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This house recounts the history of the pioneering petroleum industry workers and their families whose work helped to transform Qatar. [22] [12] The house also hosts exhibitions like "Strange Wonders" in 2016, featuring artworks from ten alumni of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQatar), [23] or "We are the Daughters of Qatar" in 2018.
Onaiza housed Doha's first airport in the 20th century. It had a one-room terminal and a dirt landing strip. [3]The district has mostly developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a result of its proximity to Doha's new business district and its relative distance from the more congested centre of the city.
Katara Cultural Village (Arabic: الحي الثقافي كتارا), also known simply as Katara (Arabic: كتارا), is a cultural and commercial complex in Doha, Qatar, located on the eastern coast between West Bay and the Pearl. It was soft-opened in October 2010 during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. [1]
From 1981 to 1985, Doha Municipality invested QAR 371 million into large-scale developments in the city and QAR 136 million into developing and maintaining parks and landscaping. [12] By 1986, Doha's total cultivated land area had increased to 1,002,364 square meters, spread across 180 agricultural projects throughout the city.
The Film House, a Qatari film, video, photography and multi-media Production Company, won two prestigious awards at The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.This festival’s edition, which was founded in 2010 to recognise the world’s finest corporate films, online media and TV documentaries, saw its biggest Qatar representation to date.
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) is an independent production house that was founded in 2010 by her highness Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. [8] The company aims to contribute to the growth of the local film community in Qatar, [ 9 ] and provides funding and production services for shorts and features of local, international ...
World Trade Center Doha is a 51-storey office building on the Doha Corniche in Al Dafna, Qatar. [1] This tower belongs to Qatar World Trade Center. [ 2 ] The building is 241.10 metres (791.0 ft) high and has 51 floors.
The mass media in Qatar relays information and data in Qatar by means of television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines and the internet. Qatar has established itself as a leading regional figure in mass media over the past decade. Al Jazeera, a global news network which was established in 1996, has become the foundation of the media sector. [1]