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Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is the Dean & CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar, the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media,… more

H-index: 28
Political science 45%
Sociology 37%
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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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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
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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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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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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!
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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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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
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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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Thank you to our outstanding speakers, @nuqatar.bsky.social colleagues, and the attendees for making the day a success.

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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.”

Reposted by: Marwan M. Kraidy

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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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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.
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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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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!
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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...
ACLS logo with text ACLS Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America

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

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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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