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Qatar Museums joins national effort to protect coastal heritage sites

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • September 21, 2020
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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What it was like to grow up in Qatar in the 1970s

  • Priya D'Souza
  • March 3, 2017
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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Qatar Foundation retains firm to restore historical structures

  • Doha News Team
  • December 25, 2016
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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Happy 45th Independence Day, Qatar!

  • Shabina S. Khatri
  • September 4, 2016
The country used to celebrate the occasion as a national holiday.
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Qatar mourns death of national anthem composer

  • Malak Monir
  • July 23, 2016
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.
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“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.”

  • Victoria Scott
  • July 9, 2016
In a 1940 letter, British officials discussed how Qatar had no need for a large airport facility.
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Qatar museum experts freeze out uninvited guests

  • Malak Monir
  • May 7, 2016
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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Archaeologists unearth more of Qatar’s past with new Fuwairit dig

  • Lesley Walker
  • April 11, 2016
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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Poet’s donation shines spotlight on origins of Qatar’s national anthem

  • Peter Kovessy
  • November 28, 2015
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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