If there’s one subject that comes up at meetings, parties, weddings, dinners, amongst expats or Arabs, men or women: it’s driving in Doha. And I don’t mean conversations about only accidents or the traffic. From…Continue Reading
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How to Make Qatari Friends: Part Three
We’ve been discussing the relationships between Qataris and expats for a few weeks and I’ve tried to pose some new angles to lamentation: “I’ve never been inside a Qatari house.” The reasons for this are…Continue Reading
On Being Abnormal
It happened again at a dinner party last night. Someone invariably was talking about a trip they went on where the local people were normal. And the city was normal. And the economy was normal.…Continue Reading