About Northwestern Qatar

Dean & CEO

Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, culture, and politics. An award-winning author and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy’s research centers around the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. He is also an expert on the Middle East and fluent in Arabic.

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Our People

We're proud of our diverse community.

Northwestern Qatar students, faculty, staff represent nearly 60 nationalities. Our graduates join a growing network of creative, enterprising Northwestern Qatar alumni, as well as tens of thousands of Northwestern alumni in leadership and creative roles around the world.

Our home in Education City

Northwestern Qatar is part of the Qatar Foundation's Education City, a destination for artists and scientists, entrepreneurs and educators, researchers, and innovators.

We are one of six U.S. universities in Education City, the Qatar Foundation’s flagship initiative, a unique model of academic and research excellence, pioneering a new approach to multidisciplinary, global education and enabling breakthroughs that benefit Qatar and the rest of the world.