Why a U.S. Intervention in Iran Has Implications for the Whole Region Doha January 15 (Thursday), 3 a.m.: I check my phone for the fourth time. Still no alert. I look out of the window from the right side of my bed. Nobody is in the street, no people, no cars. Just as usual. Just utter silence.  Over the past weeks, silence has become a betrayer, a repeat offender. It is just a matter of time before it leaves me again. Insomnia and worries have replaced peace and tranquillity that used to be...

Professor Paul and Professor Clyde in a Dialogue: International Law Has Massively Suffered Under the U.S. Raid in Venezuela It truly feels like a funeral. I am relatively early and the room is already bursting. People are squeezing, more and more are rushing in at the last minute. Instead of engaging in a costly search for a vacant seat, many accept their fate and lean against the wall. Arms crossed and back pressed to the cool enclosure of the room, they start waiting impatiently in...

Being Aware of Disabilities Does Not Necessarily Encourage Students to Ask for Accommodations Coming back from a 10-day study trip at the American University in Cairo (AUC) has made one thing crystal clear: Georgetown University in Qatar is, by far, less representative of students with disabilities than AUC and other American universities in the U.S. What is the reason for the absence of students with disabilities on our GUQ campus? Is it merely "healthy" demographics that prevent diversity...