Qatari culture is about the family, the more you or I get involved with it, the weaker it becomes; and you can't just walk in, not knowing anything about Islam (or Arabic), and expect to "get under the skin" of it.

The government has had the wit to realise that foreigners come looking for a "real Arab experience", so they've built us a real imitation souq to play in, full of authentic Arab coffee shops (and they even put back the shops full of spices, pots and pans or jalabiyas that really were there originally).