Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old robotics enthusiast arrested last month for bringing a homemade clock to school (teachers apparently thought it was a bomb), has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation to study at its Young Innovators Program.
The FBI’s investigation of FIFA, the apparently corrupt-as-hell governing body of world soccer, will include a review of the bidding process that awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, an anonymous U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters. Good.
If this New York Times website is to be believed, foreign governments have found the generous funding of U.S. policy institutes to be a handy way of covertly lobbying in Washington. But: Could multimillion-dollar donations, sometimes with explicit contractual stipulations, actually sway these great thinkers?
Whether you were touched by what the Associated Press described as his contentious, expletive-laden speech against the Sunni extremist group ISIS (now the Islamic State), or simply thought that his "Hello Kitty" notebook was cute — please be advised: Syrian Rebel Leader Zahran Alloush is not your friend, OK?
Back in October, Lauren Patterson, a 24-year-old British teacher working in Doha, Qatar was reported missing. Despite being badly burned, a body found soon thereafter in the desert was identified as Patterson through DNA testing. Two Qatari men, who have not been named, are standing trial for the murder after having…
Legendary Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif slapped a fan at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar. (Wouldn't exporting a festival named after a neighborhood sort of defeat the purpose?) Sharif is posing for pictures when the woman steps up to have her picture taken with him, at which point the 79-year-old slaps…
Remember that rooftop tennis court in Dubai? Well, it's just met its match: here's a video of two of the sport's greats, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, volleying back and forth while standing on a floating tennis court in Qatar.
The 2022 World Cup is being held in Qatar, a country where being gay is illegal. But Sepp Blatter, the president of soccer's world governing body, has a simple solution for gay soccer fans: Don't have gay sex!
Fat Qatar! Shortened lifespans! Jailbird junk food! Pot belly rights! Half of us are walking dead! It's your Health Watch, where we watch your health—if you buy us a hoagie!
Air marshals say they stopped a man trying to "light his shoes on fire" on a United flight from D.C. to Denver. The suspect is Mohammed al Modadi, a Qatari diplomat. Update: He was actually smoking in the bathroom.
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to help New York bounce back after the deadly attacks of Sept. 11th. That was all well and good, except for the fact that the fest never managed to turn a profit, much to the chagrin of the festival's founders, Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff and Robert De Niro, who had…
New York restaurateurs may be panicked about the economy, but all is well in Qatar! This week it was reported that the Four Seasons in Doha will be home to the latest incarnation of Nobu. (A Dubai outpost opened earlier this month.) Gordon Ramsay is supposedly looking at two different sites in town for an eatery he…
When the newspaper industry is crumbling along with the American economy in general, the smartest people in all of journalism are the Northwestern J-school professors who packed up and decamped for Qatar. They left dreary Evanston, Illinois for beachfront condos in an oil-flush Middle Eastern paradise. There, they…
