Middle East

Once sparsely inhabited by nomadic Bedouin, Qatar is now home to more than 2.5 million people, with permanent tourism, art and architecture communities. Where once there were no large buildings, the Doha skyline today is a line of skyscrapers representing the most modern of aesthetics. But despite its growth and prosperity, Qatar hasn’t let go […]

Qatar might be one of the world’s newer countries – this year marks the 50th since its independence – but this small slice of land in the Arabian Peninsula has been inhabited for millennia and mentioned in the writing of Greek geographer and historian Herodotus as far back as the 5th century BC. After that,