Podcasts about hamad bin khalifa university

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory. For Palestinians, whose national status remains contested, the articulation and imagination of national identity take on particular urgency. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens envision their homeland, engaging with the works of key figures such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Drawing on decolonial and resistance concepts—particularly Palestinian sumud—Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is central to the Palestinian struggle. This interdisciplinary study, rooted in critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and literary analysis, offers valuable insights for students and scholars of Palestine, Middle East studies, and Arabic literature. Imagining Palestine received the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards. Bryant Scott is a professor of English and film studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Three months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's interim President has been struggling to unite the country.In a landmark breakthrough, the government struck a deal to merge the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces into state institutions.While Syrian Kurds celebrate the deal, residents on the northwestern coast remain wary after days of sectarian violence that killed over 1,000 people. The government blamed pro-Assad groups for instigating the violence, and said the security threats had already been neutralized, but will the fragmented country be able to achieve peace and unity after 13 years of civil war?Host Zhao Ying is joined by Wang Jin, Associate Professor with Northwest University in Xi'an, China; Joseph Siracusa, Professor of Global Futures with Curtin University; Steven Wright, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory. For Palestinians, whose national status remains contested, the articulation and imagination of national identity take on particular urgency. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens envision their homeland, engaging with the works of key figures such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Drawing on decolonial and resistance concepts—particularly Palestinian sumud—Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is central to the Palestinian struggle. This interdisciplinary study, rooted in critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and literary analysis, offers valuable insights for students and scholars of Palestine, Middle East studies, and Arabic literature. Imagining Palestine received the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards. Bryant Scott is a professor of English and film studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory. For Palestinians, whose national status remains contested, the articulation and imagination of national identity take on particular urgency. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens envision their homeland, engaging with the works of key figures such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Drawing on decolonial and resistance concepts—particularly Palestinian sumud—Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is central to the Palestinian struggle. This interdisciplinary study, rooted in critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and literary analysis, offers valuable insights for students and scholars of Palestine, Middle East studies, and Arabic literature. Imagining Palestine received the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards. Bryant Scott is a professor of English and film studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory. For Palestinians, whose national status remains contested, the articulation and imagination of national identity take on particular urgency. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens envision their homeland, engaging with the works of key figures such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Drawing on decolonial and resistance concepts—particularly Palestinian sumud—Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is central to the Palestinian struggle. This interdisciplinary study, rooted in critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and literary analysis, offers valuable insights for students and scholars of Palestine, Middle East studies, and Arabic literature. Imagining Palestine received the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards. Bryant Scott is a professor of English and film studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory. For Palestinians, whose national status remains contested, the articulation and imagination of national identity take on particular urgency. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens envision their homeland, engaging with the works of key figures such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Drawing on decolonial and resistance concepts—particularly Palestinian sumud—Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is central to the Palestinian struggle. This interdisciplinary study, rooted in critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and literary analysis, offers valuable insights for students and scholars of Palestine, Middle East studies, and Arabic literature. Imagining Palestine received the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards. Bryant Scott is a professor of English and film studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

As Trump returns to office and lifts the freeze on LNG export permit applications, the global LNG landscape is set for another shake-up. Importing countries are closely watching how the US leverages LNG in trade negotiations, while competing producers, particularly Qatar, brace for intensified competition. With its 80% expansion of the North Field announced in early 2024, Qatar must now navigate a market where US LNG suppliers offer more flexible, destination-free contracts. In this interview, MEI Senior Research Fellow June Park speaks with Dr Steven Wright, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, to unpack the implications of these developments on the Gulf's role in the global energy market.

In this episode, Jabu is joined by Dr. Kamilla Swart-Arries, Program Director of the Masters of Sports & Entertainment Management and Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, to discuss the potential return of Formula 1 to Africa. Dr. Swart-Arries explores the history of F1 on the continent, from the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix to the last race held in South Africa in 1993. She also examines the prospects of Rwanda and South Africa as frontrunners to host the next African Grand Prix, highlighting the efforts of South African Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie in advocating for Kyalami's return to the F1 circuit. Together, they discuss the strategic and financial commitments needed for an African circuit to successfully host F1, considering the high costs and FIA circuit accreditation requirements involved. ---------------

What's the fallout from the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran? Hamas' political leader was assassinated as tensions in the Middle East are running high. How much of a blow is this to Hamas - and Iran? And could Haniyeh's death escalate into a full regional conflict? In this episode: Mohammad Marandi, Professor, University of Tehran. Sultan Barakat, Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. Maha Yahya, Director, Malcolm H Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. Host: Dareen Abughaida Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

China and Arab states have wrapped up a major forum in Beijing in a sign of deepening cooperation. What factors are driving the deepening ties between China and Arab states? How can they work together towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, as well as a more equitable, multipolar world order?Host Zhao Ying is joined by Zhang Chuchu, Deputy Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University; Steven Wright, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Mher Sahakyan, Director of "China-Eurasia" Council for Political and Strategic Research, Armenia; and Timothy Niblock, Emeritus Professor of Middle East Politics, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

Palestinian police escorting aid trucks in Gaza, are being regularly attacked by Israel's military. That's as tens of thousands of people are starving in the strip, and civil order is breaking down. Is Benjamin Netanyahu's government creating a security vacuum in Gaza - and if so, why? In this episode: Chris Gunness, Former Spokesman, UNRWA. Walid Habbas, Researcher, Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies. Sultan Barakat, Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Host: Dareen Abughaida  Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

Why is Benjamin Netanyahu lashing out at Egypt, Jordan and Qatar? He's been criticising these countries since Israel began its war on Gaza. Facing growing pressure at home, what does Netanyahu want from his neighbours? And does he risk alienating regional players? In this episode:  H A Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Sultan Barakat,  Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Akiva Eldar, Political Analyst, Journalist and Author. Host: Nastasya Tay Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

Israel's Prime Minister insists the war on Gaza will continue - despite growing anger over the Israeli army's killing of three captives. Their families are demanding the government do more to ensure those being held by Hamas are released. So, can a deal be agreed to free them and secure a new truce? Join Host Folly Bah Thibault Guests: Alon Liel - Former Director General, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Yossi Mekelberg - Associate Fellow of the MENA Programme, Chatham House. Sultan Barakat - Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

A video is circulating in Israeli media which purports to show the surrender of some Hamas fighters. But critics say it is staged and have cast doubt on its authenticity. The footage comes as Hamas continues to resist Israel's relentless assault, more than nine weeks into the conflict. And Israel faces growing global condemnation for killing Palestinian civilians, as death toll reaches 18,000. So, is the video an attempt by Israel to deflect accusations of genocide in Gaza? And is it real or fake? Join Host Cyril Vanier Guests: Sahar Khamis - Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Marc Owen Jones - Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dina Matar - Chairperson, Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in communication and social interaction, as well as repetitive behaviors. It has been observed that children born to older fathers have an increased risk of developing ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders. This phenomenon suggests that paternal age may have an impact on the risk of ASD in offspring. Recent research has focused on understanding the potential mechanisms underlying the association between paternal age and ASD. One area of interest is the epigenome, specifically DNA methylation, which refers to the addition or removal of methyl groups to DNA molecules. DNA methylation can affect gene expression and play a role in various biological processes. In a new study, researchers Ramya Potabattula, Andreas Prell, Marcus Dittrich, Caroline Nava, Christel Depienne, Yosra Bejaoui, Nady El Hajj, Thomas Hahn, Martin Schorsch, and Thomas Haaf from Julius Maximilians University, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, University Hospital Essen, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Fertility Center in Wiesbaden, Germany, explored the relationship between paternal age, DNA methylation of the BEGAIN gene, and the risk of ASD. The BEGAIN gene encodes a protein involved in protein-protein interactions at synapses, which are crucial for proper brain function. On November 28, 2023, their research paper was published in Aging's Volume 15, Issue 22, entitled, "Effects of paternal and chronological age on BEGAIN methylation and its possible role in autism." Full blog - https://aging-us.org/2023/12/what-makes-children-of-older-fathers-at-increased-risk-of-autism/ Paper DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.205275 Corresponding author - Thomas Haaf - thomas.haaf@uni-wuerzburg.de Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.205275 Subscribe for free publication alerts from Aging - https://www.aging-us.com/subscribe-to-toc-alerts Keywords - aging, age and sex effect, autism spectrum disorder, BEGAIN, chronological aging, paternal age effect, sperm methylation About Aging-US Launched in 2009, Aging-US publishes papers of general interest and biological significance in all fields of aging research and age-related diseases, including cancer—and now, with a special focus on COVID-19 vulnerability as an age-dependent syndrome. Topics in Aging-US go beyond traditional gerontology, including, but not limited to, cellular and molecular biology, human age-related diseases, pathology in model organisms, signal transduction pathways (e.g., p53, sirtuins, and PI-3K/AKT/mTOR, among others), and approaches to modulating these signaling pathways. Please visit our website at https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us: SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/Aging-Us Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AgingJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ Media Contact 18009220957 MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

A deal to pause the war in Gaza for four days. Israeli women and children held captive by Hamas will be exchanged for Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli jails. So what's next - a return to war, as Israel warns? Or could an end be in sight?Join Host Folly Bah Thibault Guests: Diana Buttu - Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser, Palestine Liberation Organization.Sultan Barakat - Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha.Yossi Mekelberg - Associate Fellow, Chatham House.

The human cost of Israel's war on Gaza is beyond calculation - lives lost, families destroyed, tens of thousands injured. But what about the economic cost and who will pay?Will Israel contribute anything to rebuild communities devastated by its bombs?Join Host James Bays Guests: Tamer Qarmout - Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.  Helin Sari Ertem - Associate Professor, International Relations, Istanbul Medeniyet University.  Sultan Barakat - Professor of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

A letter signed by hundreds of international journalists says Western media coverage of the Gaza war has been biased in favour of Israel and against Palestine. Newsrooms are accused of dehumanising Palestinians. Are the allegations fair?Join Host Laura Kyle Guests: Pacinthe Mattar - Independent journalist and 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.  Ahmed Alnaouq - Journalist and co-founder, We Are Not Numbers. Marc Owen Jones - Associate Professor of Middle East Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. 

This panel, co-organised with Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), focused on the role that representations of femininities, masculinities, and sexualities in media and cultural productions play in maintaining or challenging stereotypes, and the gendered norms and regimes that these give rise to. Drawing on feminist approaches to media and cultural studies, speakers will discuss how different media forms, ranging from traditional print to film, advertising, and digital media have shaped gendered discourses and, relatedly, feminist thinking and praxes in the Middle East. Dalia Said Mostafa is Associate Professor on the Women, Society & Development Programme, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. On this panel she will discuss 'Women's Formidable Role and Influence in the Making of Arab Cinema'. Polly Withers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. On this panel she will discuss 'Problematising feminist media studies from the Middle East: Gendering media in Palestine'. Amal Al-Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Before that, she was the Executive Director of the Translation and Interpreting Institute, which she founded in 2011. She also was an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar where she taught courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation, and Islamic feminism. Marc Owen Jones is an Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University, where he lectures and researches on political repression and informational control strategies. His recent work has focused on the way social media has been used to spread disinformation and fake news in the Middle East. Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Sophie's broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women's activism in the Middle East. https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2023/feminist-media-studies-middle-east

This panel, co-organised with Hamad Bin Khalifa University, was the launch of 'Tunisia's Economic Development: Why Better than Most of the Middle East but not East Asia' co-authored by Mustapha K. Nabil and Jeffrey B. Nugent. Recently published as part of the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Series edited by Hassan Hakimian, 'Tunisia's Economic Development' provides useful insights into the factors that have enabled Tunisia's initial economic success, and suggests opportunities for improving the management of economic development in the country, drawing wider lessons for the MENA region. Find out more here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2023/tunisia-economic-development. Mustapha K. Nabli has been Professor of Economics at the University of Tunis, Chairman of the Tunis Stock Exchange, Minister of Planning, Regional and Economic Development in the Government of Tunisia, Chief Economist and Director of the Social and Economic Development Department for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank, and Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia. Jeffrey B. Nugent is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, USA. He has worked on and in various countries of both the MENA and East Asian regions including for the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Leila Baghdadi is Professor of Economics at ESSECT, University of Tunis, where she holds the World Trade Organization Chair. She is an executive board member of the Central Bank of Tunisia since August 2019. Mohamed Ali Marouani is Associate Professor in Economics at the Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies and currently on leave as Resident Representative of the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in Tunisia. Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London.

Lately, there's been a lot of talk about smart cities and intelligent buildings, so what defines a smart city and makes it different from a regular city? Why do we need smart cities? What makes smart cities successful? In this episode, Dr. Esmat Zaidan answers these questions and dives into smart cities! Dr. Esmat Zaidan is an associate professor in Public Policy at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She has twenty years of progressive experience in academic institutions (University of Waterloo, United Arab Emirates University, and Qatar University) and in international development organizations such as the World Bank, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), and the European Committee. She has solid interdisciplinary scholarly work and activities; her research focuses on social and cultural, development, smart cities and societies, sustainable development policy and planning, smart transformation, and the actions of communities and demand-side in the transition to sustainability. In her publications, she integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques, spatial statistics, forecasting models, and future predictions for policy analysis, particularly in the State of Qatar and the gulf. She published a wide range of articles (more than 48) in top-tier ISI/Scopus journals (70% of her publication are in Q1 journals) with Springer Nature, Elsevier, Sage, Routledge, and Taylor & Francis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof. Aiman Erbad discusses in the episode IoT and AI and his research on innovation for sustainability. He explains the recent innovation from the University deployed in Qatar to fight climate change and foster innovation. Bio-  Aiman Erbad is an Associate Professor and the ICT division head in the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and the Director of Research Planning and Development at Qatar University until May 2020. He also served as the Director of Research Support responsible for all grants and contracts (2016-2018) and as the Computer Engineering Program Coordinator (2014-2016). Dr. Erbad obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2012, a Master of Computer Science in embedded systems and robotics from the University of Essex (UK) in 2005, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2004. He received the Platinum award from H.H. The Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the Education Excellence Day 2013 (Ph.D. category). He also received the 2020 Best Research Paper Award from Computer Communications, the IWCMC 2019 Best Paper Award, and the IEEE CCWC 2017 Best Paper Award. His research received funding from the Qatar National Research Fund, and his research outcomes were published in respected international conferences and journals. He is an editor for KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, an editor for the International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), and a guest editor for IEEE Network. He also served as a Program Chair of the International Wireless Communications Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2019), as a Publicity chair of the ACM MoVid Workshop 2015, as a Local Arrangement Chair of NOSSDAV 2011, and as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member in various IEEE and ACM international conferences (NOSSDAV, MMSys, ACMMM, IC2E, and ICNC). His research interests span cloud computing, edge intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), private and secure networks, and multimedia systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM,

Many environmental problems come down to human behavior!We each make daily choices about what to buy, what to eat, how to meet our needs, and other choices, that over time become automatic and seem very simple and highly individual, but unfortunately, these choices have consequences for the health of the planet, and they slowly destroy it. So, how can we take the daily habits that hurt the environment and make them into daily habits that help to make the world a more sustainable place? And why, while most of us have a desire to make more sustainable decisions, there is currently a gap between decisions and actual behavior.In this episode, Dr. Reem al Mansoori answers these questions and more and talks to us about nudging towards sustainability.Dr. Reem Al-Mansoori is a Post-doctorate researcher at the College of Science and Engineering, and a member of the Technology and Behavior Research Group i-Solouk at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Reem is also a visiting fellow in the Cyberpsychology research group at Bournemouth University in the UK.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Biodiversity loss, reckless exploitation, mismanagement of natural resources, rising sea levels, and the other severe and urgent threats posed by human-induced climate change... Does Islam have anything to say about these deepening crises? And do Islamic beliefs and values provide humanity with practical solutions to today's environmental challenges? Also, how is it that with the task of stewardship, Allah both honors and tests man? That's what Sulaiman Bah tells us in this episode! Sulaiman Bah is the Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for the Education City Mosque at Qatar Foundation. He completed his Master of Arts degree, specializing in Public Policy in Islam, from the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA. Fluent in five languages, Sulaiman has a strong geopolitical and cultural experience, working and living in the Middle East and Africa. Born and raised in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman is a Muslim American with strong family roots in West Africa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we are thrilled to be joined by Mariama Bukari as our guest, she is a graduate of the African University College of Communication in Ghana and is currently pursuing Sports & Entertainment Management at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Growing up in Ghana, the insatiable love of football did not go unnoticed by people who met her. The support from her father and the inspiration that came from her other siblings pushed her to become phenomenal in playing, studying, and the management of this sport. She happily recounts how at times together with her family they juggled between harvesting crops and playing football. Her realization that most talents in Ghana could be found on the streets pushed her to start managing players in her community through sponsoring local matches or finding agents for talented players. In 2019 she registered her own youth football club, Black Strikas whom she supports from her own income. Catch up with her tremendous football journey and her future plans on this episode. Tune in on…at…

Today we are thrilled to be joined by Mariama Bukari as our guest, she is a graduate of the African University College of Communication in Ghana and is currently pursuing Sports & Entertainment Management at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.  Growing up in Ghana, the insatiable love of football did not go unnoticed by people who met her. The support from her father and the inspiration that came from her other siblings pushed her to become phenomenal in playing, studying, and the management of this sport. She happily recounts how at times together with her family they juggled between harvesting crops and playing football.  Her realization that most talents in Ghana could be found on the streets pushed her to start managing players in her community through sponsoring local matches or finding agents for talented players. In 2019 she registered her own youth football club, Black Strikas whom she supports from her own income.  Catch up with her tremendous football journey and her future plans on this episode.   Tune in on…at…  

GettyImages It's safe to say that the 2020 Olympic Games held in Tokyo this year was an unconventional event. The impact the pandemic had on the athletes has been complex and felt differently across countries and individuals. So how did African athletes fare in these difficult conditions? Overall, not too well on the medals chart. There were some impressive performances but the Olympics did not yield many moments for participants from African countries to savour. In today's episode of Pasha, Kamilla Swart, an associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, looks at how well African participants have done at the Games. She also discusses how hosting of the Games needs a fairer geographical spread. Photo: “Tatjana Schoenmaker of Republic of South Africa shows the gold medal after winning, with a new world record, the women 200m Breaststroke final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.” By Giorgio Scala/BSR found on Agency/Getty Images Music: “Happy African Village” by John Bartmann, found on FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC0 1. “"One Night In Africa” by John Bartmann, found on Free Music Archive licensed under under a Attribution-ShareAlike License.

When the Danish men's football team are called up to replace Yugoslavia in the 1992 European Championships, just 10 days before the start of the tournament, nobody fancied their chances, least of all the players themselves. In this episode of Sideways, Matthew Syed traces their fairy tale journey towards taking home the trophy and reveals what Denmark's story can teach us about the importance of prioritising team cohesion over individual stardom. For the Danish coach, Richard Møller Nielsen, it's all about nurturing the ties between the players, putting the team ahead of the ego of any individual star. Møller Nielsen's approach is unpopular with the press, the public and the players themselves. But as Matthew discovers, he's hit upon a crucial element of social cohesion, one that has been powering our societies for centuries. While we often construct our sports teams, our businesses and our lives assuming that we need to motivate individuals, are we overlooking the importance of human connection? And is this connection the secret to success? With journalist and football writer Lars Eriksen, former Danish international player and commentator Morten Brunn, Alexandra Michel, leadership development expert and Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Greg Walton, Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Professor Josef W Meri, historian in interfaith relations at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Presenter: Matthew Syed Producer: Pippa Smith Series Editor and Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey Music, Sound Design and Mix: Nicholas Alexander Theme Music: Seventy Times Seven by Ioana Selaru A Novel production for BBC Radio 4

If you drive in the United States, chances are you can't remember the last time you bought a paper map, printed out a digital map, or even stopped to ask for directions. Thanks to GPS and the mobile mapping apps on our smartphones and their real-time routing advice, navigation is a solved problem. But in developing or fast-growing parts of the world: not so much. If you live in a place like Doha, Qatar, where the length of the road network has tripled over the last five years, commercial mapping services from Google, Apple, Bing, or other providers simply can't keep up with the pace of infrastructure change.  “Each one of us who grew up in Europe or the US probably cannot understand the scale at which these cities grow,” says Rade Stanojevic, a senior scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a Qatar Foundation university, in Doha. “Pretty much every neighborhood sees a new underpass, new overpass, new large highway being added every couple of months.”  As Qatar copes with this rapid growth—and especially as it prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022—the bad routing advice and accumulating travel delays from outdated digital maps is increasingly costly. That's why Stanojevic and colleagues at QCRI decided to try applying machine learning to the problem. A road network can be interpreted as a giant graph with where every intersection is a node and every road is an edge, says Stanojevic, whose specialty is network economics. Road segments can have both static characteristics, such as the designated speed limit, and dynamic characteristics, such as rush-hour congestion. To see where traffic really is going—rather than where an old map says it should go—and then predict the best routes through an ever-changing maze, all a machine-learning model would need is lots of up-to-data data on both the static and dynamic factors. “Fortunately enough, modern vehicle fleets have these monitoring systems that produce quite a lot of data,” says Stanojevic. Stanojevic is talking about taxis. His team at QCRI partnered with a Doha-based taxi company called Karwa to collect full GPS data on their vehicles' comings and goings. They used that data to build a new mapping service called QARTA that offers routing advice to drivers at Karwa and other operators such as delivery fleets. Stanojevic says QARTA's deeper understanding of the actual road and traffic situation in Doha helps drivers shave tens of seconds off every trip, which translates into a fleet-wide efficiency gain of 5 to 10 percent. “If you're running a fleet of 3,000 cars, five percent of that is 150 cars,” Stanojevic says. “You can basically remove 150 cars from the road and not lose any business.” Although QCRI's system probably can't compete with the big map-services providers in the developed world, it could help cities in the Middle East and other developing regions manage growth more wisely, Stanojevic says. And a few years from now, as more autonomous vehicles take to the streets, machine-learning-based routing advice could look at the big picture in a busy city and help fleets cut carbon emissions by keeping drivers out of traffic jams. “By having some sort of a global view of what's going on in the whole city, autonomous vehicles can actually reroute us to have some sort of global load balancing, to help everyone be better off.” This podcast was produced in partnership with the Qatar Foundation. Show notes and links Qatar Computing Research Institute Sofiane Abbar, Rade Stanojevic, Shadab Mustafa, and Mohamed Mokbel, Traffic Routing in the Ever-Changing City of Doha, Communications of the ACM, April 2021

This episode is about how women in Qatar are increasingly entering sports that were male-dominated in the past. It features football coach Hajar Saleh and basketball referee Amal Mohammed. Hajar Saleh has been a national football team player since she was 11 years old, and has C and D licenses in coaching. She is an ambassador for Qatar's delivery amazing. In addition, she is a divemaster in scuba diving, a free diver, a hiker and climber, and has a boat license. She believes that sports bring people together and always build strong communities. Amal Mohammed is a graduate student in the Masters of Sport and Entertainment Management program at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She graduated from Qatar University with a Bachelor of Science in Sport Science in 2017 and also has an Associate of Science in Nursing. Amal is a FIBA (Federation of International Basketball) licensed referee and has played for the National Basketball team in Qatar.

I'm so privileged and honoured to welcome Gerard Akindes to the show this week. One of the co-founders and coordinators at the Sports Africa Conferences and the Electronic interdisciplinary Journal of African Sports, Impumelelo. Gerard has a Master in Sports Administration and a PhD. in Media Arts Studies with a focus on Sports broadcasting and is currently lecturing at Hamad Bin Khalifa University here in Qatar. Today he shares his journey and his passion for sport and the difference it can make to our lives.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Kamilla Swart to In The Game Sports Podcast this week. Kamilla talks about her 25 years of experience in sport, tourism, and events as well as her most recent appointment as Associate Professor in the newly established Masters in Sport and Entertainment Management, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, here in Qatar. https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cse/ms-sport-entertainment-management kswartarries@hbku.edu.qa #sportentertainment #associateprofessor #HBKUQatar #inthegame #sportspodcastqatar #sport #sports #sportspodcast #firstsportspodcast #inthegamesportspodcastQatar #inthegame #gingercamel #tourism #events #doha #Qatar This is a sports podcast in Qatar. Follow IN THE GAME:

The Daily Beast has published an investigation into a network of fake journalists that placed opinion pieces in dozens of real news outlets. All the articles were sympathetic to the foreign policy objectives of the United Arab Emirates and the "journalists" who wrote them were backed up by fictitious online personas. Amol Rajan is joined by Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and Marianna Spring, BBC reporter covering disinformation and social media. Also in the programme, restarting TV production in a global pandemic, with Danielle Lux, CPL managing director, David Mortimer, STV Productions managing director, and Emeka Onono, director and executive producer of Trump in Tweets. Sound engineer: Tim Heffer Producer: Richard Hooper