The literature scene in doha is puzzling. although 2010 has marked Doha as the capital of Arab culture,no significant local event is acheived nor worth mentioning in the region scale. Except for the establishment of the Bloomsburry Qatar Foundation publishing, which have not so far contributed much to the local literary scene nor does it appeal To the locals.
Qatari intellects were shocked last week with the decision to withdraw the planned location of the newly established Qatari writers association from the new under construction "Qatar cultural village" in west bay. Many wondered, whether their location was withdrawn to make place for more restaurants and shesha houses as it appear that's the only establishments open there so far.
I'm not really surprised by Virgin recent revamp, as there were many articles in local newspaper and Popular local Internet forum Qatarshares that have criticized the books sold there as it's against our norms! And many requested that officials at the ministry of culture to monitor the books imported into the country
In the meantime , it was announced also recently that Borders book shop will soon has a
Qatar branch.
I guess it's not an easy task on officials to balance between globalizing the
Local cultrual scene through multiculturalism while still preserving the local norms and silencing disgruntled conservatives
The literature scene in doha is puzzling. although 2010 has marked Doha as the capital of Arab culture,no significant local event is acheived nor worth mentioning in the region scale. Except for the establishment of the Bloomsburry Qatar Foundation publishing, which have not so far contributed much to the local literary scene nor does it appeal To the locals.
Qatari intellects were shocked last week with the decision to withdraw the planned location of the newly established Qatari writers association from the new under construction "Qatar cultural village" in west bay. Many wondered, whether their location was withdrawn to make place for more restaurants and shesha houses as it appear that's the only establishments open there so far.
I'm not really surprised by Virgin recent revamp, as there were many articles in local newspaper and Popular local Internet forum Qatarshares that have criticized the books sold there as it's against our norms! And many requested that officials at the ministry of culture to monitor the books imported into the country
In the meantime , it was announced also recently that Borders book shop will soon has a
Qatar branch.
I guess it's not an easy task on officials to balance between globalizing the
Local cultrual scene through multiculturalism while still preserving the local norms and silencing disgruntled conservatives