Early Morning Fishing

I hung this picure on the wall of my corridor as a rememberance of my life in Doha One of the most beautiful view in Doha is the Corniche. When I lived there about 4 years ago, I had to capture the place again and… Read More

Dirty Weekend in Souq Waqif

Out of so few places to go and see in Doha, Souk Waqif is one of the better places to visit. Doha or Qatar does not have many interesting places; thus, as a tourist destination, one can cover Doha/Qatar in a day.  However, Souk Waqif… Read More

5 Day Photo Challenge: Museum of Islamic Art in Doha

1st day of 5 days photo challenge in B+W

Fort Zubarah, Qatar’s Own Historical Place

For most of the last 10 years I have lived in Qatar, I never had a relative visiting me in the Middle East, until last month when I invited my brother for a weeks visit to Doha. Honestly, as Qatar is such a small country… Read More

Life at Horse Stable near the Museum

We used to call it the Emir’s Farm, which is not quite true, as the ‘farm’ does not belong to the Qatari Emir, but belong the Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani who is one of the richest men in Qatar and a distant relative… Read More

Happy Christmas Everyone…

I meant to write something about what Christmas mean in the Middle East where the population ‘predominantly’ Muslim, but did not quite manage it. So I just post a picture of how we in Qatar, celebrating Christmas in public places.

Marry Christmas to you guys.

Picture above are taken by my iPhone in my office, Doha

ps. better picture coming soon….

Super Moon

Super moon is when the moon is closest to the earth and at full moon. It doesn’t happen very often, but on 10th August 2014 we had one. Normally I don’t really like playing with my camera at home, especially in the evening, but as… Read More

The Black Object

Actually I wanted to post this later on after my Yemen series of posts, but I can’t help it as the opportunity arises for the title Object on WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge. It is about my visit to Damien Hirst’s Exhibition in Doha, at the National Museum of Art. To be honest, I am not a museum person, but as it was Damien Hirst with his strange themes and odd points of view, we wanted to visit the exhibition to see what was going on for more than a month in Doha but went during the last few days of the exhibition.

What we found interesting was this big black dot object, he called it “A Dark Place”, big round black thing…. which my husband looked at in more detail.

A Dark Place by Damien Hirst as inspected by my husband – taken from my instagram

What was more interesting to that was when my husband found out what the black object consisted of:

The object was millions of dead flies!