Qatar

• Water Filter Earns Trip to Qatar

Landscape architecture student Alaina Prokopchuk is the sole Canadian among 70 international students who'll be presenting their designs at Tasmeem Doha 2007, a sustainability-focused design conference in the Middle East country featuring David Suzuki as a keynote speaker. The project was also sparked by Prokopchuk's interest in bio-mimicry, which involves drawing inspiration from nature and translating it into design. Prokopchuk examined everything from how the body responds to bruises to how land responds to floods -- in both cases, with swelling. She also took inspiration from the foam children's toys that swell when placed in water. The problem with these islands is, you can't develop infrastructure on them," said Prokopchuk.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 18, 2009

• Qatar opens first church.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF - First Catholic Church in Qatar - Brief article

• Presbyterian Record
• Vol. 132 Nbr. 5, May 2008

• Wee Gulf State Asserts Itself in World Affairs

At the same time, Qatar became the first Arab country to heed Lebanese pleas to break Israel's blockade, by launching daily flights to Beirut in defiance of Israel's demands that air traffic receive its prior clearance. One reason Qatar can challenge Israel is that it, unlike most Arab countries, maintains discreet, low-level relations with the Jewish state. It is also a crucial ally for Israel's main patron, America. It hosts a large base and regional command centre for the U.S. Air Force; the invasion of Iraq was managed from here, and Qatar-based B-1 bombers continue to fly missions over Afghanistan. Since taking up a two-year rotating seat at the UN Security Council in January, Qatar has vocally dissented from such American policies as trying to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, or sen...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• Opinion Column: Ivory Poaching Endangers Elephants

A meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is set for March 13-25 in Doha, Qatar, and the sale of elephant ivory will be front and centre for debate. While Kenya is a leader in tracking and documenting the illegal elephant trade, recognizing that elephants are a boon to both the country's ecology and tourist trade, many African countries, facing difficult poverty and conflict issues, are not as able to stem the tide of illegal activity.

• Brandon Sun, The
• February 23, 2010

• New church for Qatar.

London (ENI)--Construction is due to start early in 2006 on a $7 million US Anglican church centre in the State of Qatar, the first purpose-built ch...

• Anglican Journal
• Vol. 131 Nbr. 9, November 2005

• Becks As a Weapon

Tiny, wealthy Qatar hopes to use superstar to increase international p...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• December 16, 2011

• Up from the underground: the church in Qatar.

Doha, Qatar -- Catholics in this Muslim state no longer have to practise their religion clandestinely but actually are being provided with the land to...

• Catholic Insight
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 8, September 2004

• So Much for Concept of Hamastan and Fatahland

They said that a new national unity government would restore law and order in Gaza, unify all armed groups under one command and associate Hamas in the executive committee of the PLO according to its relative strength. They explained that [Mahmoud Abbas]'s new "emergency government" has no popular support, which is in contrast to Hamas's ongoing support. Qatar was another country that moved in support of the Saudi position. Qatar argues that Abbas doesn't have support even within his own party. In an interview with Qatar's al-Jazeera TV station, Hani al-Hassan, one of the founding fathers of the PLO, said that "there is no alternative" to a new national unity government between Fatah and Hamas. A shocked Abbas aide called Hani al-Hassan "a traitor. The most sensational proposal, howeve...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 20, 2009

• Acc Safety Salutes Superior Performance

TSgt David J. Travagliante 407 AEG Ali Base, Iraq SSgt Derek G. Martinez 506 ECES Kirkuk RAB, Iraq Capt Ruven G. Yarbrough 79 FS, 20 FW Shaw AFB, S. C. Capt Michael J. Hardwick SSgt William R. King 62 ERS, 451 AEW Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan SSgt Christopher Arflin 379 EAMXS, 379 AEW Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar TSgt Mary Cruz 772 EAS, 451 AEW Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan SSgt Nathan R. Filson 362 ERS, 332 AEW Joint Base Balad, Iraq Capt Kevin Coughlin 777 EAS, 332 AEW Joint Base Balad, Iraq SrA Stacy M. Powell 332 ESFS, 332 AEW Joint Base Balad, Iraq EIGHTH AIR FORCE Capt Keegan McConaughey Capt Allen Short Capt Kathleen Merriman 763 ERS, 55 WG Offutt AFB, Neb.

• Combat Edge
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 4, November 2009

• Clinton Says Iran Sliding to Military Dictatorship

Earlier in the day, in Doha, Qatar, [Hillary Rodham Clinton] spoke bluntly about Iranian behaviour and what she called the [Obama] administration's view of Iran as increasingly dominated by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Her statements may have been designed to deepen what U.S. analysts see as growing fissures between Iran's regular armed forces and the Revolutionary Guards, whose authority has widened since the disputed presidential election in June.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 18, 2010