The COVID-19 Pandemic: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

This would be the launch of three virtual panel discussions at our website https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/pandemicpanels, that gather some of Georgetown University in Qatar’s faculty experts to reflect on the corona virus pandemic from their respective areas of expertise. These Pandemic Panels channel the intellectual energies of our faculty members to help put the current pandemic in its historical context, discuss global governance, and local responses, in the hopes to provide expert insight necessary for the construction of an evidence-based road to recovery from the pandemic. The first panel in the series explores historical examples of events, rulings, and laws that have bearing on today’s pandemic, drawing from the Islamic legal tradition, political and legal history, and perennial ethical issues that the pandemic invokes.

Panelists include Reza Pirbhai, Professor of History; Amira Sonbol, Professor of History; Edward Kolla, Professor of History; Ayman Shabana, Professor of Theology

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