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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 Cameroon for post-apartheid South Africa, hoping to start a new chapter of his life, but finds himself trapped as a slave digging for diamonds in Angola. ....
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, multimedia, and research projects tackling pressing global issues, ranging from a film on a Yemeni refugee who found love in South Korea to news articles on racism in the Arab World and social distancing, to research projects on digital diplomacy, education in Palestine, and the politics of climate change. ....
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 teaches the course and said that the project is “an attempt to decolonize Wikipedia” by contributing content on regions that have historically suffered from a lack of representation in academia, media, and the online world. ....
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 in Latin America and how more inclusive media are essential to democratic governance in that region. “Our main argument,” Lugo-Ocando said, “is the necessity to improve plurality and empower voices to achieve true diversity and strengthen the overall democratic ethos in each one of the countries in the region.” ....