Arabic text - written right to left.
Outdoor musical performance at the Souq Waqif.
Arabic man at an outdoor cafe near Souq Waqif.
Muslim schoolboys - just happy to be photographed.
Quintessential camel on the desert sands.
Arabian purebreds on display.
Museum of Islamic Art - created by architect I.M. Pei [re the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris] - houses the largest collection of Islamic art in the world.
Sweeping staircases inside the main chamber.
Gold, diamonds, emeralds, pearls, enamel, silk, metal thread in one exquisite piece on display.
Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhaab Mosque - the largest religious structure in Qatar.
A passageway along an exterior corridor of the mosque.
A small corner of the vast men's prayer hall - constructed of 99 domes. The women's area is upstairs and much smaller.
Dominique led a discussion on the fundamentals and the Five Pillars of Islam. We learned a lot regarding similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity.
Offered here for consideration - Jesus and Mohammed shown diagramatically side by side.
Handsome Arab men .....
..... veiled women - only the eyes are exposed .....
..... and the truly bizarre.
Famar - Qatar Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque.
Inside the men's prayer hall where I was invited to observe the evening prayer. This area is generally restricted to Muslim men.
A lamb dinner we were invited to attend upstairs in the cultural center. Men in one room - women in another.
Burj Qatar - one of the modern super highrises on the shore of Doha Bay.
Doha - a modern capital city still very much in the making.
New land is built out into the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf.
Sun sets over the Arabian Peninsula.
