Spending Eid al-Fitr 2012 in Qatar

strawberry_shisha
By strawberry_shisha

With Ramadan wrapping up, Eid al-Fitr holidays are just around the corner.

For those of you who are getting some time off and spending it here, here’s a guide to what’s happening over the break, including events and government and hospital hours.

Be sure to check back, as we’ll add more to this post as we get it.

QTA ACTIVITIES

The Qatar Tourism Authority has organized a bonanza of activities over four days to make it an enjoyable holiday.

Starting on either Saturday, August 18 or Sunday, August 19, depending on which is declared the first day of Eid, there will be:

- Nightly fireworks at Katara Cultural Village, at 8:30pm.

- Traditional Qatari games, crafts, food, music and other activities at the Heritage Village, from 4pm-11:30pm.
Arab singers will perform at the new Al Rayyan Theater at Souq Waqif, from 9pm-midnight.

- The play “60% Qatari”, starring Abdul Aziz Jassim, will be performed at the National Theater, with an 8pm showtime on the first day, and shows at 6pm and 9pm subsequent days.

- Aspire Park will be open to the public 24 hours a day, while the Museum of Islamic Art Park will welcome visitors from 10:30am-11pm.

Read more:

http://dohanews.co/post/29478237634/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sp...

By Pappu_Pager• 16 Aug 2012 12:54
Pappu_Pager

chance for anymore attendees.....lols

By ingeniero• 16 Aug 2012 12:54
ingeniero

Let's plan something on Eid...

By t_coffee_or_me• 16 Aug 2012 12:34
t_coffee_or_me

you also welcome

By ingeniero• 16 Aug 2012 12:32
ingeniero

TCOM, why invitation only to SS? :(

By ingeniero• 16 Aug 2012 12:31
ingeniero

Weather seems to be good.. Yesterday was better after evening.. Hope in Eid Weather will be much better...

BTW we got another Copy/Paster ;) But this time from Doha News...

By t_coffee_or_me• 16 Aug 2012 12:04
t_coffee_or_me

SS lets go to the beach.

By GodFather.• 16 Aug 2012 11:24
GodFather.

Back in the Air again for the 8th time this year tonight. O its a tough life..

Those of you left behind enjoy your holidays ..:)

By strawberry_shisha• 16 Aug 2012 11:23
strawberry_shisha

@osama, insha'allah dude..

By Pappu_Pager• 16 Aug 2012 11:22
Pappu_Pager

SS & FS... TFS....:)

By osamabawab• 16 Aug 2012 11:17
osamabawab

I wish that the weather will be good in those days

By metrob• 16 Aug 2012 10:54
metrob

Formatted Soul

Thank you for the link. It actually just helped to prove my point about how poor the marketting is here.

Press the button that says "Download Event Calendar" and you get a marvelous full colour one page print out of lots of events ............... for July

It is today the 16th of August.

By anonymous• 16 Aug 2012 10:16
anonymous

TFS.................................:)

By Formatted Soul• 16 Aug 2012 09:19
Formatted Soul

metrob...

please Check out http://www.qatarhappening.com/event_details/1242/5

for whats happening here..

By metrob• 16 Aug 2012 09:08
metrob

It really beats me.

We know the dates for Eid Al Fitr well in advance each year (give or take a day each way)

Yet there appears to be no forward notification of events. No "marketing" of the events.

Its typical of everything that happens here. There seems to be no publicisng of anything at any time. How can you expect people to turn up and enjoy these events unless there is a coherent notification and publicising well in advance?

A perfect example was the World Billiards Championships which took place in Doha in July. I found out about it yesterday, yet the world's top players were performing. Did you know?

Come on Qatar, this could be a great place to live with lots of things to do if you just told us what was going on.

By Prism• 16 Aug 2012 08:20
Prism

Fireworks to spend time in a good way...Really?

Traditional Qatari games, etc.???

Arab singers ...dont understand Arabic.

The play “60% Qatari”, ...must be in Arabic, so again not useful.

Aspire Park will be open to the public 24 hours a day...in this heat, not quite interesting.

So far nothing good.

However, this one is interesting "Be sure to check back, as we’ll add more to this post as we get it". Please add something truly interetsing for single adults & not only for kids...:)

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