January 15th, 20230By Duggan Flanakin
The pyrotechnics have finally settled in Doha on what was a truly sensational and hard fought 2022 World Cup, the stadiums no longer emanating the joyous cheers from audiences who for weeks remained at the edges of their seats, taking in upset after upset — and in the place of pyrotechnics, today Qatar revels in...
September 9th, 20220DOHA - Qatar has faced a lot of unfair criticism over its hosting of soccer's World Cup that was not based on facts, but it has responded to any fair criticism, Qatar 2022 Chief Executive Nasser Al Khater said on Thursday.
He told a news conference, the first held by organizers in months, that 70 days prior to the tournament's...
September 8th, 20210DOHA — Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, an all-female Afghan robotics team were evacuated to Qatar and will continue their education uninterrupted.
The girls’ education will be supported through scholarships from the Qatar Foundation (QF) and Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD). The team will study at the Qatar...
February 27th, 20210DOHA, QATAR — A new study can help with future research into the genetic risk factors that are specific to the Arab population, including those that are shared with other ethnicities.
A group of researchers at the Qatar Foundation (QF) have reported the first and largest genetic association study in the Middle East, published...
December 18th, 20200DOHA, QATAR — Players from the Washington Spirit Women’s Soccer Team played a friendly match with members of the Qatar Women’s National Soccer team on Tuesday, Dec. 15.
The Spirit’s visit was organized by the Embassy of the State of Qatar in the U.S. in partnership with the Qatar Museums and the U.S. Embassy in Doha. The...
October 9th, 20200DOHA, QATAR - Artists are being invited to submit works around the theme of human resilience in the face of crisis to a new digital art contest and online exhibition organized by Qatar Foundation and Qatar Museums as part of Qatar France 2020 Year of Culture, to be hosted at the Paris Peace Forum.
The newly launched initiative is...
July 14th, 20200DOHA — TED and the Qatar Foundation launched TEDinArabic this week. The project is a joint two-year initiative that will provide TED’s signature platform to thinkers, researchers and artists across the Arabic-speaking world to share their ideas with a global audience.
TEDinArabic is TED's first initiative to focus on sharing...
April 13th, 20180CAIRO – Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA news agency said on Thursday, despite U.S. pressure for a swift end to the dispute.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates sent Doha a...
