Join us for an interview with Alaa Muhesi shedding light on the struggles, triumphs and resilience of the Sudanese people amidst the backdrop of the world’s largest displacement crisis. Alaa is a Sudanese War survivor and advocate.
Moderated by: Noon Elsharif GU-Q’27 Student Advocate and Host
Location: GU-Q Library, Georgetown University in Qatar
Untouchability in the 21st Century – also called caste discrimination or “discrimination based on work and descent” – affects at least 250 million people living across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with diaspora communities in Europe and the Americas. This talk explores the historical making of this little-known transnational world of untouchable groups, focusing on the experiences of Korea’s Baekjeong.
Location: Faculty Conference Room (1D02), First Floor Georgetown University in Qatar
Ricardo Ortiz is Professor of Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Georgetown University, where he also directs the MA Program in Engaged and Public Humanities. His research also focuses on Critical Theory, American Studies, and Gender and Queer Studies.
He served as Chair of Georgetown’s Department of English from 2015 to 2021, and as President of the Association of Department of English in 2022. In 2024 Prof. Ortiz is also co-chairing, with Dr. Adanna Johnson, Georgetown’s Working Group on Student Identity, Agency and Belonging.
Location: Faculty Conference Room (1D02), First Floor Georgetown University in Qatar
Gender in Foreign Policy is the seventh event in the signature Hiwaraat series launched in the fall of 2023. The conference addresses gender-informed approaches to foreign policy and diplomacy, the role and risks of AI in policy and practice, and gender aspects of foreign policy in conflict situations with a focus on specific countries including Afghanistan, Gaza, and Ukraine. The conference will convene leading diplomats, public officials, academics, and students to discuss the interconnected, topical themes.
Location: Auditorium, Ground Floor, Georgetown University in Qatar
We pay tribute to one of America’s and the world’s greatest composers and musicians. This concert is part of a long history of paying tribute to Ellington’s genius.
Twenty-five years ago on April 29, 1999, Ellington’s 100th birthdate his “Concert of Sacred Music“ was presented at the Washington National Cathedral, the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his final Sunday sermon before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO) performed along with vocalists Queen Esther Morrow and Kevin Mahogany. Ellington’s last concert was held at Georgetown University on February 10, 1974, fifty years ago. The orchestra played over 20 of his compositions. Ellington died in New York on May 24, 1974, a few weeks after his 75th birthday. It is fitting that Georgetown University in Doha along with the US Embassy in Qatar presents Ellington’s fellow Washingtonian, Nasar Abeday with Supernova, fifty years after his death and 125 years after his birth. Millions throughout the world will be joining us this April, International Jazz History Month, as we celebrate the “DUKE.”
Organized in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy Doha, and in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, the event will take place on Sunday, April 21, 6:00 pm, at Qatar Academy’s PUE Theater in Education City.
Light reception from 5:30 PM.
His Excellency Dr. Turki bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud is the Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qatar. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities of engaging in negotiations to resolve conflicts.
Location: Faculty Conference Room (1D02), First Floor Georgetown University in Qatar
Yasir Suleiman is Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. His publications cover various aspects of the Arabic language in the social world, including issues of identity and conflict. He authored “The 2018 Language Ideological Debate in Morocco,” in The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity (2021). He is also the author of “Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora”, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 147–149.
As the world continues to grapple with humanitarian crises and armed conflicts that have taken an unprecedented toll on millions of people, we must ask: what role do international organizations have in upholding international humanitarian law? What are the limits and potentials of international organizations in alleviating the suffering of victims during armed conflict? Basma Tabaja, Head of the ICRC delegation in Qatar, and Yara Khawaja, Deputy Head of Mission and Humanitarian Affairs Adviser at the ICRC in Qatar will engage in a moderated discussion to address these and related questions.
Moderated by Noha Aboueldahab
Location: Faculty Conference Room (1D02), First Floor Georgetown University in Qatar