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Doha, Qatar was chosen as the 2010 Arab Capital of Culture, an initiative of UNESCO's Cultural Capitals Program to promote Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Qatari government prepared for the festival in different ways, including building an $82 million cultural village.
Doha Open: 1993 Doha: Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex: Hard 7,000 32 2025 Rio Open: 2014 Rio de Janeiro: Jockey Club Brasileiro: Clay 6,200 32 2024 Sebastián Báez: $2,271,715 Dubai Tennis Championships: 1993 Dubai: Aviation Club Tennis Centre: Hard 5,000 32 2024 Ugo Humbert: $2,949,665 Mexican Open: 1993 Acapulco: Arena GNP ...
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In 2018, due to travel restrictions between the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as a result of the ongoing diplomatic dispute in the Arab World, it was moved to later in the year, and is no longer held at the same time as the Abu Dhabi and Dubai events. The date change coincided with a reduction in prize money, and resulted in a lower field ...
The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. [3] The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond ...
In a 2010 survey of Doha's coastal waters conducted by the Qatar Statistics Authority, it was found that its maximum depth was 7.5 meters (25 ft) and minimum depth was 2 meters (6 ft 7 in). Furthermore, the waters had an average pH of 7.83, a salinity of 49.0 psu, an average temperature of 22.7 °C and 5.5 mg/L of dissolved oxygen.
The Msheireb Downtown Doha project was launched in January 2010 with the end goal of a complete overhaul and refurbishment of the district. [9] It is a $5.5 billion project, [10] covering an area of 31 hectares (77 acres) (310,000 square metres), and was launched in six phases. [11]
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.