Qatar Intersection

Great little movie here by MidWestintheMidEast

While we are on the subject of Qatar intersections, here is another one we took a couple of years ago after a road had been suddenly blocked off without prior warning:

At least it was light for these guys - I had nearly crashed into it when returning home late at night!

If you are planning to drive in Qatar, be sure to check out our driving podcast - even if the advice didn't work out very well for us:

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Qatar's Reaction to the Obama Inaugration

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Filippinos in Qatar

With the president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, visiting Qatar, Filippinos in Qatar have been in the news recently.

According to their President, reported on Filippino news site Balita, it is good news for them. Instead of potentially losing their jobs in Qatar due to the world credit crunch, she believes that there are a further 37,000 jobs available for them here.

These jobs would be coming at a time when expat workers in other countries are being made redundant.

However, not every Filipinno is confident about the future, as this Al Jazeera video below shows...

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The Opening of the Islamic Museum

Al Jazeera movie focussing on the recent opening of the Doha Islamic Museum.

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Fishing at Doha Harbour

I'm not the best judge of birds, but I believe this to be an egret. The bird was fishing in the shallows of Doha harbour.

For more great photos of Qatar bird life check out John Thompson's gallery of birds in Qatar.

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Sarah Palin

I really have no excuse for putting this on other than the person described in this video - a women who first went abroad in 2007, who thinks she has experience of foreign policy because she lives in Alaska (it faces Russia) and a woman who thinks dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago - could soon be dealing with the complexities of Middle Eastern politics.

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