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Qatar Museums joins national effort to protect coastal heritage sites

Qatar Museums has pledged to join forces with the government to clean up ancient coastal villages across the country, starting with Qatar’s only UNESCO World Heritage site. A year-long cooperation…

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Opinion

What it was like to grow up in Qatar in the 1970s

Longtime resident Priya D'Souza, an Indian expat, shares her nostalgia for the easy-going, diverse community she belonged to as a child.

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News

Qatar Foundation retains firm to restore historical structures

Education City. Credit: Sam Agnew/Flickr As Education city expands, Qatar Foundation (QF) has been working to conserve some of the historical structures in and around campus. According to QNA, QF…

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Culture

Happy 45th Independence Day, Qatar!

The country used to celebrate the occasion as a national holiday.

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Culture

Qatar mourns death of national anthem composer

Al Obaidan was an integral part of Qatar’s music scene, having previously served as the country’s representative on the Executive Council of the Arab Academy of Music, and as a member of the Qatar Music Academy’s board of trustees.

News

“Qatar’s civil air traffic is not likely to be heavy for some time to come, and is unlikely, as far as can be foreseen, ever to amount to more than a feeder service to Bahrain, with occasional flights to other places, so that nothing very elaborate in the way of an airport will be required.”

In a 1940 letter, British officials discussed how Qatar had no need for a large airport facility.

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Culture

Qatar museum experts freeze out uninvited guests

Insects often hitch a ride on or in the packaging of newly-acquired artifacts coming to the country's Museum of Islamic Art. But the delicate nature of the items poses a problem for experts – how do they kill the bugs without damaging the items?

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Culture

Archaeologists unearth more of Qatar’s past with new Fuwairit dig

Using a QR3 million QNRF grant, archaeologists from the University College London Qatar (UCL Qatar) have started excavating a site at Fuwairit in the north-east of the country to try to find out more about what life was like before most of the population moved to Doha.

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Culture

Poet’s donation shines spotlight on origins of Qatar’s national anthem

The first draft of the poem that forms the lyrics of Qatar’s national anthem, as well as the pen used to write it, will be displayed at the Qatar National Museum, which is scheduled to open next year.

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