Berkley Center

Elene Chkhaidze (SFS'25) is an undergraduate student majoring in international politics and minoring in Arabic on the Georgetown University in Qatar campus. She is particularly interested in research in security studies and international law, while her non-major-related interests include journalism, anthropology, and theology. Throughout her undergraduate degree, she has been extensively involved in student clubs on campus including the girls' football team, debating union, and chess club. She was the 2023 Berkley Center-Pulitzer Center international reporting fellow, and her project centers religious leaders and visual elements to document the role religion could play in reconciliation efforts in the Cyprus conflict. She was also selected for Georgetown's Lisa J. Raines Fellowship for summer 2023. She was part of the spring 2024 Doyle Global Dialogue cohort.