Sunday, April 24, 2011

Gone Fishing!

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This weekend Ali, a Qatari friend and colleague, arranged for a fishing trip for five of us from the office. On the day three of them bowed...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Qatari Wedding Photos

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I mentioned in my blog a couple months ago that I attended a Qatari wedding (my friend Mohammed) and I've managed to acquire a few photo...
Friday, April 08, 2011

Happy Birthday Karen

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It’s my sister's birthday today so I just wanted to wish her a great day. For the occasion I decided to look through some of my pictures...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Gender Ratios in Qatar and other Islamic Countries

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I was reading recent news articles about the 2010 census in India and a key item in the census was the surprising lack of women. According t...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Arab Card Games

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This Saturday I had two of my Qatari friends over to play some card games. Qataris, like most Muslims, do not gamble but that does not stop ...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Arabic Lessons -- The Ups and Downs of Learning Arabic

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I have signed up for Arabic lessons at FANAR , the Islamic Cultural Centre, and they start next week. It will be good for me to get back int...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

On The Troubles in the Middle East and North Africa

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I'm sure some people have thought that, with all of the issues in the Middle East occurring recently, why am I not covering it more in m...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Qatar and the PISA test -- further analysis

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Back when the PISA 2009 results came out one commenter pointed out that while Qatar's marks were still low they had made significant imp...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Qatar and the PISA test

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Less than a week ago Qatar held a ceremony to recognize the schools that did the best on the recent PISA test. That in and of itself was nic...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Bahrain unrest – what about Qatar?

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It appears that things are starting to get more out of control in Bahrain. Saudi Arabia has sent troops in, and possibly the UAE as well. ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Happiness amidst tragedy -- traditional Japanese entertainments

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A while ago the Japanese embassy here in Qatar announced an evening that featured traditional Japanese performance art, to be held at the Mu...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Moving Apartments

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So last week the main thing taking up my time was that I moved apartments. For the past year I've been living in an expensive part of t...
Friday, February 25, 2011

A Tale of Two Countries -- Qatar and Bahrain

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While I was away on vacation there was a lot of action in the Middle East with protests against governments in many countries -- Egypt, Tuni...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

On vacation

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Sorry, forgot to mention I'm away for the next two weeks in Canada. I'll see about doing a post or two while I'm here.
Saturday, February 05, 2011

Gas prices

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For the first time since I've arrived in Doha almost 5 years ago the Government has raised the gas prices. It was a massive increase, a...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Qatar and road safety

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So did anyone see that semifinals thrashing of Uzbekistan by Australia 6-0. I was there, thanks to a ticket provided by an Australian frien...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Asian Cup 2011

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The last few weeks has seen the Asian Cup 2011 here in Doha which allowed me the opportunity to take in a few games to see some first-rate t...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Qatar and Chores

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The last couple of days I've had a bad cold which means just lounging around the house going through tissues. The sore throat affected ...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

2010

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So the year has come and gone. Think I'll reflect a bit on what happened this year by going through the photo albums: chilling at the be...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Qatari Wedding (Arab Wedding)

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Okay, I've got a lot of blogging to catch up on. My Qatari friend is back from his honeymoon and gave me some photos from the wedding! L...
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