| Like the other small Gulf states such as Bahrain and Qatar, the Emiratis are realists and pragmatists, both politically and economically. |
| I was rather chuffed when the sales ladies at Qatar Airways told Ed my beauty is for a beauty contest. |
| The most profitable industries in Qatar are oil and natural gas production. |
| The paper also quoted an unnamed American contractor who had prepared a bid to install telephone switchboards at the Qatar base. |
| This week was taken up with insane amounts of work and also farewelling a colleague who's off to work in Qatar, the lucky thing. |
| A few weeks ago he sought to persuade the emir of Qatar to close it down, without success. |
