CIRS Exhibits at Qatar Foundation’s Annual ‎Research Forum

The Center for International and Regional Studies took part in Qatar Foundation’s Annual ‎Research Forum on October 21-23, 2012, at the Qatar National Convention Centre. The forum ‎was attended by over 1,500 local and international researchers, participants, and audience ‎members. Members of CIRS were on hand throughout the forum to answer questions about ‎ongoing research projects and grant opportunities. Current and ongoing research initiatives ‎include projects that examine Politics and the Media in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East; Weak ‎States in the Middle East; Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran; The Evolving Ruling Bargain in ‎the Middle East; and Sectarian Politics in the Gulf. For two other projects, Arab Migrant ‎Communities in the GCC and The State and Innovation in the Gulf, CIRS is awarding research ‎grants in order to support original, empirically-grounded fieldwork and research on topics related ‎to each area of investigation.‎

Visitors to the CIRS booth at the Annual Research Forum’s exhibition hall learned more about ‎these and other projects and took copies of published papers from the Center’s research activities, ‎including Occasional Papers, Briefs, Summary Reports, and Newsletters. All papers available at ‎the booth are free to the public.