Georgetown University in Qatar launched its first-ever cultural climate survey late last month to assess students’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion on campus. The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) climate survey, modeled after the first survey of this type launched in the DC campus in Spring 2020 and modified for the Qatar campus by the GU-Q Title IX Working Group, is open to all students at the campus and is being extended to March 6th. The survey will ask

On Nov. 2, the GU-Q campus facility announced the student shuttle service discontinuity from Dec. 31, 2020. They noted the existing QF free daily student shuttle service schedule in the corresponding email. Following up on this information, The Gazette tracked the campus facility, students, and the shuttle drivers to get their opinion on this news. Inquiring the backdrop that set off student shuttle service, the GU-Q Communications team elaborated on the timeline of commencem

You might think you know who calls the shots at Georgetown. But you don’t. You may never even have heard of Jack the Bulldog- the all-powerful figure who controls our fates from the shadows. He is only ever referred to with deferential murmurs of Big Brother. Recently this scribe sat down with the Big Brother of Georgetown Crypt in Qatar. Though classes had not been held the entire semester, cries of anguish were still rife in the air. The screeches of a victim from last year

In his seminal work “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes posits that without an absolute sovereign over us, society would fall into a “State of Nature.” This state would have human beings at their most cruel, as they fight and squander over every bit of solidarity for their own gain. It will be a purgatory of selfishness, malice, and distrust of fellow human beings. Without someone to dominate our actions, we are left destitute in our own individualism. This has nothing to do with the

It’s 11 a.m. on Sunday, three hours ahead of Doha in Kathmandu, and Neha Shrestha is setting up her study corner to attend her first lecture of the day after a yoga session. Giving her company during the class lecture is her dog, Juju, curled up under the desk. Meanwhile her parents, who are just out from self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus, are mostly occupied planning a hushed Bijaya Dashmi, the most prominent Nepali festival. Judging from the crowd of fes

On January 28th, 2020, the Legal and Political Studies Association held a panel discussion: ‘Impeachment, Iran and World War 3’, an event with a relevant and contemporary topic. There, Professor Anatol Lieven, Professor Clyde Wilcox, and Professor Leonard Williams discussed what was then the hot topic of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ( one from which the President later emerged acquitted ). Throughout the event, President Trump was laughed at and mocked. Professor Anatol L

On a sunny summer afternoon in July 2019, five GU-Q students and one alumnus sat down with Professor Sohaira Siddiqui on the bare grass of a park in Tubingen, Germany. Amidst a discussion riddled with questions about private and public spirituality, sexuality and religion, the feminine and the masculine in Islam, we found our focus veering towards religious guidance and the deliverance of religious knowledge. We began to discuss the necessity of a chaplaincy, which wouldn’t e

There is something about coming to college that changed how I view friendships. Perhaps it’s the fact that we are learning so much about the world around us on a daily basis that it feels difficult to settle for less open-minded and less tolerant peers. Perhaps being in a different environment and meeting hundreds of new people introduce us to the possibility of having friends you don’t settle for, but rather people you genuinely want in your life. In high school, I had this