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The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar
Mission
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) produces and promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. Our inclusive vision of globality recognizes the diversities and inequalities that shape the societies we inhabit and study. We harness traditions from the liberal arts, media, communication, and journalism to forge multi-disciplinary and multi-modal approaches to knowledge that is locally relevant and globally resonant. This synthesis of deep expertise, interdisciplinary inquiry, and creative mediamaking stimulates critical conversations about enduring questions and emerging challenges that confront the Global South and its enmeshments in global structures and flows of people, goods, words, images, and ideas. Our core commitments are to amplify NU-Q faculty and student scholarship and mediamaking, to boost undergraduate research, mentor our students who plan to pursue advanced graduate degrees, and forge pathways to the professoriate locally and globally. To these ends, #IAS_NUQ hosts fellows (student, postdoctoral, faculty) who work on individual projects and collaborate in local and global research groups, produce multi-lingual and multi-modal #IAS_NUQ_Press publications and creative media, and organizes lectures, screenings, workshops, and conferences.
Research
Research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South is organized around four key themes.  These themes reflect our vision of globality, recognizing the different forces shaping the societies we inhabit and study. Together and in conversation with one another, these four orienting themes are designed to stimulate critical conversations about enduring questions and emerging challenges that confront the Global South and its enmeshments in global structures and flows of people, goods, images, and ideas.
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Founder
DEAN AND CEO
Marwan M. Kraidy
Marwan M. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, culture, and politics. An award-winning author and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy’s research centers around the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. He is also an expert on the Middle East and fluent in Arabic.
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Staff
Clovis Bergère
DIRECTOR
Marina Krikorian
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Azka Anwar
PUBLICATIONS MANAGER
Krishna Sharma
PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Zeest Marrium
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
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Postdoctoral Scholars
Meet the Scholars
#IAS_NUQ Postdoctoral Scholars integrate primary sources and linguistic and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal, and transnational scholarship and mediamaking focused on the Global South. Candidates incorporating non-Western theories, sources, and contexts, are especially welcome. Our research and reading groups have focused on Arab media, critical security, southern digitalities, youth and media, and epistemologies of the Global South.
Faculty Advisory Committee
Haya Al-Noaimi
Assistant Professor in Residence
Heather Jaber
Assistant Professor in Residence
Rana Kazkaz
Director of the Communication Program
Associate Professor in Residence
Scheherazade Safla-Gaffoor
Assistant Professor in Residence
Greg Burris
Associate Professor in Residence
Fellowships
Our fellowship programs support scholars working in and on the Global South. At the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, fellows draw on diverse disciplines to produce knowledge that is locally grounded and globally resonant. They push against disciplinary boundaries to spark critical conversations on enduring and emerging challenges. As part of an inclusive community of scholars, #IAS_NUQ Fellows pursue individual projects, collaborate in research groups, publish multilingual work, and organize lectures, screenings, workshops, and conferences.
Global Undergraduate Fellowships
The Global Undergraduate Fellowship offers Northwestern Qatar students the opportunity to advance new or ongoing research and creative projects to develop them into an original contribution to evidence-based storytelling and hence to knowledge. Over a year, fellows work with #IAS_NUQ staff and faculty mentors to strengthen their research skills, develop their concepts, and produce original work published with #IAS_NUQ_Press and presented to local and global audiences.
Meet the 2026 Fellows
Meet the previous Fellows
Global Fellows
Alongside their own projects, #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows take part in the Institute’s intellectual life through research groups, feedback sessions, and events. They present their work publicly and are encouraged to publish a multilingual working paper or creative output with #IAS_NUQ_Press.
Meet the 2025-26 Fellows
Meet the previous Fellows
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#IAS_NUQ_Press
IAS_NUQ_Press is an open-access, multimodal, and multilingual publisher housed at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern Qatar.
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Summer School
2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia
The
Southern Digitalities Summer School
is designed to develop critical skills for early career scholars of media and communication working on digital transformations across a broad range of Asian contexts, spanning West, South, Central, East, Southeast Asia, and beyond. At the heart of the summer school is the concept of
Southern
digitalities
—a notion that invites us to rethink how we theorize digitalities i.e. the condition of living in digital cultures by taking seriously digital experiences, cultures, and technology in the Global South, a nexus made up of diverse and interconnected digital encounters, practices, and frictions, rather than a neatly defined geography.
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76th Annual ICA Conference
Communication and Inequalities in Context
June 4 - 8, 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa
The
International Communication Association (ICA)
is a leading global network of communication scholars, practitioners, and students. Each year, ICA's Annual Conference convenes thousands of participants from around the world to exchange research findings, explore emerging trends, and foster collaboration in the field of communication.
Winter School
#IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter Schools are supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York and Directed by Marwan M. Kraidy under the Institute’s Arab Information and Media Studies (AIMS) project. The
2026 Theory and Method Winter School
will take place from
January 6 – 8, 2026
in Doha, Qatar. #IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter Schools are intended for graduate students and other early career scholars in the social sciences and humanities whose work engages media, communications, or information studies. The topic of this year’s Winter School is “
Media Policy and Governance
.”
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Current Opportunities at #IAS_NUQ
Stay up to date with open calls, programs, and initiatives at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ). Whether you are a student, scholar, or practitioner, discover ways to engage with our mission to produce and promote evidence-based storytelling on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South.
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News
#IAS_NUQ hosts global scholars for spring 2026 Winter School on media policy and governance
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#IAS_NUQ announces 2024-25 Global Fellows
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Media Majlis Museum inaugurates “The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My World”
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Events
Critical Conversations Series
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Virtual Book Talks
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AIMS Virtual Seminar Series
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April 8, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium
Narratives of Political Identity Among East African Digital Diaspora Communities in the Gulf Region
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April 15, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Roundtable
Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South
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