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WISE On Air #108 is a special chaptered edition of our education podcast, recorded live during the I AM QF 30th Anniversary Celebration. Brought to you by WISE — the global platform for innovators in education — this episode brings together 13 insightful conversations with students, educators, researchers, and leaders from across Qatar Foundation and beyond. From classroom transformation and labor market shifts, to AI, equity, access, and the future of Education City — this episode explores the most pressing questions and bold ideas shaping the future of learning.

The CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Dr Slim Slama, joins us on this episode of The afikra Podcast to give an in-depth look into the complexities and challenges facing global health today, including the rise of non-communicable diseases, the impact of urbanization, and the inequity in health systems worldwide. The conversation also explores the innovative approaches in healthcare, the role of AI, and the specific health issues pertinent to the Arab world. Through his diverse experiences working in crisis-affected areas and his insights on the evolving dynamics between the East and the West, Dr Slama provides an enriching perspective on how to advance global health for all. This episode was recorded on March 6 and is brought to you in collaboration with Qatar Foundation.00:00 Introduction01:23 Defining Global Health04:12 Evolution of Public Health Issues06:59 Health Challenges in the Arab World11:00 Healthcare in Crisis-Affected Areas14:22 Ministries of Health: Performance and Challenges25:19 Global Health Workforce Shortages28:34 AI in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges38:12 Healthcare in Gaza: Current Situation and Future41:42 Impact of Political Decisions on Global Health45:03 Future of Healthcare in the Arab World47:11 Conclusion and WISH's Future PlansDr. Slim Slama is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) at Qatar Foundation. He is an internal medicine specialist and a public health expert with over 25 years of experience in global health. For more than a decade at the World Health Organization (WHO), his role was Regional Adviser for Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and management at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. He transitioned to the Head of the Management-Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Unit (MND) where he provided strategic leadership and oversaw the development and implementation of a portfolio focused on early detection, diagnosis, and management of NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, oral health, and digital health solutions. His work also extended to implementation research and managing NCDs in humanitarian settings.Connect with Dr Slama

Muez Ali discusses with Rasha Akel the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to renewable energy in Lebanon and Sudan amid economic and political turmoil. Muez Ali is a Research and Policy Lead at Earthna: Center for a Sustainable Future at Qatar Foundation, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources at UCL, London and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar.يناقش معز علي مع رشا عاقل تحديات وفرص التحوّل إلى الطاقة المتجددة في لبنان والسودان وسط الاضطرابات الاقتصادية والسياسية. معز علي هو مسؤول الأبحاث والسياسات في مركز "إرثنا" التابع لمؤسسة قطر الذي يُعنى بتعزيز مستقبل مستدام، وهو زميل باحث فخري في كلية بارتليت للبيئة والطاقة والموارد في كلية لندن الجامعية، وأستاذ مساعد في جامعة جورج تاون في قطر.

Everyone involved in education from young people to tecahers to leaders to policy-makers are being asked some really tough questions in these current times. Do the systems and institutions that we are working and learning in still serve us? Did they ever? And what are we being called on to do differently? This week, it was such an amazing pleasure to chat with Zineb Mouhyi who is the co-founder of YouthXYouth, a global organisation that she set up with Valentina Raman, to convene action around transforming education systems but in a way that didn't excluding the core of these systems, the primary constituents that they were seeking to engage and serve: young people. YouthXYouth invited young people around the world to see the COVID-19 pandemic crisis as an opportunity to radically reimagine learning for themselves and their communities. In January 2021, they hosted their first online Learning Festival, which gathered nearly 1000 young people and adult allies from over 80 countries around a central question: What if young people designed the future of education?YouthXYouth has engaged over 2000 youth activists from 80 countries across 6 continents, buliding their capacity and confidence to reclaim their learning and create life-affirming futures within their communities. They are led by and serve youth who are between the ages of 15 to 26—75% of whom live in the Global South, and about 50% live in Africa.Zineb is also one of the co-founders of the Weaving Lab (https://weavinglab.org/), an international NGO and a community of weavers learning together how to interconnect people, projects and places to form thriving systems. Prior to that, she was the Policy & Partnership Development Officer at WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education), at the Qatar Foundation in Doha, where she mainly worked on education development policy research and on bringing different education stakeholders together to bring forth collaborations in education.Useful Links YxY Weavership Messaging Toolkit an opportunity for young people or youth organisations who might consider hosting a Weaver-in-Residence.YxY website: https://www.youthxyouth.com/Weavership Application: https://airtable.com/appYm9UwzGZxELiYA/shrHR2MmpZfVclJP5Authors mentioned during the conversation:Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle Loretta Ross - Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather CancelLinkedIn: @zinebmouhyi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zinebmouhyi/Instagram: @yxyactivists - https://www.instagram.com/yxyactivists/

In this episode of the afikra podcast produced in collaboration with Qatar Foundation, we discover the impactful contributions and current challenges faced by Muslim women as Dr Sohaira Siddiqui discusses the vision and mission of the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Qatar. We explore the center's role as a community hub fostering civic engagement, education, and debate for Muslim women. Dr Siddiqui provides insights into the unique and essential space aimed at creating a sense of belonging and addressing contemporary issues within the framework of Islamic tradition. Learn about the historical context of Muslim women's participation in public life, as well as the center's efforts to support their development and empowerment globally.00:00 Introduction: Unrecognized Contributions of Muslim Women00:26 The Vision Behind Al-Mujadilah01:22 What is Al-Mujadilah02:00 The Importance of a Dedicated Space for Muslim Women04:37 Building Al-Mujadilah from the Ground Up06:28 The Meaning Behind the Name "Mujadilah"09:15 Civic Engagement and Women's Agency13:57 Three Pillars of Al-Mujadilah's Work16:11 Challenges Faced by Muslim Women21:09 Community Response and Program Offerings27:57 Understanding Opinions vs Analysis29:46 Navigating Religious Questions31:57 Case Studies and Key Scholars34:53 Historical Context of Islamic Law38:48 Colonial Impact on Islamic Law53:05 Future Vision for Al-MujadilahDr Sohaira Siddiqui is the Executive Director of Al-Mujadilah and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her work focuses on the relationship between law, theology and political thought in classical Islam; Islamic law during British colonization; Islamic law in contemporary Muslim societies; and secularism and modernity in relation to Muslims in the West. She is the author of Law and Politics Under the 'Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Locating the Shari'a: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice (Brill, 2019). She has also published numerous articles in Islamic Law and Society, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, and Middle East Law and Governance. She has held fellowships at Cambridge University, Tubingen University and Harvard Law School. Connect with Dr Siddiqui

Dans cet épisode, nous vous emmenons au Qatar.Le Qatar, est une destination moderne et riche en contrastes. Sa capitale, Doha, allie gratte-ciels futuristes, musées prestigieux et marchés traditionnels. Le Qatar est également riche en variété de paysages, des dunes désertiques aux eaux cristallines.Que faire au Qatar en 10 joursJours 1 & 2Commencez votre [séjour au Qatar: https://www.selectour.com/qatar/sejour] en atterrissant à Doha vers 10h. Vous verrez qu'il y a de nombreuses activités à faire en 10 jours au Qatar. Vous allez pouvoir y voir de nombreux restaurants et magasins, flâner parmi les étals de souvenirs. Explorez le souq Wakiq qui est une première immersion dans la culture qatarienne.En jour 2, vous pouvez aller à la découverte de la culture et de l'histoire du Qatar, avec le musée national du Qatar et le musée d'art islamique.Jours 3 & 4Visitez le Downtown Doha, ce qu'on appelle le quartier Msheireb, le quartier durable de la ville. Explorez les musées, les galeries d'art. L'après-midi, vous pourrez également faire du shopping au Villaggio Mall ou au Doha Festival City.Le jour 4, découvrez le quartier du Pearl, une île artificielle qui a été construite il y a quelques années. Profitez des plages l'après-midi avec une activité nautique comme le paddle ou le jet ski.Jours 5 & 6Vous partez assez tôt le matin vers 8h pour une excursion d'une journée dans le désert. Vous aurez la chance de faire des balades en chameau, de découvrir la mer intérieure, de faire du sandboarding, et de déjeuner dans un campement bédouin.En jour 6, visitez le Arab Museum of Modern Art à Education City et la Qatar Foundation.Jours 7 & 8En jour 7, réalisez une excursion nature à Al Thakira mangrove, un site exceptionnel près de la ville d'Al Khor. Vous pourrez profiter de la nature qatarienne.L'après-midi, visitez le fort Al Zubarah, qui est un site inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, qui dévoile l'histoire du Qatar au XVIIIe siècle.Huitième journée, nous vous invitons à faire une journée détente et spa dans un resort de luxe, pour profiter du déjeuner, aller à la plage, piscine, spa...Jours 9 & 10Pour la journée 9, nous vous proposons d'effectuer quelques activités sportives et une croisière en Dhow, ce sont des bateaux traditionnels. Donc faire une visite de l'Aspire Zone où se trouve le Khalifa International Stadium et visitez le Villaggio Mall pour du shopping.Pour la dixième et dernière journée, visitez les musées ou galeries que vous auriez manqué.Pourquoi voyager au Qatar ?Cet itinéraire de 10 nuits pour découvrir le Qatar permet une immersion complète dans la culture, l'histoire et les paysages variés du pays, tout en incluant des moments de détente et d'aventure. Le Qatar peut offrir à toutes sortes de voyageurs une palette d'activités à faire et de moments assez exceptionnels.Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur la destination et, pourquoi pas, préparer votre prochain [séjour au Qatar: https://www.selectour.com/qatar/sejour], n'hésitez pas à faire appel à nos [experts: https://www.selectour.com/agent/recherche?postalCode=&city=&favoriteDestination=QA&page=1] !À bientôt dans le cockpit !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Send us a textJessica Leving Siegel is an award-winning writer and communications consultant with experience spanning the newspaper and magazine industry, the nonprofit sector, and the disability community. She spent ten years working on internal comms teams for several organizations. Now, she uses her expertise to help other changemakers hone their messaging and amplify their impact. She is also the author of three children's books, host of The Special Siblings Podcast, and founded her nonprofit organization, The Center for Siblings of People with Disabilities. In 2024, she mobilized the grassroots group North Shore Neighbors Say Bienvenidos to coordinate a humanitarian response to Chicago's migrant crisis.  Julie Stark owns and manages The Stark Solution, a talent strategy, training design, and coaching firm in Chicago, Illinois. She specializes in helping for-profit, non-profit, and social enterprise teams connect strategic goals with vital performance development. Her areas of expertise include consultative strategy, enterprise culture shift, learning roadmaps facilitated needs assessment with multi-level leaders, end-to-end virtual/in-person training design/deployment, and professional coaching for real-time performance growth. Dr. Dennis Roberts is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. Roberts' interest in leadership persisted throughout his forty-one-year career as a student affairs educator. He last served as Assistant Vice President of Education for the Qatar Foundation. During his seven years with QF, he worked with Qatari and expatriate colleagues to create student development and support services for its branch universities at Education City in Doha, Qatar. Roberts has authored six books and over 60 book chapters. One of his most significant books was Deeper Learning in Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007). ILA Cultural Emersion ExeprienceThe session is designed for those wanting to learn from changemakers or those working collaboratively on a public issue. Contextualize, explore, and experience a local response to a global issue: an influx of asylum seekers and refugees. In this three-hour session, participants will engage with the community and learn about a humanitarian response from the North Shore of Chicago. What can be learned about the context for leadership and the conditions impacting U.S. immigration practices from the Chicago community leadership effort?Sign up - Human on the Move: A Chicago ExperienceResources - See TranscriptAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Register for ILA's 26th Global Conference in Chicago, IL - November 7-10, 2024.About  Scott J. AllenWebsiteWeekly Newsletter: The Leader's EdgeBlogMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective.

In this episode, Alex speaks with Francisco Marmolejo about the origins and evolution of the Qatar Foundation, which was established by the royal family of Qatar in 1995. They delve into the unique approach Qatar took by partnering with top international institutions to build a robust education system aimed at transitioning to a knowledge-based economy. Francisco discusses the distribution of students at Education City, the collaborative efforts between various universities, and how the Foundation's initiatives have contributed to the country's development. They also explore the long-term vision for the Foundation and its impact on Qatar's future.Episode Links:Qatar Foundation websiteAI-CADEMY: Canada Summit for Post-Secondary Education

In this episode, produced in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation, Marc Owen Jones — Associate Professor of Media Analytics at Northwestern University Qatar — talks to us about this age of disinformation and how it manifests in the context of the Middle East. We discuss regulating social media platforms and try to understand what exactly disinformation is and where it came from. Touching on significant socio-political events such as the Arab uprisings of 2011, Professor Owen Jones reflects on the unique role that social media plays in the region. Referencing the dangers posed by monopolized social media platforms and data colonialism, we also talk about how the news industry is changing and what this means for historical records. Finally, the conversation moves to young people today and how they grapple with Ai, disinformation, false and new narratives, and orientalist perceptions of the Arab world.Marc Owen Jones is Associate Professor of Media Analytics at Northwestern University Qatar. He is the author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.Connect with Marc

This month, our host Alysha Helmrich and her guest Lynn Abdouni are coming to you live from halfway across the world.This pair of UGA engineering professors recently visited Doha, Qatar for a meeting about the Proactive Resilience Plan (PReP), a collaboration between UGA, Texas A&M, and the Qatar Foundation. During their trip, they took a moment to chat about urban morphology: "the study of the buildings, the streets, and the spaces in between them.""We're talking about the urban fabric- it's alive," Dr. Abdouni said. "The streets are for walking, but they're also for meandering to shop, for having impromptu conversations, for chasing after pigeons- whatever you want to do, it's for multiple uses."Abdouni's interest in this topic started early. She grew up in a semi-rural area of a postwar Lebanon, and noticing where features like sidewalks were (or weren't) placed inspired her to connect to places through urban design. By designing public spaces with humans in mind, we can foster personal connections to place and more flexible, long-lasting cities. "I'm obsessed with anything mundane and boring- gas stations, take me there; parking lots, I love them- anything boring," she said. "You take some of these mundane places where we spend a lot of time, and you start thinking about them as, 'what else could this be?'"Listen now to hear all the thoughts, feelings, and even some controversial takes on urban design, such as the correct parking-spots-per-bowling-lane ratio and why the San Antonio Riverwalk is the best riverwalk.Lynn's Haiku (co-authored by Alysha):Flex the space, anewHuman is the center, now:Past, future, combined.Lynn's other poem, "Urban Morphology: A Checklist":Urban morphology, a checklist:Flex, humanize, imagine.Links:Dr. Lynn Abdouni: https://engineering.uga.edu/team_member/lynn-abdouni/Dr. Abdouni's new publication, "Bridging the Gap: Morphological Mapping of the Beqaa's Vernacular Built Environment": https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/16887/17779Read more about the Proactive Resilience Plan (PReP): https://research.uga.edu/research-insights/proactive-resilience-plan-prep-an-integrated-framework-applied-to-critical-economic-sectors-bjorn-birgisson/

A series of conversations with Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and people who have been part of Qatar's architecture & culture development journey.In this episode, Her Excellency hosts Dutch architect and professor at Harvard University, Rem Koolhaas.Koolhaas works like a conceptual artist, drawing on a seemingly endless reservoir of ideas. He is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and among his most notable works are the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012) and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2014). Koolhaas is also an urban thinker who has designed masterplans for, among other places, suburban Paris, the Libyan desert, and Hong Kong. In Qatar, OMA is responsible for the National Library and the headquarters of the Qatar Foundation, both in Education City. He leads the team creating the future Qatar Auto Museum and is involved in the development of the Qatar Blueprint.He provides insight on his approach to architecture, projects, and the importance of sustainability and the transformation of existing buildings in his work. The discussion also centers Qatar's unique urban landscape, cultural diversity, and the overlap between art, architecture, and sports.The Power of Culture Podcast is a Qatar Creates production.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Embracing change and adaptability has been a focal point in the latest episode of 'Student Affairs Voices From the Field.' Host Dr. Jill Creighton sits down with Dr. Denny Roberts, who has beautifully woven his international experiences into the fabric of student affairs. In this blog, I delve into the highlights of their conversation and explore how Dr. Roberts' insights can inspire and guide student affairs professionals in their practice. Understanding Diversity Beyond Borders One compelling topic from the episode was the discussion around diversity in Qatar versus the U.S. Dr. Roberts and Dr. Creighton highlight that when working internationally, one must redefine what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean within the context of their environment. Dr. Roberts emphasizes the importance of cultural understanding in fostering engagement in highly diverse student populations. This urges professionals to prioritize intentional efforts and practice humility to make substantial connections across varied cultural landscapes. Fostering Multicultural Engagement The challenges that Dr. Roberts faced in Qatar's Education City showcase the complexity of creating universal student experiences without imposing one's cultural norms and expectations. He underscores the necessity of professional development and immersion to truly engage with the local culture. The emphasis is on the importance of educators obtaining a deep understanding of the cultures they serve, which is crucial in respecting the choices and experiences of international students. Transitions, Writing, and Contributions Dr. Roberts' journey through various career and geographic transitions sheds light on his decision to step into consultancy. This choice was driven by a desire to maintain personal freedom and a passion for writing—something he has continued with zeal post-retirement. His contributions in philosophy, history, leadership, and internationalization highlight the valuable interplay between practice experience and scholarly activity in student affairs. Multipotentiality and Identity An intriguing element of Dr. Roberts' narrative is the idea of being a 'multipotentialite.' He describes the traits—idea synthesis, rapid learning, and adaptability—which mirror his approach to student affairs and consultancy. This concept adds another dimension to understanding professional identities within the field and encourages embracing one's diverse skill set. Reverse Culture Shock and Moving Forward Dr. Roberts' return to America after living abroad opened a discussion on reverse culture shock. His advice for professionals seeking international experience is thoughtful and grounded in choosing deep, reflective opportunities over perfunctory resume enhancements. His message: be transformed by your experiences and seek an environment that respects and enhances your growth. Conclusion Dr. Denny Roberts' experiences and insights provide a compelling narrative for those in student affairs. They encourage educators to be adaptable, culturally sensitive, and intentional—a lesson in how one's experiences can shape not just personal growth, but also professional practice in diverse environments. Ultimately, his journey teaches us that transitions can be an avenue for development, inspiring new approaches to leadership and inclusion in the field of student affairs. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Jill Creighton [00:00:01]: Welcome to student affairs voices from the field, the podcast where we share your student affairs stories from fresh perspectives to seasoned experts. This is season 10, continuing our season 9 theme of on transitions in student affairs. This Podcast is brought to you by NASPA, and I'm doctor Jill Creighton. She, her, hers, your essay voices from the field host.  Dennis C. Roberts is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He last served as Assistant Vice President of Education for Qatar Foundation. During his seven years with QF he worked with Qatari and expatriate colleagues to create the student development and support services for its branch universities at Education City in Doha, Qatar. Prior to working abroad, he was Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Miami University. He is past president of ACPA-College Student Educators international, and has been a member and presenter at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the International Leadership Association throughout his career. He has authored 6 books and over 50 book chapters and other articles on student affairs, student learning, leadership, and internationalization. Denny, welcome to SA Voices. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:00:25]: Delighted to be with you today, Jill. This is awesome. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:00:27]: It is such a thrill to be able to speak to you in our theme of transitions this season. You have had quite a few career transitions, both in your identity as a professional, but also in your physical location. And in our preshow chat, I also got to know you and I share a lot of transitions in common, so I'm excited to dig into those. But I always like to get started with a question of how you got to your current seat, and your current seat is consultancy, which I know a lot of student affairs professionals kind of weave in and out of or move through after a VPSA position. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:01:01]: It is kind of an interesting transition because I had done Consulting before, you know, when I was full time employed and that kind of thing. And when I decided that it was time to return to the US from Being located in Qatar, I kinda struggled. Do I wanna continue to work full time and therefore take another job at the US or do I want to do something else? And a variety of circumstances, both personal and professional, caused me to think, you know, I really am kinda tired of going to the office every day and having somebody else tell me to do is. So I thought, maybe I can make this consulting thing work. And I also had just a gob of Ideas in my head. And I've written, you know, quite a bit during my career, but there was just this whole backlog of ideas That came to me from working abroad, and I thought, you know, if I'm tied to go to the office every day, I'm not gonna get these things Done. And what's really been fabulous is my writing has actually accelerated in retirement. I don't know if that will continue or not, but it's been terrific. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:02:04]: And I've had so much fun writing with younger colleagues who have fresh eyes, with international colleagues To have a totally different perspective. And the character of my writing has really, I think, Changed in this post kind of and I like to call it semi retirement because I can't give up. Right? So I really have not adopted an identity of being retired. I'm still very actively involved, so it was a real decision, personal and professional, that I just wanted more freedom. And fortunately enough, I was very blessed with having had a career that gave me enough economic needs to say that I didn't need that monthly salary. And that's a tough decision To make 2 in terms of how much is enough. Anybody that is facing the potential of retirement, you have to kind of gauge, like, what what's What's the lifestyle I wanna have? And I decided that what we had was very much something that would allow us stability, allow us time to do what we want. My wife was retired at that point already as well, and we decided to move to Chicago to be close to our grandkids. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:03:08]: So, that was all a part of the scenario about How I got to the, current semi retirement status that I'm in. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:03:16]: You've been quite a prolific author and student affairs is with over 60 journal articles and peer reviewed journals. I believe you've either edited or, coedited. Is it 6 books as well? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:03:27]: That's correct. Yeah. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:03:28]: So with all of that, how has your voice as an author evolved from your very first publication through when you kind of felt like you were churning a burden and now? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:03:37]: When I first Started writing, and I was extremely fortunate to have matured in 2 settings that were very, very influential for me. One was Colorado State University, and the other was University of Maryland. Both of them and I was a 1st generation college student, so I was kind of clueless about what the academic world really was all about But I had some really good coaches in the early days who urged me. They said, If you wanna be in student affairs, you need to also contribute Intellectually, you can't just be a practitioner. So I had role models at both institutions that urged me to start writing. And the early pieces that I did, I mean, one was I got involved in the whole issue about the age change for alcohol On college campuses, and so 18 to 21? Correct. Yeah. And I stood in opposition to that, Which was kind of an unusual position to take at the time. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:04:34]: And so that was kind of an opportunist publication, but not one that is deep in my heart. So After that, I started working more to just write about things that I really cared about, and that I felt like I had really learned something, And then I had something to offer, which is really very different than what a faculty member experiences. And even though I've Taught both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I was never driven by tenure and promotion to write certain sorts of things That get into the literature in a specific sort of way. So I were really informed by my practice Experiences throughout my life. So, you know, if I was struggling with a particular issue at a certain time, then I tended to use writing as kind of almost my public Journal, this is what I'm thinking. And I don't know frankly, when you write, you never know who's gonna Be touched by an article that you write, and it's kind of a mystery to me in terms of who does read things that I write. But I Have had feedback from some of my articles or chapters that my narrative style speaking from personal experience, That reflection has been helpful for other people, and I think that is a different kind of writing than sometimes you would see in a typical kind of Tenure track publication driven, you know, kind of an environment. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:05:54]: So my publications for the early start was kinda just but then it became much more purposeful and more deeply reflective as I've gone on. And the areas I've published in that I'm most proud of are kind of student affairs, Philosophy and history, leadership, and then internationalization. Those are the 3 areas that I've most enjoyed, and I hope that the contribution I've made there has Made some difference to shed some light on those topics. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:06:20]: Am I hearing you as maybe an early adopter of autoethnography as a research style? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:06:25]: Probably. And I wasn't even aware That as a style. I had no idea that that's what I was doing, but yeah, that really is kind of where I'm coming from. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:06:33]: I think my qualitative professor might be mad that I just called it a would want me instead to call it a methodology. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:06:40]: Yeah, exactly. Yep. Yep. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:06:41]: Well, Denny, you also have had a prolific as a campus based professional and then transitioned off of a campus. So why don't we talk about that? You were at University of Miami. Is that Miami, Florida or Miami of Ohio? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:06:54]: No. It's Miami University of Ohio. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:06:56]: I apologize to the state of Ohio. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:06:58]: You have to flip The words there. So yeah. But Miami University in Ohio is where I was. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:07:02]: And you had, what I understand to be a fairly traditional rise in student affairs going from junior roles to mid roles and finally to that VPSA role. What was the state of the field when you determined it was time to go overseas? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:07:14]: Well, the idea of going overseas Cheese was really kind of planted through a previous experience at Miami, and the Miami, and you'll be very interested in this as a person interested To the study abroad, they have a bubble program in Difertaj, Luxembourg. And I heard about their invitation for visiting scholars, which were typically Play usually faculty that would do those roles. Well, I applied for it even though I was an administrator and I got it. And so I got to spend a semester in Luxembourg, and then during that time I taught and mentored students, and then I also wrote Actually, one of my books, which is deeper learning and leadership, which came out in 2007. So I worked very, very hard every week, And I had a Eurail pass, and so if I met my writing objectives, then on Friday morning, I hit Eurail. And I would go someplace. Well, guess how many writing deadlines I missed? Dr. Jill Creighton [00:08:10]: All of them? None of them. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:08:13]: 0. I missed none of them. So every weekend I went someplace you know so I'd go to paris I'd go to berlin I'd go to fiena I would We'd go all over Europe on my Eurail pass because it didn't cost me a thing. And every place I would go, I would land, and I'd find a cheap place to stay, and I would start walking the city. You know, that's what I would do every weekend. And so that just exploded my idea about what it's like To be in other cultures and to learn from other places and to be respectful and attentive to the differences from myself as an American versus all the other worlds. And that happened in 2005. And then I just kind of ruminated for a while about, well, what was that all about? And Finished the book, got it published, all that kind of thing. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:08:59]: And then Qatar came to me just out of the blue, and I had not applied, but they came to me and invited me to apply For what was a newly created possession, which was the role was to coordinate student services and development activities across the 8 branch Universities that they had then attracted to, the Education City campus in Doha, Qatar. And simultaneous to this, which is just A very, very strange, fortuitous sort of thing is that my daughter, Darby, was graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, And they invited her to go to their Carnegie Mellon branch program in Qatar. So Darby accepted the position first. They came to me subsequently. My immediate reaction when I was invited was I asked Darby. I said, Darby, this is crazy. I mean, your father's gonna follow you halfway around the world in your 1st job. I mean, Can you deal with this? Would this be okay? And she said, oh, of course, dad. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:10:00]: No problem at all. So I applied and they hired me and then I went over and that was in the fall of two And I went over for what was supposed to have been a 3 year contract, which was then successively extended to 6, And then extended to 7. And then finally, after 7th year, I said, I really need to go back, and I need to be with my family. Unfortunately, my My wife was not able to go over and live with me over there even though she came over on a quarterly basis, and we talked every day. But that's one of the challenges of expat work Yes. That always get to take your family with you, and that's not always convenient. And so you have to kinda figure out how that's gonna work. So that was a huge transition Culturally, professionally, personally, I mean that was the real kind of just crazy paradigm change for me when I went to Qatar. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:10:52]: So I grew up in the Middle East a little bit. I had my earliest years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and it's a very different cultural space. I also have spent some time in the UAE and then have good colleagues in the Levant region, as well as, you know, just kind of all around the GCC or the Gulf Coast region. On the show last season, we had a good colleague from Kuwait and then also in the season prior, colleagues from Qatar as well and from Kuwait. And we hear that the the needs of students are just extremely different. For those who are not familiar with Education City. As Denny mentioned, there are more than 8 now branch campuses in Education City in Qatar. I believe it's more than 8 now. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:11:32]: And they have attracted or kind of what I would call joint venture opportunities, really, where students from the local region are coming in earning degrees with university names that a US audience are probably a little more familiar with. But it's not as if you can just transplant all of these Americanized ideals into this environment where the value system is extremely different. So how did you adapt what you knew and what you had been practicing and researching to this environment that you didn't know at all. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:12:02]: The Qatar Education City campus, it does have just 8 universities. And, well, 6 are American universities, one is European, And then there's their homegrown graduate school, which is called Hamid bin Khalifa University. So it's the 8 institutions and they They are not joint degrees. They are in the local environment. What's fascinating about what they've been able to do in Qatar is that the degree requirements Are exactly the same as the home campus. So if you get a degree from Carnegie Mellon in computer science, The curriculum is identical. And if it's Texas A&M engineering curriculum, identical. So and actually, the degree is granted from the home Campus rather than it being there as a local in Qatar, you know, kind of a degree. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:12:47]: So it looks exactly the same when you're done. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:12:50]: Exactly. And so, You know, part of what the goal was was to replicate the student learning experience between the US Or European, and then the Qatar example. What's interesting about that is that student affairs is very much a part of Most institutional cultures in the US. And for the most part, the colleagues that I worked with in Qatar, particularly those that were Country or were GCC Air World colleagues, they had no idea of what student affairs was about. Even for those that studied in the US, there's a tendency, at least among the colleagues with whom I interacted, there's a tendency for them to Not engage in the same sorts of ways when they're in the US. So I had lots of colleagues that went to US institutions That didn't even know there was such a thing as a student affairs division, and what value did that bring, and that kind of thing. So a major major part of what I Did there was to raise awareness of what student affairs was as a historical and philosophical and research based Commitment. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:13:56]: And that I have to say, worked in some examples, and I'm thrilled that it stuck. In other examples, that never really did take, and I think that that's really something that international student affairs educators have to face. Some of it's gonna stick, Some of it isn't, and some of that is because of the differences in culture. And I'm sure you know from your Riyadh experience and UAE experience, I mean, the background that a student brings to the learning environment very clearly impacts the way that they're going to engage, and that relates to Everything from deference to authority, to gender roles, to freedom of thought and expression. I mean, there's just all sorts of things. And what's really interesting is to try to contextualize the values that student affairs can bring to another culture, But not do it in a way that judges other people's way of being. I learned so much from some of the students, for instance, that came from Pakistan, or from India, or from North African countries, where the environment of their expressing their views And actively engaging would have been politically dangerous. And as educators, even though I value democratic Education and full engagement, I had to understand that I was potentially educating a student with a tool that could be dangerous for them In terms of personal or professional welfare. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:15:30]: It's a really interesting tension, and that doesn't mean abandon the values and the purpose that we have as student affairs educators, but it does mean you need to understand the cultural differences, and you need to respect the choices that students have to make that might be different than what you would find in a US kind of a setting. Did you find that in your in your work in the UAE and Saudi Arabia? Dr. Jill Creighton [00:15:55]: Well, I was only in the UAE for a hot second, and, it was really as a visitor when I was working for NYU in the past. But I think my most relatable experiences as a CSAO in in China for a couple of years, and that institution had students from 70 countries. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:16:11]: Yeah. Well, we had a 100 in in In Qatar. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:16:14]: So when you have that level of diversity, it's just very different than what diversity is conceptualized as in the United States. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:16:22]: Correct. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:16:22]: And then even in my mind, what what the priorities are and diversification are different. And the way that we talk about inclusion and access in the US is actually quite ethnocentric to the US, and I don't think that we acknowledge that all the time. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:16:36]: Amen. Amen. I mean, no, I mean, that's a really distinction, and I think that the focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion is very important to in the US, and translating that in an international All setting is very appropriate. However, the way that you define it and what you understand to be diversity needs To be conceptualized in a different sort of way. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:16:58]: Well, absolutely. And the campus I was on had about 60% students from China mainland and then 40% students from the rest of the world. And and so when we look at that, it was also all of a sudden your majority identity is not students who come from privileged backgrounds from a majority ethnic white background. It's Han Chinese all of a sudden, and so then the world shifts in terms of what you understand. And so that was just quite a part quite an interesting part of my experience and a huge transition for me in the way I conceptualize things. I'm wondering for you then, Denny, if You could talk about what's the number one thing you found in terms of a universal experience amongst students in a setting that diverse. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:17:39]: Well, Certainly, their interaction with each other was very, very powerful, and this was actually one of the things that I advocated Very, very strongly. Some of the branch programs tended to want to kinda develop their own identity of their own students kinda within the bubble. So The Northwestern students would hang together. The Georgetown students would hang together, etcetera. And that kinda happened naturally because each of them had a separate building. But while I was there, We built a student center that was a shared space, and so the shared space was supposed to bring everybody together and It was just overwhelming. Students just loved it. You know, we had the bowling alley and the sports complex, and we had the Convenience shopping, and we had meeting rooms, we had a theater, we had an art gallery. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:18:29]: I mean, we had all of that that then Brought people together. And we eventually built residence halls as well. And the residence halls again, you know, it was not clustered by your academic experience, but it was mixed up In terms of both your academic experience and your cultural experience. So it was very very clear that our Students there and you would hear different languages, different styles of dress, all of that all the time. And I assume that you've observed the same sort of thing. So diversity of thought and culture and background is ubiquitous. That is the experience. And what's interesting about it Is though and we actually conducted the national survey of student engagement of the students over there to see what the real impact Was and while the opportunity for exposure across culture was clearly there as a Ubiquitous experience, engaging in it was a different matter. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:19:25]: And if you look at US experience too, just that diversity is on the Campus doesn't guarantee that there is multicultural engagement. There has to be intentional effort to make it happen. There has to be willingness. There has to be respect and humility. You have to have all of those things, and that was a startling realization In terms of just because you have students from a 100 countries doesn't mean that you're going to have a multicultural experience. You have to work at it. And this is something that student affairs really is so strong in in comparison to other academic areas and so forth. But again, as we're saying, It can't be replicated right straight from the US. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:20:05]: The principles of it, the philosophy of it, I think can be transferred, but how you do it has to be different. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:20:11]: One other thing that I always try to conceptualize is how do I help lead a team to create a universal student experience without kind of engaging in colonialism is the best way I can put it. And that's so tough. Right? Because my training, my education, and my experiences are primarily US based. And so as we look at you know, we are privileged people to be able to live and work in another country. We are also being asked to be there because of the knowledge base that we bring and also trying to figure out how to do that in culturally appreciative ways of the environment that we're in. So can you talk about maybe a practice or some sort of departmental shift that you had to make to really engage the cultural elements of where you were compared to what you knew. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:20:56]: I used some of the tools that I had used previously in my career. So particularly because There was really not a base of understanding student affairs from a research and theory and publication point of view. We did a lot of professional development efforts, And we did that actually in concert with some US institutions. We established something that we called the Qatar Foundation, YPI, Young Professionals Institute. And so we hosted institutions like Colorado State, Maryland, San Diego, who would bring their students over, and we would have these 2 week Experiences that were intensive cultural immersion, and then working in teams to bring ideas about Student affairs practice, but then to to recreate it as a cultural context. So we would have half US graduate and young professionals, and half Qatar based or Arab world based people that were interested in the field or employed in the field, and would they would work in teams together on certain kinds of topics. So for instance, one of the topics that was just wonderful to explore was the influence of family. And of course, US students are all talking about, oh, it's Important for you to be independent and autonomous from your families and so forth. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:22:05]: And our local Arab world colleagues and Asian colleagues were saying, no. Not so much. Not so much. And so literally, the US students relearned in very powerful ways. But on the other hand, Our Arab world colleagues, our Asian colleagues also learned the merits of fostering independence and autonomy while doing it in a respectful sort of way of Environments that are very, very family oriented. One of the things that I also did personally was I practiced Very deep humility on a regular basis, humility and curiosity. And I had several cultural informants, who were colleagues who were willing to give me the the straight scoop about how I was coming across. Oh, that's Dr. Jill Creighton [00:22:49]: so important. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:22:51]: Oh my gosh. It was incredible. I would not have survived without them. No way. And so I would regularly meet with them and ask them what was Going well. What was not going so well? And they would tell me. And that was difficult at first because not only am I a Privileged white American. I'm also old. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:23:09]: I have white hair. And so in the cultural context, the reverence For somebody of my makeup was very significant and I really had to build trust so that people would tell me the truth. Because when you're in that kind of a position as a privileged white American or really kind of like as any kind of an American or European, you have to understand your Privilege. And if you don't understand your privilege, you're likely to do exactly what you suggested, which you will become a neocolonialist. You will impose your idea on other people whether it fits or not. And man, I just I learned so much from that. And I learned a term recently Lee, that I I think is kind of a really fun term. Have you ever heard of the term multi potentialite? Dr. Jill Creighton [00:23:52]: No. That's new for me. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:23:53]: It's actually TED Talks by Emily Wapnick. And when I listened to it, I kind of went like bingo. And all my career life, I've had wonderful jobs, and I've had a lot of fun, and I've had some Pushback in terms of I sometimes kind of have a different way of seeing things. Well, this multipotentialite thing has a lot to do with it. And the 3 characteristics that she identified are that they tend to be, very good at idea synthesis. They secondly are rapid learners, so they catch on quickly, and they they go for it while sometimes other people are kind of dragging their feet. And then thirdly, they're very adapt Across environments. And those things, I think, really, really helped me in the Qatar example. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:24:34]: And I think it also relates to just My identity as an artist because, you know, I have an undergraduate degree in music, and musicians are always looking for relationships, and harmony, and sequence, And patterns, that's who musicians or artists are. And I think I actually express that in my work in Some pretty interesting ways. And I'm saying this because I think some of us that may look a little different or think a little bit differently than colleagues around us sometimes End up feeling as if that were not appreciated or were not affirmed. And I think it's really important to kinda look at your own gifts and try to figure out how that they fit With any particular work environment or any particular calling that you may want to consider. And that has a whole lot to do with this whole transitions theme of Knowing yourself well enough to know your strengths and weaknesses, and then identifying opportunities where your best gifts are gonna meet the The needs of a particular environment, and you're gonna be able to be effective in that other setting. And for the most part, I've been lucky. I had a lot of good lands, Couple, that's so good, but that's kinda the luck of the draw with some of that. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:25:43]: Let's talk about the transition of reverse culture shock. That's a rough one, and reverse culture shock, meaning you decided to return to the US to settle into semi retirement. You've been living in a different cultural context for 7 years at that point, but coming back to a context that you're supposed to know and understand well, but maybe may not make as much sense to you in some ways anymore or may make more sense to you in some ways. So what was that experience like? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:26:09]: Yeah. Well, the first thing that I noticed was that People didn't really care. And that was frustrating because I learned so much from the work abroad experience I wanted to share. And so on numerous opportunities, I waxed eloquently about my work abroad experience, and eventually, I started noticing the glazed eyes And the fact that people just weren't interested. And that was disappointing to me as a reverse culture shock issue. I thought That my American colleagues around here would welcome that more. So I became more selective in terms of how I offered my point of view. And lots of people that I interact Now I have no clue that I've worked abroad and what my experience has been, and that's totally okay. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:26:53]: But I I had an urgency of wanting to share it. I think probably came from just Self processing. So it was self processing publicly by talking to other people about it. So that definitely was something. Our choice of coming back To a setting that was more inclusive and had more diversity in, and it was also very purposeful. I was still working in Qatar in 2012 when we actually purchased our home and my wife moved to Chicago. And we moved from Oxford, Ohio. And, Oxford, Ohio is a Small town, kind of a bubble kind of setting in itself, not a lot of diversity. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:27:27]: I knew full well there was no way that after working abroad, working with diverse colleagues, Working with diverse students, then I would be able to come back and and really enjoy a setting that was more homogeneous. So Chicago worked really well for us. We live in a very diverse neighborhood. Lots of internationals or expatriated people live in our neighborhood. Lots of cultural Diversity, socioeconomic diversity. I mean, I live in Wilmette, Illinois, and for those who have stereotypes about Wilmette, park them someplace Because, yes, there is the the North Shore Sheridan Road version of Wilmette, and then there's the version that I live in. And the version I live in is actually very diverse and very, very interesting. So the choice of where to come back as an expatriate, I think, is very important. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:28:12]: And that both relates To if you come back to work someplace, as well as to come back to live someplace. I think you don't just come back and replug in to the old way of being Because the old way of being is gone. It just doesn't exist, and you're not comfortable there anymore. So I was transformed by my experience and very much sought Diverse experience, diverse exposure, and then dialing it down in terms of sharing my international wisdom. I share that in my writing. I don't share it in my personal interaction with people. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:28:45]: Yes. And now you're sharing it on our show, which we're very grateful for. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:28:48]: So, I mean, that was so powerful. It was, really wonderful. And for people that might want to consider international experience, it is a transition out and then back. And you can look at Transition experiences that you've had in other work or personal circumstances to look at the kind of strengths and challenges that you faced, And then figure out how to navigate in ways that that do not violate your values. And that's a really important part of this too is understanding your values well enough to know where Where do you have some flexibility versus where can you adapt and do it in ways that are gonna be both to your benefit and the benefit of others? Dr. Jill Creighton [00:29:25]: What advice do you have for US based student affairs pros who might be looking for jobs in Education City or really anywhere outside of the US? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:29:34]: They're kind of idiosyncratic in terms of the selection processes are not as transparent as they are in most US settings. And so at least in my experience, I don't know how this compares with yours, but it's not unusual at all for Referrals to be made on a personal basis rather than for there to be a an application process that you throw your vita or resume into the pile and it gets sorted out. So taking on experiences that allow you to tiptoe into it helps. I mean, my Luxembourg experience clearly Was tiptoeing into international work, so it was a temporary period. It was like a, you know, faculty study abroad program is basically what it was, and I think one of the things that I worry about a little bit is that sometimes I think people think that excuse me for being negative about this, But I've seen some study tours quote that are more what I would call ecotourism. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:30:29]: Academic tourism. Don't even get me started. It's a whole thing. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:30:32]: Okay. Well, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And that's not enough. If you're gonna choose an experience to Travel abroad, and you want to do it in a professional developing sort of way, then choose something that is a deep dive in terms of culture, requires lots of preparation in advance, requires lots of reflection during and after the process. Don't just go there to be able to notch it on your resume, travel to x number of countries. That just doesn't work, at least for me. And I I don't mean to be critical because I know all of these are steps toward being more internationally aware. But if you're in a student affairs position, you Kinda wanna consider this internationalization thing, then do it deeply. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:31:14]: You know, find a program that really is gonna give you a deep dive and really engage you in ways that helps you to teach Humility and curiosity. So that would be my advice. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:31:23]: It's time to take a quick break and toss it over to producer Chris to learn what's going on in the NASPA world. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:31:29]: Thanks, Jill. So great to be back in the NASPA world. Really excited to be able to talk to you about the amazing things that are happening within our association. The 2024 NASPA Student Affairs Fundraising Conference is coming up July 29th to July 31st in Louisville, Kentucky. The purpose of the NASPA Student Affairs Fundraising Conference is to share and exchange strategies, ideas, and resources, And to discuss issues related to student affairs fundraising and external relations. The conference promotes an exchange of best practices, And it is designed for professionals who currently have development responsibilities specifically in student affairs And for professionals with backgrounds and experience in either student affairs or development. The call for programs for this conference is Currently open until February 26, 2024. And if you have an interest in presenting at the conference, I encourage you to submit before the deadline To be able to be considered to share with amazing professionals that are all there interested in the same thing. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:32:38]: At the same time, we are also looking for reviewers for sessions that are submitted, and reviewer applications are also due by February 26th. Information on both of these opportunities can be found on the NASPA website. If you go to the event itself and click on it, You'll find out more information. Help ensure that eligible students are registered, educated about elections, and turn out to exercise their right to vote by considering to engage with the voter friendly campus program. This is a free initiative that's been growing since its inception in 2016 in partnership with the Campus Vote Project. You can find out more at campus vote Project .org. I know in the past I've talked about the Leadership Exchange as a great piece of professional development. This is a magazine that's sent out by NASPA every quarter to be able to allow for our vice presidents for student affairs to think about Topics that are pertinent to the day to day activities that they are dealing with, but that doesn't mean that if you're not a vice president for student affairs that you will not learn so much by reading the articles that are submitted. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:33:47]: One such article that I would highly recommend is called budget reduction 101, And it was written by incoming chair of the NASPA board, Anna Gonzalez and Christine Livingston. The great thing about this is that it is giving frontline perspectives on making effective cost cutting decisions and really gets into the mind of the chief student affairs officers on things that they can do to be able to cut costs and to manage Their divisions in an effective way. As I said, you don't have to be a vice president for student affairs to better understand this topic, but you will learn so much From reading this and getting into the mind of vice presidents within our association. If you have an interest in learning more about budget reduction or other topics, I encourage you to go to the NASPA website under publications and go to leadership exchange, and you'll be able to access the winter 2024 issue that does have This specific article in it or many of the other issues that have come in the past that I think that you will find to be Very eye opening. I know I've mentioned this before, but there are some amazing keynote speakers that are going to be at the 2024 NASPA virtual conference That is available April 2nd through 5th, and it's something that you and colleagues on your own campuses can definitely take advantage of Whether you're going to the national conference or not. A few of the keynote speakers that are going to be highlighted That are going to be speaking at the conference itself includes Josie Elquist, who's a higher education digital educator leader and author, Shawna Patterson Stevens. Doctor Shawna Patterson Stevens, vice president for inclusive excellence and belonging At at Central Michigan University and also doctor Kevin Kruger, president of NASPA will be speaking at the virtual conference. This among many great concurrent sessions that are available are going to allow for you and your colleagues to leave the days with So much great professional development and opportunities to be able to learn right from home or right from campus. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:35:57]: If you wanna find out more about the virtual conference, go to learning .naspa.org Forward slash v c dash sessions. Every week, we're going to be sharing some amazing things that are happening within the association. So we are going to be able to try and keep you up to date on everything that's happening and allow for you to be able to get involved in different ways Because the association is as strong as its members. And for all of us, we have to find our place within the association, whether it be Getting involved with the knowledge community, giving back within one of the the centers or the divisions of the association. And as you're doing that, It's important to be able to identify for yourself. Where do you fit? Where do you wanna give back? Each week, we're hoping that we will share some things that might Encourage you might allow for you to be able to get some ideas that will provide you with an opportunity to be able to say, hey. I see myself in that knowledge community. I see myself doing something like that or encourage you in other ways That allow for you to be able to think beyond what's available right now, to offer other things to the association, to bring your gifts, Your talents to the association and to all of the members within the association. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:37:22]: Because through doing that, All of us are stronger, and the association is better. Tune in again next week as we find out more about what is happening in NASPA. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:37:34]: Thank you, Chris, for giving us the latest scoop on what's going on in and around NASPA. And, Denny, we have reached our lightning round. I have 7 questions for you in about 90 seconds. You ready to go? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:37:46]: I sure am. Yep. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:37:47]: Alright. Question number 1. If you were a conference keynote speaker, what would your entrance music be? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:37:52]: Well, I'm a classical musician trained person. It would be, The last movement of Mahler's 8th symphony. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:38:02]: That'll be a very dramatic entrance. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:38:03]: Very dramatic. Very dramatic. Yep. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:38:05]: Number 2, when you were 5 years old, what did you want to be when you grew up? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:38:09]: Oh, I wanted to be a concert pianist. That was my whole vision of myself as a Dr. Jill Creighton [00:38:13]: Number 3, who's your most influential professional mentor? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:38:17]: Wow. This one is tough. I kinda thought about this a little bit this morning because I've had some great Mentors, I have to admit most of them have been women, and one person who is a colleague and mentor is Susan Komovaz. She's a delightful human being, and we Change a lot. Barbara Kellerman in the leadership studies world is somebody that I really respect. Esther Lloyd Jones, I had a chance to know her, and She taught me a lots of things about student affairs and what we're here for, and so I broke the rule. I gave you 3, so that's enough. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:38:45]: Number 4, your Essential Student Affairs Read. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:38:48]: Essential Student Affairs Read? Actually, Esther Lloyd Jones, deeper learning and leadership 1954. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:38:53]: Number 5, the best TV show you binged during the pandemic. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:38:58]: Oh, wow. Do I have to admit it? Succession. I'm sorry. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:39:06]: Number 6, the podcast you've spent the most hours listening to in the last year. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:39:10]: I actually listen to I do listen to this one, and I Really, really enjoyed this this podcast, but I watch, the International Leadership Association podcast, and there are actually a couple of them that I watch, regularly to get the wisdom from those. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:39:25]: And finally, any shout outs you'd like to give personal or professional? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:39:29]: I thank Chris For introducing me to this opportunity, I think I'm kinda known in the in the professional world as more of an ACPA kind of person. So I don't show up in the NASPA space as As often as I might, even though I've been an ASPA member most of my career. Kevin Kruger was he had his 1st job with me. Yeah. And lots and lots of colleagues that are very active in NASPA, but I have maintained more in the the, ACPA area. And, you know, for me, these professional associations are so important in terms of giving us a colleague network, a way to push our understanding to Standing to learn from each other and that kind of thing. And so I I would give a a shout out to folks like you that are trying to get people's voices out there and get exchanged And professional organizations that allow us to relate to one another and discover how to do our best work. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:40:21]: Thank you so much, Denny. It's been an incredible opportunity to get know you today and your story. If anyone would like to reach you after the show airs, how can they find you? Dr. Denny Roberts [00:40:30]: My professional email is dc roberts48@gmail.com. And in Wilmette, Illinois, I have a LinkedIn profile. I have 2 blogs That I maintain one is called Pursuing Leadership by Denny, and that one's mostly about it has a lot in travel because I started in 2005 when I went to Luxembourg, but it's all by reading that I do on a regular basis. And then the other one's called Global Student Affairs. And that's more about international implications For people that are in student affairs work. So those would be the best ways to get in touch with me. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:41:05]: I'm looking forward to checking out that second one in particular. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:41:07]: Jill, it's been great. Yeah. We have so many nice connections, and I feel like we're possibly birthed from the same parents. I don't know. But Dr. Jill Creighton [00:41:16]: I appreciate the deep connections on so many levels, whether it be music or international higher education or student affairs journey or even where we've been in the US. So, Denny, thank you so much for sharing your voice with us today. Dr. Denny Roberts [00:41:29]: Great. Alright. I look forward to seeing you again. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:41:34]: This has been an episode of Student Affairs Voices From the Field, a podcast brought to you by NASPA. This show continues to be possible because you choose to listen to us. We are so grateful for your subscriptions and your downloads and your engagement with the content. If you'd like to reach the show, please email us at s a voices at naspa.org or find me on LinkedIn by searching for doctor Jill L. Creighton. We always welcome your feedback and your topic and guest suggestions. Ginz. We'd love it if you take a moment to tell a colleague about the show and give us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening now. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:42:08]: It really does help other student fairs professionals find the show, and helps raise the show's profile within the larger podcasting community. 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AI is upending education and learning as we know it. In collaboration with Qatar Foundation, we wanted to explore the possible impacts, challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence presents for education internationally and more specifically in the Arab world. We sat down with Mehdi Benchaabane, director of Qatar Academy Doha, to discuss the current advantages and shortfalls of AI in the classroom. We discuss the significant questions AI has raised around educational honesty and integrity, key concerns at all levels from students, educators and policymakers to parents, and whether the educational system as a whole is broken. Mehdi highlights the unique dynamic between teachers and their students who, as digital natives, are naturally adept at working with and leveraging new technologies. Finally, we reflect on whether AI will redefine educators as "master prompt engineers" who are simply teaching their students how to work effectively with these tools and the linguistic challenges of AI in Arabic. Mehdi Benchaabane is the director of Qatar Academy Doha. Before taking up his current position, he was the director of the Qatar Foundation's Education Development Institute where his work focussed on teacher professional learning, curriculum improvement and developing school leadership capacity. The Qatar Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that brings together centers and programs focused on education, research and innovation, and community development. THIS SERIES IS PART OF THE AFIKRA PODCAST NETWORKThe afikra Podcast is our flagship series featuring experts from academia, art, media and beyond who are helping document and/or shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community walks away with a new ‎found curiosity and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎Explore all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0voh_EioBM&list=PLfYG40bwRKl5xaTkBDrUKLCulvoCE8ubXABOUT AFIKRAafikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region – past, present and future – through conversations driven by curiosity.

Imagine being a candidate to become a new Head of School! What would that be like? If you are a veteran international educator, you have most likely either participated in or witnessed your school finding a new Head of School. If you are going global for the first time, you might wonder how international schools are structured administratively  — and if you make it through the first rounds of interviews, you will likely meet with the Head of School, sometimes called the Director or the Superintendent. And if you listened to our interview with Dr. Brent Mutsch, you learned how schools search for a new superintendent.  After talking with Brent, we were curious about the Head of School recruiting process from a candidate's perspective. Fortunately, we knew of an old friend from our Saudi days who had gone through the process a few times and had just completed it again to accept a new position as a Head of School in Harare, Zimbabwe. Our friend, Dr. Gregory Moncada, joined us in this episode to trace his recruiting game plan from start to finish. We caught up with Greg as he finalized his packing in the week before getting on the plane to head to Zimbabwe.Dr. Moncada is the Head of School for the Harare International School (HIS) in Zimbabwe. He was previously the founding director of the Qatar Academy for Science and Technology (QAST), the Qatar Foundation's new STEM school. Prior to HIS and QAST, Dr. Moncada started new schools and programs throughout his career, including a progressive middle school based on the 'This We Believe' model and district-wide STEM programs at all grade levels.  He specializes in developing student-centered learning models, progressive learning models, and multiverse organizational structures between schools and organizations. With more than 30 years of experience, Greg has held teaching and leadership positions in International schools in Spain, Austria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United States. Greg holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Minnesota.Our guiding question was, “What is it like to be a candidate going through a Head of School search?”Greg shared his strategies: deep research, lots of self-reflection, working with a recruiting agency, and engaging with the leader of the  Search Committee to learn about the school and community. He also told us what happens when a candidate is a finalist and what a school visit is like.Don't forget to listen to our other interview with Greg, in which he offers sage advice and describes his experiences in becoming an administrator. This episode was recorded on July 11, 2023.Greg's Contact Information: LinkedInCategories: Recruiting | AdministrationRemember to access our Educators Going Global website for more information or to subscribe to our newsletter!Email us with comments or suggestions at educatorsgoingglobal@gmail.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube.Music: YouTube. (2022). Acoustic Guitar | Folk | No copyright | 2022❤️. YouTube. Retrieved October 11, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOEmg_6i7jA.

As journalists on the ground in Gaza are targeted, the “truth” weaponized, and an information war for the ages unravels, we sat down with Professor Ibrahim Abusharif to discuss the construction of narratives, framing terminologies, and the ethics of journalism. Delving into questions of decolonizing journalism, the boundaries between storytelling and reportage, and pushing back against established journalistic practices, we explore the state of (war) reporting and how coverage of the Arab world has changed over time. Professor Abusharif points us towards the Al Jazeera effect and what he sees as a destabilization of western dominance over media narratives. He also offers some tips for how to decolonize pitches and reporting and some recommendations for what to read. This episode was recorded in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation.Ibrahim Abusharif is an associate professor in residence in Northwestern University Qatar's Journalism and Strategic Communication Program. His research focuses on narrative journalism, religious studies, and the decolonization of storytelling. He looks in particular at the intersection of religion and media, as well as digital media disruptions and their effects on contemporary religious authority. His work also explores the origins, promulgation, and effects of key journalistic framing terminologies used in prominent Western news sources in their coverage and reportage of the Middle East and Muslim minorities in the West. ***** ABOUT THIS SERIES *****The afikra Podcast is our flagship program featuring experts from academia, art, media and beyond who are helping document and/or shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community walks away with a new ‎found curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎Explore all afikra Podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0voh_EioBM&list=PLfYG40bwRKl5xaTkBDrUKLCulvoCE8ubX****** ABOUT AFIKRA ******‎afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region – past, present, and future – through conversations driven by curiosity.

What does the post-AI era hold? And what do these kinds of conversations look like in the context of the Arab world? In this captivating conversation, Basma Hamdy sheds light on everything AI and the Arab world, from ethics to art. What are ownership, originality and intellectual ownership? How will AI impact the visual arts? How are ethics going to be re-defined? Why is Arabic-language processing lagging behind? And what does algorithmic bias have to do with it? Basma delineates between the pre and post-AI worlds, pressing for an adaptation of our principles and ethical frameworks that takes the changing landscape into account. We reflect on the influence of Western modernity on the region's ethics and how collaboration and cooperation may be re-centered in this new AI age. As well as on what skills are going to be lost and gained for the AI-native generation.Basma Hamdy is an assistant professor of Graphic Design at VCUarts Qatar. She is a research-based designer, author and educator producing work that bridges historical, political and social issues with archival, documentarian, participatory and critical mechanisms. She collaborated with Don Karl to research and document the creative output of the Egyptian Revolution in the book “Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution”. She is currently working on her second book, Found Khatt, in collaboration with Noha Zyed, which documents found typography across Egypt. The Qatar Foundation is a not-for-profit organization which brings together centers and programs focused on education, research and innovation, and community development. Watch our previous conversation with Basma as part of a panel for Tasmeem 2022: Radical Futures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1sX1pVqpKU ****** ABOUT THE SERIES ****** afikra Conversations is our flagship program featuring long-form interviews with experts from academia, art, ‎and media who are helping document and/or shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with new ‎found curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎Following the interview there is a moderated town-hall style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp Watch all afikra Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... ****** ABOUT AFIKRA ******‎ afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. 

This episode is brought to you and produced by the Education City Speaker Series, a Qatar Foundation platform for open knowledge and discussion which invites various speakers from around the world to share key insights about our world for free with the public. Check out more of their conversations here: https://www.qf.org.qa/ecss When Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the organization behind ChatGPT and other tools like DALL-E) was invited to speak at Qatar Foundation's Education City Speaker Series, many from the Qatar Foundation community quickly flocked to secure their seats for the talk. Prior to the day, a poll was shared with the audience asking them how concerned they are about the impact of AI on our world. The results were interesting, with just 18% stating not at all, 30% said a little, and an overwhelming 51% responded ‘very concerned'. The results are arguably reflective of a global sentiment - another recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that while a majority of US citizens knew about ChatGPT, only 14% have actually ever used to the tool. What could the scenario be when looking through a global lens? We were lucky to have our WISE Director Elyas Felfoul lead the discussion with Sam Altman and get some more clarity on his perspective of how we should be responding to this technology, and we heard a fair share of intriguing insights on how he predicts this world will change after these tools begin to flourish. ------ Relevant links: Education City Speakers Series: https://bit.ly/3CIZMWS Learn more about OpenAI: https://openai.com ------ If you enjoyed this episode, would you consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It really helps out the show and we would greatly appreciate it. Website: wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: @wiseqatar Facebook: facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

One of the best perks of a global job is the travel — and this is definitely true for Megan Yarmuth, who says Doha Hamad Airport is the best in the world! Megan is head of PR for Ogilvy Doha, having finally gotten her chance to go global after working in the public relations industry in Washington, D.C. for years. She explains how she landed the position, including the important role networking has played throughout her career. Have a listen as Megan explains the skills PR professionals must have: great writing, relationship building, and the ability to think on their feet both creatively and strategically since the industry is both proactive and reactive. Add the global component and it gets even more complicated. Megan shares some of the lessons she has learned working in the Middle East with a global team and offers tips to listeners interested in pursuing a global career: network, have fun, and consider the Middle East and Asia, which need the skills and education American students can offer. About Our Guest Megan Yarmuth is an award-winning communications professional with more than 18 years of experience working for some of the biggest global PR agencies. Currently she is head of PR at Ogilvy Doha, where she leads the public relations team on accounts including Qatar Foundation and Qatar Tourism. She recently moved to Doha from Washington, D.C. with her husband and two school-age sons. In D.C., she worked for Weber Shandwick on public health and awareness campaigns for the CDC. Megan is also an entrepreneur who co-founded and managed a video production and digital media company, Rockhouse, as well as a GW alumna, having earned her MBA with a focus on marketing in 2009. About the Global Careers Podcast Series This podcast presents inspiring stories from seasoned professionals who have embraced a global role and reaped the benefits. We offer practical advice and insider tips across a broad swath of industries and fields around the world about what it is like to work globally. If you love adventure and thrive on taking risks and operating outside your comfort zone, join us as we explore the ins and outs of pursuing an international career! About GW-CIBER The George Washington University Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER) promotes the nation's capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise related to the theme of Institutions, Resilient Globalization and Sustainable Competitiveness.

For nearly 30 years Judicial Watch has been holding successive governments and administrations to account. Tom Fitton has been at the helm as President since 1998 and is known as one of the most fearless conservative activists whose desire to seek truth makes him one of the biggest enemies to governments who cover up facts for their own benefit. No other organisation in America uses the Freedom of Information law in such a logical joined up way and is never afraid to use the courts to force the disclosure of hidden documents. Time and time again the veil is lifted and the public see the truth and often Judicial Watch are behind this reveal. It was an absolute honour to speak with Tom, so join us as he unpacks some of the requests they have made and how they often have to fight to see the truth exposed. Tom Fitton is the President of Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. Founded in 1994, Judicial Watch seeks to ensure government and judicial officials act ethically and do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American public. With 20 years of experience in conservative public policy, Tom Fitton has helped lead Judicial Watch since 1998 and overseen its tremendous growth and success in recent years. Under Fitton's leadership, Judicial Watch was named one of Washington's top ten most effective government watchdog organizations by The Hill newspaper. Mr. Fitton provides Judicial Watch with strategic guidance and leadership on Judicial Watch's comprehensive efforts to fight government corruption. He is a nationally recognized expert on government corruption, immigration enforcement, congressional and judicial ethics, and open government. A former talk radio and television host and analyst, Tom is well known across the country as a national spokesperson for the conservative cause. He has been quoted in TIME, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, and most every other major newspaper in the country. He has also appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, C-SPAN and MSNBC. Mr. Fitton has authored numerous articles such as “Judicial Activism Hurts our Courts,” “What Bill Clinton Knew About bin Laden,” “Following Terrorism's Money Trail,” “Senate Abandons Judicial Nominees,” “Every Town is a Border Town,” “Obama's Records Problem” and “Jesse Jackson Exposed.” Judicial Watch also publishes the monthly 375,000+ circulation Verdict newsletter and runs the cutting-edge Internet site JudicialWatch.org, which includes the oft-cited Corruption Chronicles blog. Mr. Fitton gained national attention as a political analyst, previously working for America's Voice and National Empowerment Television. He is a former employee of the International Policy Forum, the Leadership Institute, and Accuracy in Media.Mr. Fitton holds a B.A. in English from George Washington University. A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom (Judicial Watch) available from Amazon in hardcover, e-book and in audiobook... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Republic-Under-Assault-American-Judicial/dp/1982163658/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=tom+fitton&sr=8-3 Follow Tom and Judicial Watch... WEBSITE: https://www.judicialwatch.org/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch https://twitter.com/TomFitton?s=20 GETTR: https://www.gettr.com/user/JudicialWatch https://gettr.com/user/tomfitton TRUTH: https://truthsocial.com/@JudicialWatch https://truthsocial.com/@TomFitton TELEGRAM: https://t.me/JudicialWatch Interview recorded 4.5.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript   (Hearts of Oak) Hello Hearts of Oak and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch. I had the privilege of meeting Tom over in CPAC six weeks ago and we talk about many things. What Judicial Watch do is use freedom of information and I haven't seen it used so effectively as Judicial Watch do and Tom has been the president for 25 years and we go into a whole range of issues that, without Judicial Watch, the public would not be aware of the truth. So we go into Biden targeting Christians and an FOI that Judicial Watch have just put in on the FBI and they're targeting of Roman Catholic churches. Universities control from abroad. This is a story about a university receiving half a billion from Qatar. Is that good? Is that bad? And how does it influence the education sector. The growing power of the CCP, we look at CCP police stations in New York and you saw maybe six weeks ago there was an arrest of two people. Actually it was Judicial Watch that initially put in that FOI. Without their work you wouldn't have seen the arrest and the exposure of that. Election integrity, they put in many different FOIs in regards to states, and states have been forced to clean up their electoral rolls. They've just put an FOI on Trump raid records to reveal all of those. I think 8,000 records need to be revealed. Judicial Watch have put that in. Gain of function. Again, a lot of stuff has been exposed. Hunter Biden. There are so many issues which they address, and without them, these would not be exposed to the public. So Tom shares many of those stories and talks about how actually what they do can be used abroad and replicated because many countries around the world have an FOI system, certainly in the UK and Europe. And I think we need to be aware of what we can do as citizens and actually use the institution, the legal system that we have to force the government to account. So tune in, listen to Tom share his 25 years worth of experience heading up as President of Judicial Watch. And hello, Hearts of Oak. Today it is an honour to talk to the President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton. Tom, thank you for your time today.   (Tom Fitton) You're welcome, Peter. Thank you for having me. Not at all. And you can follow Tom on Twitter. All the handles are there on the screen, @TomFitton and judicialwatch.org, at @JudicialWatch on Twitter. And his latest book, just to give you an idea, published in 2020 is A Republic Under Assault, the left's ongoing attack on American freedom, which really addresses the deep state voter fraud, illegal immigration. And there's a lot packed into that. So I'd encourage our viewers after this, if they want to delve a little bit more deeply into some of the things that Tom has discussed, the book is available everywhere. Now, Tom, for our non-US viewers, could you maybe take a moment and introduce yourself before we get into the work of Judicial Watch?   Well, thank you, Peter, and I won't presume our fellow Americans here in the United States know who we are. So, we're a non-profit educational foundation. We're essentially a government watchdog group. We use often a law here in the United States, it's the bulk of our litigation, called the Freedom of Information Act, which is an open records law that allows federal level access to records. And of course, states do it as well. They have similar laws, so we sue there. So we've been able to uncover all sorts of records about corruption issues that the media isn't terribly interested in pursuing, the Congress is arguably incapable of pursuing, but the American people desperately want to know about. And one of the things we do is we represent whistle-blowers, those who've been victimized by the government for daring to blow the whistle on government misconduct, meaning government officials, and then of course the victims of government misconduct as well. And so in doing so, we not only advance the rule of law, but we educate Americans and and other concerned citizens across the world, frankly, about the importance of clean government, honest government, and transparent government. Well, I think just on you, one thing I read on your Wikipedia, which is always good fun to read, and that in 2022, researchers found that Fitton was the third most prolific purveyor of election misinformation on Twitter during the late months of 2020. That's quite a badge of honour, isn't it? I was hoping for at least a silver medal. Well, the left is obsessed with depicting anything they dispute or hate as quote disinformation and of course, the communist left, which is on the rise here in the United States. They really like compiling lists. So I'm all sorts of lists that I'm sure they'll go to if they advance the revolution far enough along, to put me in jail or worse, but these are serious times and I'm half joking, but I, that book title is prescient, isn't it? Republic Under Assault. I often confuse it because I can, it sounds like a Star Wars movie title to me, but our Republic is under assault. And we have this constitutional system here in the United States that the left has decided is not convenient to them anymore. And so they've let folks who don't follow the rule of law and don't care about protecting the institutions that protect our Liberty, they're running the show for, in my view, an entire political party with the acquiescence, if not too often the allegiance of the other political party, the Republicans. On your website, and I've worked with FOIs here, we have a similar system in the UK, but how you have used them is on another level. I think on the, on your website the document archive section there are 27,000 documents. I mean that is a huge resource of information and it really is a window on government corruption that you've just made available to the public to use as they see fit. Yeah, I don't, it would be difficult to overstate the nature of our work in terms of the scope in what we've been able to uncover. We have thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests, I could come up with a number which may or may not be correct, but it's thousands and it would be shocking if the actual number was certified for you. And I know it's hundreds of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, so there's no one more, there's no one who does more litigation to uncover what the government's up to, not only here in the United States, but worldwide. And you know, I know it's this is more of an international audience is that, you know, we're kind of unusual here in the United States, given our work. Now, I'm pleased to say, because of our aggressive heavy lifting on FOIA, others now know about it as a way to get access to information. But it's relatively unique here in the United States to just have a group focused on uncovering and battling government corruption. And to me, it's a great testament. I know there there are a lot of issues here in America, but it's a great testament to the American way and our rule of law that allows a little Judicial Watch to go into court and the IRS or the State Department or the Treasury, FBI, DOJ, they need to go into court and answer to the court as to why they're not giving us documents and what they're withholding and justify it. And so that's a rarity here in the United States and I know worldwide, we just don't have that sort of accountability in a regular way. First of all, if you're doing it in most other countries, you face financial ruin, imprisonment, injury, death to you and your family potentially. And that's just in France.   Yeah. So true. You know, the point is, even in Western Europe, they don't like civic society. That's the term I use. They call it the non-governmental sector, which to me is just so communist in approach. It's the government, everything else, the government has to justify its role as a sector. The NGOs don't need their own little sector. We should be running the show, non-government entities. But as you, and I don't need to tell you in the United Kingdom, there are just few independent civic groups. Usually they're either creatures of the government or of the parties. And so it's hard for them to get the traction we're able to get here in the United States. And you see when a few of them do get traction or when there's more of a populist movement, how vociferous the reaction is by the state there in Europe and frankly in Canada and elsewhere. So thank God for America but you know this is this is a more than just a third world problem government corruption it's a first world problem.   Yeah no completely and what you're doing shines a light on that and expose the things the government obviously don't want people to see. But maybe I could just go through some of the freedom of information that you have done that gives people an idea of your work and an idea what's possible and shows the failures of government and institutions. I think one of the most recent ones just a few days ago was Biden's targeting of Christians and Judicial Watch have just filed a Freedom of Information Act along with Catholic vote civil action against the FBI and the Department of Justice. Why on earth are the government spying on Christians. Well, if you're a leftist, it makes sense, right? The church is an enemy of the state, unnecessarily. Certainly the left's cultural agenda here in the United States, whether it be abortion or radical transgender extremism. And so the FBI, they know who butters their bread, and they follow or they come up with things that they think will appeal, to their political masters, who are the left. And one thing this agency did in Richmond, Virginia, so the FBI, for those of you not here in the United States, and those of you here in the United States may not know this, you've got the FBI headquarters, but the offices of the FBI, the Richmond office and the New York office, they're kind of their own fiefdoms as well. And so they're substantial in terms of their power and influence. And Richmond's and the Richmond office decided that, you know, traditionalist Catholics could, be attractive to the terrorists they want to monitor domestically. And I mean, it's really laughable, Peter. It's worth reading. Everyone should read it. It just shows you how out of control the government is and how stupid it is. They do an analysis under the guise of this intelligence threat assessment of Vatican II and the debates in the church about Vatican II. So do you want the FBI analysing those who support the Latin mass versus those who think we should have a mass in the everyday tongue of the country? It's just incredible. But what's frightening is the document also makes it clear that they want to get sources in the Church. So what they were planning was spying onto the Catholic Church, using them as, using these sources as tripwires, right, to get the bad guys who are too pro-life or too extreme in terms of defending children from mutilation and such. So, you know, you shouldn't have to go to your, go to mass or go to church. In this case, obviously, the Catholic Church was being specifically targeted, but every Christian should worry and wonder if your pastor or or your priest is spying on you and watching what you're saying, or whether your fellow parishioner that you shared a sign of the peace with is, is it informant for the FBI? And now, of course, the FBI and the Justice Department run from that document once it became disclosed as a result of a whistle-blower disclosure to a former FBI agent. But I'm not confident that they've stopped this type of approach and, indeed the fact that they haven't given us documents about this scandal suggests there's more to, hide. That's why we're in court. Well, how does that spying on its own citizens and the understanding that being a conservative is somehow dangerous to society? Does that just happen as the FBI under a Democrat regime, or is it so ingrained, that hatred of conservatism, that actually that prevails whoever is in the White House? Oh, well, you know, the history of the FBI is one of an agency that is often used to either protect or target the enemies of the sitting president, and they don't need to be told to do it. They kind of, as I said, they instinctively know who butters their bread. But I think things changed a bit with Donald Trump. He came in, was seemingly hostile to virtually every institution in the country, the drain the swamp approach. And so they decided that he needed to be taken out. And so you had these mandarins in the FBI decide that they were going to be, and I think actually, I forget who mentioned it, referenced the Praetorian Guard of old. They started off as quote, defenders of the Republic, right? And instead they became their own power centre. And I think we're seeing that with the FBI and the Justice Department. I was looking at their budget documents the other day, 30, I think it's 35, 37,000 staff, 13,000, which includes 13,000 FBI special agents, you know, $10-11 billion budget, and, I suspect that's about the size of most countries' militaries. And they're not just checking out, you know, and when you've got a bureaucracy that big, they're not just looking for bank robbers. No, I can bet. One of the other recent, people can go up on the website, obviously, and see all the press releases and the many regular FOIs, but universities being controlled from abroad, and this was a document showing the Texas A&M, which is a university there, it appeared to to receive $500 million, that's half a billion dollars, in grants from Qatar regime. And that's something massively concerning. We've had concerns here in the UK about Chinese influence on our universities especially, but also there is money and influence coming from the Middle East that probably is opposed to anything you would want freedom-wise in your country. So tell us about that. Well, when you give someone $500 million, you usually want something. You either want recognition or something in the least, the most charitable interpretation is, you know, at the university level, major donors usually seek recognition or to advance a specific academic goal. And so the question is, what was the goal here? I think, again, what, you know, it's one thing to say, oh, look at this money, it's terrible. You know, you just can't draw a conclusion. Well, someone gave money a gift, therefore it's terrible. You have to see what the circumstances are. And here the circumstances are, it looks like there was underreporting of the amount that was given. And it also is only being disclosed after hard-fought litigation in state courts that went up and down the Texas courts against the Qatar Foundation, which is a front for the terrorist-linked regime there. And so, if everything was on the up and up, this would have been a straightforward request for information. Indeed, Texas A&M I don't think had any initial objection. We had to fight the government, the Qatar government in lawfare here in the United States. It was really quite incredible. And, to me, it's like an easy, it's easy pickings if you're a foreign government seeking the influence, you just give money to universities and such. And in the case of China, there's a kind of almost an inherent, there's a special interest group because forget about giving money directly through Confucius Institutes or whatever the latest version of their academic fronts are, but you have a half, let's say a half a million Chinese residents here in the United States going to school, most of whom are paying full tuition. So the universities all of a sudden become advocates for this, just potentially dangerous relationships that we develop with these foreign countries through our higher education system.   Another story that broke and I didn't realize that you had been involved in putting the FOI.   We're involved in everything.   Yeah, I get it. So we talked about the power of the CCP but actually the story broke I think a month ago and the headline was the Federal Bureau investigation misled and stonewalled Judicial Watch on legitimate public record requests involving illegal Chinese police station opening in New York. And then your FOI, actually the people who you had put that in about, they suddenly get arrested. That is really concerning that a foreign government would have a police presence in the US and it makes you wonder kind of what else else is happening. But that was, again, your FOI that you'd put in. Yeah, I mean, we, you know, the idea that there are police fronts operating in the United States is not a new issue. You know, the folks have noted it and it took forever and a day, it looks like, for the FBI to get on it. And, you know, we asked for the documents and we got the run-around or they pretended there was no issue and didn't have anything to give to us. But sometimes even a non-answer is, indicates government scandal and corruption, but think about having the goal to run a police agency, practically speaking, that not only targets Chinese residents who are foreign nationals here in the United States, but American Chinese citizens, American citizens of Chinese origin. What chutzpah? And but on the other hand, you have a regime that thinks low enough of the United States and has Biden evidently deep enough in its back pocket that they can send in a spy craft to attack our sovereignty and do figure eights with no repercussions, practically speaking, above our secure military installations in the heartland of our country. In the heartland of our country. You have to wonder, obviously, what the Chinese are concluding from our lack of seeming outrage, I wonder what all of our friends must think, too.They won't defend themselves. Well, how can we rely on them to defend us or to help us, if push comes to shove? Completely, and that one you'd put in, again in the UK, we put in FOI and they come back and say the information is too difficult to obtain and then you can put another FOI, but you then go down the legal route. That's intriguing. You're not without teeth that you're using the legal system, you're not simply requesting according to what your statutory allowed to receive, you're actually then going to the court. So you have that threat and it's often that threat or actually you in the courtroom forces the government to release the information. Yeah that's true, it's actually going to court that often gets a response and you can imagine it's the United States government, it spends more money than mine is, so and the bureaucracy is huge so that their resting state is incompetence or refusal to comply with the law since, there's little accountability on that and the only way to get their attention is through a federal court case often. But that also has, you know, thankfully thanks to Judicial Watch's well-known record for going to court, other FOIAs sometimes do get responded to that otherwise wouldn't. For instance, we've done a ton of FOIAs on and lawsuits on on COVID, its origins, the vaccine, et cetera. And it was just a separate FOIA that wasn't a lawsuit, but they knew we were sniffing around and had similar lawsuits on the same issue, that just disclosed recently that the Fauci Agency was funding in China through EcoHealth Alliance, which is a third party, a front or a pass-through for grants, the creation of literal mutant coronaviruses, And that's a quote. Mutants. To see how or if they could infect humanized mice. I never thought to call gain of function viruses mutants, but it's a rather obvious point. And of course, our government's figured out that's what they are too. And they've been lying to us about what they've been doing for years. And the conclusion from that, which to me is, to me, this is some of the biggest, the most important material, Peter, at least on this issue we've uncovered, it helps explain why there was this fanatic desperation to discount the lab leak theory. Because if it was, quote, a leak from a lab, and I don't know why we presume it was a leak if it came from a lab, it was either a natural virus in the lab that got out somehow, or it was an engineered virus. And what was the technique for engineering it, And what was the set of viruses that were engineered? Well, the answers to those two latter questions are it was the United States. And the gain-of-function technique was a US biological approach that we shared and exported to China. So, this COVID origin story isn't just about what the Chinese were doing, in my view. And that shows, because many conservatives have had big concerns at the government's role, institutions' role within that. But it's one thing to have concerns and suspicions, it's another thing to have the documentary evidence. Going through your FOI seems time and time again that you're providing the evidence to back up what the suspicions that have been there over time, but most other people are not doing that. It's you that are going in and actually delivering on the hard facts for the issues. Yeah, I know a lot of folks who have conspiracy theories, what is derided as, what are derided as conspiracy theories, and my view is actually the truth is usually worse than the conspiracy theory. It's worse once you know what they actually did, and it's usually folks with the conspiracy theories, they're usually in the right ballpark, but they've got the specifics and the mechanisms and the people involved wrong, and sometimes the motivation's wrong, but their suspicions generally are correct. Something went wrong with the way the vaccines were manufactured. That process was politicized and is untrustworthy, and how it was pushed out and information about the issues related to the vaccine were handled. Something went wrong about the vaccine, excuse me, the coronavirus and its origins. There was reason to suspect that what we were being told wasn't true. Or we should at least examine all sorts of possibilities, as opposed to just pretending some questions are you're not allowed to ask. I mean, this is the craziness of these days, Peter. It's not even saying this happened, or I believe this happened. You're not even allowed to ask the question. And I tell you, the wonderful thing about FOIA is we get to ask those questions. Well, we find, yeah, that's an area you don't touch on. And another area you don't touch on, which you've talked about, another, we're told, is a conspiracy, is election integrity. And that's also because we've seen some lawsuits going in favour of actually cleaning up the system within states. But one of the FOIs you'd put in was in Colorado. And it's, the statement was, Judicial Watch announced that Colorado's Secretary of State agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that Colorado had failed to remove ineligible voters from its rules. As part of a settlement, Colorado, I love this, will report to Judicial Watch on its yearly progress in cleaning up its rules for the next six years. I love that they have to answer to you, but that's a state-by-state issue that needs to be addressed, and that's one state that you then had a victory on, and I guess that has to happen state-by-state. Yeah. Well, and we've been successful state by state. And that's not the FOIA. That's not Freedom of Information Act. That's a law that allows, under federal law, aggrieved parties to sue states and localities that aren't taking reasonable steps to clean up the voter rolls. And I think this translates internationally. If you have a list of people who are eligible to vote, you should make sure that list is as accurate and up-to-date as you reasonably can, because it invites fraud, right, if oh so-and-so moved and died or died I'm still getting their ballot or I know their their name is on the list I'm gonna vote in their name or do something other than something else nefarious which is why the law requires the list to be cleaned up it's not just Tom Fitton being worried that's the reason the laws there otherwise why would you have it, and of course at the federal level the leftist running the Justice Department have little interest in cleaning up voter rolls because I believe certainly here in the United States and I'm not naïve that both political sides, both sides of the aisle are often tempted to mess with election results. But they don't want cleaner elections here in the United States. And I think it's because, because I can't think of any other reason. They oppose voter ID, they oppose cleaning up the rolls. They want to expand the idea of voting from one day, through entire months. They want unsupervised voting, which is the way to think about mail-in balloting. And that's something that no one else does. And I don't like the point to say, oh, no other country does this, because usually most every other country does things wrong. But I don't think any sensible person thinks that having millions of ballots be mailed out, and people filling those ballots out And just mailing them back is any way to run an honest election. No completely, and I know we-   And necessarily undermines confidence in the election system. Even if people participate in it, they realize, boy, how do they make sure no one is being intimidated when they vote? How do they make sure no one is, that the actual voter who sends the ballot in is who the person says they are? Oh, if they collect ballots, how do we know those ballots are collected properly and there's certifications about their origin? there was no intimidation in the collection process. None of that is, practically speaking, checkable under the new systems that were set up under the pretext of the COVID pandemic. Completely. Well, I know we often look to the States for hope here in Europe, but we just had an election and maybe one thing the US can learn from the motherland is that we actually do paper ballots. It's all counted on the one day and we don't use any voting dominion systems and it's it's all done and dusted and by 3 a.m. the next day you've got a result.   Yeah I mean and there's no excuse for the United States not to be able to do that. You know people say well the United States a bigger country. Well we don't run elections nationally, it's state by state. So there's no reason any major state in this nation can't figure out who won on election day. And we've also had another breakthrough where they now require voter ID so the left have realized it's not actually racist to ask someone for ID so we've had another breakthrough.   Well it's funny you know the left used to not like vote by mail because it used to be used by elderly republicans to vote. And then they decided they liked it. And everyone used to understand vote by mail was a kind of a recipe and invited voter fraud until it became politically, until they realized well we kind of like that so let's do more of it.   One of the other big things has been that the Trump raid records and I know you put down FOI and I think last month you'd said that you'd, they had released, the National Archives had released 1,200 pages of 8,000 records about that unprecedented raid. Tell us about that because it's vital that the American public know what was behind that, the reasons, the conversations, and I guess that will be another case of you then going to court to force those release off the other what six and a half thousand documents. Well, let's take a step back here, Peter. Back in, it was like 10, 12 years ago, we found out that Bill Clinton had tapes of recordation's of his conversations with foreign leaders and members of Congress that he kept after he left office. Right? And we thought, well, isn't that a presidential record? You know, I don't need to explain, practically speaking, what that might mean. Talking to foreign leaders typically are, you know, those talks are almost always classified inherently. And we went to court and the Justice Department and the National Archives, which is the federal bureaucracy that handles presidential records, their preservation and such, they came to us and said, no, we can't, you can't force us to get these records. And the court said, you have to defer to the president. He gets to decide what's personal and what's not. And the Justice Department in a court hearing said, you know what, if he has records after he leaves the Oval Office, they're presumptively personal. So compare and contrast that with their new position, 180 degree difference, with President Trump. And so the same archives that went out of its way to protect Bill Clinton's right to keep whatever records he wanted, conspired against President Trump to try to nail him on this records dispute criminally. And, you know, it's basically a civil matter, even if it is a dispute and there's a basis for it. And now they don't want to tell us that, because to get the records, it's all about transparency, right? We got to know what the president was doing. Well, now we don't, they won't tell us what they were doing to go after the president. And to take a step further back, I'm kind of getting a little bit in the weeds there. But and in America here, the political media class, they like to talk about this as if it's serious and important. No one buys it. I mean, I tell you. There isn't a foreign leader who doesn't look at what America is doing and say, okay, the current president, his agencies are trying to jail the former president, and his number one opponent in the presidential campaign. They don't need the details. They don't need the, oh, oh, but this is why it's important. This is, this is the terrible crime. They see through it and they see America that's no better than anyone else internationally in the way they are supposed to follow the rule of law. And I think it's a terrible national security and international embarrassment to the United States because now our moral, you know, the moral weight we could throw when we talk about the concerns about having fair elections and accountable government and consent to the government. Well, all that's out the window. They're trying to jail Trump simply because he opposed the wrong people here in Washington, not because of any personal misconduct. And Putin and Xi and, you know, frankly, Macron and whoever the current office holder is in Downing Street, that changes, I know, every three months.   It does. It's Rishi Sunak today, but who knows who it will be tomorrow. You know, they see what's happening in the United States, and they also recognize that attitude is there in their home countries. I mean, there isn't a major politician in any Western country that doesn't sit there because of the lack of rule, because of this contempt for consent of the government that doesn't sit there at the the sufferance of the deep state. Which is, in my view, transnational in nature in terms of their attitude. It doesn't mean they're conspiring saying we got to put this person on this piece in this place on the chessboard. No, it's an approach and it's a shared approach. One other area, and we had Miranda Devine on a few weeks ago and the Laptop from Hell and looking at Hunter Biden and you'd filed an FOI for a gun owned by him and I thought someone who had such a drug issue, an alcohol issue, wouldn't be eligible to get a gun but somehow. So tell us about that because obviously Hunter Biden's background, all the the business dealings that leads directly to Joe Biden himself. Well there are a few things there and so he was dating the widow of his brother and they got into a fight or dispute and she allegedly took his gun and threw it in a dumpster across the street from a school. Law enforcement got involved and the political reporting, the reporting on it was that the Secret Service and the FBI came and went to the store from which he purchased the gun and vacuumed up documents. So, to me, that shows improper involvement by federal agencies to take care of a political problem for the son of a major political figure. But when you think about the petty nature of what he kind of had to come in and sweep up for, and of course, we've been suing about those records, right? It helps explain, well, if they're doing that for little stuff, can you imagine what they're doing for big stuff? And certainly they've had the so-called Hunter laptop for at least since 19, excuse me, 2019. It's like a Hamlet-style agony about whether to prosecute Hunter since then, even though they have him dead to rights in a series of crimes. But there's new information now that just came out here from senior members of Congress that the FBI had evidence that Joe Biden had specifically been involved in a bribery scheme with a foreign nationals vice president, and all the evidence that's out there from the laptop and other witnesses suggest and show that Joe Biden was a beneficiary of Hunter's business dealings. So he got a cut of the action, you know, the infamous 10% for the big guy approach. So Hunter, I mean, Biden, Joe was a ran his operation like a Rico operation, a racketeering operation, a mob operation. And I think the challenge for his Justice Department, which is first and foremost moving to protect him, is they can't get at Hunter without getting and raising issues about Joe. So that's why you have this stalling and this hemming and hawing about, what you're going to go, if you go after Hunter for failing to disclose money on his tax returns, what about all the money he was giving his father? Is it he's subject to the same type of scrutiny? And if he hasn't, why not? We're in a crisis here. And you know, and some of that money came from the mayor of Moscow's wife. So you've got the Putin connection, Burisma. At least that was a company. So. Burisma was a Russian leading company. And then of course, you have the Chinese who were who had Hunter in their back pocket as well, obviously, because of his name and the influence. And it wasn't like the vice president was involved in all of this as vice president. So when Putin's making decisions and Xi is making decisions, how is it that they're not calculating Biden's corruption in their decision-making? You know, they're compromised, right? He's obviously has cognitive difficulties. He's compromised by the very public figures the public figures or political figures in China and Russia making these dangerous decisions. And so, you know, maybe, oh, does it mean we invade Ukraine because Biden's in our back pocket? No, but I would suggest it's a factor. Does it mean we are more aggressive around Taiwan or generally in China because Biden's in our back pocket? No, it's not the only reason, but certainly it's a factor. Too me it's a national security issue and it would be for any other country worth it's salt. All the issues you kind of talk about seem to be the Democrat party behind institutions, and I'm wondering will it come to the point where organizations like Judicial Watch and others need to actually go after either those on Capitol Hill or those in the institutions, AGs, I mean will it have to be actually going after those within the party itself? Well, we don't go after them under law because they are Democrats. We don't go after someone because they're Republicans. We try to apply the law. Or, you know, apply our focus without regard to political party. Though generally speaking, big government usually means big corruption. So we have all that money being spent. There's usually a lot of money sloshing up over the sides, right? Or it's usually being directed to political supporters as opposed to those in the public interest. And so ideologically, if you support bigger government, you tend to be more involved in corruption. I mean, it's just kind of, to me, it just goes with the just, it's part of the package. Now, Republicans, they abuse government to target us. They refuse to take action against corruption too often because they think politically it's not feasible or won't work for them, which to me is also a form of corruption. And so this temptation is great among both Republican and Democrats to kind of abuse these powers entrusted to them, especially if they think no one's watching. And I think the problem's not insurmountable. there's always going to be, you spend $4 trillion, there's going to be corruption, okay? But let's avoid having a Justice Department that is just thrown out all semblance of being dispassionate. Let's maybe have an FBI that is significantly curtailed, or if not, radically repurposed, to focus more on traditional law enforcement than political targeting of individuals. Let's ensure that our elections are as clean as we reasonably can. You know, the temptation is great. I mean, North Carolina, they had the stay here in the United States. They had to redo a congressional election because a Republican, essentially was engaged in a massive fraud. So we just have to be constantly vigilant. That's the price of freedom. To finish off with, Tom, for 25 years you've been president of Judicial Watch. And I guess there are many stories that if Judicial Watch hadn't been there, then the truth would never be told. And I think what you're doing is a model for other countries. And I know your focus is on the US, but there are other countries across Europe that have a similar freedom of information system, but it hasn't been used as well as you have used what you have there.   Go ahead, I'm sorry.   You obviously raise money from the public, you've got a big team, and tell us about that because ideally what you've built there is something that actually could be rolled out and used in other countries.   Well, we're able to fundraise directly and the fundraising laws here in the United States are very friendly to grassroots groups and the non-governmental organizations, a phrase I hate, to be able to raise public support and that's much harder, my understanding is, in other countries. It's just more difficult to raise money directly from the public, as I said, outside the, you know, they usually rely on the government or the creatures of the party. But there's a growing conservative movement internationally to address this transnational left-wing threat. Our folks are there in Europe this week now for CPAC Hungary, right, and there are conservatives from all over Europe there hanging out, figuring out ways to oppose Lothiathan.   Yeah, and I know I'm watching CPAC Hungary. So, Tom, thank you for your time. It's fascinating. I've followed Judicial Watch for quite a while and it's exciting to see what you're doing. So thank you for coming along and sharing insights on what is happening there with Judicial Watch.   Well, best of luck to you, Peter, thanks for having me on.   Thank you.

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

Dr. Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Earthna (https://www.earthna.qa/about-us), a sustainability center established by the Qatar Foundation ( https://www.qf.org.qa/ ), and is an ecologist recognized as a global leader in the promotion of sustainability, with emphasis on innovative free market solutions to environmental issues. Prior to joining Earthna / Qatar Foundation, Dr. Castro de la Mata was the managing director for External Affairs with Pluspetrol, the largest private gas and oil company in Latin America. From 2014 to 2018, he was the chairman of the World Bank's Inspection Panel in Washington, where he ensured compliance with the Bank's environmental and social standards. He was also the founder of Ecosystem Services LLC and the managing director of Sustainable Forestry Management (SFM) for the Americas. Prior to that, Dr. Castro de la Mata was the head of Biodiversity at the Global Environment Facility in Washington, the largest source of funds to address global environmental challenges, and a Lead Environmental Specialist at the World Bank in Washington. Dr. Castro de la Mata has been involved in the founding of leading international conservation organizations, including Wetlands for the Americas (today Wetlands International) and American Bird Conservancy. He has served as a member of the Accreditation Panel at the Green Climate Fund, as chair of the US Ex-Im Bank's Independent Advisory Panel on Development Issues in South-Central Peru, and as a high-level international expert engaged by the United Nations to assess the social end ecological impacts of the Barro Blanco Dam in Panama. In 2021, he was appointed as a Counselor of Honor for the Supervisory Council of Wetlands International, and as a member of the Independent Oversight Advisory Committee of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the period 2022 to 2024. Dr. Castro de la Mata has appeared in numerous publications in topics related to ecology, environment, mining, oil and gas, and sustainable development, and is a regular editorial contributor to El Comercio in Lima, Peru, and Diario Altavoz. He has published over 250 articles in scientific journals, magazines, and book chapters. He is the author of two books. Dr. Castro de la Mata received a Ph.D. in ecology and population biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, and M.Sc. in Biophysics (1985) and B.Sc. in Biology (1983) degrees from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. Support the show

Do you ever think about why sustainable education is crucial for the next generation? And how do we know if sustainability education is effective?In this episode, Dr. Mona Mattar Al-Kuwari answers these questions and tells us more about assessing education for sustainability. Dr Mona Al‐Kuwari holds a PhD in Sustainability Studies from the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). Dr. Mona has published in international journals and contributed book chapters, as well as conference contributions. She has represented Qatar in multiple committees globally and locally, such as with Education for All (EFA) in UNESCO. Her main research interests focus on performance assessment strategies and frameworks in the context of the Education for sustainable development (ESD) and within Qatar's Education System specifically. Dr. Mona started her career with Qatar Foundation at Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) as a statistician; Dr Mona then joined Strategy, Management and Partnerships in Higher Education at the Foundation as a Senior Data Analytics & Impact Assessment Specialist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Abdelali Haoudi, Ph.D. ( https://kaimrc-biotech.org.sa/dr-abdelali-haoudi/ ) currently leads Strategy and Business Development functions, and is also Managing Director of the Biotechnology Park, at King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, at the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs. He is also Distinguished Scholar at Harvard University-Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Haoudi is an international Research & Development and Innovation Executive with over 25 years experience, having held several senior positions in Research and Development and Innovation. He has vast experience in science and technology policy development, strategy and business development, corporate development and international partnerships development. Dr. Haoudi has held several senior and prestigious positions in the academia, government and private sectors globally, including North America, North Africa, Europe and Middle East. Some of the key positions include Founding Vice President for Research, Executive Director for Biomedical Research Institute, and Chairman, at the National Research Fund at Qatar Foundation. Dr. Haoudi was also Research Professor of cancer and infectious diseases at the University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School and a fellow of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has held several other positions in elite research and education institutions including Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (USA) and a fellow at Institute Pasteur (France). Dr. Haoudi is an elected member of Hassan II Academy for Science and Technology since 2006. He graduated from University Paris XI and Paris VI, France in 1996 with a doctoral degree in cellular and molecular genetics. Dr. Haoudi received executive education from Harvard Business School in Corporate Management and Strategy and received multiple awards including Fogarty International Award. He has published numerous peer-reviewed international research publications and served as Founding Editor-In-Chief for the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. Support the show

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According to the Living Planet Report, human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half; this makes protecting the environment one of the most critical issues of our time! So how can businesses create positive environmental and social good? What is green entrepreneurship, and what are the benefits of running a green business?  In this episode, Ghanim AL-sulaiti answers these questions and more about Green Entrepreneurship.Ghanim Al-Sulaiti is a young Qatari entrepreneur passionate about creating a positive impact on society by promoting a plant-based lifestyle. In his spare time, he is a serial entrepreneur, founding his first business—Evergreen Organics—in 2016, and now has over 10 projects currently live or under development. All of these projects share the same vision and values as their founder—to be vegan and sustainable, and promote a healthier lifestyle. Equipped with a  comprehensive understanding of the creative and operational procedures needed to produce excellent brands. Ghanim is interested in developing dialogue about healthy living, veganism and sustainability. With a mind wired for logic and strategy and a desire motivated by the passion for creativity and business savviness.  Ghanim is on a mission to help and transform people's mindsets to live a lifestyle that helps their planet, their health, and their future.Ghanim has worked extensively with local schools and regional organizations such as Qatar Foundation, Ooredoo Doha Marathon, Qatar National Library, Qatar Financial Center, and the Qatar  Investment Authority, producing educational programs to change the status quo. He holds a BSc in Civil  Engineering from Drexel University, USA. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is your Dream Machine? In this episode of Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Piet Grymonprez, author and Co-Founder and Managing Director of MyMachine. MyMachine is a for-purpose non-profit that has a unique and multi-award-winning methodology that unites students in primary, secondary and higher education to co-create "Dream Machines" invented by children.   Tune in to hear how Piet and his fellow Co-Founders created MyMachine, why they're asking children to create a “Dream Machine”, and what a Dream Machine is in the first place. Piet explains how MyMachine challenges the creativity of students at every grade level, from primary school to college/university, inspiring them to think big.   “It really ranges from a very personal to a global scope because of the open-ended question that we pose to them at the beginning of our methodology.” – Piet Grymonprez   Piet describes how MyMachine's methodology adapts to each child's personality and how it encourages them to be open, take risks, share their ideas, and develop creative confidence. Then, he shares how teachers can collaborate with MyMachine and start their own chapter.   Piet's Tips for Teachers and Parents: Whatever you want to do with your kids/students, challenge yourself to do it with an open-ended approach. Don't make it a competition.  Embrace systems thinking. Explain to yourselves and your students that the world we live in is complicated and that's okay. That's how it should be.   Recommended Resources: Learn more about MyMachine  What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide by Piet Grymonprez Donate to MyMachine Global Foundation Listen to the episode with Natalie Nixon Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?  Access a variety of creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting our website,  www.CreativityandEducation.com.   Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!   Have a question? Email Dr. Burnett and Dr. Worwood at questions@fuelingcreativitypodcast.com!   You can also find The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!   About Piet Grymonprez: Piet Grymonprez is Co-Founder and Managing Director of MyMachine, a for-purpose non-profit working globally. MyMachine has a unique and multi-award-winning methodology that unites students in primary, secondary and higher education to co-create "Dream Machines" invented by children.    Based out in Belgium, Europe, Piet and his team have grown MyMachine so far to 13 countries on 3 continents.   MyMachine has been widely recognized and endorsed by the likes of United Nations, Harvard, The New York Academy of Sciences, Richard Branson, The Qatar Foundation, The Lego Foundation, Fast Company, and MyMachine was recently inducted into the renowned HundrED Hall of Fame.   Piet is the author of the book "What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide", with a foreword written by Sir Ken Robinson.    He is the founder and co-founder of different industry cross-over networks in his native country. Prior to MyMachine, he worked in higher education for 15 years, establishing research collaborations with companies around the world.   Connect with him on LinkedIn Follow MyMachine on Instagram

It is the end of 2022 and the world's eyes and ears are tuned to the middle eastern nation of Qatar where the 2022 World Cup is currently taking place. This episode takes us on a global journey that spans Mexico, the U.S., India and ends in Doha in Qatar. But it's not about soccer; it's a journey about education. The episode's guest is Francisco Marmolejo whose expansive, global career in international higher education has taken him from leading a higher education association to heading the World Bank's higher education work around the world, and to now being the President of Higher Education at the Qatar Foundation (QF) in Doha, where he leads the unique ecosystem of eight prestigious universities that offer more than 70 undergraduate and graduate programs to students from 60 countries at QF's Education City, the largest campus of its kind globally. While at the World Bank from 2012-2020, he provided advice and support to higher education projects in more than 60 countries, including his role as Leader of the Higher Education Governance Benchmarking Project in the Middle East and North Africa region. Originally from Mexico, Francisco's international education experience has taken him to more than 90 countries around the world, where he has worked with universities, governments and international associations on international education projects over more than 30 years. Episode Themes: How Francisco's multi-sector experience spanning a higher education association, a multilateral organization, and a foundation has shaped his understanding of higher education issues around the world. Francisco's early beginnings in Mexico and how he found his way from agriculture and agribusiness to international higher education. Francisco's time in India with the World Bank, his deep associations with the country and its people, and the many things that Mexico and India share in common. Ongoing challenges and gaps in higher education for Global South countries like India and Mexico How the Qatar Foundation is developing innovative models of higher education, and the concept of the “multiversity' Francisco's key pieces of advice for the next generation of international education professionals Episode Resources: Connect with Francisco: Twitter, LinkedIn Octavio Paz's book, In Light of India My book: America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility Sign up for America Calling: my take on the intersection of education, culture and migration Connect with me: LinkedIn, Twitter

Capítulo 233. Pedro Sánchez y Qatar 2022 que se suma a las marcas dirigidas al “blanqueo” de una monarquía absoluta como la Qatarí. Qatar Airways, Qatar Foundation, etc. Centenares de trabajadores extranjeros muertos. Derechos humanos. Democracia… Manuel recuerda la catástrofe del “Prestige”, un recuerdo negro en la memoria de las costas gallegas. Antonio y Drácula, también con un aniversario, 30 años han pasado del estreno de la versión de Francis Ford Coppola. Eduardo con el gran Trending de la semana en la política española, la proposición de ley por parte de PSOE y Unidas Podemos para eliminar la sedición como delito. Javier cierra con la reprimenda del presidente de China al primer ministro de Canadá acera de la filtración de sus conversaciones en la cumbre del G20.Podéis contactar con nosotros a través de Twitter en @trendingpod o por correo electrónico a trending@emilcar.fm.

Hola todos y bienvenidos nuevamente a "Pasemos el Rato", mi invitado de hoy es Juan David Aristizábal, Co-fundador de ProTalento, una empresa dedicada a entrenar, financiar y conseguir oportunidades de empleo a talentos no descubiertos en tecnología. Juan es también docente en la escuela de negocios CESA, autor y ha recibido varios reconocimientos entre los que se destacan “30 debajo de 30 años de Forbes”, un MTV Millenial award, y es uno de los 19 lideres emergentes en educación a nivel mundial por la Qatar Foundation. Hoy regresamos con el episodio 58 “Esto también pasará”, esperen aprender de un emprendedor optimista, cuyo propósito (aparte de tener una vida excepcional para sí mismo), es que otros que carecen de oportunidades puedan tenerlas. Hablaremos sobre como manejar la ansiedad, cómo darle un mayor propósito a nuestra vida, cómo potenciar el talento latinoamericano, y mucho más, ya nos vemos! - Setlist: - Descarga el e-book con los consejos sobre habilidades blandas acá: https://mailchi.mp/33253c10a087/pasemoselrato Oye todos los episodios en audio: Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/PERAPPLE Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/PERSPOTIFY Otras plataformas: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2031989/share - Recuerda que puedes contactarme en cualquier red social que ahí estaré para lo que necesites: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrekanayet Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrekanayet TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@andreekanayet

Hola todos y bienvenidos nuevamente a "Pasemos el Rato", mi invitado de hoy es Juan David Aristizábal, Co-fundador de ProTalento, una empresa dedicada a entrenar, financiar y conseguir oportunidades de empleo a talentos no descubiertos en tecnología.Juan es también docente en la escuela de negocios CESA, autor y ha recibido varios reconocimientos entre los que se destacan “30 debajo de 30 años de Forbes”, un MTV  Millenial award, y es uno de los 19 lideres emergentes en educación a nivel mundial por la Qatar Foundation.Hoy regresamos con el episodio 58 “Esto también pasará”, esperen aprender de un emprendedor optimista, cuyo propósito (aparte de tener una vida excepcional para sí mismo), es que otros que carecen de oportunidades puedan tenerlas.Hablaremos sobre como manejar la ansiedad, cómo darle un mayor propósito a nuestra vida, cómo potenciar el talento latinoamericano, y mucho más, ya nos vemos! -Setlist:-Descarga el e-book con los consejos sobre habilidades blandas acá:  https://mailchi.mp/33253c10a087/pasemoselratoOye todos los episodios en audio:Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/PERAPPLESpotify: https://tinyurl.com/PERSPOTIFYOtras plataformas: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2031989/share-Recuerda que puedes contactarme en cualquier red social que ahí estaré para lo que necesites:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrekanayet Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrekanayetTikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@andreekanayet

We speak with Francisco Marmolejo, Higher Education President at the Qatar Foundation

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're exploring an agricultural innovation in the state of Qatar in Western Asia. Qatar is a wealthy, densely populated country located on the Northeast coast of the Arabian peninsula and leads the world in liquified natural gas exports. But the country's desert climate is harsh and the agriculture there is challenging. That's where shipping containers, artificial light and vertical farming techniques come into play. Our guest today is horticulturalist Mohamed Hassouna from the Qur-anic Botanic Garden in Qatar. He and his partners at the University of Arizona are developing a shipping container vertical farming model as a way to expand local food production. Interview Summary   So first let's set the stage for our listeners. Could you describe the agricultural challenges in Qatar given the country's dry climate?   Thank you for your introduction. Qatar, as other countries located in the Arabia peninsula and also in the Arabian states, are facing very harsh weather conditions. Particularly in Qatar, the weather here is hot desert weather characterized by sparse precipitations and high summer temperature experienced with high humidity, high solar radiation and poor soil additionally to strong winds. And this limits the agriculture sector to the months of October to April. Every year, this is the agriculture season here from October to April then the temperature is fine and can allow for producing vegetables. Also the land, the Arab land, suitable for agriculture is very limited. The last inventory here in the state estimated that there is only 60,000 hectares available for the agriculture sector. Also, we have a challenge with water. Water scarcity. The agriculture sector here in Qatar consumes 90% of the available water for the state. A big challenge is also that the agriculture sector consume about 36% of the available water in the aquifer. And as I told you, we have very minimum amount of rain every year. It's about 80 millimeters on average, every year. So production of agriculture in Qatar is difficult.   Well, the picture you paint is really striking and I can imagine those challenges. So what role could your Botanic garden play in addressing food security in the country, closing the food security gap for communities, and also attending to the environment?   Yes! The Qur-anic Botanic Garden is an active member in the community development sector in Qatar Foundation. It takes the issue of community awareness and education from school students to housewife to training even professionals to engage in the investment in agriculture. We established at the Qur-anic Botanic Garden an extra curriculum educational program for school students - from early stage to especially secondary schools students - to learn about the challenges of food security in Qatar, and what are the technologies they can learn. Students are leading the future here in Qatar. Without students being aware about the challenges facing the food security and the agriculture production, we cannot guarantee a future outlook of food security. Also the Qur-anic Botanic Garden has been partnered with Qatar Development Bank, and this is the official bank assigned to develop industry like also agriculture sector. So, anyone from Qatar who would like to take a loan to invest in the agriculture sector, we have the mission to train them on the latest technology of horticulture practices. They can use or they can establish greenhouses or they can establish other modern system for a production of vegetables. Either in their homes or in farms outside. Also Qur-anic Botanic Garden established a hotline for household people. There is now community farming in Qatar. People would like to plant their own vegetables in their home. The hotline is answering all their inquiries about seed selections, seedlings, how to prepare soil, how to make pesticides.   So let's talk a little more deeply now about vertical farming. Can you describe what that is?   Vertical farming involves growing crops in controlled indoor environments with precise lab nutrients and temperatures. In vertical farming, plants are stacked in a layers that may reach several storage unit stories - from personal community scale vegetables or herbal growing to vast building for commercial production of a wide range of crops. Due to the pressure for agriculture land, this makes us look to maximization for food production. Model technology like vertical farming is increasingly something we are turning to for greater crop yield.   I'm envisioning in my mind what the vertical farming could look like. And I'm thinking that in order to produce enough food say to feed a population, you need an awful lot of containers and an awful lot of technology to accompany those containers. Can that be done on a large enough scale?   Before we answer this, we need to go through the pro and cons for vertical farming. If we can speak first about advantages of vertical farming, we can say that vertical farming can ensure crop production year round in desert harsh weather regions like Qatar or other countries in the Arabian Peninsula. And also a controlled growing condition in a vertical farm allow production without chemical pesticides used when needed to deal with any problems from insects. Also, because crops in vertical farming are growing under controlled environmental conditions, they are safe from extreme weather events, such as drought, high temperature, severe winds that also we are facing here. Hydroponic growing techniques used in vertical farming use about 70% less of water than normal agriculture. So, growing the crops indoor reduces the use of tractors and other machinery that also produce a lot of CO2 and this is could be a climate friendly industry. So this is some advantage behind vertical farming that can give us strong signal to say yes, vertical farming can feed a lot of people around the world. Especially in the area that have these two main challenges, availability of vertical soil and a scarcity of water.   Oh, it's so interesting to hear you speak about this. So it sounds like you're optimistic that the technologies can continue to develop and that the vertical farming approach could really help contribute to national food security in your country. But so what do you think are the main opportunities there and what do you think the main challenges are?   Thank you for this question, Kelly. Indeed, I'm optimistic about this industry. Cost of land and building for vertical farming is not easy and it's not also available for all countries and for all people. It needs solar isolation, it needs air conditioners. It needs precise lighting. It needs operation computers. So it needs also specific types of nutrients to be introduced in the cycle of production for fertilization. Here, you bring all the inputs of production cycle. In what you add to the water or to directly to the plants. So the cost is high on the energy side also. You use high amount of energy at a time we are calling everyone to reduce the use of energy and avoid production of CO2. Also, you're aware of expansion of organic agriculture everywhere in the world. So, there are now questions about vertical farming certification. How we can certify or how we can consider merging between organic agriculture and vertical farming. As I said, we use all chemical nutrients in vertical farming to provide the plant with sufficient amount of all of other nutrients required for production. In this case, organic agriculture certification cannot be applied. And scientists in USDA and FAO and many other organization are looking to find a way they can provide a product from vertical farming certified under organic agriculture systems. Two points now, the limited number of crop species in vertical farming. Also, you cannot produce these tall plants that you can grow everywhere or creeping plants that grow everywhere in the field, in the natural field. So you are limited with this layers of a production. So mainly you produce leaves and produce and herbal plants. So we have limited number of crops. Still, also pollination. In natural, we have a bees that make pollinations for the production of vegetables, even for fruits, every, everything. But here, we doesn't have a pollination so we need to go with artificial pollination and this also extra cost to have a special type of bees that you need to put inside the glass houses or inside the building you produce in to secure pollination to complete the cycle of production.   Bio   Mohamed Hassouna is a Horticulturist at the Qur'anic Botanic Garden (QBG), a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. He joined Qatar Foundation in late 2010. He guides and supervises agricultural laborers, coordinating work schedules and performing evaluations, and prescribes fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other compounds required for plant care and development. And, he contributes to QBG's continual education-based conservation programs targeting the Qatari community, especially in the fields of food security, forestation and plant propagation. He is an alumnus of the Advanced International Training Programme on Plant Breeding & Seed Production and Plant Genetic Resources at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden – Classes of 2008 and 2013. He is finalizing a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Agriculture & Environment and in addition holds a Higher Diploma – Graduate Education – in the same field and a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Sciences & Education, which he gained while studying in Egypt.

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, YOUR guest is Dr. Francisco Marmolejo, President of Higher Education, at the Qatar Foundation, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, & YOUR sponsor is Fierce Education. What is an EdUp CatchUp? Listen in to find out! Francisco Marmolejo is President of Higher Education at Qatar Foundation (QF), where he leads support and coordination activities to the unique ecosystem of eight prestigious universities that offer more than 70 undergraduate and graduate programs to students from 60 countries at QF's Education City, the largest campus of its kind globally, based in Doha, Qatar. He joined QF in February 2020 as the organization's Education Advisor. From 2012 to 2020, he worked at the World Bank, where he served as the Global Head of the Bank's Solutions Group on Higher Education, based in Washington, D.C., and, more recently, as Lead Higher Education Specialist for India and South Asia, based in New Delhi. Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edup/message

We have seen hundreds of companies make ‘net zero' commitments, and we have heard calls for cities and countries to commit to carbon neutrality. To navigate what all this means and if these are the targets we should be aiming for, we speak with Nihal al-Saleh. About The Guest: Mrs. Al-Saleh initially pursued a career in the Oil & Gas Industry starting with Occidental Petroleum Oman and later moving to Qatar Shell GTL. Her scope of focus has been new business development, negotiations, and systems implementation projects in Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, the UK, and The Netherlands. As a Commercial Lead and Business Opportunity Manager in Shell, she has managed sustainable industrial solutions projects related to water efficiency, energy efficiency and volatile organic compounds capture in Ras Laffan. Following her departure from Oil & Gas, she has consulted for private and government entities in Qatar. Mrs. Al-Saleh holds a bachelor's degree in Finance and Management Information Systems from Boston University, and a master's degree in Sustainable Development from the University of London- SOAS. She is now a Program Manager for Qatar Foundation's new sustainability center (Earthna, Center for a Sustainable Future). In her current role, she is managing programs and projects related to innovative sustainability pilots that support policy development.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, I'm speaking with Studio Banana the Co-Founder, Key Kawamura. In 2007, Key and friend, Ali Ganjavian, decided to start their own architecture and product design firm, Studio Banana, specializing in creating solutions and strategies for diverse workplaces. Studio Banana is responsible for the globally acclaimed OSTRICHPILLOW® and involved in high-yield, high-impact innovative projects for clients such as United Nations, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Al Jazeera, Ernst & Young, Qatar Foundation, BBDO, McCann Erickson, Santander Bank, Vodafone or Telefonica, among others. In 2019, they published a book on workplace transformation "Think / Work Out of the Box," where they sat down with industry leaders across different industries to hear their thoughts on tools and environments that can best serve the contemporary workforce.    In this episode, Key shares Studio Banana's philosophy and how they managed to maintain high levels of innovation within a growing company. We also explore how Studio Banana aims to push the limits of creativity in producing innovative, thoughtful, and impactful design. THIS WEEK'S RESOURCES Access your free training at http://SmartPracticeMethod.com/ If you want to speak directly to our advisors, book a call at https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/call Key's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauliddon/ Studio Banana: https://studiobanana.com/

Prior to the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar Foundation launched several projects to use sports as a catalyst for social change. In this episode, GUQ Professor Danyel Reiche spoke to Alexandra Chalat, Director of Community Engagement at Qatar Foundation and a legacy strategist, about Qatar Foundation's World Cup program and examples of impactful QF projects. Chalat leads on projects that will use the World Cup as a platform to enable disruptive education, sustainability, innovation and social progress, aiming to achieve the Qatar National Vision 2030 and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This includes addressing issues such as women and girls' empowerment through football and coaching training; developing volunteer programs; activating QF's dynamic campus, Education City, through socially progressive and sustainable events; and developing the strategy legacy plan for Education City Stadium.

The final part of our 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network contributors. This episode features Ed Vainker, CEO of Reach Foundation. It is hosted by Susan Douglas, Senior Advisor at the British Council & CEO at Eden Academy Trust.https://www.reach.org.auThis episode is a special partnership and sponsored by Qatar Foundation's WISE ALL IN program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/Transcript available upon request.Email us: hello@thelearningfuture.com

This is the third part of a 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network contributors. This episode features Karima Kadaoui, co-founder and Executive President of Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in Morrocco. It is hosted by Robyn Whittaker and Louka Parry.This episode is a special partnership and sponsored by Qatar Foundation's WISE ALL IN program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/Transcript available upon request.Email us: hello@thelearningfuture.com

This is the second of a 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network contributors. This episode features Gregg Behr, executive director at The Grable Foundation and co-chair of the Remake Learning council. It is hosted by Robyn Whittaker and Dominic Regester.This episode is a special partnership and sponsored by Qatar Foundation's WISE IN program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/Transcript available upon request.Email us: hello@thelearningfuture.com

This is episode 1 of a special 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning network contributors: Valerie Hannon & Tony Mackay. This episode is a special partnership and is sponsored by Qatar Foundation's WISE program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/thelearningfuture.com

While attending WISE, a global summit of Qatar Foundation for education, Haya and Yousra host a few interviews with some of WISE's participants.In 2 short episodes, guests from different countries, backgrounds, majors, and initiatives speak on a common topic they're all passionate about, Education.Share your thoughts with us on Instagram: @whythepodcast

While attending WISE, a global summit of Qatar Foundation for education, Haya and Yousra host a few interviews with some of WISE's participants.In 2 short episodes, guests from different countries, backgrounds, majors, and initiatives speak on a common topic they're all passionate about, Education.Share your thoughts with us on Instagram: @whythepodcast

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, recorded LIVE & in person from the 2021 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) - during the "Is Higher Ed Still Valuable" panel discussion - YOUR guests are Archika Dogra, Founder of Innoverge, Nieves Segovia Bonet, President at SEK Education Group, Ben Nelson, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Minerva, Francisco Marmolejo, Higher Education President at the Qatar Foundation, & YOUR host/moderator Dr. Joe Sallustio, aka THE Voice of Education, & this is all brought to YOU by WISE! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Learn more about what others are saying about their EdUp experience ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● YOU can follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank YOU for listening! We make education YOUR business!

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, recorded LIVE & in person from the 2021 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), YOUR guest is Dr. Ameena Abdul-Majeed, Director of Programs & Chief Curator at WISE at Qatar Foundation, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, aka THE Voice of Education, & this is all brought to YOU by WISE! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Learn more about what others are saying about their EdUp experience ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● YOU can follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank YOU for listening! We make education YOUR business!

Earth Day Live From COP26 “Nothing About Us Without Us!” is a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group affected. To take care of our planet, there is no substitute for action. Qatar Foundation believes that education, and youth empowerment are catalysts for this action, and for energizing and mobilizing the youth of every country to lead the charge for change. Qatar Foundation will host a session with youth from Qatar and Scotland to discuss the impact of climate change on our future and the role of youth as global citizens guarding our planet. Speakers: Abdalla Al Darwish – Qatar Academy Student Sama Ayoub – Qatar Academy Student Giulia Pinna – Secretary General, THIMUNQatar --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/earth-day-live/support

Mohamed M. Hassona is the Head Horticulturist at the Qur'anic Botanic Garden, the Qatar Foundation in Ar-Rayyan, Qatar. Hassona joined the Foundation in late 2010 to provide comprehensive horticultural support, direction, and expertise to initiate activities related to the development of the Qur'anic Botanic Garden's initiatives on agriculture, horticulture, nursery production, and tree management. With over 17-years of dynamic hands-on experience in horticulture, Hassona is responsible for all the plants in both the open spaces and greenhouses at the garden. He also manages all propagation while overseeing the curatorial information for all plants and trees. Hassona also manages all agricultural staff including coordinating work schedules and staff evaluations. Hassona has a master's degree in science in Sustainable Agriculture & the Environment and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Sciences & Education from his university in Egypt. Hassona is an alum of the Advanced International Training Programme on Plant Breeding & Seed Production and Plant Genetic Resources from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He also contributes to the ongoing education-based conservation programs targeting the community, for food security, reforestation, and plant propagation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/plantatrilliontrees/support

Can we strategically bounce forward instead of bouncing back? Could a detailed and perceptive experience of remote learning help mark-out intentional particular goals for learning?Joanna Moe is Assistant Director of Professional Learning K-12 at Qatar Foundation, Education Development Institute (EDI).Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Joanna currently leads a team of pre-K-grade 12 learning designers at the Education Development Institute (EDI) in Qatar. She has worked in a variety of educational contexts in Hong Kong and New Zealand, leading in-school projects and professional learning across a range of learning and teaching areas. Joanna's areas of interest in education and research include the complexities around transcultural professional learning, advocating for multilingual education and researching the application of effective approaches to learning and teaching using continuous improvement models. MA in Education and joins me from the Middle East today.

There's an upside to hosting a mega-sized sporting event. Governments plan new roads and train stations and airports. Corporate sponsors and foreign investors pile on. And when you build it, people come. Different people, new people, who may not have visited before. Often, these mega-sized sporting events also bring with them a spotlight on whatever problems plague the host nation. For the 2022 Qatar World Cup, that spotlight has led to increased international scrutiny of the treatment of migrant workers. But how effective is this mega-event activism? And what happens when the circus leaves town and the spotlight goes dark? Reporter Ken Shulman looks at three case studies -- South Africa, Brazil and, of course, Qatar, to learn more. Because this episode touches on labor issues in Qatar, a disclosure: Doha Debates is a production of Qatar Foundation, which is a state-led non-profit organization in Qatar.We want to hear from you! To fill out our 2021 listener survey, go to survey.fan/foreignpolicy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Diverse Company's new podcast series will tell the story of real behaviour change, relating to the development of inclusive and anti-racist behaviours. We will follow the journey of mindset change from a scientific lens of a behaviour change specialist, to stories of impact at individual, business and leadership levels, and finally to understanding how important communication and language is, especially in engaging people on this journey. We're starting off this journey with a conversation between Johanna Beresford, CEO of In Diverse Company, and Sion Williams-Eliyesil, a Social and Organisation Psychologist. Sion currently works as a Doctoral Researcher at UCL for the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose and also works for the Qatar Foundation as a Culture and Integration Expert.

There's probably no such thing as perfect privacy and security online. Hackers regularly breach corporate firewalls to gain customers' private information, and scammers constantly strive to trick us into divulging our passwords. But existing tools can provide a high level of privacy—if we use them correctly, says Mashael Al Sabah, a cybersecurity researcher at the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Doha.   The trick is understanding something about the weaknesses and limitations of technologies like blockchain or digital certificates, and not using them in ways that could play into the designs of fraudsters or malware-builders. Successful privacy is “a collaboration between the tool and the user,” Al Sabah says. It requires “using the right tool in the right way.” And testing new technology for privacy and security resilience requires what she calls a “security mindset.” Which, Al Sabah explains, is necessary when assessing new technology. “You think of the different attacks that happened before and that can happen in the future, and you try to identify the weaknesses, threats and the technology.”   There is an urgency to better understanding how technology works with allegedly anonymous technology. “People cannot be free without their privacy,” Al Sabah argues. “Freedom's important for the development of society.” And while that may be all well and good for folks in Silicon Valley obsessed with the latest cryptocurrency, the ability to build funding structures for all is part of her focus. Al Sabah explains, “Aside from privacy, cryptocurrency can also help societies, specifically the ones with under-developed financial infrastructure.” Which is important because, “There are societies that have no financial infrastructure.”   Al Sabah made a splash in the media in 2018 by co-authoring a paper demonstrating that Bitcoin transactions are a lot less anonymous than most users assume. In the study, Al Sabah and her colleagues were able to trace purchases made on the black-market “dark web” site Silk Road back to users' real identities simply by culling through the public Bitcoin blockchain and social media accounts for matching data. More recently, Al Sabah has also been studying phishing schemes and how to detect and avoid them.   “There's more awareness now among users of the importance of their privacy,” Al Sabah says. And that needs to now evolve into teaching security best practices. “So, while we cannot stop new attacks, we can make them less effective and harder to achieve by adhering to best practices.” Business Lab is hosted by Laurel Ruma, editorial director of Insights, the custom publishing division of MIT Technology Review. The show is a production of MIT Technology Review, with production help from Collective Next. This podcast was produced in association with the Qatar Foundation. Show notes and links UNICEF Crypto Fund “Google's top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation,” MIT Technology Review, March 26, 2021 “Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You For Years,” Wired, January 26, 2018 “Your early darknet drug buys are preserved forever in the blockchain, waiting to be connected to your real identity,” Boing Boing, January 26, 2018 “In the Middle East, Women Are Breaking Through the STEM Ceiling,” The New York Times, sponsored by the Qatar Foundation

This week, I'm speaking with the Co-Founder of Studio Banana, Key Kawamura. Studio Banana founders Key Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian met and became fast friends while attending the University of East London for their architecture degrees. Not quite fitting into the places they were working in, they decided to start their own architecture and product design firm, Studio Banana in 2007, further expanding into a wide breadth of creative projects and developing a rich repertoire of entrepreneurial projects in the fields of transdisciplinary creativity, communication, design-led innovation, and education. Studio Banana is responsible for the globally acclaimed OSTRICHPILLOW® and involved in high-yield, high-impact innovative projects for clients such as United Nations, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Al Jazeera, Ernst & Young, Qatar Foundation, BBDO, McCann Erickson, Santander Bank, Vodafone or Telefonica, among others. In 2019, they published "Work Out of the Box," a collection of conversations with industry leaders and case studies from their portfolio to break design-driven transformation down into 13 core principles as a sort of manifesto on how to design work environments and work cultures. In this episode, Key offers up a great vantage point into the philosophy of Studio Banana, the company culture, their business strategy, and deployment methodology. We also explore the perceived dichotomy between business and creativity, and how an understanding of the constraints and the tension between the two produces an environment where innovation can flourish. ► Access your free training at http://SmartPracticeMethod.com/ ► If you want to speak directly to our advisors, book a call at https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/call ► Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for updates: https://www.youtube.com/c/BusinessofArchitecture ******* For more free tools and resources for running a profitable, impactful, and fulfilling practice, connect with me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessofarchitecture Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enoch.sears/ Website: https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BusinessofArch Podcast: http://www.businessofarchitecture.com/podcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/business-architecture-podcast/id588987926 Android Podcast Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BusinessofArchitecture-podcast ******* Access the FREE Architecture Firm Profit Map video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Download the FREE Architecture Firm Marketing Process Flowchart video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Come to my next live, in-person event: https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/live Carpe Diem!

Most people are strangers to themselves; many of them resort to the manic defence – filling their calendar with a flurry of activities meant to prevent them from having any time to reflect. They are always running, without knowing what they are running for or running towards. Also, they feel drained, but they don't understand why. Others, having reached the pinnacle of professional success, fail to find meaning. Today we discuss the Executive Master in Change programme and how understanding yourself can lead to transformation. Our Guests Sini Dimitrios Parampota Sini is a global citizen with 25+ years of diverse experience, using career development to build bridges, promote DEI and drive change. She is a lifelong learning enthusiast and digital geek, currently researching the impact of infertility on women leaders' career aspirations. For the last decade, she has worked with the Qatar Career Development Center, a member of the Qatar Foundation. She is the proud founder of Thrive Lab Qatar. An avid explorer, Sini enjoys travelling around the world and meeting new cultures. She is fluent in Greek, English, German and has practical skills in Arabic and Italian. She is married and lives in Doha with her Qatari husband. Patrick Parker Patrick is the Director of Specialised Degree Programmes at INSEAD and also an EMC graduate. Patrick has gained over 20 years of international business education experience and specialises in people management, programme management and design, and candidate admissions.

Aldo speaks to Stavros Yiannouka, the CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education about the past, present and future of this unique global platform.  Guest Introduction:    Every other year the beautiful, cosmopolitan city of Doha opens its doors to those who shake and make Education in this world. From all over the globe people fly in to discuss the latest innovative developments, bright ideas & best practices to improve the process of teaching and learning - every step of the way.    Policy makers, scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, teachers and most importantly students join together to exchange their thoughts on how we can collectively move forward with Education in its core.    The World Innovation Summit for Education, hosted by the Qatar Foundation  under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Sheikha Mozha Bint Nasser is a fully immersive experience that one is not soon to forget.    This summit really allows relevant stakeholders & enthusiasts to interact through a series of thoughtful workshops, lunch-ons, fireside chats, panel discussions and lectures that dive deep into the educational problems at hand, while at the same it has also managed to attract a lot of star power, enjoying the presence & speakership of many members of Royal Houses, Heads of State and incredibly impressive people like CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Michelle Obama and even Shakira.    The ‘Piece de resistance' of this bi-annual summit is the WISE Prize, an award of $500,000 given to people who have dedicated their life to positively changing this world through education. The summit always allows me to recharge my batteries and when stepping back on a plane, homeward to the UK, I am fully inspired, ready to take on the challenges that teachers all over the world have to cope with.    WISE its objective is to connect innovators in such a way that they are encouraged to collaborate so together they can realise educational transformations where needed.  And the summit is just the mere beginning of all of this. The WISE Accelerator, The WISE Awards, The WISE Emerging Leaders Program, A WISE Words Podcast...the list goes on and on.   The mastermind behind WISE in its most recent form is CEO, Stavros N. Yiannouka who with his warm and personable approach makes sure this event as well as all the many other ongoing activities of the platform are a success.     Before joining WISE in 2012, Stavros was the Executive Vice-Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) at the National University of Singapore, a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and practiced corporate law for a variety of law firms in London.    In a 2020 Forbes article Stavros rightly so expressed his concerns over the effects of the pandemic on education, urging all those involved to look beyond tomorrow:    “Education needed fundamental change before COVID-19, and it needs it even more now. It's still within our power to make it happen. But if we don't look beyond simply being resilient, we'll certainly never get there.”   Definitely a lot to talk about. Stavros, a very warm welcome to you! 

Juan David Aristizábal tiene un propósito: ¡Cambiar el Mundo!. Es Co-Fundador de ProTalento, una plataforma educativa que ayuda a lanzar carreras en tecnología para jóvenes de alto potencial en América Latina, respaldada por Village Global, Bolsa de Valores de Colombia y Sophos y acelerada en Harvard Innovation Lab. Profesor de Liderazgo en CESA Business School. Autor de “Todos podemos cambiar el mundo” y “Llenando Espacios”. En 2013 fue reconocido por la revista Forbes "30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs" . Tiene una maestría en Periodismo y Asuntos internacionales de la Universidad de Columbia. Tiene el premio Millennial de MTV Latam, además, fue co-presidente de la Reunión Anual del Foro Económico Mundial 2019. En 2020, Qatar Foundation reconoció a Juan David Aristizábal como uno de los 19 líderes emergentes en educación en todo el mundo. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enremoto/message

In this episode, Dr. Amal Malki shares her insights on the challenges women, especially Muslim women face in their own homelands in the education sector. Being the founding dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Qatar, Amal aims to tackle gender stereotypes plaguing Arab women and their careers. A firm believer of the feminist movement, Amal wants to help women find their voice and know their rights. She sheds light on the existing amalgamation of culture and religion in the Arab World, leading to disputes that are left unresolved. Catch up on our episode with Dr. Amal, out now!Dr. Amal Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation.Dr. Al-Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London-SOAS, where she also earned a Master Degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation.

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

Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki, Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad bin Khalifa University, spoke with Danyel Reiche, Visting Associate Professor at GUQ. In previous podcasts, guests discussed issues related to Qatari female athletes. In today's episode, our scope goes beyond sport and we examine the progress women have made in Qatar prior to the FIFA World Cup 2022 and which challenges remain. Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Prior to 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. Dr. Al-Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London-SOAS, where she also earned a Master Degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation.

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this incredible episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we are honored to bring Dr. Francisco Marmolejo, President of Higher Education with The Qatar Foundation, to talk about education. Francisco drops serious knowledge about the necessity of a Universal Skills Passport to help both students and employers understand the relevance of a student's education to the job market. He also highlights Education City in Qatar, which is a landmass with nine institutions teaching students from across the globe. The Qatar Foundation is an ecosystem of more than fifty organizations facilitating the unlocking of human potential. Francisco talks about why the accident of geography should not affect one's future educational possibilities. Finally, he discusses why quality is NOT a synonym for elitism. Francisco Marmolejo is President of Higher Education at Qatar Foundation (QF), where he leads support and coordination activities to the unique ecosystem of eight prestigious universities that offer more than 70 undergraduate and graduate programs to students from 60 countries at QF's Education City, the largest campus of its kind globally, based in Doha, Qatar. He joined QF in February 2020 as the organization's Education Advisor. From 2012 to 2020, he worked at the World Bank, where he served as the Global Head of the Bank's Solutions Group on Higher Education, based in Washington, D.C., and, more recently, as Lead Higher Education Specialist for India and South Asia, based in New Delhi. Another episode sponsored by our great friends at MDT Marketing! Get your free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

There’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics. What is new is how quickly malicious actors can spread disinformation when the world is tightly connected across social networks and internet news sites. We can give up on the problem and rely on the platforms themselves to fact-check stories or posts and screen out disinformation—or we can build new tools to help people identify disinformation as soon as it crosses their screens. Preslav Nakov is a computer scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Doha specializing in speech and language processing. He leads a project using machine learning to assess the reliability of media sources. That allows his team to gather news articles alongside signals about their trustworthiness and political biases, all in a Google News-like format. “You cannot possibly fact-check every single claim in the world,” Nakov explains. Instead, focus on the source. “I like to say that you can fact-check the fake news before it was even written.” His team’s tool, called the Tanbih News Aggregator, is available in Arabic and English and gathers articles in areas such as business, politics, sports, science and technology, and covid-19. Business Lab is hosted by Laurel Ruma, editorial director of Insights, the custom publishing division of MIT Technology Review. The show is a production of MIT Technology Review, with production help from Collective Next. This podcast was produced in partnership with the Qatar Foundation. Show notes and links Tanbih News Aggregator Qatar Computing Research Institute “Even the best AI for spotting fake news is still terrible,” MIT Technology Review, October 3, 2018

What can your city teach you? On this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with executive, curator and researcher Sébastien Turbot. Sébastien is the CEO of eko6, a creative learning consultancy and a Research Fellow at Qatar Foundation's World Innovation Summit for Education, leading a global hub on Learning Ecosystems. Sébastien speaks with us about the value of learning to learn, how urban space shapes our learning journey and how becoming a global “hub” means investing in student and citizens' 21st century skills

The One Take Show is honored to host Mr. Vansh Saluja. Vansh is the Co-founder and Secretary-General of the Confederation of Young Leaders, he's a noted social entrepreneur based in New Delhi, India having wide National and International experience working in the Development and Government sector. He was a distinguished WISE Learner's Fellow with Qatar Foundation from 2017-18, he has also served as a Governing Body member at Maitryei College, Delhi University. He has delivered guest lectures and workshops at both International and National Conferences and institutions on issues ranging from education, elections, governance, polity, and policy. His experience with Governance and administration is immense and he has wide experience of working with various Ministries, Government Departments, Bureaucrats, and Politicians. In the past few years, he has worked with different levels of Governments and Ministries and led several projects with Macro social impact. His current engagements and projects are largely focused on building forums for Track II diplomacy, helping Indian youth to contribute to shaping India's foreign policy with a focus on scaling up cultural diplomacy through youth dialogues, youth exchanges, youth conferences, seminars, etc.

Nasser Al Khori is leading the local and international programmes division of Generation Amazing, which is a legacy programme of the SC. Al Khori comes with extensive experience of working in Qatar's not-for-profit industry. He was previously leading the Doha Debates team and also served as the head of Qatar Foundation's Partnership and Strategic Initiatives. He has also worked with Qatar Foundation International and the United Nations. At Generation Amazing his role is to devise strategies and oversee the implementation of using football for development initiatives across the target countries. Al Khori comes with strong intercultural communication and analytical skills. He is currently pursuing his Master in Business Administration from University College London and holds a Bachelor in Science Degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dana El-Ghazal works as a Senior Internal Communications Specialist and 360° Project Manager at Qatar Foundation. She recently de-activated all her Social Media accounts (no jokes) and that too for a very good reason that you will listen to in this Podcast. Here's a link to her article on QF's corporate website: https://www.qf.org.qa/stories/in-her-own-words-why-i-quit-social-media. An article that she wrote by herself. Enjoy listening to this thought-provoking human being! Disclaimer: This episode is NOT meant to help you quit Social Media! In fact, all it asks you is to use it sensibly. And here is a link to the Podcast that Dana was referring to: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/dr-vivek-murthy-and-brene-on-loneliness-and-connection/

Dan is a District Coordinator for 21st Century Learning at Qatar Foundation. Dan has taught in the UK, the UAE and Qatar and worked as a professional musician. We talk about his career path and transitioning from being a music teacher to a tech leader. We go into detail about what it's like to live in Qatar which is an increasingly popular location for International School teachers.   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us!   Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube   Dan Pardy on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danpardy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanPardy Dan Taylor on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE   Welcome to The International Schools Podcast,  I'm your host Dan Taylor and on the podcast we discuss all aspects of technology and life in International Schools with New episodes live every two weeks. We focus on people currently working in International Schools and talk about life in their current country and dive into some specific topics.   This podcast is brought to you by Acer for Education. People ask us what Chromebooks and Windows laptops we recommend for schools and after trying them all we always recommend Acer. If you'd like more info, please send your email at gg.gg/acereducation and we'll get back to you.   We go to Acer HQ in Taiwan every year to be part of product discussions and they are genuinely the best thought out, cost-effective, and durable devices out there.   This podcast is also sponsored by ‘AppsEvents'. We're a Google Education Partner and made up of former educators, all experts in helping schools integrate Google into their schools and classrooms. All training is customized for each school to make sure it has a lasting impact. We are also the experts on online Google training and deliver our certification bootcamps completely online to schools.   We have teams in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the US so we can help you wherever you are.   We are also an ISTE partner and delivering the ISTE Certified Educator worldwide through our subsidiary AE Learning.   ISTE Certification is a pedagogy focused, vendor-neutral professional certification aimed at educators wishing to transform their edtech practice.   We run 2-day certification bootcamps which are amazing fun, great networking, and will give a huge boost to both your career and your school.   Get all the info at aelearninglab.com

Zara will be sharing her own personal story, her motivation, her struggles, her successes, her Future Goals and her role in helping to create a hugely successful Sports Academy that is now working with global giants such as Qatar Foundation, Leeds United College, Sheffield FC, as well as many World Renowned Schools, Universities and industry experts. It is had been an extraordinary journey for Zara and definitely worth a listen! #zumbafitness #FutureSports #sportsbusiness #football #inthegame #inthegamesportspodcast #podcast #sport --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inthegame-sportspodcast/message

Zara will be sharing her own personal story, her motivation, her struggles, her successes, her Future Goals and her role in helping to create a hugely successful Sports Academy that is now working with global giants such as Qatar Foundation, Leeds United College, Sheffield FC, as well as many World Renowned Schools, Universities and industry experts. It is had been an extraordinary journey for Zara and definitely worth a listen! #zumbafitness #FutureSports #sportsbusiness #football #inthegame #inthegamesportspodcast #podcast #sport --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inthegame-sportspodcast/message

Deena Newaz is an MPhil student at the Faculty of Education and a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge University. Before starting her Masters, Deena worked as an education and international development professional for WISE and the Qatar Foundation. She co-authored the recently published book ''Ed Futures: A Collection of Short Stories on the Future of Education''. In this episode, Deena and I discuss the importance of storytelling as a practice that helps us envision and shape possible futures to come. In her book, she used speculative fiction as a method to imagine what education might look like in a world increasingly impacted by migration, climate change and technological advancement. In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Deena argues that now more than ever, we should return to the ancient tradition of storytelling in order to prepare for the post-pandemic future. Rather than the future being fixed or pre-determined, stories can help us change trajectory and collectively imagine new pathways forward, including for institutions like Cambridge University. Deena also offers insights into how she has used this time of lockdown to explore her spiritual life more in-depth, and how she has found ways to cope with experiences of loss and grief. Whilst we mourn the loss of lives and of time, and even of the 'Cambridge Experience', creative space simultaneously opens up for new opportunities, new ideas and new stories to emerge. Follow Cambridge Quaranchats on Facebook and Twitter @CamQuaranchats. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/quaranchats/message

Following discussions around a looming recession and national conversations around reskilling for Industry 4.0 and the future of work. we speak to Stavros Yiannooka, CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global think tank of the Qatar Foundation to discuss how all this harks back to the way we learn – as educators, as leaders, lifelong learners, and people.

Vandaag in Spijkers met Koppen: belangrijke medische gegevens moeten beter beschikbaar zijn voor artsen in het geval van spoedzorg. Minister Bruno Bruins van Medische Zorg vertelt wat dit betekent voor de privacy van patiënten. Daarnaast heeft Bruins een oplossing gevonden voor het pillentekort en reageert hij op de hoge parkeerkosten bij ziekenhuizen. Ajax gaat volgend jaar op trainingskamp in Qatar, Freek de Jong vindt het belachelijk en gaat er over in debat met Joost Alferink, die jarenlang voor de Qatar Foundation werkte. Ingeborg Beugel laat in de documentaire 'Hotel Athene' de gevolgen van de Griekse crisis zien. Drank, drugs en een hoop pech, het kostte tennisser Paul Dogger zijn carrière. Peter Zangtingh schreef een boek over het leven van de oud-tennisser. Regisseur Dirk Jan Roeleven maakte een Andere Tijden-aflevering over het imago van DAF, samen met coureur David van Lennep schuift hij aan. Jitske Kramer neemt je in haar boek 'Voodoo, op reis naar jezelf via eeuwenoude rituelen' mee naar Togo en ze deelt haar verwondering. 'De Film als een Kroket' is een podcast over bekende en onbekende Nederlandse filmklassiekers, makers Adeline van Lier en haar dochter Max Mijs Brouwer geven een voorproefje. Tot slot treden de Nederpop All Stars met Henk Westbroek op, is er cabaret door Roel Bloemen, Katinka Polderman en Aron Elstak en zijn columns van Emilio Guzman en Stefan Pop.

Mariam Al-Dhubhani and Mohammed Al-Jaberi are a power couple soon to be graduating from Qatar Foundation. We talked about their move from Yemen to Qatar in the midst of the war, the survivor’s guilt they had to deal with, and their experience studying in the QF universities. Listen in to this couple talking about all things education!

We’re collaborating with Qatar Foundation to celebrate their convocation! In this episode, we speak to Anusheh Zaman, a student from VCUArts Qatar and Mohammad Almansouri from Texas A&M University at Qatar. We talk about the high education system in Qatar, the student's achievements, the challenges they faced in their four years at university and their future plans.   

Appointed by His Excellency Mohammad Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Before her appointment as the Spokesperson, H.E. Lolwah joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Minister Plenipotentiary. She also served as the Director of Planning and Quality at Qatar Tourism Authority and as a Research Project Manager at Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. Her Excellency will provide an update on the U.S.-Qatar strategic dialogue and Qatar's foreign policy.

Kurt Russell, whose credits include The Thing, Escape from New York and The Hateful Eight, discusses his new role as Santa Claus in the new Netflix family film The Christmas Chronicles. Russell looks back over his five-decade acting career, including the time he worked with Elvis and Walt Disney as a child actor.Poet Ruth Fainlight talks about her new collection Somewhere Else Entirely, her first book in eight years and the first since the death of Alan Sillitoe, her husband of 50 years. Several of the works in Fainlight's collection serve as elegies to him, a meditation on mortality and memory in poetry and prose .Damien Hirst's latest artwork has been unveiled outside a hospital in Qatar - fourteen large bronze sculptures that graphically chart the journey from conception to birth. Layla Ibrahim Bacha, the Art Specialist for the Qatar Foundation who commissioned the controversial artworks, talks to John Wilson from Doha.Presenter John Wilson Producer Jerome Weatherald

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN GLOBAL EDUCATION I've got two educators working with The Qatar Foundation via fellowships and grants AND engaging their students in their experiences . Great Opportunities abound!

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN GLOBAL EDUCATION I've got two educators working with The Qatar Foundation via fellowships and grants AND engaging their students in their experiences . Great Opportunities abound!

How do you make data erotic and empathetic? Pau Garcia has the answers and he's not afraid to share his secrets in our revealing conversation! Future + Data + Design + Society + Ethics + Technology + Utopia ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Founding Partner at Domestic Data Streamers Pau’s focus areas are new media technology and data languages. After doing research and design projects in Spain, France, Italy, and Germany, including projects for the European Design Institute, Pau founded Domestic Data Streamers (DDS) five years ago. DDS is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. They play within the boundaries of arts, science and sociology to perfect and create new data languages for companies such as Twitter, Western Digital, UNICEF, Nike or the Mobile World Congress, Qatar Foundation, and California Academy of Sciences. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to our RSS feed

Working with grants from the Qatar Foundation,[1] more and more US parents are encouraging their children to take Arabic. We'll find out  their rationale and how it has worked out for their children in K-12 and College.

Alex Fleetwood is the founder and director of Hide&Seek, a game design studio dedicated to inventing new kinds of play. Hide&Seek started life in 2007 as a festival of social games and playful experiences on London’s South Bank, and built into a studio occupied a unique position in the UK, creating innovative games, installations and events with organisations including Film4, the Cultural Olympiad, Tate Modern, Warner Bros, Gâité Lyrique, Nike, Sony, the Royal Opera House and Kensington Palace. Anab Jain was born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, and founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy’s client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab’s self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE. Honoured as a TED Fellow, she is the... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doha Heat family, give a warm welcome to Ifath Sayed who will be joining as a co-host! Today we got the opportunity to meet Jamal Salim Abdulla, who hails from Mombasa, Kenya and currently works at Qatar Foundation. His journey is truly uplifting as he tells of foregoing his own university studies to help provide for his family's well-being back home.

It’s a frightening thought but cyber criminals may have been responsible for a water pump failure at a public water district in Illinois.  Federal officials have confirmed they are investigating the incident. Be careful.  That’s the message from Dr. Abdullah al-Mal, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking (QFCHT), when it comes to dealing with the crimes perpetrated through the Internet. Ireland has a major problem with organized crime.  However it’s not the type of organized crime you may be used to hearing about in the news.  Government officials say almost all website hacks in the country have been linked to organized crime gangs.  Their primary motive is believed to be money. Also check out the job of the day!

Подкаст #1 Участники: Ронин, princesa_catalana, loss, ХПЗ Темы: 1) Кубок Короля. Игра Афеллая. 2) Предстоящая игра с "Атлетико". 3) Тьаго Алькантара и его переход в основную команду в следующем сезоне. 4) Физическая форма "Барсы" и травмы Жеффрена 5) Спонсорский контракт с Qatar Foundation. P.S. - поскольку характер первых подкастов общий, выделять вопросы пользователей, как отдельную тему, не стали. Поэтому, самые интересные вопросы мы постарались обозначить, а продолжение ожидайте в следующем выпуске.