DOHA: The Gulf Studies Center (GSC) at Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences (QU-CAS) organized its third student annual forum titled “The Gulf Crisis: Critical Approaches and Perspectives”.
Event drew the participation of students from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
It aimed to enable students from different disciplines to better understand the social, economic and political changes that are taking place during the Gulf crisis, and to develop mechanisms that help to understand the region’s response to it.
Discussions focused on several topics such as the crisis policies and strategies, the media role in the crisis, and the environmental, social and economic dimensions of the crisis. Dr. Abdulaziz Al Horr, Director of the Diplomatic Institute at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Prof Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan and GSC Visiting Professor, spoke.