Souq Waqif

Qatar: Desert souqs meet the iphone

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July 5th 2009
For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com 9am: It is 43 degrees Celsius outside. Welcome to Qatar. I have just left my home for the last year, Taiwan, land of short shorts, to the Arabian Peninsula, where women hide all but their eyes behind black veils and robes. The temperature is about 10 degrees hotter t ... read more

Middle East » Qatar » Doha

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Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the ... ... read more