Anonymous On August 9, 2017, Qatar waived the entry visa requirements for 80 countries. Citizens of those countries who wishes to visit Qatar for certain amount of days (included in their terms and conditions) no longer need to apply for a visa. Although, as mentioned by Qatar Airways and Qatar Tourism Authority, the main aim of this policy is to promote tourism (and there has been relatively more tourists), many took this opportunity to look for jobs in Qatar. This is not pe

Anonymous Coming to Georgetown as a Qatari student, I thought GU-Q (and QF as a whole) would be the one place in Qatar where actual ethnic and racial representation is a must; I thought that GU-Q would finally be the one place where I could intermix with people from all around the world and different religious backgrounds. However, in my first week here, I realized the significance of the fountain’s placement in the atrium: a physical representation of the segregation between

Chargé D’ Affaires Murad Baseer addressing Georgetown Qatar’s students and faculties. On October 23, 2018, the South Asian Society of Georgetown University Qatar invited Murad Baseer, Chargé D’ Affaires of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, for a keynote on the topic: A Nation Rising out of the Ashes of the War on Terror. More than 40 individuals attended and had the opportunity to further learn about the geopolitics of Pakistan. Members in the audience also had

October 11, 2018 For the first time in their history, Georgetown’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) hosted a workshop on the topic: designing a research question. As stated on the CIRS website, the center sponsors major studies of regional and international significance, including research initiatives in the areas of international relations, political economy, and domestic politics. To promote undergraduate research, CIRS recently launched the CIRS Undergr

Anonymous. October 7, 2018. On October 6th, members from the Georgetown community traveled to Fuwairit beach as part of the Outdoor Education Event. Outdoor Education is an adventurous initiative that allows members from the Georgetown community to explore a new location in Doha and grow as a community. The participants built a water raft in groups, cooked dinner and built a bonfire in the desert. Let these pictures speak for themselves: Groups Collaborating and Building Thei

Anonymous. October 8, 2018. On October 7, 2018 Georgetown University Qatar held a one day conference on Family Structure in the wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. The event started with welcoming remarks from Dean Ahmad Dallal and continued with a series of keynote speeches and panels. Scholars from many parts of the world gathered to address the future of family structure, implications of biomedical technologies. regional perspectives and practices around the wor