@marinakrikorian
Assistant Director at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar @iasnuq.bsky.social @nuqatar.bsky.social. Past lives in Berkeley, Beirut, DC, and Philly.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Day 1 at @websummit.bsky.social!
View the full program here: bit.ly/4kfljLF
Catch us at the @nuqatar.bsky.social booth everyday from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m!
On stage. In conversation. In celebration.
Moments from the #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations, shared with mentors, peers, family, and the wider @nuqatar.bsky.social community.
Congratulations to the 2025 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows!
The spring 2026 semester at @nuqatar.bsky.social launched with an @iasnuq.bsky.social Winter School on Theory & Method with scholars from all over the world, incl @christopherali.bsky.social Sami Atallah & Carola Richter. Thank you @marinakrikorian.bsky.social & #IAS_NUQ staff!
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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We kicked off 2026 with the #IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter School.
Three days of master classes and conversations on media policy and governance at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from @carnegie.org.
Stay tuned!
#IAS_NUQ introduced a new framework for examining digital life beyond Western-centric epistemic genealogies in โFrom interAsian to transAsian digitalities", a special issue of First Monday.
Read more: https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2025/12-transdigitalities-FirstMonday.html
Looking forward to seeing many friendly faces in DC this weekend as we host the first SHAMS meeting in conjunction with the #MESA2025 Annual Meeting!
Be sure to also stop by booth 66 in the exhibition hall to hear about exciting #IAS_NUQ programs, publications, and new opportunities!
If youโre heading to MESA, but sure to visit Booth 66 to hear more about our exciting programming, publications, and current opportunities at @iasnuq.bsky.social
Inโutu Imbuwa, a graduate from the Class of 2025, has been named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar, earning one of the worldโs most prestigious academic honors and becoming the schoolโs second recipient of the award.
Learn more: www.qatar.northwestern.edu/news/article...
Applications are now open for the 2026-27 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship!
Application deadline: January 15, 2026.
Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ!
Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows
Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia!
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
Deadline tomorrow!
For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...
Deadline in two weeks!
Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship.
Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)
For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...
In the last two years, I have photographed four different representatives from the U.S. voting no to a ceasefire.
Applications are now open for #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholars!
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Weโre seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South.
Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc
Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University.
๐๏ธ Wednesday, September 17
๐ฃ 1:00 โ 2:15 p.m.
๐ 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Save the dates!
Weโre excited to share our Fall 2025 event rundown at #IAS_NUQ @nuqatar.bsky.social . From groundbreaking research to global conversations, this semester is packed with events you wonโt want to miss.
For more details, visit: qatar.northwestern.edu/events
I am especially thrilled to welcome and learn from a stellar cohort of faculty instructors and to continue to build community among students of Arab media and other scholars working from the Global South.
Excited to share the CFA for our 4th (!!!) Theory & Method Institute/Winter School at #IAS_NUQ. Aimed at early career scholars, this iteration will expose students to media policy/analysis, the study of Arab media systems/ governance, & training in transforming academic research into policy briefs.
ACLS logo with text ACLS Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America
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...
Playing games with fascists while the country floods and burns
Yesterdayโs @iasnuq.bsky.social #ICA25 preconf Echoes & Overlaps in Arab & African Thought on Media & Culture in partnership with the Center for Media, Religion, & Culture in Boulder featured stimulating & generous conversations on an important yet understudied topic.
Clovis's presentation explored the Procรจs Des Gangs as a major media event in 1990s Guinea, highlighting its public fascination, its redefinition of youth, and the trial as a โzone of transaction.โ He also discussed the crisis of belonging amid Guineaโs democratization.
We're headed to the 7th Annual Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences โ Devastation, Imaginaries, and Knowledge: Regional Junctures and Global Repercussions.
Catch #IAS_NUQ Director Clovis Bergรจre at Panel 8.
๐ May 15
๐ 2:30 โ 4:15 p.m.
๐ Crowne Plaza Beirut, Olympic
Stay tuned!
Really excited for these scholars and their projects!
Thank you, Bilge!
Really looking forward to launching the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies in Beirut next month in conjunction with the ACSS Biennial Conference! We hope to see many familiar faces there.. and if you can't make it to Beirut, look out for our first SHAMS meeting at MESA in November!
Excited to see two of our stellar #IAS_NUQ undergraduate fellows among this year's standout graduates!