English language magazines and newspapers in Qatar

You have to really shop around town to find magazines. More recently i've found the following:

International

- Harpers Bazar at the Family Food Center

- RED at the Family Food Center

- TIME at Jarir

- NewsWeek at Jarir

- Seventeen at Jarir or Family Food, Center MegaMart

- Oprah or "O" at Jarir

- Cosmoploitan Eurpoe at Giants Stores

Regional English

- Emirates Woman at Jarir & Giant Stores

- Woman Today - Jarir

- Qatar Today - Jarir

- All Woman at Family Food

- ABODE at Family Food & Jarir

- Business Qatar at Family Food & Jarir

- Women in Business at Family Food & Jarir

- Gulf Marketing Review at Family Food & Jarir

As you can tell I read quite a bit I know the feeling too well about finding something decent to read. Its just a shame the interest in reading with our younger generation is slowly depleting..

I subscribe to several publications and haven't yet encountered problems... it may be a day or two late...

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your name is very complicated... i'll call you ACDC.

thanks for the info. I'm off to Jarir then...

You can find them at Jarir, Mega Mart and Carrefour among other places.

hmmm. market survey?? :)

Lulu hypermarket has a magazine stand but it's all full of arabic magazines... i was looking for readers digest or something like TIME or Newsweek...

limited...very limited supply and demand...

I have been receiving a subscription from the UK for 10 months and have so far received them all. If anyone out there is from Dorset, I have 10 back issues of Dorset Life, happy to pass them on to you!

You can grab your copies at Carrfour, Family food Centre, Lulu hypermarket

Before subscribing get the feel of each mag, I am really not happy with the arcticles, they talk about business women who are born with golden spoon how could that be achievement? And the interiors are not at all creative when they talk about good homes

Lizards aka geckos are plentiful in the hot months. Keep your doors and windows shut and make sure there are no gaps for them to get in through.

Cockroaches are easy to handle; twice a year I have a pest control company come and spray inside the house and the manholes outside. That ensures they will visit my neighbors but leave me alone.

Last time the company came out of this one manhole came out HUNDREDS of cockroaches. Literally hundreds. I filmed it, it was so bizarre. They were climbing onto the pest controllers' overalls, onto cars, walls, You name. Took a while to put them down.

Aww, bless.

:)

P.S. It's not the aliens I'm worried about, it's the cockroaches and lizards!

Office copies, in general, don't exist.

If you're enquiring about a particular establishment I'm sure someone the site can find out for you.

If you're boarding a plane get as many of your favorite magazines as you can. Even if they're available here they always arrive 1-3 weeks late. Also, some magazines, like T3 and Autocar, now have a Middle East edition that bears more of a resemblance to an anorexic model rather than the real thing.

Not the imaginative answer you're seeking, I know but the best I can do now with a 6-year-old who keeps popping in talking about aliens under his bed.

Ok, e, time for a wish list.

Someone's catching a plane out to Doha in the next few weeks and they're passing through a WHSmith/Borders...

What should they forget about (because they can get it in Doha), what should they buy and bring with? ;)

Oh, I didn't mean a perk or privilege like that. Just that most places I've worked, they get all the papers, they're lying around the office every day, which is nice (also part of the job, mind you, to keep track of them).

But I was asking about whether the office also gets a subscription to stuff like The Economist -- one place I worked got an uncensored copy, which was very unusual in that country/city, which meant you could read all the articles you couldn't if you bought it in the newsagents.

But the snag was that there was only one copy, and sometimes you would manage to find it on a desk the same week, or sometimes it was six weeks out of date by the time you managed to catch up with it.

I wasn't asking about or expecting a special individual subscription or newspaper allowance (although that sounds fantastic! my periodicals bill is huuuuuge!), just wondering whether the company subscribed generally, whether there were 'office copies'.

"e" for short is ok but not short "e".

Newsweek and Time, yes, Foreign Affairs also but I've never seen Private Eye or the Statesman.

As for the company providing publications let's put it this way; if you're considered elite they'll get you what you want, otherwise forget it.

I remember working for a major news company in Europe years ago and part of the pay packet included a "newspaper allowance". Doesn't happen here. Don't know, maybe we're not supposed to read, or know.

Thanks, e46M3, or can I call you "e", for short?

Okay, then, about news and current affairs stuff.

What about Newsweek, Time, New Scientist, New Statesman, Private Eye? Are any/all of those available in Doha?

My problem with subscriptions is that I don't always take the same magazines, I like to browse and if I see a coverline that catches my eye, I'll buy that title, but the next time I'm in the newsagents, I'll buy a different one.

I like the flexibility and choice that not having a subscription gives me. But if it comes to it, I might subscribe to some.

What about at work? Does your company subscribe to any news and current affairs magazines? Are there office copies floating around?

Okay, I appreciate that there are going to be magazines, Stealth, but I'm asking what kind.

Are imported versions available from the UK and US?

Or are they all local versions/local franchises of international brands?

Fot the local newspapers you can call thir respective offices for subscription.

for newspapers from outside there are agents you need to contact for subscription.

You can find magazines in almost all the leading hypermarkets/big supermarkets run by expatriates.

"If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence."

You can find lots of magazines and newspapers here at supermarkets and some other places. There are no newsagents in Qatar. There's a do-it-all store (Computers, books, toys, stationery, art supplies) called Jarir that has a magazine and newspaper section. You can find mags like Hello, Good Housekeeping, Economist and things in that genre.

The censors are still at work but not as heavy handed as they used to be. They mostly go for nudity. At one point they blacked out a nusing mother and child ad for Pampers but they don't do that anymore.

I'm not sure about subscriptions as I'm into the PC, news and current affairs and automotive mags.

Maybe some of our female members can enlighten us.