Accepting the invitation, the Doha Debates Chairman Tim Sebastian commented, "We're delighted that the Cambridge Union - one of the world's top debating forums - has offered to host a Doha Debate. In just over three years we have become known well beyond the Gulf - and this invitation is further recognition that we debate vital world issues in a new and compelling way. We're very much looking forward to it."
Roland Foxcroft, President of the Cambridge Union, said, "The Cambridge Union is the oldest student debating society in the world and we look forward to working alongside one of the most exciting current affairs programs on international television. I hope that together we can advance free speech across the world."
The invitation from the Cambridge Union is another sign of the Doha Debates' growing international reputation. For the past three years the Doha Debates have been providing a platform in the Arab world for free and open discussion on the hottest topics in the region.
They have attracted leading world figures such as President Bill Clinton, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Dr Mohamed Elbaradei, and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
The visit to Cambridge will be the Doha Debates' second event to be held abroad. It will give another opportunity for a number of students in Qatar to travel with the programme to one of the world's top ranked universities.
In May 2007, the Doha Debates held their first overseas debate at the Oxford Union.
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About the Doha Debates
The Doha Debates are a unique forum for free speech in the Arab world. Chaired by Tim Sebastian, the internationally renowned award winning broadcaster, the series has been broadcast on BBC World since January 2005. BBC World reaches nearly 300 million people in more than 200 countries.
The Doha Debates are hosted and funded by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. The Foundation is a private, chartered, nonprofit organization committed to the belief that a nation's true wealth is in the potential of its people. Chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, the wife of the Emir of Qatar, it seeks to develop that potential through a network of centres devoted to education, public health and research.
About the Cambridge Union
Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union is one of the most internationally renowned debating societies and is a vibrant and intellectual centre for the exchange of opinions and thoughts between one of the UK's top student bodies and leading world figures.
The Union has played host to great figures of national and international importance and in the early half of the 20th century welcomed statesmen such as Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Jawaharlal Nehru. More recently, the former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former South African premier, F.W. de Klerk, and Queen Noor of Jordan have spoken at the Cambridge Union.
Qatar: Jeremy Hunt +974 494 5482
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About the Doha Debates
The Doha Debates are a unique forum for free speech in the Arab world. Chaired by Tim Sebastian, the internationally renowned award winning broadcaster, the series has been broadcast on BBC World since January 2005. BBC World reaches nearly 300 million people in more than 200 countries.
The Doha Debates are hosted and funded by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. The Foundation is a private, chartered, nonprofit organization committed to the belief that a nation's true wealth is in the potential of its people. Chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, the wife of the Emir of Qatar, it seeks to develop that potential through a network of centres devoted to education, public health and research.
About the Cambridge Union
Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union is one of the most internationally renowned debating societies and is a vibrant and intellectual centre for the exchange of opinions and thoughts between one of the UK's top student bodies and leading world figures.
The Union has played host to great figures of national and international importance and in the early half of the 20th century welcomed statesmen such as Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Jawaharlal Nehru. More recently, the former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former South African premier, F.W. de Klerk, and Queen Noor of Jordan have spoken at the Cambridge Union.
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