People always ask me about life here in the Middle East and how the locals were. To these queries I barely knew how best to answer as I hardly had any life apart from work and where locals were concerned I barely came across them. Then this article which came out last Sat, 4th of April caught my eye. It aptly sums up the place where I live!
Trying to lift the veil on Qatar
This week Qatar hosted the annual Arab Summit in its capital Doha. It was dubbed the reconciliation summit after months of serious rifts in the Arab World. The tiny country had put the noses of some of the big players out of joint by trying to adopt the role of regional mediator, traditionally played by heavyweights Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Our Middle East correspondent Katya Adler reported on the summit and set out to find out more about Qatar, one of the region's richest nations.
This was my first visit to Qatar and I admit I failed in one of my main missions, to get under the skin of the country.
On Qatar Airways, I met Filipino cabin crew.
The airport ground staff were Pakistani, the hotel receptionist, Sri Lankan, the barista who made my cappuccino on the way to the Arab Summit, Nepali.
My hunt to meet Qataris in Qatar had begun.
Statistically, foreigners in Qatar outnumber Qataris by four to one.
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A little bit of this and a little bit of that... anything that interests me, makes me laugh or cry, pull my hair out or makes me go hmmmmm!
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- I work in the Retail Industry which can be puzzling and stressful at times. Traveling is one of my passion which I pursue whenever I have the time or whenever the humdrum of life bogs me down.
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