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Priceless artifacts on display at Sotheby’s Islamic arts exhibition at Katara

Priceless artifacts on display at Sotheby’s Islamic arts exhibition at Katara Priceless artifacts that span various Islamic eras will be on display today at Katara as a preview to Sotheby’s…

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Despite possible ban, 4,000 more Filipino maids land in Qatar this year

Qatar is now home to 40,000 Filipino maids – up from 36,000 at the end of 2011, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office told local media. POLO cited increasing demand for…

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Qatar residents join protests against anti-Islam YouTube video

Hundreds of Qatar residents marched toward the US Embassy in Doha after Friday prayer today, joining their voices with protesters from across the region against a YouTube video that disparages the…

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SEC: New learning materials will comply with Qatar’s ‘religious and cultural traditions’

The Supreme Education Council has promised Qatar’s schools new learning resources that will making teaching Arabic “easy” and comply with the country’s religious and cultural traditions, local media reports. The…

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‘Little Angels’ moms send funds to Villaggio fire victims

What started as an idea that was kicked around on a school bench led a group of Doha moms to raise some QR24,500 for the families of those killed in the…

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Report: The Doha Grand Park project is no more

Report: The Doha Grand Park project is no more The Doha Grand Park – a two-million square meter park intended to rival New York’s Central Park – has been cancelled,…

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Students sweat, celebrate new QU dress code banning tight clothing, ‘fad’ hairstyles, tattoos

In time for the new school year, Qatar University has introduced a dress code prohibiting tight, revealing clothing and casual wear like sweatpants and Bermuda shorts, according to local media…

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Is Qatar setting itself up for a big fall – or does it know exactly what it’s doing?

Blake Hounshell, Foreign Policy magazine’s managing editor and a former Qatar resident, has opened what is sure to be a can of worms with his most recent piece on the…

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Hamad focuses on road safety at beginning of 5-year child safety campaign

More than half – some 54 percent – of deaths among children who are up to four years old in Qatar are caused by traffic accidents, Hamad Medical Corp. has…

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