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News

Pressure mounts on professor accused of racism

The statement came after widespread backlash swept Qatari social media over QNRF’s decision to award a massive grant to a professor who had previously made racist comments. Several professors at…

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News

Survey: Qataris unconcerned about online government surveillance

Only one third (32 percent) of Qataris said they were concerned about the government monitoring their online activity, while more than half (57 percent) said they were not worried about state surveillance, a new media usage survey has found.

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News

NU-Q nudges Qatar government ministries to be more open

In a wide-ranging interview last week, NU-Q dean and CEO Everette Dennis told Doha News that this development has coincided with more robust local news coverage, although journalists are still “measured” in most of their reporting.

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News

Study: Qatar among region’s biggest funders of Arab independent films

The country is responsible for the production of 17 percent of all Arab indie films, just behind France, Egypt and Lebanon who each produce 20 percent of the total market, findings from the Media Industries in the Middle East 2016 Report said.

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Northwestern University in Qatar secures ‘new lease on life’

As it renews a 10-year contract with Qatar Foundation, NUQ is also preparing to move into a new 515,000-square-foot (47,845 square meters) permanent building sometime during the 2016-17 academic year.

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Culture
Life

Study: Qatar residents’ support for online control highest in the region

However, those polled in Qatar also cited a desire to support freedom of expression on the internet, according to the latest edition of Media Use In the Middle East.

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Culture
News

Broken Records reaches audiences far and wide

NU-Q journalism students Rana Khaled, Shannon Farhoud and Ashlene Ramadan have really made a splash with their Arab hip-hop documentary Broken Records. Check out some of the coverage below. To watch the…

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