MOST of the people in the
makeshift field hospital in
Baba Amr did not want to be
filmed. They were too afraid
to show their faces. But not
Abdel Nasr Zayed.
"I have lost 11 already, and now I am
willing to sacrifice everything for God,".
THE half-century between
1912 and 1962 was a period
of great wars and economic
tumult but also of impressive
social cohesion.
Marriage rates were high.
Community groups connected people
across class.
In the half-century between 1962
and ...
THE ramp was there, the arclights were
there, the excitement was there, the anticipation
in the audience was there, and even
the last-minute adjustments backstage
were the same.
When the first National Costume
Fashion .
AROUND 72 Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) clinical and executive officials are taking part in the Harvard School of Public Health's (HSPH) prestigious leadership training programme in Doha ...
QATAR Petroleum International Marketing Company Limited (Tasweeq) and PV Gas, a subsidiary of Petro Vietnam, has signed a long-term feedstock agreement to supply propane and naphtha to the proposed .
THE Qatar Total Open lost a bit of excitement as defending champion Vera Zvonareva of Russia pulled out due to a hip injury and former world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki lost to Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova in a contest in ....
RACIAL diversity on magazine covers is a rarity. But Psychologies, Marie Claire, Cosmo and others are challenging the norm. The recent issue of Psychologies has attracted a lot of attention from tweeters, readers and, funnily enough, newsagents.
THE first solo painting exhibition of a former Qatari football player Ibrahim Khalfan opened at the Katara Gallery Building 19 on Tuesday. About 30 paintings depicting the traditional as well as modern- day Qatar entitled ´My Country Smell´ are on display at the gallery. The artworks are priced between QR6,000 and QR15,000. For Ibrahim Khalfan, who played for the Qatar...
THE Ministry of Interior, represented by the Qatar Police Sports Federation, organised a grand sporting extravaganza at Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar Sports Club on Tuesday. More than 2,000 participants from the Ministry of Interior and their families took part in the ´sports day´ activities which comprised group and individual games, recreational programmes and fun games for the children. Minister of State and Chairman of Qatar Sports Club HE Sheikh ...
IT was a perfect evening for thousands of Qatar residents who watched the popular English singer James Blunt perform live at the InterContinental Doha Hotel beachfront on Tuesday. Blunt serenaded his fans with his famous emotionfilled songs and some upbeat tunes during his first-ever concert in the country. The show was organised by ALIVE Entertainment and Global DJs in cooperation with InterContinental Doha and iloveqatar.net. The five-time Grammy.
QATAR´S index made its largest one-day decline in four weeks, with regional investors seemingly preferring to trade other Gulf markets where liquidity is higher. The Qatar Exchange benchmark index dipped 64 points (0.7 percent) to close at 8,630 points, extending its year-to-date decline to 1.7 percent. Less than 5.3 million shares changed hands. This compares with 214 million shares on ...
THE head of Airbus said he had ordered an internal investigation into how the company allowed wing cracks to develop on its flagship A380 passenger jet as the world´s largest planemaker sought to draw a line under weeks of embarrassing publicity. Chief Executive Tom Enders reiterated the world´s largest jetliner was safe to fly as engineers repair hairline cracks in the wings, and sought to allay any concerns the setback to Europe´s industrial prestige could ...
THE sovereign debt crisis brought economic growth all across Europe to a standstill and even pushed a number of countries into recession at the end of last year, data showed on Wednesday. Both the 27-nation EU and the 17-member eurozone saw their economies contract by 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a flash estimate by the Eurostat data agency. Germany, the region´s biggest economy, saw its gross domestic product (GDP) shrink ...
ALASTAIR Cook hit a second successive hundred to guide England to a 20-run win over Pakistan in the second daynight international on Wednesday, giving his team a 2-0 lead in the four-match series. England put up a challenging 250-4 powered by Cook´s 102 before it bowled well to restrict Pakistan to 230 in 49 overs at Abu Dhabi Stadium. Misbah-ul Haq failed to match his counterpart during his 59-ball 47 as Pakistan lost track after being well set at 179-4, needing...
FARIS al Bakri, the Arab Games gold medallist, won the silver medal, holding off a strong challenge from Bahrain´s Dawood Abdulla in the Laser 4.7 at the Sail The Gulf in Doha Bay on Wednesday. The 4.7 Laser title was won by Norway´s Celine Therese Herud, who had been leading from the front right from the start. She won two of the last four races to collect a 20 nett points and won the crown. As Saleh Ali Telfat could not sustain his good run in the Optimistic class ...
FOOTBALL stars from Qatar Stars League teams Al Ahli (Pedro Miguel and John Benson) and (Anderson Martins and Adriano Ferreira) from El Jaish joined hands recently with the Qatar Stars League to launch ´Qatar United´, aimed to promote cultural diversity among residents in Qatar. To celebrate ´Qatar United´, there will be QSL match between Al Ahli and El Jaish on March 9, aiming to bring ...
THE Accidental Feminist, by MG Lord: E l i z a b e t h Taylor was many things: a talented actress whose first star turn came at age 12 in National Velvet; an international celebrity whose eight husbands included her Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton twice; an AIDS activist long before it became fashionable; a recovering addict, diet book author and friend of Michael Jackson; and a voluptuous, violet-eyed, raven-haired beauty for the ages. But was she a...
BRITAIN´S Clive Owen plays an MI5 officer trying to protect an informant who is spying on her own Irish Republican Army (IRA) family in Shadow Dancer, a taut thriller that premiered on Sunday at the Berlin film festival. Directed by Oscar-winning film-maker James Marsh and written by Tom Bradby, a journalist who covered the long-running "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the film revives the terror and paranoia of the era´s sectarian violence.
BIPASHA BASU is known for her bold roles in Jism, Raaz and Race. But when it comes to locking lips on big screen, the actress isn´t comfortable. "I am scared of kissing on screen. Yes, on-screen kissing nerves me to death and I had a really very uncomfortable experience in Jodi Breakers with R Madhavan who is a friend," Bipasha told IANS. "I had to kiss him, it was important for the film, so there was no convincing that was required. I knew I would do it but the ...
EGYPT’s first presidential elections
since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak,
will be held at the end of May, the
state-owned Al Ahram daily reported
on Wednesday. Minister of
Parliamentary Affairs and Local
Development Mohammed Attiya
said that the elections will be held
at the end of May but that the date
would be set by the elections committee.
SYRIA’s president has called a referendum
on a new constitution that
would effectively end nearly five
decades of single party rule, state
media said on Wednesday. Bashar
al Assad called the national vote for
February 26, in a move to placate
growing global outrage over the
bloodshed. Under the newly drafted
charter, freedom is “a sacred right”
and “the people will govern the
people” in a multi-party democratic
system, state television said.
THE first solo painting exhibition of a former Qatari football player Ibrahim Khalfan opened at the Katara Gallery Building 19 on Tuesday. About 30 paintings depicting the traditional as well as modern- day Qatar entitled ´My Country Smell´ are on display at the gallery. The artworks are priced between QR6,000 and QR15,000. For Ibrahim Khalfan, who played for the Qatar...
THE Ministry of Interior, represented by the Qatar Police Sports Federation, organised a grand sporting extravaganza at Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar Sports Club on Tuesday. More than 2,000 participants from the Ministry of Interior and their families took part in the ´sports day´ activities which comprised group and individual games, recreational programmes and fun games for the children. Minister of State and Chairman of Qatar Sports Club HE Sheikh ...
IT was a perfect evening for thousands of Qatar residents who watched the popular English singer James Blunt perform live at the InterContinental Doha Hotel beachfront on Tuesday. Blunt serenaded his fans with his famous emotionfilled songs and some upbeat tunes during his first-ever concert in the country. The show was organised by ALIVE Entertainment and Global DJs in cooperation with InterContinental Doha and iloveqatar.net. The five-time Grammy. 
QATAR´S index made its largest one-day decline in four weeks, with regional investors seemingly preferring to trade other Gulf markets where liquidity is higher. The Qatar Exchange benchmark index dipped 64 points (0.7 percent) to close at 8,630 points, extending its year-to-date decline to 1.7 percent. Less than 5.3 million shares changed hands. This compares with 214 million shares on ...
THE head of Airbus said he had ordered an internal investigation into how the company allowed wing cracks to develop on its flagship A380 passenger jet as the world´s largest planemaker sought to draw a line under weeks of embarrassing publicity. Chief Executive Tom Enders reiterated the world´s largest jetliner was safe to fly as engineers repair hairline cracks in the wings, and sought to allay any concerns the setback to Europe´s industrial prestige could ...
THE sovereign debt crisis brought economic growth all across Europe to a standstill and even pushed a number of countries into recession at the end of last year, data showed on Wednesday. Both the 27-nation EU and the 17-member eurozone saw their economies contract by 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a flash estimate by the Eurostat data agency. Germany, the region´s biggest economy, saw its gross domestic product (GDP) shrink ...
ALASTAIR Cook hit a second successive hundred to guide England to a 20-run win over Pakistan in the second daynight international on Wednesday, giving his team a 2-0 lead in the four-match series. England put up a challenging 250-4 powered by Cook´s 102 before it bowled well to restrict Pakistan to 230 in 49 overs at Abu Dhabi Stadium. Misbah-ul Haq failed to match his counterpart during his 59-ball 47 as Pakistan lost track after being well set at 179-4, needing... 
FARIS al Bakri, the Arab Games gold medallist, won the silver medal, holding off a strong challenge from Bahrain´s Dawood Abdulla in the Laser 4.7 at the Sail The Gulf in Doha Bay on Wednesday. The 4.7 Laser title was won by Norway´s Celine Therese Herud, who had been leading from the front right from the start. She won two of the last four races to collect a 20 nett points and won the crown. As Saleh Ali Telfat could not sustain his good run in the Optimistic class ... 
FOOTBALL stars from Qatar Stars League teams Al Ahli (Pedro Miguel and John Benson) and (Anderson Martins and Adriano Ferreira) from El Jaish joined hands recently with the Qatar Stars League to launch ´Qatar United´, aimed to promote cultural diversity among residents in Qatar. To celebrate ´Qatar United´, there will be QSL match between Al Ahli and El Jaish on March 9, aiming to bring ...
THE Accidental Feminist, by MG Lord: E l i z a b e t h Taylor was many things: a talented actress whose first star turn came at age 12 in National Velvet; an international celebrity whose eight husbands included her Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton twice; an AIDS activist long before it became fashionable; a recovering addict, diet book author and friend of Michael Jackson; and a voluptuous, violet-eyed, raven-haired beauty for the ages. But was she a...
BRITAIN´S Clive Owen plays an MI5 officer trying to protect an informant who is spying on her own Irish Republican Army (IRA) family in Shadow Dancer, a taut thriller that premiered on Sunday at the Berlin film festival. Directed by Oscar-winning film-maker James Marsh and written by Tom Bradby, a journalist who covered the long-running "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the film revives the terror and paranoia of the era´s sectarian violence.
BIPASHA BASU is known for her bold roles in Jism, Raaz and Race. But when it comes to locking lips on big screen, the actress isn´t comfortable. "I am scared of kissing on screen. Yes, on-screen kissing nerves me to death and I had a really very uncomfortable experience in Jodi Breakers with R Madhavan who is a friend," Bipasha told IANS. "I had to kiss him, it was important for the film, so there was no convincing that was required. I knew I would do it but the ... 
