Qatar: The Movie

We have added this video to the front page of our website, so apologies to those who follow both the website and the blog. (We generally find people read one or the other.)

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Qatar Islamic Arts Museum

I run across this movie of the Islamic Art museum on You Tube. There's lots of information, not just about the museum but about calligraphy in Qatar. The movie is quite long, but the section about Qatar ends after about seven minutes. (I'd cut it, but the quality would suffer after being uploaded and compressed a second time!)

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The National Anthem of Qatar

This is not our first post on the Qatar National Anthem - we have the tune of the anthem, with the lyrics below - but it is not very satifying not being able to listen to the words. So we have provided movies of the anthems below. The first one is not great quality, having being downloaded from YouTube, edited, and then uploaded again (and being recompressed) but we chose it because the sound was clear. The second was recorded by us at the recent world cup qualifying match between Bahrain and Qatar. As this was a totally original movie we were able to host it on Vimeo, which often provides better quality movies than YouTube.

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The National Anthem of Qatar at the Bahrain v. Qatar Game


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Former Qatar Islamic Dean talks about terrorism

In this movie the former Dean of Islamic studies, a man who is often quoted in Qatar and who has been a voice for moderation and reason, talks out about terrorism in Arabic culture.

More movies tomorrow - this time they will be ours!

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Doha Movie: The Remake

We weren't very happy with quality of our last movie on You Tube so we uploaded it to Vimeo, and got substantially better quality in return. the You Tube version should be quicker to load, though, so we have left the original Doha Drive movie below.

Doha Drive 2 from qatar visitor on Vimeo.

Also see our detailed Doha page, complete with articles, images, movies and sounds.






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Update: Watch this in better quality, and with clearer subtitles in Doha Movie: the Remake

In our latest movie we take a drive along Doha's Corniche, taking in some of the sights to the sound of the haunting Doudouk, an Arabian wind instrument.

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This is Qatar

An excellent little documentary made by a visitor to Qatar:

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Hunting with Falcons

Our latest website article looks at falconry in Qatar and Arabia, including its history, present day practice and issues with the declining number of falcons and houbara, the favourite prey of Arab falconers. You can also listen to the sounds of the falcons and watch a video of a falconer hunting gazelle.

You may also be interested in the movie below, which shows two saluki hounds and a falcon working together to catch a rabbit.

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Qatar Lonely PLanet Video

My Google video alert came up with this today - a Lonely Planet video of Qatar. I have actually seen it before, a long time ago, but it is very funny...

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An Interview with The Emir

The Emir discusses Iraq, Pakistan, democracy and other issues on the Charlie Rose show.

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An interview with Sheik Hamad and his wife, Sheikha Moza.





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Birds

Watch a long line of birds flying over Doha's Corniche on YouTube.



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American arts festival

The opening to the American Arts Festival was held at the auditorium in AL Bida family park this evening.



The opening featured traditional Qatar music by Alalulwa. This was followed by speeches, followed by a free buffet and live jazz.

Watch traditional Qatar music played live on YouTube.



The festival of poetry, photography and jazz, which will include lectures, exhibitions, poetry readings, workshops and concerts will be at Georgetown university over the next few weeks. For more information check out this schedule on the Georgetown website.

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Qatar tennis

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The 6th January 2007 saw the finals of the Qatar Open, with young Scotsman Andy Murray battling Ivan Ljubicic for a US$122,000 first prize, a golden falcon and a golden sword. Ivan took the match in two sets, winning both sets 6-4, although the nineteen year old Scot did get a golden dagger for coming second. (The next year the Scot went on to take the trophy in front of a crowd packed with his spectators.)

The tournament, a yearly event in Qatar, started in 1993 and entrance, even for the finals, is usually free.

With total prize money of mre than a million dollars, there have been some big names playing in the Qatar Open. Past players have included Boris Becker, Stefan Edberq, Pete Sampras, Goran Ivanisevic, Thomas Muster, Jim Courier, Petr Korda and Marcelo Rios. World number one, Roger Federer, considered by many to be the best tennis player ever, won in 2005 and 2006, although he was absent in both 2007 and 2008.

So with all these players, Qataris must be keen on tennis? Well, not really - only a handful turned up to watch the finals, compared to several hundred Westerners. The Government, however, is enthusiastic about all things sporting, and has done its best to encourage the sport.

The Qatar tennis federation was formed in 1983, and since then instructors and training centres have been introduced into school, while children with the best potential have been selected at primary school age for the elite Aspire Academy. Tennis was taken up by the major sports clubs and league and cup competitions introduced. In 2001 Qatar also became the first country in the Middle East to hold a women’s tennis tournament: Qatar holds both the Qatar Open for Women and the ladies ITF tournament. Nevertheless, football continues to be the sport most young Qataris are passionate about, with tennis appearing to be more popular with expatriates. Some play even in the hot summer months, although the fearsome heat will deter most.

Location

The tournaments take place in the Khalifa Tennis and Squash complex. (See map at the bottom of this post). This is not far from the Corniche, between Khalifa Street and Al Marhkiya Street, and near the General Post Office.


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