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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 3h

Today @nuqatar.bsky.social we attended an original and heartfelt exploration of the meanings and tribulations of home and family by @iasnuq.bsky.social Global Fellow Sara Mourad

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 12h

Can’t wait!

Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 18h

Excited to be hosting @andreamedrado.bsky.social at @nuqatar.bsky.social next month. She will be giving the “NUQ Lecture on the Global South” organized annually by the @iasnuq.bsky.social

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 1d

Save the date!

Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”

🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social

bit.ly/46VQFAC

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 8d

Today I had the pleasure to welcome H.E. Dr. Álvaro Renedo Zalba, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to Qatar,
a distinguished diplomat and a fellow scholar and leader, at @nuqatar.bsky.social We had a great conversation about higher education, global politics, and comics!

Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 9d

My favorite moment today @nuqatar.bsky.social was a preview of our soon to be unveiled #Wellness room, a haven to catch your breath and recharge. Thank you to our HR team for helping us make sure that excellence and wellness go hand in glove!

#NUQProud

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 10d

Our #keymoments conference featured a heartfelt conversation exploring a new epistemology for understanding media, history, memory, and affect. Stay tuned for what comes next!

#NUQProud

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 10d

Last week, we hosted the Key Moments in Media and Culture Conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social, where scholars reflected on history, memory, mediation, and affect, asking how events become remembered as “key moments.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to our outstanding speakers, @nuqatar.bsky.social colleagues, and the attendees for making the day a success.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 10d

It was such a pleasure to represent @nuqatar.bsky.social last night at the Bicentennial Concert: Celebrating Uruguay, with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and Soprano Sofia Mara. Congratulations!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 17d

... multidisciplinary work that enables us to better appreciate the breathtaking wealth of the human experience across differences www.acls.org/competitions...

ACLS Fellowships

ACLS Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 17d

As Chair of the ACLS Board of Director at a time when culture and expertise, and the culture of expertise itself, face daunting challenges, I am particularly proud to sponsor a fellowship that promotes comparative, transnational, and ...

ACLS Fellowships

ACLS Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.

www.acls.org

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 17d

Ute Kraidy and I established this fellowship a few years ago out of our belief that the humanities play a crucial role in helping us make sense of the human experience, and specifically of the rich and longstanding connections from two world regions close to our hearts.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 17d

The deadline for the @acls1919.bsky.social Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America is in one week!

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Aug 15

The ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America supports scholars pursuing research in the #humanities & #socialsciences on the Arab and/or Latin American worlds.

Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM ET: www.acls.org/competitions...

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats, Nathan!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday’s #Qahwapause was recondite; today’s is erudite

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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 28d

We're incredibly honored to receive this recognition from the American Council of Learned Societies. #SUPDigital

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 29d

The 2025 multimodal winner is Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, & Feifei Zhou (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2020), with an honorable mention to Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature by Refqa Abu-Remaileh.

Cover of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Deadline in 3 weeks for this @acls fellowship.

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Aug 15

The ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America supports scholars pursuing research in the #humanities & #socialsciences on the Arab and/or Latin American worlds.

Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM ET: www.acls.org/competitions...

Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · Sep 1

The first two weeks of the fall 2025 semester @nuqatar.bsky.social have been quite the whirlwind.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 18

Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.

Deadline: Sept 15, 2025

Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 18

Supported by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and led by @mkraidy.bsky.social, with @christopherali.bsky.social, Carola Richter, and Sami Atallah, the program is designed for graduate students and early-career scholars to explore media policy, systems, & governance in the Arab region and the Global South.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · Aug 16

The deadline is in 6 weeks-please share this call widely.

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Aug 15

The ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America supports scholars pursuing research in the #humanities & #socialsciences on the Arab and/or Latin American worlds.

Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM ET: www.acls.org/competitions...

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Aug 15

The ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America supports scholars pursuing research in the #humanities & #socialsciences on the Arab and/or Latin American worlds.

Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM ET: www.acls.org/competitions...

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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · Jun 26

@nuqatar.bsky.social further deepened its global scholarly engagement at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, held from June 12 to 16, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.

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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · Jun 30

@nuqatar.bsky.social and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences have launched the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (#SHAMS)—a trilingual scholarly association advancing rigorous, multidisciplinary research on Arab media in their cultural, social, and political-economic contexts.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · Aug 3

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