If you think about which countries Qatar takes few expats from - Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, etc - they are Arab speaking countries.
Meanwhile the largest number of expats come from Asian countries, and almost all of them speak more English than Arabic.
In my own personal view, it's not by chance or circumstance that most expats here don't speak Arabic.
It is by choice.
There are plenty of unemployed, low cost, semi-skilled laborers from Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Morocco etc. But most labor comes from Asia. That has to be on purpose; there's no way you can convince me that this is an accident.
It's not just that Qatar doesn't care if expats don't speak Arabic, it's that they don't want them to.
I just can't see it being implemented in Qatar.
If you think about which countries Qatar takes few expats from - Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, etc - they are Arab speaking countries.
Meanwhile the largest number of expats come from Asian countries, and almost all of them speak more English than Arabic.
In my own personal view, it's not by chance or circumstance that most expats here don't speak Arabic.
It is by choice.
There are plenty of unemployed, low cost, semi-skilled laborers from Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Morocco etc. But most labor comes from Asia. That has to be on purpose; there's no way you can convince me that this is an accident.
It's not just that Qatar doesn't care if expats don't speak Arabic, it's that they don't want them to.