Current Affairs . The phrase carries weight. In the email announcing the launch of the series, GU-Q described it as a “bold public series born for these destabilizing times. As power is asserted, contested, and reconfigured before our eyes, this series slows the churn of the news and turns to the intellectual force of this community to examine what has just occurred and what it sets in motion.” It is an ambitious promise, one that asks not just for expertise, but for care 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 pr

Yesterday, I sent my mom a dot on WhatsApp to see if she’s online, like always. She wasn't, but I knew that she was on her way back to Ramallah after a short weekend in her hometown, Beit Ummar – a village on the outskirts of the infamous Hebron city, known for its original “ancient” leather shoes, perhaps the best Palestinian production. Naboly, since 1945, “Best leather comfort shoes." They're so good and durable that they last for generations; a son wears his father’s Nabo

ولادتي لم تكن في أحضان الوطن، بل شاءت الأقدار أن أولد في بلدٍ اقترن بكرة القدم اقتران الشهيق والزفير. دولة قطر التي احتضنت كأس العالم، وكأس آسيا، وبطولاتٍ شتى، تعود اليوم لتستقبل كأس العرب، وقد باتت نهايته على الأبواب. وسط هذا الزخم العالمي، بدا من المستحيل التواري عن الحدث. امتلأت منصات التواصل بالتحليلات الرياضية، والاحتفالات الجماعية، وحتى النزاعات التي أعادت إحياء انقسامات قديمة تحت غطاء المنافسة. لم أكن يومًا من المهتمين بكرة القدم، وحاولت، كعادتي، الاستمرار في روتيني ال

Around a month ago now, I got an email from Doha Debates inviting me (and anyone else who signed up at their booth during the Career Fair) to sign up for one of their upcoming debates. The question posed to the would-be debaters was as follows:   “Superintelligence, Is humanity ready for the intelligence explosion?” Putting aside that ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘intelligence explosion’ are both entirely meaningless and demagogue-like phrases, the debate topic (which should

After fourteen years of war and the toppling of the Assad regime on December, 8th 2024, Syria faces an unparalleled reconstruction task. One third of the country’s capital stock is damaged or destroyed, and the estimated rebuilding bill accumulated to hundreds of billions of dollars. The World Bank’s “best estimate” is about $216 billion   (roughly ten times of Syria’s 2024 GDP), while other assessments put it as high as $250–400 billion. Syria’s economy has contracted sharpl

Friedrich Merz,   German Chancellor (Christian Democratic Union), has once again stirred up a public outcry following his recent speech on large-scale deportations of migrants in Germany. Recently, Merz preached about the necessity of changing the "cityscape" in Germany - a term describing the appearance of a city in order to legitimize his planned mass deportations of immigrants. His statement has caused major reputational backlash within German society and represents once

On a cold, winter’s evening in 2008, I landed in a country empty and mysterious to me, with nothing but sand dunes as far as the eye could see. I was with my mother, and we were going there to live with my father. Eighteen winters have come and gone since then and, in that time, most of my childhood memories have faded, save for a few captured in grainy, nostalgic videos and photographs. Despite this, I still remember distinctly how my father held me in his arms, having not s

At the beginning of October, the Gazette’s board approached me and asked that I write a piece on disability, in conjunction with the month’s theme. I said “sure,” and set about thinking up an idea for an article about disability.  I kept coming up blank. In truth, I don’t think about disability all that much. It does not come up in my daily life as something to consider. I do not speak often about it with friends, family, or any communities I’m part of–including here at GU-

When students walk into an introductory economics class at GU-Q, they expect to study economics, the science of how free individuals make choices in a world of scarcity. Instead, many of us encounter something closer to policy science: equations, fiscal multipliers, and government-centered models that assume intervention as the default. Week after week, we plot aggregate demand, analyze “market failures,” and discuss why the state should tax or spend. But where are the econom

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose...

I write this on October 6, 2025, and I can only think: what if the clock were to turn back two years, to October 6, 2023? A day before...

On September 18th, 2025, GU-Q began yet another installment of its Hiwaraat conferences, this time with a focus on Sudan. According to...

Massacres, sexual violence as a weapon of war, poisoning, mass graves, slave markets, settler colonialism. A genocide and a war that has...

On July 15, Georgetown’s interim president, Robert Groves, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce in a...

Let history bear witness that when confronted with genocide, Georgetown chose investment portfolios over human lives. In the early hours...

Published in The Georgetown Gazette, Ameer Sadi’s recent article, “When Representation Becomes Collusion,” is an emotionally charged,...

With 15 days left until graduation, I find myself in a space of quiet reflection—not quite ready to say goodbye and not quite believing...

When I was on the main campus in the Fall Semester of 2023, the Qatari ambassador to the U.S. addressed my class on Iran and the Gulf...

In 2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powel, in coordination with Howard University president, H. Patrick Strewart and Congressman...