The article is predominantly about corporate life in Qatar. Agree with the sentiments. On the hotel Iftar side of things, plenty of people can afford and do enjoy those apparently. There are also numerous restaurants around town which offer Iftars starting at under QR 20. If you go to a mosque and ask for Iftar you will be given a free meal. Many families give food to the mosque every day in their locality for this purpose.

It's true that there is much more commercialism nowadays due to the much increased amount of commerce. I guess it's similar to the commercialisation of Christmas in some countries although it's hopefully a long way off that we'll have the equivalent of a Christmas bash where the main point is to get as legless as possible and go home with one of your co-workers. Whoops, is that generalising? None of that on this site of course.

Sometimes I do feel that there is Qatari bashing on this website and while I can take a bit of that like the next (wo)man I wonder how knowledgeable people actually are about others lives and habits.

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