Qatar- Wed 25th 2015 – The opening round for the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship will start this weekend at the Losail MX Track, It will be the third year that this exciting championship is held under the floodlights of the Losail MX track. In this round, all the expectation will be focused on the […]
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France ready to take the World Championship baton from Qatar
1 February 2015
France will host the 25th Men’s Handball World Championship in 2017 and the road to France has already started in Qatar. Both finalists — France and Qatar — are the first two teams to be confirmed participants of this event, which will be staged from January 16 to 29, 2017, in ten cities throughout France. […]
Read MoreAirports Aim to Double as Luxury Destinations in Dubai and Doha
12 November 2014
Johann Peries flies regularly between Sri Lanka and London. On his past four trips, he has skipped 12-hour nonstop flights in favor of a 15-hour trip with a connection here at brand new Hamad International Airport. The Qatar Airways business-class lounge is too good to fly over, he says. “I like the break. I like […]
Read MorePremium boutiques at NDIA
5 November 2014
Qatar Duty Free (QDF) has added four new premium shopping boutiques to its portfolio of retail destinations at Hamad International Airport (HIA). Passengers looking for luxury brands as they travel through Doha will now be able to shop at Coach, Mont Blanc, Almotahajiba and Hugo Boss, as well as more than 70 other retail outlets that are already available within 25,000 sq m of retail space at the airport. “We […]
Read MoreSpinneys opens new outlet at The Pearl
3 June 2014
Spinneys, a leading retailer in the Middle East and North Africa, has opened its third and largest branch in Doha. The new supermarket is located at The Pearl-Qatar’s Medina Centrale District. Visitors to the store will notice the ambience and “exceptional” finishing of the environment in the supermarket, designed to allow customers to efficiently navigate […]
Read MoreDoha’s much anticipated, much delayed new airport, Hamad International (HIA), has finally welcomed its first passengers. At close to noon today, Fly Dubai flight FZ015 from Dubai touched down at the terminal 45 minutes behind schedule, signaling the beginning of passenger operations at the airport. About half an hour earlier, a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight carrying VIPs […]
Read MoreDamien Hirst: Relics
12 August 2013
ALRIWAQ, Qatar Museums Authority, Doha, Qatar – 10 October, 2013 – 22 January, 2014 The largest retrospective survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever to be assembled is on display at Qatar Museums Authority, Doha (10 October 2013 – 22 January 2014). Spanning over 27 years of Hirst’s iconic career, ‘Relics’ is the artist’s first solo show in the […]
Read MoreQMA: Murakami exhibition free until close on June 24
11 June 2012
Takashi Murakami’s latest art installation, Ego, is now free to the public until its last day on June 24, Qatar Museums Authority has said. The exhibit, which is at Al Riwaq Doha (next to the Museum of Islamic Art) is Murakami’s […]
Read MoreMurakami EGO at Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall Doha, Qatar.
29 February 2012
Takashi Murakami’s First Exhibition in the Middle East Offers Glimpse into the Artist’s Universe Murakami-Ego features 16 new works, including a 100-meter work created in response to recent natural disasters in Japan. On view Until June 24, 2012 at Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha, Qatar Doha, February 2012: For his first exhibition in the Middle […]
Read MoreTakashi Murakami’s ‘Ego’ welcomes art-lovers to Doha exhibition
13 February 2012
Nothing says Ego quite like a six-metre-high inflatable structure of one’s self. Sitting crossed-legged in the entrance of Al Riwaq, Doha’s warehouse-style art space, the giant Takashi Murakami looks down on visitors to the artist’s first Middle East exhibition. Dressed in a white T-shirt and shorts and sporting those famous round, silver framed glasses, the […]
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