Washington Times · Dec 10, 2022
Qatar: From Mideast afterthought to shining World Cup host
Two camels relax in the Souq Waqif district in Downtown Doha, Qatar with the West Bay Skyline in the background on November 23rd, 2022. (Hunter Roberts) more >DOHA, Qatar — When 31-year-old Samir Shanny was growing up in West Bay, an area just north of this gleaming city’s central zone, there were only a few tall buildings and none of them sparkled the way the Qatari capital’s skyline has as host of the World Cup soccer tournament over the past month.