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NU-Q event examines medias role in covering the war in Gaza

NU-Q scholar explores contemporary Middle East media

Exhibition on future of metaverse to open at NU-Q

Students at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) have launched the inaugural issue of their online literary journal, Wisteria

The minor includes a capstone project that has students presenting a comprehensive strategic communication campaign proposal for a client.

 01 May 2021 - 8:36 A still from NU-Q Professor João Queiroga’s new film Digging for Life The Peninsula Doha: A new documentary film about the grim reality of slavery and the diamond industry in Africa, directed by Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) Professor João Queiroga, will have its world premiere at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival in Toronto.  The film — Digging for Life — tells the true story of Adiang Assuoe Thomas Germain (Tommy) who leaves his home in ...

 01 Apr 2021 - 8:17 The annual awards ceremony featured nearly 100 student projects representing Northwestern Qatar students’ scholarly and journalistic excellence. The Peninsula Northwestern Qatar has announced the 2021 Media and Research Awards, recognizing nearly 100 projects representing NU-Q students’ scholarly and journalistic excellence over the past two years. This year’s finalists, which include submissions from the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21, featured journalistic, mul...

 14 Mar 2021 - 8:45 Northwestern Qatar students Evghenia Scripinc (left) and Farina Amir The Peninsula Doha: Northwestern Qatar students have provided additional content on Wikipedia to give voice to underrepresented people and topics from the Global South. In a class on intercultural and international communication, the students submitted and edited English-language entries on cultural, social, and political topics related to the Global South. Northwestern Qatar Professor Banu Akdenizli teac...

 06 Mar 2021 - 10:00 The Peninsula Doha: Professor Jairo Lugo-Ocando of Northwestern University-Qatar (NU-Q) has co-edited a book that looks at how the spread of populist and nationalist movements in Latin America and the Caribbean has hindered the process of democratization and diversity in the region’s media industry. Media and Governance in Latin America: Toward a Plurality of Voices is an edited collection of chapters that examine the relationship between media and political pluralism i...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) A Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) professor has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project following an uproar over her disparaging comments about the people living in Qatar, it is learnt. In January, it was announced that the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) had awarded NU-Q professors Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and Venus S Jin, along with Hamad Bin Khalifa University professor Mohamed Evren Tok, a grant to study the obstacles and successes of women entrepreneurshi...