Lost in Migration from Omar Khalifa on Vimeo.
Couldn’t get enough of last week’s cover story about Qatari immigrant workers? Via Jeff Reger, that article’s writer, here’s a documentary about some Nepalese workers who came to Qatar for a better life but just ended up trapped in the airport.

Part of Qatar’s Education City. Inspired by the Zoloft egg.

Running an SFS campus in Qatar makes us look sophisticated and globalized, but it’s also a hassle–loaning our professors, having to be interested in Qatar’s Georgetown Day tent just for some henna. Isn’t there some way you can benefit from Qatar?

Actually, there is. You could take a free trip to Qatar from August 16th to the 23rd, and all you have to do is sign up for a class on social entrepreneurship:

Using the Polycon RPX video-conference room in Doha, Qatar and Washington, DC and with a mandatory, all-expenses paid, week-long trip to Qatar from August 16-23 (for SFS students) and to DC from October 1-7 (for SFSQ students), Hoyas in both campuses will be introduced to social entrepreneurship. A social entrepreneur is a “financially self-sustainable agent of transformative social progress.”

Trip aside, the course sounds pretty cool, with videoconferencing, video editing, and turning Gulf oil barons into angel investors. If that’s not your bag, though, why not just take the trip? It ends on the 23rd, and add-drop is over on September 6th. Hurry, though–the application deadline is July 31st.

After the jump, an email about the course

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