cultural reform in qatar
I was rushing to the airport in Qatar on a sunny afternoon, and to heighten my state of panic, every single street was blocked by police. Traffic was insane, and the taxi didn't know which street to take!
"Good grief, what is going on in Qatar" I asked the cab driver.
"George Bush is in town" he muttered.
" No he was here last week. And they didn't shut down any streets." I pedantically told him.
"Well it must be someone really important then" he replied
"Who could be more important than George Bush. I don't think so".
My curiousity was piqued. I asked every single person in the airport what was going on in Doha, why were all the streets blocked.
Well, ladies and Gentelman, it turns out that the day I was leaving Qatar was the "national bicycles day"
Yep, thats right. Everyone was out riding their bicycles including the amazing Shiekha Moza and her daughters.
I think I want to live in Qatar now.
posted by Closet Diva @ 2.2.08
15 comments
15 Comments:
CD
I think you have had an ORYX for lunch to dicide to live in QATAR !!!
My bicycle , my bicycle , my kingdome for a bicycle !!!
: P
anony,
I dont eat animals.
I think Qatar has a great future, one that is definitely better than Kuwait's.
Gabal lat 3ayib wit ti6anaz, go see the country for yourself. :p
Ah, stuff like this makes me feel all fuzzy about having a bunch of Qatari genes in me, along with the coolest, most holistic, rockingly new age, enlightened and funky, munakibba Qatari aunties...
And I agree with you about Qatar's future in comparison to our own. I think it's safe to say that for Kuwait, 6afetna il-qe6aar on the most part whereas Qatar rides up front in the engineers compartment.
eee bas mo tnsain ta36eena 3nwanich ehnal wellee ey3afech 3shan enzorech ehnak LOL
Ms. B,
I was really impressed with the new wave of well-educated and versatile qatari women.
I met a young 15 year old girl that went to volunteer in Indonesia for a week with a whole bunch of other students in her school -the trip was sponsored by the government as they are trying instill the spirit of community service in all the highschools. Just watch how the Qataris are goin to be 10 years from now, the level of intellectual culture in their soceity is thriving and the country itself is beatiful. I really loved it. I loved the people.
f7eee7eeely
LOL????
waaaai wai umbaih la2, damik wayid khafeeef wai la2 ma agdar maytah min il thi7ik. Wai la2 your crack about visiting me is just really really funny.
The first thing that came to my mind was the incident with Marie Antoinette in the french revolution when she said to her servants to give the rioting mob some biscuits.
Blocking traffic to have a bicycle day seems a little counter-productive don't you think?
I tried riding my bike to the jam3iyah, everyone tried to drive me off the road, so I had to drive on the wrong side just to see the cars rushing towards me.
i'm suffocating here!!!
i can't picture sheikha moza on a bicycle..
im thinking she'll turn her so called abbaya into a make shift bicycle short, and have a black satin bike helmet..?
whatever it is, she kinda makes things chic..
I am a retired American English teacher living in Thailand. One of my former students in Jeddah said you were a great writer - you have fans, it seems. I wish you could post pictures, but I guess that's not allowed. I have a blog at Chonchai.blogspot.com. Should you like to talk about writing, drop me a line. Forrest
Hope you are now in Doha married to a dashing, philanthropic, erudite, Princeton educated, enlightened, sporty and fun Qatari Sheikh, and are adding your own singular and inimitably wonderful touch to Qatari society and culture as you go on your way to out-Sheikha Moza-ing even Sheikha Moza herself ;)
(missing you CD :* )
good for them! I like their dedication to sports with the aspire academy for sports excellence and hosting the asian games and now bidding for Olympics 2016..
Ms Baker that was amusing :-)
CD,
I keep checking all the time to see if you have posted but you havent. Please leave your Qatari Prince to come back and write another post. :0)
ha! Thats just beautiful.
Its nice to see the Sheikha and her daughters participate in such an event =)
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