QRCS secretary-general addresses HBKU Master’s students

QRCS secretary-general addresses HBKU Master’s students

Ali bin Hassan al-Hammadi, secretary-general of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), visited the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), to meet Dr Recep ?entürk, dean of CIS.

They discussed ways to develop co-operation in terms of exchange of experience, lectures and publications on humanitarian diplomacy, international humanitarian law (IHL), and other academic and intellectual issues of common interest.

The meeting was attended by Dr Mostafa Osman al-Amin, professor of Islam and Global Affairs at HBKU-CIS, and Mehdi Benchaabane, director of the Education Development Institute (EDI), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF).

Al-Hammadi presented copies of his work, ‘Diplomacy and the Culture of Humanitarian Action’, to the HBKU-CIS Library, as a reference book for the students of the Master of Arts in Islam and Global Affairs (IGA).

Then, he delivered a lecture on Diplomacy and the Culture of Humanitarian Action, as part of the students’ academic programme for the year 2022-23. He shared with them his experience and knowledge acquired throughout four decades of diplomatic and humanitarian work. This experience was summarised in his biography, Diplomacy and the Culture of Humanitarian Action, a new publication of Katara Publishing House.

He delved deeply into the realm of diplomacy and humanitarianism, from