Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) faculty member Ayman Shabana received the Research Excellence Award in recognition of the Best Arts, Behavioural and Social Sciences, Humanities and Islamic Studies Research Programme of the Year during the awards distribution ceremony of Qatar Foundation’s Annual Research Forum held at the Qatar National Convention Centre recently.
Dr Shabana, Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at SFS-Q, won the prestigious prize for his presentation titled ‘Sustaining Islamic Bioethics Research.’ The presentation highlighted the main features of the Islamic bioethics research project that he has led at SFS-Q for more than two years.
Commenting on receiving the award for the best research programme in the fourth track of the Annual Research Forum, Shabana said, “The project has been a wonderful collaborative effort and this award recognises all the hard work and dedication of the project’s team members. This is definitely a great honor and responsibility and we are determined to exert our best effort to sustain this exciting research venture and accomplish its goals.”
The project began with a successful three-year grant proposal (2009-2012), titled Islamic Medical and Scientific Ethics, which was submitted to the National Priorities Research Program of Qatar National Research Fund by Doris Goldstein, former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Library at Georgetown University’s main campus, and Frieda Wiebe, Director of the SFS- Q Library.
This proposal aimed to expand the scope of the reputable KIE Library collection of bioethics resources to include Islamic bioethical resources.
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