Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), participated in a startup event hosted by Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) in collaboration with TechWadi, on June 20 in the city of San Francisco, United States. The event aimed to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and the MENA region by exposing technology professionals and startups to the burgeoning Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI) ecosystem in Qatar, and encouraging them to take advantage of attractive funding opportunities for technology startups with ties to the region.

Dr. Damilola S. Olawuyi, associate professor at the College of Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), led a session at the 2019 Symposium on Global Markets at the Center for American and International Law (CAIL) in Plano, Texas, from June 17-18. 

The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has announced a ‘Call for Papers’ for its International Conference on Islamic Finance and Circular Economy, which is jointly organized with Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority to be held from December 3 to 5, 2019 in Doha.  

The College of Law (CL) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is to host an information session to showcase its new LLM (Master of Laws) degrees to current and prospective students on June 26, 2019.  

The pioneering degrees – an LLM in International Law and Foreign Affairs and an LLM in International Economic and Business Law – are at the intersection of the legal, business, and entrepreneurship sectors, and designed to cross the lines of single-discipline studies.

Doha has been selected by the Organisation for Islamic Co-operation (OIC) as the OIC Youth Capital in 2019. First hosted by Istanbul (Turkey) in 2015, the OIC Youth Capital has become a collective voice for global Muslim youth, and has since been held in Fez (Morocco), Putrajaya (Malaysia), Shiraz (Iran), and Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Palestine). 

Throughout history, religion has shaped and defined many cultures globally, often generating new spaces for an architecture of ritualised activity. As cultures and faiths shift and change, so too do the structures in which they are housed. With that context in mind, the following text discusses how the mosque typology has developed in an increasingly globalised world?

Dr. Damilola S. Olawuyi chaired a roundtable at the Electricity Market Design Workshop in May 2019 which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop was part of a two-year collaborative project sponsored by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education. The workshop brought together leading experts, government officials, and industry stakeholders to discuss issues around electricity market design and power sector reform. Dr.

A recurrent theme emerged from a series of workshops and public lecture recently presented at Hamad Bin Khalifa University by Dr. Salman Sayyid, Professor of Decolonial Thought and Social Theory at the University of Leeds, and that is the need to question the structural foundation of Islamic Studies as a discipline. It is no surprise. Decolonial thought is about challenging Western colonial power, which perpetuates domination through knowledge production.

The Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), recently signed an agreement with Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), to initiate a pilot testing programme for desalination technology development. A pilot desalination plant will be constructed to specifically focus on a novel design of Multi-Effect Distillation (MED) technology for seawater desalination which has been developed by QEERI. The testing programme will enable the development of a new concept to improve the energy efficiency of MED thermal technology.

In the past 20 years, there have been more than 100 attempts to develop an effective drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease, but only four have been approved by the US Federal Drug Authority (FDA) for instance.In fact, there are currently only two classes of drugs available, and both aim to treat certain symptoms of Alzheimer’s, rather than finding a cure for the disease.