The talk will be given by Zeina Jallad, Associate Professor of International Law and Director of the Palestine Land Studies Center at the American University of Beirut, and Professor Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Moderated by Noha Aboueldahab, Assistant Professor of International Law at GU-Q.
Location: 1A16 (EPS).
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist who covered the war on terror from Afghanistan to Guantanamo. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for Young Journalists.
Kamila Shamsie is an award-winning novelist with eight acclaimed books, including Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest, Best of Friends, won the Karachi Literature Festival/Getz Fiction Award.
The event will take place in the Auditorium at Georgetown University in Qatar.
The aim of the discussion is to highlight the key aspects of the ongoing conflict in Sudan and look into the complexities surrounding the situation in Darfur and RSF’s almost control of the region and its resources.
Room: 0A35 – CIRS Conference Room
Speaker: Hamid E. Ali is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) and served as the Dean of the School of Economics, Administration, and Public Policy from 2020 to 2023. He also held a research position at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he substantially contributed to several reports for US congressional committees. He has been a distinguished invitee at forums hosted by the US Institute for Peace, the US State Department, and Chatham House. Ali has teaching experience from institutions like Texas State University and Southern Methodist University. He is a member of the Task Force of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)/ IASIA and the IASIA Board of Management. He previously served as the President of the Association of Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration. Currently, he is the Chair of the International Commission on the Accreditation of Public Administration and Training Programs (ICAPA) and is an active member of the NASPAA Diversity and Social Equality Committee. Additionally, Hamid participates in the College Board and the Public Policy Leaders’ group for the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). He published in international journals including Public Administration Review, Peace Research, Food Policy, Defence and Peace Economics
Moderator: Rogaia Abusharaf, Georgetown University in Qatar
Lunch will be provided