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Qatar, [a] officially the State of Qatar, [b] is a country in West Asia.It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
An open letter by 15 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Migrant Rights.org, urged Doha to take initiatives for the protection of the workforce. [ 129 ] In March 2022, during a meeting of FIFA president Gianni Infantino with the Qatari Minister of Labour, it was reported that the new law on minimum wage in Qatar had ...
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013, helped establish Qatar's reputation as an influential player in Middle East politics.The first major move in this regard was the founding of Al Jazeera, [6] a state-owned news media company.
Doha (Arabic: الدوحة, romanized: ad-Dawḥah [ædˈdæwħæ,-ˈdoː-]) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar.Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. [1]
Bruder has become a major voice in the conversation on youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa. He has served as a delegate of the Council on Foreign Relations to the Jeddah Economic Forum, and a contributor to the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar.
Ethnic Armenians in Qatar number between 800 and 1,500 and live mainly in the capital Doha.Unofficial sources place them at around 5,500. [1]Many Armenians originating from Lebanon, Syria and other Arab countries were attracted by the economic opportunities provided by Qatar, and they came to Qatar for jobs.
Qatar has about 2.6 million inhabitants as of early 2017, the vast majority of whom (about 92%) live in Doha, the capital. [1] Foreign workers amount to around 88% of the population, the largest of which comprise South Asians , with those from India alone estimated to be around 700,000. [ 2 ]
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is a campus of Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in Education City, Doha, Qatar. It is one of Georgetown University's eleven undergraduate and graduate schools, [ 5 ] and is supported by a partnership between Qatar Foundation and Georgetown University .