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CISS Director Wins ―Gulf Cooperation
Council Reward‖
PKU NEWS 2008--12—08
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=228798880
Peking University, Beijing, Dec. 8, 2008: Prof. Zhu Weilie, Director of the Center for
International & Strategic Studies (CISS) of Peking University (PKU), is the first
Chinese scholar to win the ―Gulf Cooperation Council Reward‖. This reward was set
up by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to improve the research on the problems
of the Arab and the Middle East.
Mr. Abdulla A. Al-Muftah, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State
of Qatar, Mr. Feng Zuoku, Vice-President of the Chinese People's Association for
Friendship with Foreign Countries and Prof. Zhu Weilie attended the ceremony and
delivered speeches. Also in attendance were diplomatic envoys and diplomats from
the member countries of the GCC and Arab counties and the related representatives
of China. Wu Bingbing, Associate Professor in the Department of Arabic Language
and Culture at Peking University, was also invited to attend the ceremony.
Prof. Zhu Weilie graduated from the Department of Oriental Language of PKU in
Arabic language in 1965. Now he is the member of the Social Sciences Commission
of the Ministry of Education, Director of the Institute of Middle East Studies of
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