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Diabetes
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Published 9 hours ago

Beach Cricket in Doha
As the temperatures in Qatar get down to what you would want on a pleasant beach holiday, the Intercontinental is holding a beach cricket competition in the a href="http://www.qatarvisitor.com/index.php?cID=410amp;pID=1333"Intercontinental/a. Qualifying will start on 25th October, from 10 am to 6... Read more...
Published 21 hours ago

AWA Meeting: Change of Location
October 13 - Monday - General Meeting - Change of locationbr /br /The AWA meeting will now be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Za Moda Restaurant from 10 am - 12 noon. Registration will begin at 9:30am. All members are encouraged to attend and potential members are always welcome.... Read more...
Published 9 hours ago

Robert Cheesman
In her latest article for Qatar Visitor, France Gillespie, author of a href="http://www.qatarvisitor.com/index.php?cID=411amp;pID=1038amp;cName=Booksamp;pName=discovering-qatar"Discovering Qatar/a, takes a look at desert explorer a... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Qatar Immigration: Turned Away at the Gates
em/embr /British residents who have previously worked in Qatar are being turned away from the formerly hospitable country.br /br /I first heard about this when a friend of a friend arrived at a href="http://www.qatarvisitor.com/index.php?cID=413amp;pID=979"Doha airport/a. He had worked here... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

AWA October General Meeting
Announcement from the AWA:br /br /Our Speaker this month is Iman Al Kawari. She is a Qatari woman who has had the unique privilege of growing up in the USA. Her subject will be about what it's like being a Qatari woman from an American perspective and what it's like being a female Qatari in a... Read more...
Published 22 hours ago

Qatar Business
Greenhorns coming to Qatar from the West to do business in Qatar, and expecting the groundrules to be the same as at home, will be in for a sharp shock. Qatar is a quagmire for the unitiated and inexperienced, and there is a whole, and very different, etiquette of doing business. Before doing... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Qatar Tourism: Not Up to the Mark?
According to a story in the Peninsula today, a majority of residents in Qatar felt that the development of tourism in Qatar is lacking. What's more, we have to agree.br /br /While there has been a marked increase in the number of expensive a... Read more...
Published 7 days ago

Qatar Writers
Update: We have bought the URL QatarWriters.com and pointed it at our a href="http://www.qatarwriters.com/"Qatar Writers listing page/a. This should make it a bit easier to remember! We already have two excellent and very well known writers listed on the page, but obviously we hope to find a lot... Read more...
Published a week ago

Labourers Whipped and Kicked by Police
According to a a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2amp;item_no=245299amp;version=1amp;template_id=57amp;parent_id=56"story in the Gulf Times/a this morning labourers were beaten with whips and kicked by police yesterday to prevent them entering a souq. It has been... Read more...
Published a week ago

Borrowing money in Qatar
It is quite common for newcomers to Qatar to borrow money. This is normally in the form of a vehicle loan, but I have also known people borrow money towards a house back home.br /br /Before doing so, it is worth remembering that when you borrow money in Qatar, you are not allowed to leave the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

My Dear
Today, my dear, we are going to speak about language.br /br /Or specifically, span style="font-weight: bold;"my dear/span. It's a phrase you will notice when you work/live here, and may be used to a complete stranger. In fact, I pulled one friend up and she retorted she was Asian, that this was... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago