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Arabian horses strut their beauty at Katara’s festival

Horses from 30 countries around the world will participate at the festival. In its first edition, the Katara International Arabian horse Festival will open its doors on February 2nd and…

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News

Professor who made racist comments against Qataris awarded $700,000 funding grant

Backlash over the Qatar National Research Fund’s decision to award a huge grant to an American professor who had previously made racist comments about Qataris and other non-white ethnicities. Northwestern…

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Culture
News

VCUArts Qatar alumna wins prestigious Red Dot Award

Sustainability lies at the heart of the project named Metamorphosis Radheya Visperas Ponce, a 2017 graduate in Fashion Design from VCUArts Qatar, has won the Red Dot Award Design Concept…

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Qatar-NASA launch mission to research water security amid climate change concerns

Qatar Foundation (QF) and NASA embark on a joint research mission on water detection, as part of recent Doha-Washington agreements. QF and NASA researchers announced plans to collaborate on a…

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Life

Qatari scales world’s top seven summits

The Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) goodwill ambassador completed the Seven Summits challenge earlier this month after scaling the peak of Denali in Alaska, North America, Qatar Foundation announced.

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Culture

100-year-old houses restored by Msheireb tell Qatar’s story

The Msheireb Museums are situated in the first phase of what will be the Heritage Quarter of Msheireb Properties' huge QR20 billion (US$5.5 billion), 310,000 sq m development. It was opened by former first lady and QF chairperson Sheikha Moza yesterday.

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Business

Court convicts two Qatar Foundation employees of soliciting bribe

The fine is equivalent to the amount of money the convicted men were accused of requesting from the regional manager of a French firm in the spring of 2014.

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Life

Qatar’s Education City trams undergo testing ahead of summer delivery

At least four trams have been built by German-based Siemens and are being climate-tested in a specialist facility in Vienna ahead of the expected delivery of the first eight trams to Qatar this summer.

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