Tendai, these co-ed unis do not infringe on practising Islam It is permitted in the religion to study and work alongside men. Qatar does offer both segregation and co-ed education at tertiary level. Culturally there is segregation but this is fairly recent and has largely come with wealth and was not connected to the religion in the way fundamentalists will have one believe. For example, it was commonplace for women to work in the souq and other places to earn a living. Then came wealth in the form of oil and gas and women paid men to work in their shops or in the fish/veg market and retreated home out of the heat! (Then they paid housekeepers and stopped doing houswork but that's another story!!!)
Tendai, these co-ed unis do not infringe on practising Islam It is permitted in the religion to study and work alongside men. Qatar does offer both segregation and co-ed education at tertiary level. Culturally there is segregation but this is fairly recent and has largely come with wealth and was not connected to the religion in the way fundamentalists will have one believe. For example, it was commonplace for women to work in the souq and other places to earn a living. Then came wealth in the form of oil and gas and women paid men to work in their shops or in the fish/veg market and retreated home out of the heat! (Then they paid housekeepers and stopped doing houswork but that's another story!!!)