equally impressive and include Q1 Journals such as Journal of Islamic Law and Society, Philosophy and Religion, International Politics, Journal of Ethics and Migration, and Journal of World Literature. 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.
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BOOKS: AUTHORED AND EDITED Faculty Publication Wins Fifth Award Professor of Critical Theory, Mohamed Zayani, won the International Communication (ICOMM) Book Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) for Networked Publics and Digital Contention (Oxford, 2015). This is the fifth major award it has received to date. Zayani’s book narrates the story of the co-evolution of technology and society in Tunisia, and explores the emergence of digital media and new forms of online engagement, and charts how this has impacted the relationship between the state and its subjects.
Gómez, Braulio, Laura Cabeza, and Sonia Alonso Saenz de Oger, eds. 2019. En busca del poder territorial. Cuatro décadas de elecciones autonómicas en España. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Meadows, Patrick. 2018. Le Testament D’Allan Berg. Gollion: Infolio Editions.
Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. Inside the Arab State. New York: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Rory, ed. 2018. The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar. Doha: HBKU Press.
Koons, Jeremy Randel. 2018. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars. New York: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy.
Mirgani, Suzi, ed. 2018. Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council. New York: Routledge.
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Musandu, Phoebe. 2018. Pressing Studies Interests: in Islamic Law The Agenda and Influence and Society of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Oruc, Firat, ed. 2019. Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press.
Verhoeven, Harry, ed. 2018. Environmental Politics in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Siddiqui, Sohaira Z. M. 2019. Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. London: Cambridge University Press.
Widerquist, Karl. 2018. A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. Berlin: Springer International Publishing.
FACULTY ANN U A L R E PORT 2018- 2019
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,139-161. Singapore: Springer. 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, 115-132. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Laude, Patrick. 2018. “A Gnostic Concept of the Avat ra: Meditating Frithjof Schuon’s ‘Divine Anthropology.’” In Oikosophia - From the Intelligence of the Heart to Ecophilosophy, edited by Daniela Boccassini, 285-307. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni. 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, 166-190. New York: Routledge.
Ruiz-Rufino, Ruben 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, 1-17. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. 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, 80-112. Leiden: Brill. Shabana, Ayman. 2018. “Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition.” In Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Anver Emon and Rumee Ahmed, 231-248. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lieven, Anatol. 2019. “The Afghan Peace Process.” In Comparing Peace Processes, edited by Alpaslan Ozerdem and Roger MacGinty, 37-56. New York: Routledge. Miller, Rory. 2018. “Introduction.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller, 9-16. Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press. 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, 89-97. Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press. 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, 90-100. Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press. Nonneman, Gerd and John E. Peterson. 2018. “Saudi Arabia: History.” In The Middle East and North Africa 2019, 65th ed., edited by Europa Publications, 991-1005. London: Routledge. Pirbhai, M. 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, 493-510. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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, 286-300. New York: Routledge. 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, 112-124. New York: Routledge.
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Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2018. “Religious Arguments and Counter Arguments During the Gulf Crisis.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller, 49-57. Doha: Hamad bin Khalifa University Press.
Verhoeven, Harry. 2018. “The Other Gulf Cold War: GCC Rivalries in Africa.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller, 136-144. Doha: Hamad bin Khalifa University Press.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Hassan, Islam. 2018. “Social Stratification in Qatari Society: Family, Marriage, and Khaliji Culture.” Hawwa, 16 (1–3).
Akinade, Akintunde E. 2018. “Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization.” Religions, 11. 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).
Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. “Multipolarity and Instability in the Middle East.” Orbis, 62 (4).
Babar, Zahra, Michael Ewers, and Nabil Khattab. 2019. “Im/mobile Highly Skilled Migrants in Qatar.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (9).
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).
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SPECIAL SECTION Rethinking the Monarchy–Republic Gap in the Middle East
163–179
Monarchies and Republics, State and Regime, Durability and Fragility in View of the Arab Spring CLAUDIA DERICHS and THOMAS DEMMELHUBER
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Monarchies and Protests in the Arab Uprisings: Path Dependencies or Political Opportunities? RUSSELL E. LUCAS
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Politics and Opposition in Kuwait: Continuity and Change KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN
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From “Follower” to “Role Model”: The Transformation to the UAE’s International Self-Image VÂNIA CARVALHO PINTO
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ARTICLE The Arabian Peninsula in Modern Times: A Historiographical Survey of Recent Publications J.E. PETERSON
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Book Reviews
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Notices
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Durable, Yet Different: Monarchies in the Arab Spring ANDRÉ BANK, THOMAS RICHTER and ANNA SUNIK
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Chandra, Uday. 2018. “Review Essay - Megan 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).
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Kamrava, Mehran. 2018. “Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf.” Journal of Arabian Studies, 8 (S1). Koons, Jeremy. 2018. “Theism and the Criminalization of Sin.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 10 (1). Wolf, Michael P. and Jeremy Koons. 2018. “The Ordinary Language Case for Contextualism and the Relevance of Radical Doubt.” Contemporary Pragmatism, 15 (1).
Laude, Patrick. 2018. “Qu’est-Ce Que L’absolu?” Ultreia! Spiritualité - Métaphysique - PhilosophieEthnologie - Symbolism, 15.
Siddiqui, Sohaira. 2019. “Navigating Colonial Power: Challenging Precedents and the Limitation of Local Elites.” Journal of Islamic Law and Society, 26 (3).
Miller, Rory and Harry Verhoeven. 2019. “Overcoming Smallness: Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Strategic Realignment in the Gulf.” International Politics, 56 (4).
Verhoeven, Harry. 2018. “The Gulf and the Horn: Changing Geographies of Security Interdependence and Competing Visions of Regional Order.” Civil Wars, 20 (3).
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).
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).
Nonneman, Gerd. 2019. “Europe and the Middle East in the Face of Regional Shifts and US Policy Under Trump.” Chuto Dokobunseki, 17 (10).
Widerquist, Karl. 2018. “The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments.” CESifo Forum, 19 (3). 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. Van Parijs, Philippe, and Karl Widerquist. 2019. “Why Private Property?” Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, 1.
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
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Academic Activities and Initiatives In addition to their publications, faculty research and expertise is disseminated in a variety of 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 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, at academic institutions in Qatar, as well as with 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 Faculty Seminar Series events. Online and media presence furthers the university’s aims of disseminating knowledge, 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.
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INVITED LECTURES
Chandra, Uday. “Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India.” Invited lecture, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 27, 2018. Chandra, Uday. “Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India.” Invited lecture, Centre of Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2, 2018. Chandra, Uday. “Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India.” Invited lecture, Ethnologie Oberseminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, November 26, 2018. Chandra, Uday. “The Political Theology of Polytheism and the Sacral Hierarchy of Indian Democracy.” Invited lecture, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Canada, March 15, 2019. Kolla, Edward. “History of the Passport.” Invited lecture, Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick, England, May 2019.
Kolla, Edward. “A Short History of the Passport.” Invited Lecture, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., April 2019. Oidtmann, Max. “Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and Reincarnation [鑄就金瓶：大清帝國與轉世 活佛].” Invited lecture, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 28, 2019. Pirbhai, M. Reza. “Islam and Anti-Colonialism in South Asia: The Case of the Khilafat Movement.” Invited lecture, International Conference of Religions for Peace, Seoul, South Korea. February 2019. Walthers, Karine. “Spreading the Faith: American Missionaries, ARAMCO, and the Birth of the U.S.-Saudi ‘Special Relationship.’” Invited lecture, Doha Institute, Qatar, April 2019. Walthers, Karine. “Spreading the Faith: American Missionaries, ARAMCO, and the Birth of the U.S.-Saudi ‘Special Relationship.’” Invited lecture, American History Seminar, Cambridge University, England, February 2019.
Kolla, Edward. “The History of the Passport and International Law.” Invited lecture, University of Exeter Law School, England, May 2019.
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Fertility Decline, Small Families, and Son “Selection” in the Muslim World: How Contraceptive and Assisted Repro-genetic Technologies Came to Intersect (Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University) Fertility Decline, Small Families,
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Reprogenetic Technologies and the Valuing of the Biological Family (Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University) (Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Weill Cornell Medicine—Cornell University)
Reprogenetic Technologies and the Valuing of the Biological Family (Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Weill Cornell Medicine—Cornell University)
The Admissibility of DNA Evidence as ProofReprogenetic of Paternity in Light of Maqasid al-Sharia The Admissibility of DNA Evidence as Proof of Paternity in Light of Maqasid al-Sharia Technologies and the Valuing of the Biological Family (Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto) (Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Weill Cornell Medicine—Cornell (MohammadUniversity) Fadel, University of Toronto)
The Admissibility of DNA Evidence as Proof of Paternity in Light of Maqasid al-Sharia (Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto)
OCTOBER 7, 2018 Family Structure in the Wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies Conference In October 2018, academic researchers and scholars from across the humanities and social sciences discussed family structure in the wake of the different applications of genetic and reproductive technologies. This conference was the result of a long-term QNRF-funded research project on Islamic Bioethics led by Ayman Shabana. Panel Discussion Chairs included: • Amira Sonbol • Jeremy Koons • M. Reza Pirbhai
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OCTOBER 9, 2018 Panel Discussion: Political Change and Democratization in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan Compared In this panel discussion moderated by Associate Professor Harry Verhoeven, panelists offered different perspectives on political change in Africa, with Minister-Counsellor Washington Oloo from the Kenyan Embassy in Qatar representing Kenya, Political Analyst Goitom Gebreluel representing Ethiopia, and Abdelwahab El-Affendi, dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, representing Sudan.
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Contact GU-Q: qatar.georgetown.edu/ncpw
NOVEMBER 15, 2018 8th Annual Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Workshop GU-Q hosted the 8th Annual Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Awareness Workshop in cooperation with the Qatar Ministry of Defense’s National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW). The aim of the workshop was to raise awareness about the dangers associated with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Participants included members of NCPW and students from GU-Q, as well as several other universities and high schools in Qatar.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2018 Book Series Launch Workshop: Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East A book series launch workshop was held for the Cambridge University Press Book Series on Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East, a collaboration between GU-Q professors Rory Miller and Harry Verhoeven and Professor Clive Jones of Durham University in the U.K. The workshop recruited highly qualified authors to the project and resulted in the publication of the first book of the series featuring experts from GU-Q, Qatar University, Durham University, the University of Pretoria, King’s College London, Austria’s National Defense Academy, and Sciences Po.
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JANUARY 27, 2019 Annual Indian Ocean Symposium: Towards a Re-mapping of Diasporic Circularities in the Indian Ocean World This year’s Indian Ocean World Symposium explored and redefined the diverse cultural, economic, and historical ties between the Gulf region and Africa. The conference featured a multidisciplinary panel of scholars from GU-Q and Qatar University, as well as experts from India, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and the U.S.. Through case studies from Goa, Madagascar, Qatar, and Zanzibar among others, the presenters explored the issues of oil, wages, pre-modern histories, Islamic revivalism networks in the Malay-Indonesian world, the role of sheikhs as community builders, mobility and race, slavery, interracial unions and colonial ethics, and turn-of-the-century maritime military history. GU-Q has hosted an Indian Ocean research event annually since 2015.
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Transformations and Continuities Transformations and Continuities Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought in Islamic Intellectual Thought in Islamic Intellectual Thought Annual Faculty Conference Annual Faculty Conference
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MARCH 17-18, 2019 Annual Faculty Research Conference: Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought Bringing together leading scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries, this 2-day conference featured research on topics in social and intellectual history, law and politics, reason and ethics, and culture and literature in the Muslim world across these centuries. Leading universities from Qatar, the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, the Netherlands, India, Turkey, Finland, and Sri Lanka took part, along with the British Library. “What connects everyone is a shared interest in questions of historical change, intellectual and cultural production, and scholarly interconnections. We hope that the presentations and conversations stimulate and generate long-term scholarly engagement and collaboration.” - Sohaira Siddiqui, Assistant Professor of Theology and convener of the 2019 Faculty Research Conference
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APRIL 24-25, 2019 First Annual Arabic Heritage Education Conference: Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects Organized by the Arabic Language Department, this 2-day conference gathered leading scholars in the field of Arabic language instruction to share ideas and research on the unique learning requirements and teaching strategies for Arabic Heritage language students. These learners are Arabic speakers or share a cultural connection to the language but are not considered native speakers because they lack proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic. “This 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 increasing in the Arab world due to cultural and social influences and changes in recent years.” - Yehia Mohamed, Associate Professor of Arabic
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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. This year, GU-Q faculty welcomed 12 speakers from Duke University, Boston University, Cambridge Muslim College, University of Massachussetts-Amherst, and others. Talks covered diverse subjects ranging from political conspiracies and colonial histories, to activism and the history of Qatar.
GU-Q SPEAKERS Ian Almond, Professor of World Literature, GU-Q. “Current Approaches to World Literature: Reviewing the Debates.” October 2, 2018. Almond discussed his current research on how the term “world literature” is being contested today and its relationship to global commerce, geo-politics and globalisation. His seminar covered how to arrive at an accurate and fair way of speaking about the history and cultural output of an entire planet, and whether that is even a meaningful goal.
Amanda Garrett, Assistant Professor of Political Science, GU-Q. “Pluralism and Contentious Politics in France.” November 13, 2018. Garrett presented her current research investigating why urban riots occur in some local European contexts but not in others using the case study of the 2005 riots in France. She found that the risk of minority conflict increases as minorities experience diminished leverage vis-a-vis the socio-political infrastructure.
James Reardon-Anderson, Professor of History, GU-Q. “Shaikh Qasim Al-Thani and the Emergence of Qatar.” February 5, 2019. Reardon-Anderson presented his primary resource research tracing the career of Sheikh Qasim (Jassim) bin Mohammed Al-Thani, widely regarded as the central figure in the establishment of the State of Qatar and the House of Al-Thani, which engendered a lively discussion about the historical record of Qatar.
GUEST SPEAKERS Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University. “The Past as Prologue: NATO Enlargement and the Origins of Russian Revisionism.” October 3, 2018. Moderator: Amanda Garrett, Assistant Professor of Political Science, GU-Q Shifrinson’s research draws on a range of recently declassified archival materials to re-evaluate claims of a NATO non-expansion pledge at the end of the Cold War. He discussed how Russian behavior today is linked to America’s duplicity over NATO expansion in the past.
Firat Oruc, Assistant Professor of World Literature, GU-Q. “Oil Documentaries of Arabia.” November 20, 2018. Oruc explored how the first visual narratives of the Arabian Gulf commissioned by the oil industry aim to lure their audience to a hydrocarbon utopia of modernity, where oil and technology performs its magic of creating a whole new place “out of nothing.”
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Mark Lance, Professor of Philosophy, and Justice and Peace, Georgetown University. “Revolutionary Nonviolence.” December 4, 2018. Moderator: Jeremy Koons, Associate Professor of Philosophy, GU-Q
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Associate Professor of Theology, Earlham School of Religion. “Intersectional Theology.” March 12, 2019. Moderator: Akintunde Akinade, Professor of Theology, GU-Q
Lance presented his recent work as part of a co-authored book project with peace activist and author Matt Meyer, which builds a plausible strategic vision of nonviolent revolutionary change in the contemporary world.
Ji-Sun Kim shared her work on the application to theology of the sociological theory of intersectionality developed primarily by black feminists. She argues that this approach serves as a lens for understanding how gender, race, social class, identity and other forms of difference work concurrently to shape people and social institutions within multiple relationships of power.
Christian Schemmel, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Manchester. “Just Labour Markets: Asset Equality versus Workplace Democracy?” March 26, 2019. Moderator: Karl Widerquist, Associate Professor, GU-Q Schemmel’s research explores the desired degree of democracy in the workplace, arguing for a high degree of mandatory workplace democracy both for the sake of efficiency and to reduce the cost of exit for employees. Maria Soledad Barbon, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Staging the Incas in Colonial Lima.” February 19, 2019. Moderator: Ian Almond, Professor of World Literature, GU-Q
Zainab Kabba, Executive Director, Cambridge Muslim College. “Developing Future Pasts: Recalibration of Islamic Tradition in Intensive Education Settings.” April 9, 2019. Moderator: Sohaira Siddiqui, Associate Professor, GU-Q
Using archival records, Barbon traced the evolution of Amerindian participation in monarchical processions that allowed the Spanish royals to exert control over their holdings despite never setting foot in the American territories during the period of 1723 to 1790.
Kabba’s research explores the ways in which modern Western Islamic scholars simultaneously draw from a tradition of Islamic knowledge transmission to establish their authority, and rewrite that tradition, using case studies of contemporary Muslim spiritual retreats.
Shilpa Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Indian School of Business. “Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania.” February 26, 2019. Moderator: Jose Asturias, Assistant Professor of Economics, GU-Q
Erdag Goknar, Director, Duke University Middle East Studies Center. “From ‘Ergenekon’ to ‘Mastermind’: Political Melodramas of Conspiracy in Turkey.” April 23, 2019. Moderator: Firat Oruc, Assistant Professor, GU-Q
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Goknar discussed his research on conspiracy theory discourse as a political force in Turkish culture and politics, showing how conspiracy is reflected in well-known Turkish novels as a literary trope, and how conspiratorial narratives played a decisive role in domestic politics over several decades of Turkish history.
PUBLIC LECTURES In addition to the Faculty Research Seminars which 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.
Alexis Antoniades, Associate Professor and Director of International Economics, GU-Q. “Qatar at a Crossroads: Economic Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations.” October 15, 2018. More than 240 people attended this assessment of Qatar’s economic past, present and future outlook by Antoniades, a ten year veteran of Qatar’s economy. The audience was given an overview of Qatar’s economy along with strategic recommendations and concrete next steps to ensure a prosperous future for Qatar.
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Are there too many people on the planet? Are there too many people on thenightmares planet? AreMalthus. there too many people on the planet? The of Fr. The nightmares of Fr. Malthus. A lecture by
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The nightmares of Fr. Malthus. Joseph P. Kaboski
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About the Talk
Worries that large populations are unsustainable and lead to a decline in material livingpopulations standards are are common and date and lead to a decline in material Worries that largestandards populationsare arecommon unsustainable lead to a decline in material living standards are common and date Worries that large unsustainable living andand date back famously to the theories of Thomas Robert Malthus, an Anglican priest. Malthus approached a priest, Malthus, an Anglican priest. back Malthus famously toapproached the theories of Thomas Robert back famously to the theorieshis of concern Thomasas Robert his concern as aMalthus, priest, an Anglican priest. Malthus approached his concern as a priest, demographer, and economist. His work earned the moniker of economics as the dismal science. The two-plus centuries and economist. His work earned the moniker of economics as the dismal science. The two-plus centuries demographer, and economist. His work earned the moniker of economicsdemographer, as the dismal science. The two-plus centuries of economic experience and economic research yield a much more nuanced and positive view toward population and of economic experience and economic research yield a much more nuanced and positive view toward population and of economic experience toward population living standards, even in the face of pressing environmental concerns. and economic research yield a much more nuanced and positive viewliving standards, even inand the face of pressing environmental concerns.
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living standards, even in the face of pressing environmental concerns.
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About the Speaker
Joseph P. Kaboski is the David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics Joseph P. Kaboski is the David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on growth, development and international economics, with an at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on growth, development and international economics, with an Joseph P. Kaboski is the explaining David F. international and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics in change, the Department of Economics emphasis on structural change, finance, and development, schooling and growth, microfinance, relative emphasis on structural finance, and development, schooling and growth, microfinance, explaining international relative the University of Notre His research and and international economics, with an trade. He has published scholarly articles in the leading journal price patterns, and the role of inventories in international trade. Heathas published scholarly articlesDame. in the leading journal focuses on growth, development price patterns, the role of inventories in international emphasis structural finance, andpaper development, schooling and growth, explaining international relative of the profession, and in 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Frisch on Medal, awardedchange, biannually for the best of microfinance, the profession, and in 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Frisch Medal, awarded biannually for the best paper in the journal Econometrica over the previous five years. He isprice an Associate Editor the role Journal Human Capital. in the journal Econometrica theleading previous journal five years. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Human Capital. patterns, andatthe of of inventories in international trade. He has published scholarly articles over in the A Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow and and Board Member of theawarded the prestigious Frisch Medal, A Research of the Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow and Board Member of the of the profession, in 2012, he was awardedAssociate biannually forNational the best paper Bureau of Research in Economic Analysis of Development. Bureau of Research in Economic Analysis of Development.
in the journal Econometrica over the previous five years. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Human Capital. A Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow and Board Member of the Bureau of Research in Economic Analysis of Development.
Joseph Kaboski, David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor at the University of Notre Dame and a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute. “Are There Too Many People on the Planet? The Nightmares of Fr. Malthus.� March 11, 2019. Moderator: Alexis Antoniades, Associate Professor, GU-Q. In this public lecture, Kaboski traced the fear of rising population leading to a decline in material living standards back to the theories of Anglican priest Thomas Robert Malthus whose work in economics was informed by his experience as a priest and demographer. In the two centuries since his work, additional economic research and experience has added more nuance and positivity to his views toward population growth, even in the face of environmental concerns.
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Alexis Antoniades, Associate Professor and Director of International Economics, GU-Q. “The Blockade against Qatar: A Blessing in Disguise?” April 11, 2019. Antoniades provided an in-depth examination of the impact the blockade had on Qatar’s economy and reviewed the policy responses that followed. In particular he considered how the policies that have emerged since complemented or deviated from past policies and practices and evaluated whether they have in fact brought long-term benefits to the country, benefits that perhaps could not have been realized had the blockade not taken place. The talk drew heavily on Antoniades’ advisory work at the Amiri Diwan immediately following the blockade, and on research conducted along with Rafia Al Jassim (SFS’20) and Khalique Gharatkar (QFCA) on the same topic.
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A Public Lecture by Nicholas Guyatt, A Public Lecture by Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge A Public Lecture by Nicholas Guyatt,
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April 17, 2019 | 5:30 PM Georgetown University in Qatar About the talk
April 17, 2019 | 5:30 PM Georgetown University in Qatar About the talk
In April 1815, the twentieth largest American city was in the southwest of England: Six thousand American sailors were In April 1815, the twentieth largest American city was in the southwest of England: Six thousand American sailors were incarcerated in Dartmoor Prison, the largest incarceration facility in the world. They had been taken to England after being incarcerated in Dartmoor Prison, the largest incarceration facility in the world. They had been taken to England after being In April 1815, the twentieth largest American city was in the southwest of England: Six thousand American sailors were captured in the War of 1812, but they were still in the prison even two months after a peace treaty had been ratified by captured in the War of 1812, but they were still in the prison even two months after a peace treaty had been ratified by incarcerated in Dartmoor Prison, the largest incarceration facility in the world. They had to England after Congress. Anger over their treatment led to unrest, and eventually to violence. On April 6, nine Americans were shot and Congress. Anger overbeen theirtaken treatment led to unrest, andbeing eventually to violence. On April 6, nine Americans were shot and captured in the War of 1812, but they were still in the prison even two months after a peace beenoutratified by But Dartmoor was notable for other reasons. Apart from its killed by British guards after a protest spiraled out of control. But Dartmoor was notable for other reasons. Apart from its killed by British guards after treaty a protesthad spiraled of control. huge size, a substantial number of its inmates were people of color - mostly African though led the to prison also and eventually to violence. huge size,On a substantial of its inmates wereshot people Congress. Anger over Americans, their treatment unrest, April 6, number nine Americans were andof color - mostly African Americans, though the prison also became a holding place for peoples of African descent from around Atlantic world.after In 1814, the British allowed becamewas a holding place peoples of African descent killed bythe British guards a protest spiraled outaof control. But Dartmoor notable forforother reasons. Apart fromfrom its around the Atlantic world. In 1814, the British allowed a group of white Americans to move out of the prison block in which they had been living alongside African American and group of white Americans to move out of the prison block in which they had been living alongside African American and huge size, a substantial number of its inmates were people of color - mostly African Americans, though the prison also French prisoners. When the French were freed in the summer of 1814, that prison block became wholly African American. French prisoners. When the French were freed in the summer of 1814, that prison block became wholly African American. a holding forthispeoples of what African descent from around the Atlantic 1814, the British Dartmoor was, then, the first segregated prison in American became history. But how did itplace become way? And does the Dartmoor was, world. then, theIn first segregated prison inallowed Americanahistory. But how did it become this way? And what does the group back of white to move out of the prison block in which they had living African American and story of Dartmoor tell us about the prospects for racial coexistence in the Americans United States? story of been Dartmoor tellalongside us about the prospects for racial coexistence back in the United States?
French prisoners. When the French were freed in the summer of 1814, that prison block became wholly African American. Dartmoor was, then, the first segregated prison in American history. But how did it become this way? And what does the story of Dartmoor tell us about the prospects for racial coexistence back in the United States?
Old engraved illustration of Dartmoor Prison
Old engraved illustration of Dartmoor Prison
Old engraved illustration of Dartmoor Prison
Nicholas Guyatt, Reader in North American History at the University of Cambridge. “Dartmoor Prison and the Origins of Carceral Segregation.” April 17, 2019. Moderator: Karine Walther, Associate Professor, GU-Q. Guyatt presented his research for a forthcoming book on the early history of racial segregation policies in American penal systems.
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FACULTY BOOK LAUNCHES Book launch events showcase faculty book publications and are open for Education City and the wider Qatar community to attend, discuss, and celebrate this significant culmination of GU-Q faculty research. There were three book launch events in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Celebrating the احتفاءSeries Arabic بمصادر Text Book Celebrating the تعلُّ م اللغة العربية Arabic Text Book Series in Qatar in Qatar
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Arabic Text Books K-10, edited by Mahmoud Al-Ashiri Al-Ashiri led the compilation, editing, and testing of the official Qatar Ministry of Education and Higher Education Arabic Textbook series for Native Arabic speakers in grades K-10. The sophisticated textbook includes scannable barcodes to download video and audio content.
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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet by Max Oidtman Oidtman discussed the findings in his book by tracing the historic events leading to the invention of the golden urn lottery by the Qianlong emperor in 1792 and how he used this as an example with which to evaluate the Qing state’s ability to alter Tibetan religious and political traditions. His analysis included contrasting the efforts of the Chinese imperial state to manage religious affairs with the policies of the People’s Republic of China.
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Book Launch A Critical Analysis of Basic Income
Experiments for Researchers, Analysis of Basic Income Policymakers and Citizens Experiments for Researchers, Karl Widerquist Policymakers and Citizens Karl Widerquist
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RSVP: https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/IncomeExperiments
A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments by Karl Widerquist Widerquist’s book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, explores ongoing research into the concept of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), a guaranteed fixed income provided by the government for every citizen. Widerquist’s careful treatment of the subject sheds light on how to conduct and report on UBI experiments to avoid potential pitfalls and maximize the possibility that an experiment will successfully improve public understanding of what is likely to happen if a national UBI policy is instituted.
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Center for International and Regional Studies 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 is led by Mehran Kamrava, Director and Professor of Government, who has held the role since the center’s inception.
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 perspectives in planning CIRS events. It furthermore promotes the activities of CIRS among the faculty.
MEMBERS Mehran Kamrava, director of CIRS Zahra Babar, associate director of CIRS Rory Miller, faculty Mohamed Zayani, faculty Abdulla Al-Arian, faculty Sonia Alonso Saenz de Oger, faculty
CIRS FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS The CIRS Faculty Fellowship is a one year appointment to encourage original research in support of the center’s research agenda. Each year one faculty member from GU-Q and one from Qatar University is granted a fellowship. Fellows are asked to give a presentation
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of their research at a CIRS-sponsored lecture. Since 2012, CIRS has granted seven GU-Q Faculty Fellowships. The 2018-2019 CIRS Faculty Fellow from GU-Q was Phoebe Musandu.
CIRS FACULTY LECTURES 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. Through its Dialogues and Focused Discussion series, CIRS provides an intimate intellectual forum for academics, diplomats, and opinion leaders to engage with faculty, students, and other community members, on a particular topic of interest. This year, CIRS hosted seven focused discussions that were attended by various members of the Doha community. The discussions covered topics pertaining to regional and international developments, with a special focus on current affairs.
This year, the work of three GU-Q faculty members were featured at CIRS community outreach events. Firat Oruc: Publication Workshop - Postmodernity and Film: A Cultural History of the Moving Image in the Arabian Peninsula. Mehran Kamrava: CIRS Dialogue Series - Troubled Waters book launch. Phoebe Musandu: CIRS Focused Discussion - A Local East African Newspaper vs. the State and Market Forces.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS THROUGH CIRS Verhoeven, Harry, ed. 2018. Environmental Politics in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oruc, Firat, ed. 2019. Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press.
Mohamed Zayani’s CIRS-sponsored 2015 book Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia, won the 2019 International Communcation Best Book Award from the International Studies Association.
Kamrava, Mehran, ed. 2018. “Special Issue on the ‘Resource Curse’ in the Persian Gulf.” Journal of Arabian Studies 8 (S1), 2018.
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Collaborative Research Initiatives As part of Education City’s vibrant campus, GU-Q seeks to engage with colleagues from other universities in Education City as well as institutions across Qatar, the region and the globe, through substantive and innovative research that emerges out of the wide ranging expertise of faculty. Opportunities for research collaborations abound through current research interest groups such as the Indian Ocean World, and innovative web platforms.
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 “re-mapping” 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.
RESEARCH CONFERENCES AND PROJECTS FOR UM: RETURNING FOREIGN FIGHTERS: POLICIES AND ACTIONS TO ADDRESS THE THREAT AND PROTECT VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES Bringing together a consortium of international experts, practitioners, senior intelligence and counterterrorism officials and policy-makers, this multi-stakeholder event addressed the global challenge of returning foreign fighters and the effects on vulnerable communities and global security. Key objectives of the forum were to share information and best practices. Furthermore, it compiled a strong research agenda to identify current deficiencies and fill critical knowledge gaps. Most importantly, the struggles governments face to create effective policies and to collaborate in order to implement responses designed by international bodies, the conference served as a platform to address the ways in which various efforts from the United Nations Security Council can be operationalized within and across nation states. October 30-31, 2018. Welcome Remarks: Gerd Nonnemann, Professor of Government, GU-Q Co-organizers: The Soufan Center, Qatar University, Qatar International Academy for Security Studies
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CONFERENCE: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM P ERSPECTIVES ON PALLIATIVE CARE AND END OF LIFE Palliative care, or specialized medical care for people with a life-threatening illness, is recognized as a human right by the World Health Organization (WHO). At the same time, it is understood that palliative care is culturally sensitive, more than other specialized medicine practices, as it deals with critically important existential concerns such as death and dying, and requires a vision of aging toward death. Opportunities for and barriers to palliative care vary according to geography. For example, addressing existential suffering is a huge challenge for end of life care in affluent countries, while the provision of morphine as a basic painkiller still remains the main challenge in low-income countries. Furthermore, different regions develop original models of integration of palliative care into the care of the dying according to their culture. The aim of the conference, which was held at GU-Q and opened by Dean Ahmed Dallal and the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, was to initiate a multidisciplinary exchange on the issues surrounding the treatment of patients facing life-threatening illness and death, with a particular focus on opportunities and barriers to care in Qatar and the region. January 22-23, 2019. Panelist: Ayman Shabana, Associate Research Professor Co-organizer: The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life
COLLOQUIUM: LEGAL AND OTHER RESPONSES TO TARGETING POLITICAL KILLINGS Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Law and Public Policy (HBKU-CLPP), in collaboration with GU-Q, organized this academic colloquium that explored the political underpinning of targeted killings ordered or sanctioned by a government or its institutions in modern times and throughout history. It furthermore addressed the legal and other responses available to states in order to restrict and ultimately eliminate such events. March 13, 2019. Chair: Ahmad Dallal, Dean and Professor of Islamic Studies, GU-Q Panelist: Anatol Lieven, Professor of Government, GU-Q Co-organizer: HBKU College of Law and Public Policy (HBKU-CLPP)
WORKSHOP: RE-IMAGINING REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST This GU-Q conference brought together leading academics and experts working in the fields of mass media, international relations, and security studies, for fruitful discussions on regional security topics. April 14, 2019. Convener: Rory Miller, Professor of Government, GU-Q Co-sponsor: The Gerda Henkel Foundation
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RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH QNRF THE ISLAMIC BIOETHICS PROJECT- NPRP 8-1478-6-053 Since first receiving a grant in 2009, the Islamic Bioethics Project, in coordination with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, has organized scholarly meetings, inspired academic activities, and received several other grants and awards through 2020. The three main initiatives of the project have been supported by grants from the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). The most recent grant, Structure of the Nuclear Family in the Wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies, explores the impact of biomedical technology on Islamic family regulations.
THE SAFE-Q PROJECT- NPRP 7-1103-5-156 The Safeguarding Food and Environment in Qatar (SAFE-Q) research project is a three year collaborative investigation into how and why food is wasted in Qatar. Concluded this year, the project was funded by the QNRF NPRP in 2015 and involved researchers from: • Georgetown University in Qatar • Cranfield University • University of Bradford • Western Sydney University
LEGAL INNOVATION TO EMPOWER DEVELOPMENT: DESIGNING AND BUILDING AN ONLINE “TRADELAB” IN QATAR (TRADE LAB) - NPRP 7-1815-5-272 The Trade Lab project aims to leverage internet technologies to broaden access to legal expertise on the World Trade Organization, free trade, and investment protection treaties, and their negotiation, implementation, and litigation in Qatar and the Middle East. The three-year QNRF NPRP grant is helping to develop the website www.tradelab.org, and involves researchers from: • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva • Georgetown University in Qatar • University of Arizona • Georgetown University • Qatar University
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FACULTY WEB PLATFORM: AL-FIRIJ
Al-Firij is the Qatari word for neighborhood—the place where people socialize and converse about issues concerning those who live there. Subjects range from marriage and local community celebrations to international news and events. Under the leadership of Amira Sonbol, GU-Q faculty members elaborate and build on this tradition of open discussion by providing an online platform for communicating research and the ideas they are debating and writing about. The Al-Firij website allows for the exchange of knowledge and ideas between GU-Q faculty and students, Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Education City affiliates, Qatar University, international universities, and other scholars. The website is also a venue for sharing GU-Q faculty research and includes microsites on Remapping Africa and the Indian Ocean, 100+ Women, and Waqfs.
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Student Development Virtually all of the academic activities and initiatives are open to students, whom are encouraged to participate. Members of the GU-Q faculty are committed to the idea that learning expands far beyond the classroom. Students are engaged outside the classroom in a number of ways considered essential to their growth as intellectually curious and socially conscious individuals. GU-Q faculty are also active in advising student conferences, organizations, and clubs, through which they pursue interests in various intellectual, cultural and social realms. Nurturing the research and writing skills of their own students, as well as students in Qatar, is one of the most important tasks of GU-Q faculty, contributing to the development of future scholars, 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. Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace and the Community Engagement Program are further initiatives that combine credit-bearing classroom learning with field work in the area of focus. Together, these activities help students to develop their skills and provide them the opportunity to serve in leadership roles in various walks of life in Qatar and beyond.
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ZONES OF CONFLICT, ZONES OF PEACE Experiential Learning In 2018 both Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace (ZCZP) and the Community Education Program (CEP) were converted into 3-credit courses that include a travel component led by a professor and staff members from the Office of Student Development. ZCZP and CEP are truly unique global experiential learning programs which place the student at the center of global challenges and create an active academic space fusing theory, praxis, and reflection. They take students from the classroom to the real world.
The ZCZP program enables students to study conflict management and resolution in their real-life application across the globe. Since 2007, this award-winning program has been taking students to 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. SPRING 2019
gain insight into the roots and effects of the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) conflict. The course focused on peacebuilding strategies and the historical memory of violence. Over the course of eight days, the students stayed in the Basque region of Spain and saw first-hand the influence of the armed violence on today’s society. In addition to visiting cultural sites of significance, the group met with politicians, victims, activists and educators. The group also attended a class and met students at the University of Deusto in Bilbao.
In the 2018-2019 academic year, Sonia Alonso Saenz de Oger taught the ZCZP course in the Spring 2019 semester and traveled with 15 students to Spain to
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP) The CEP reflects the core of Georgetown University’s educational ethos. Through the process of structured academic learning and field experiences, the program addresses the needs and issues affecting local and international communities, and encourages students to embrace the values of global citizenship. Rooted in Georgetown’s Jesuit values, the program emphasizes critical reflection through personal, experience-based learning and analytical writing and discussion. Students must apply to participate in the program and a committee selects 12 participants via a rigorous selection process. The trips occur during the spring break or summer holiday and last one to two weeks. During the trip, the group meets with politicians, journalists, community
organizers, and other change-makers in the destination zone, and visits points of historical interest. SPRING 2019 The CEP trip in 2018-2019 was linked to Uday Chandra’s course “Politics of Development in South Asia.” The primary objective of the seminar was a critical, multi-dimensional understanding of poverty, deprivation, and inequalities in modern South Asia, with a special focus on post-1947 India. The aim was to move beyond a top-down view of these “economic” phenomena and to take a holistic social science view of the causes and consequences of mass poverty, deprivation, and inequalities.
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THESIS MENTORING In the 2018-2019 academic year, 12 GU-Q students wrote Honors and/or Certificate theses and were mentored by eight faculty members.
HONORS IN THE MAJOR THESIS TOPICS International Politics • Shiza Abbasi. “The Changing Contours of Resistance in Kashmir.” Mentor: Uday Chandra • Zaubash Shakir. “NGOs as Educators: Civil Society and Primary Education in Islamabad.” Mentor: Uday Chandra Culture and Politics • Jessamine Perez. “Suicide Memes: Internet Users’ Anti-Future Expressions.” Mentor: Firat Oruc • Shereen Elsayed. “Beirut is Burning: Drag in the Creation of a Queer Lebanese Identity.” Mentor: Firat Oruc • Asma Al-Jehani. “‘Returned Maids for Sale’: The Commodification of Domestic Workers in the Gulf.” Mentor: Yehia Mohamed International History • Ritica Ramesh. “The History and Evolution of American Torture and Secret Prisons (1898-2008).” Mentor: Karine Walther International Economics • Obada Khaled Diab. “Ramifications of Conflict on Education: Assessing Functionality of Schools and Estimating Welfare Costs in Syria.” Mentor: Jack Rossbach
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CERTIFICATE RESEARCH PROJECTS Certificate in Arab and Regional Studies: • Haya Alwaleed Al-Thani. “The Spatial Distribution of Qatari Tribes: An Ethnographic Study.” Mentor: Gerd Nonneman • Hala Eid. “The Egyptian Authority’s Legitimacy Through the Instrumentalization of Islam and Cultural Power.” Mentor: Amira Sonbol • Salma Hassan. “Between State Creation and State Consolidation: Ayoob’s Concept of Security and French External Intervention in Syria in the Mandatory Era, 1923-1946.” Mentor: Rory Miller • Rawan Yousif. “Borders Between Secularism and Neo-Ottomanism: How a Political Divergence Swayed Turkish Drama.” Mentor: Yehia Mohamed • Maryam Al-Hababi. “Saudization of Mecca: Mecca’s Entanglement in Saudi Arabia’s Domestic Dynamics.” Mentor: Mehran Kamrava Certificate in Media and Politics: The Certificate in Media and Politics is offered jointly with Northwestern University in Qatar. • Normeanne Joyce Sison. “Digital Media Disruption and Religion: Is God Online or Is God on the Line?” Mentor: Rory Miller Certificate in American Studies: • Ritica Ramesh. “Secret Abusers: The Extent and Scope of Domestic Violence in Police Communities.” Mentor: Karine Walther
STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) 2018-2019 GU-Q was awarded three new UREPs during the 2018-2019 year, and work was completed on two other grants from previous cycles.
INVESTIGATING THE RESILIENCE OF QATAR’S TRADE NETWORK UREP Project 23-148-5-036 January 2019-2020 Student Researchers: Alisha Kamran, Halak Sheth Faculty Mentor: Jack Rossbach This proposal seeks to investigate the resiliency of Qatar’s trade network using data from the United Nations Comtrade Database to detect products for which Qatar’s supply chain is potentially under-diversified.
QATAR’S ESTABLISHMENT OF INFANT INDUSTRIES IN RESPONSE TO THE BLOCKADE
JIDARIYA: EVERY DAY IS NATIONAL DAY IN QATAR UREP Project 22-120-5-030 September 2018-2019 Students: Mohammed Al-Jaberi, Saoud Al-Ahmad, Ousman Camara, Mohammed Al-Khulaifi Faculty Mentors: Rogaia Abusharaf, Suzi Mirgani, and Yehia Mohamed This research project examines the ways in which Qatar’s Tamim Al-Majd Jidariya (billboard) serves to solidify the idea of the nation through systematically researching the visual, linguistic, and anthropological significance of the billboard, particularly in the wake of the blockade.
UREP Project 22-180-5-048 September 2018-2019 Student Researcher: Rafia Al-Jassim Faculty Mentor: Alexis Antoniades This project studies the establishment of infant food, beverage, dairy, medicine, and construction material industries in Qatar as a response to the blockade, and discusses how the state can protect them from competition until they are able to mature and compete.
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STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS Projects finishing from previous year: PRESERVING THE LINGUISTIC HERITAGE OF QATAR: LANGUAGE CHANGE AND DOCUMENTATION UREP Project 21-099-6-009 January 2018-2019 Student Researchers: AlMaha AlMohannadi, Fatima Al-Ansari, Hissa Albadr, Jassim Al-Thani, Maryam Al-Kuwari Faculty Mentors: Yehia Mohamed, Rogaia Abusharaf
BREAKING DOWN THE STEREOTYPES: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF NATIONALITY AND ACCENT UREP PROJECT 21-103-5-011 October 2017- 2018 Student Researchers: Mohammad Taimur Ahmad, Yara AlKahala, Yara Abdelmaged, Awatif Al Habsi Faculty Mentors: Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Sulagna Mookerjee
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 of the day, Beyond the Headlines panel discussions feature experts from GU-Q and elsewhere giving insight about a current event, thereby modeling critical thinking and engagement to students. This year the following faculty were involved as moderators and panelists: • “Reports from the Field ZCZP ‘18: China and the Mass Detention of Muslims.” Panel of Student Participants. Moderator: Max Oidtmann • “The State of Education in Qatar.” Panel included Mohammed Al-Janahi, Teach for Qatar; Joseph Hernandez, GU-Q; Maha Cherif, Qatar University. Moderator: Harry Verhoeven • “China’s Economy; and Foreign Relations in the Trump Era.” Guest speaker: Min Jing, Lanzhou University, China. Moderators: Jose Asturias and Hou Zhaoyang
• “The Problem of Evil.” Moderator: Max Oidtmann • “The EU and its Near Abroad.” Moderator: Harry Verhoeven • “Does Free Speech Have Limits?” Panelists: Brendan Hill, Max Oidtmann and Sohaira Siddiqui • “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender: Religion, History and Political Science.” Panelists: Amira Sonbol, Patrick Laude, Amanda Garrett
STUDENT CLUB 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 2018-2019 year, faculty members acted as advisors for the following student clubs: • Black Students Association - Phoebe Musandu • Arabic for All - Yehia Mohamed and Hana Zabarah • African Students Association - Phoebe Musandu and Akintunde Akinade • Hoyas Beyond the Margins - Sohaira Siddiqui
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• Latin American and Caribbean Society - Ian Almond • Peace and Conflict Club - Uday Chandra • Track and Field Club - Jose Asturias and Max Oidtmann • The Diversity Initiative - Rogaia Abusharaf • Legal and Political Studies Association Kai-Henrik Barth • Music, Arts and Culture Club - Ian Almond • Brainfood - Julien Moutte • South Asian Society - M. Reza Pirbhai • Hoya Spikers - Alexis Antoniades
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 for 15 journals, are members of seven scholarly associations and scientific councils, and advise the programs of six universities.
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BOARD, COUNCIL, AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS Alonso Saenz de Oger, Sonia. Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico. Scientific Council Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. Social & Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University, Qatar. Advisory Board Member.
Dallal, Ahmad. Arab Social Science Monitor. Arab Council for the Social Sciences. Advisory Board Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. College of Humanities & Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Promotions and Appointments Committee Member.
Dallal, Ahmad. Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. Board of Trustees. Kamrava, Mehran. Foreign Service Academy of Kenya. International Advisory Board member. Founding Advisory Board Member. Laude, Patrick. Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Religious Studies at Nur Mubarak University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Accreditation Committee Member. Lieven, Anatol. Valdai Discussion Club. Academic Advisory Board Member. Miller, Rory. Annual Middle East Congress, Sakarya University, Turkey, November 2018. Advisory Board Member.
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Nonneman, Gerd. Association of Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Studies. Executive Board Member. Nonneman, Gerd. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development, Qatar. Advisory Board Member. Nonneman, Gerd. World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies. Executive Committee Member. Nonneman, Gerd. College of Applied and Supporting Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia. Advisory Board Member. Walther, Karine. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Michael Hogan Fellowship Committee Member.
EDITORS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS Agoston, Gabor. Turkish Historical Review. Cambridge: University of Cambridge/Brill. Editorial Board Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. Journal of Arabian Studies. Routledge/ Taylor Francis. Founding Editor.
Agoston, Gabor. Quarterly of Military History. Budapest: Zrinyi Honveed Kiadoo. Editorial Board Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. Ethnopolitics. Taylor Francis. Editorial Board Member.
Abusharaf, Rogaia. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Brill. Editor in Chief.
Nonneman, Gerd. Civil Wars. Taylor Francis. Editorial Board Member.
Alonso Saenz de Oger, Sonia. Recerca: Revista de Pensament i AnĂ lisi. Jaume I University, Castello de la Plana. Editorial Board Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. International Affairs. Royal Institute of International Affairs. Reviews Advisory Board for Middle East and North Africa.
Chandra, Uday. Journal of Contemporary Asia. Routledge/Taylor Francis. Editorial Board Member.
Pirbhai, M. Reza. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Brill. Editorial Board Member.
Chandra, Uday. Contention. Editorial Board Member. Garrett, Amanda. EuropeNow. Political Science Editorial Board Committee Member. Kamrava, Mehran. Journal of Arabian Studies. New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis. Editorial Board Member. Lieven, Anatol. Russia in Global Affairs. Editorial Board Member. Miller, Rory. Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East (book series), Cambridge University Press. Co-editor.
Shabana, Ayman. Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Editor in Chief. Siddiqui, Sohaira. ShariaSource, Harvard Law School. Contributing Editor. Siddiqui, Sohaira. Sapientia Islamica: Studies on Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. General Editor. Sonbol, Amira. HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Brill. Founding Editor.
Miller, Rory. Middle Eastern Studies. Routledge/Taylor Francis. Editorial Board Member.
Verhoeven, Harry. Intelligence and National Security in Africa & the Middle East. Cambridge University Press Book Series. Editor.
Miller, Rory. Middle East Papers Series. University of Durham. Advisory Board Member.
Wilcox, Clyde. Social Science Quarterly. Wiley-Blackwell. Editorial Board Member.
Nonneman, Gerd. Journal of Arabian Studies, Vol. 8.2 (December 2018) and 9.1 (June 2019). Editor.
Wilcox, Clyde. Extrapolation. Liverpool University Press. Editorial Board Member.
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IN THE MEDIA Faculty members are often called on to serve as experts on television, in 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. The Communications Department released 51 press releases during the year, of which 19, or 37%, were about research. From July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019, 14 of our experts were booked for media appearances.
Al-Arian, Abdullah. “Khashoggi Murder: How Much Does it Hurt Saudi Arabia?” BBC World Service, October 22, 2018. Almond, Ian. “The Danger of Conflating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism,” by Ian Almond. Al Jazeera, August 12, 2018. Almond, Ian. “Kashmir an ‘Unrecognized Gaza’.” Interview with Press Desk. The Kashmir Press, July 11, 2018. Antoniades, Alexis. “Qatar’s Departure From OPEC Suggests Gulf Rift Is Here to Stay.” Bloomberg, December 3, 2018. Chandra, Uday. “Modi’s Hindu Nationalism is Stumbling,” by Uday Chandra. Al Jazeera, September 24, 2018. Kamrava, Mehran. “Iconic Qatar - Museum of Islamic Art.” CNN, January 16, 2019. Kamrava, Mehran. “Inside Qatar’s Ancient Ruined City.” CNN, February 12, 2019. Kamrava, Mehran. “Arab Conflicts Seen Not Rooted in Ideology Alone.” Voice of America, September 20, 2018.
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Kamrava, Mehran. Interview with Joseph Varghese on the Gulf Crisis. Gulf Times, August 8, 2018. Kamrava, Mehran. Interview with Javad Heirannia on Arab NATO. Tehran Times, August 5, 2018. Lieven, Anatol. Interview with Ipsita Chakravarty on India and the Pulwama Attack. Scroll.in, February 27, 2019. Lieven, Anatol. Interview with Ipsita Chakravarty on India and China. Scroll.in, February 26, 2019. Lieven, Anatol. “It’s Time to Trust the Taliban,” by Anatol Lieven. Foreign Policy, January 31, 2019. Lieven, Anatol. “The Myth of Liberal Internationalism: Why it Always Fails,” by Anatol Lieven. Prospect, December 7, 2018. Lieven, Anatol. “What History Can Teach Us About Countries in Crisis,” by Anatol Lieven. Prospect, May 5, 2019. Miller, Rory. “The GCC: A Glimmer of Hope or Condemned to History?” The New Arab, June 19, 2019.
Miller, Rory. “Analysis: Behind the punishing blockade against Qatar.” Al Jazeera, May 2, 2019.
Nonneman, Gerd. “Arabia secreta.” [Secret Arabia] Infobae.com, October 21, 2018.
Miller, Rory. كيف قرأ الباحثون حصار قطر؟.”كتاب “أزمة الخليج [The Gulf Crisis: How Researchers View the Blockade.] Al Jazeera Arabic, December 16, 2018.
Oidtmann, Max. “Is China Persecuting its Uighur Muslim minority?” Interview by Mohammed Jamjoom. Inside Story. Al Jazeera, November 11, 2018.
Miller, Rory. “The Bush legacy in the Gulf,” by Rory Miller. Al Jazeera, December 4, 2018.
Verhoeven, Harry. “Episode 43 - The GERD: Hydro Politics in the Horn of Africa.” Policy Talks Podcast, September 30, 2018.
Miller, Rory. “Ireland, worried about peace process, considers recognition of a Palestinian state.” Washington Post, September 28, 2018.
Verhoeven, Harry. “The Weaponization of GERD.” Ethiopia Insight Podcast, September 11, 2018.
Mohamed, Yehia. أين اللغة العربية الفصحى في زمن العولمة [ و التكنولوجيات الحديثةThe Impact of Globalization and New Media in Arabic.] TRT Arabic, March 30, 2019.
Verhoeven, Harry. “Is Chinese Cash for Africa Actually Debt Trap Diplomacy?” Inkstone News, September 4, 2018.
Mohamed, Yehia. “Types of Arabic Learners in Today’s World.” Sharek Centre Pedagogical Talk and Workshop for Arabic Teachers. YouTube, March 8, 2019.
Verhoeven, Harry. “Will the Largest Dam in Africa Ever be Completed?” Interview with Elizabeth Puranam. Inside Story. Al Jazeera, August 28, 2018.
Nonneman, Gerd. Interview on the Side of Gulf International Conference. Gulf International Forum. Gulfif.com, November 12, 2018.
Widerquist, Karl. “Will the midterm results affect Trump’s foreign policy?” Interview with Mohammed Jamjoom. Inside Story. Al Jazeera, November 8, 2018.
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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 the development and implementation of university policy and procedures governing human subject research. Members of the IRB generally serve two year 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. In 2018-2019, the IRB included the following members: • • • • • • • • • •
Jeremy Koons - Chair Ayman Shabana - Vice Chair Anne Nebel - Member Zahra Babar - Member Rory Miller - Member Yulianto Mohsin - Member, unaffiliated M. Reza Pirbhai - Alternate Member Jose Asturias - Alternate Member Hana Zabarah - Alternate Member Kristen Katabol - Alternate Member
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. In 2018-2019, James Reardon-Anderson and Ian Almond are due recognition for their contributions to this program.
GU-Q COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ASD TEACHERS’ PANEL GU-Q gave a panel presentation for American School of Doha’s professional development day on “The Effects of the Blockade on Qatar.” Moderated by Anne Nebel, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, the panel included Dean Ahmad Dallal who spoke about educational impacts, CIRS Director Mehran Kamrava who discussed political consequences, and Professor Rory Miller who talked about security capacity.
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LA NUIT DES IDÉES Qatar’s participation in “The Night of Ideas,” a global initiative that sees academics, artists, intellectuals, researchers and more gather to discuss a shared theme on the same day in more than 70 countries, took place at GU-Q on January 31, 2019 under the theme “Facing the Present.” Co-organized with the Institut Français of Qatar and Qatar Foundation, the event was moderated by Professor Clyde Wilcox, and explored the connection between technology, science fiction, and society.
ARABIC BOOK CLUB This academic year, the Georgetown Qatar Arabic Book Club, one of the cultural, academic, and professional activities offered by the Arabic Language Program, began holding meetings in collaboration with the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, leading to greater participation and more diverse perspectives. This year’s books under discussion included: • Bishara, Azmi. 2018. الطوا ئــف المتخیلــة، الطائفیــة،الطائفــة [Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects]. Doha, Qatar: Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies.
• Nassar, Nasif. 2017. تصورات األمة المعاصرة – دراسة تحلیلیة لمفاھیم األمة في الفكر العربي الحديث والمعاصر [Contemporary Perception of the Nation: An Analytical Study on Concepts In Contemporary and Modern Arab Thought in Qatar]. Doha, Qatar: Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies. • Al Horuoub, Khaled. 2018.
القلق المثقف الیقین مثقف ضد [The Worried Intellectual Versus the Assured Intellectual]. Amman, Jordan: Al Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution.
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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 2018-2019 year, the following faculty participated: • Ian Almond. Unexpected Identities. “Comparative Orientalisms in Mexican/Bengali/Turkish Literature.” HBKU. Presenter. • Jim Reardon-Anderson. Revisiting Sheikh Jassim. “Sheikh Qassim Al Thani and the Emergence of Qatar.” HBKU. Presenter.
• Sonia Alonso Saenz de Oger. Migrants and Museums. Texas A &M at Qatar. Moderator. • Firat Oruc. Between Diversity and Uniformity Panel. “Diversity and Social Change in and Beyond the Middle East.” HBKU. Panelist with Julie Boeri, HBKU and Joe F. Khalil, NU-Q. • Rory Miller. The 2017 Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar. “Qatar, the Gulf Crisis and Small State Behavior.” Texas A&M at Qatar. Presenter.
BRIEFINGS AND CONSULTANCY CLYDE WILCOX • State Department International Visitor Program, Washington, DC. Lecturer. ANATOL LIEVEN • South Asia Advisory Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), London. Meeting participant. • Department for International Development (DFID), London. Advisor. • Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Dubai’s Meeting of British Diplomats stationed in South Asia. Lecturer. • Officer Training Institute, Ahmed bin Mohammed Military College. Defense Attaché Training Course. Doha, Qatar. Lecturer. • Northwestern University in Qatar. Professor Jocelyn Sage Mitchell’s journalism course. Guest Lecturer.
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RORY MILLER • Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Advanced Political Geography Course for diplomats. Instructor. • American School of Doha Teacher Training Panel Event. “Small State Capacity Building in the Security Sphere in Response to the Blockade.” Panelist. • Officer Training Institute, Ahmed bin Mohammed Military College, Doha, Qatar. Curriculum Development, Instructor for 3, 2-day courses: • Defense Attaché Training • Capability Management for Commanders • Operational Arts M. REZA PIRBHAI • Officer Training Institute, Ahmed bin Mohammed Military College. Defense Attaché Training Course. Doha, Qatar. Lecturer.
GERD NONNEMAN • Senior official and diplomatic representatives of the U.N., E.U., U.S., U.K., Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Romania, Singapore, and Australia. Advisor on Gulf Politics. • Shell Qatar and Shell MENA Leadership. Consultant on Gulf politics and economy. • Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development, Qatar. Board Member. • University Delegations from Dartmouth College, Hong Kong University, Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Peking University. Lecturer on the politics, international relations and economy of Qatar and the Gulf region.
HARRY VERHOEVEN • U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. State Department; U.N. Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Djibouti); The Qatar Armed Forces; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office; United Kingdom Royal College of Defence Studies. Lectures and Briefs. • Officer Training Institute, Ahmed bin Mohammed Military College. Defense Attaché Training Course. Doha, Qatar. Lecturer.
EXECUTIVE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY SHORT COURSE FOR THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DIPLOMATIC INSTITUTE Rory Miller The Executive and Professional Education department developed a customized training program for the Diplomatic Institute of the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs aimed at Qatari diplomats and government leaders. The program included four short intensive courses, one of which was taught by Rory Miller. His course on Political Geography was attended by 11 Qatari participants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence, the majority of whom were diplomats
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COURSES The GU-Q Community Education Program regularly engages faculty to provide members of the public with the opportunity to learn a new skill or explore personal interests through a diverse range of courses. In 2018-2019, two classes were offered by faculty members: • Formal Spoken Arabic: Abdul Rahman Chamseddine • Professional Writing in Arabic: Abbas Al Tonsi
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION COURSE: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MARKETS Alexis Antoniades This 2-day intensive course provided eight executives with the tools needed to master global markets. Through an in-depth analysis of the components of the global financial system, the identification of the links between those components, and a careful study of the forces that shift them, participants learned to anticipate, understand, and respond to movements in global markets.
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