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He also set a world record at Sotheby’s a year earlier when he paid �507,500 (around Dh3.5 billion) for Gustave LeGray’s mid-19th-century seascape, Grande Vague de Sete. Where he got the money from? Public funds of course!
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani is a second cousin of Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar. As chairman [...]
Too good to be true, isn’t it? If this is the case, then one might ask, what was the cause of the last blast? Late payment
The Times Newspaper published this story yesterday. Her is the full article:
Qatar buys off Al-Qaeda attacks with oil millions
Uzi Mahnaimi, Doha
THE government of Qatar is paying millions of [...]
October 2004, I posted a news article about the intentions of Qatar to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races. Now the robot is ready and was tested last week.
The following photos shows ‘Kamel’, the robot jockey, rides Ghazil, a Qatari camel, during a test-run at the Shahaniah camel race track in Doha, Qatar.
The Robot [...]
Informing a flight attendant that your bag will explode if touched is generally not recommended!
Please prepare for a laugh. Here is Bush on an electioneering junket talking to US soldiers about Iraq on June 5, 2003:
Criminal courts are now reopening. Day by day, the United States and our coalition partners are making the streets safer for Iraqi citizens. We also understand that a more just political system will develop [...]
Last week, Guardian-organised event at which more than 100 young British Muslims were brought together at University College London. The delegates came from all walks of life, and held a wide range of views.
The one thing that came across very clearly was that the media are often wrong to refer to “the Muslim community”, when [...]
[Via: Chan'ad Bahraini]
This Thursday we will be holding the first official Bahrain Blogfest, thanks to Haitham. We already have five people confirmed (including a visitor from Qatar!) and it would great to have even more people show up. Although it is was originally set up for bloggers in Bahrain, we thought it would be more [...]
[via: PM]
The TV soap opera, that is. “The Road To Kabul” is a joint Qatari-Jordanian serial about an Afghan girl who falls in love with a Palestinian boy while studying in the UK, only to return home to the indignities and misogynist oppression of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Apparently, the producers, directors, writers, and actors must be [...]
Qatar is set to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races, a favorite sport in the oil-rich Gulf region which has faced widespread criticism over the use of child jockeys from the Indian subcontinent.
But the sport’s supremo in Doha insists Qatar never abused child camel jockeys in the first place and that the plan to [...]
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