Depending on nationality, if you have a licence from your home country, you may be issued with a Qatar licence immediately.

Failing that, you register with a driving school and take 12 or 25 lessons (12 if you have a licence, 25 if you don't).

You then do the test which is very simple (but takes half a day) and Bobs' your uncle.

The test process can be chaos though, as the organisational skills are non-existent.

*** Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people appear bright until they open their mouths.