Mudassir Raja

The love for and interest in art, culture and education is unavoidably visible in Qatar. The art landscape of Doha encourages local and international artists and art collectors to exhibit their creative pieces here.

The recently concluded 30th edition of Doha International Book Fair saw the launch of multiple books as authors from other countries and Qatar got the opportunity to introduce their books to the visitors.

Many from Spain have come to visit Doha through creative art pieces displayed at a recently inaugurated exhibition at Katara. The fascinating artworks attracted a huge gathering on the eve of the opening.

Shaikha al-Thani, a young Qatari entrepreneur and founder of Thirdspace, a co-working community for the self-employed in Qatar who are looking for a space to work, speaks to Mudassir Raja about her vision and coming up with the idea of collaborate working

Dr Tejinder Singh, founder and MD of QTickets, speaks about how he set up the company and what his vision is. By Mudassir Raja

Shehryar Khan Afridi, Pakistan’s Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control, has supported Qatar’s right to make independent decisions and pursue a sovereign foreign policy, and hoped that the blockade ends sooner than later.

The strength of the narrative power of the art of Luigi Ballarin, an Italian artist, comes from a sincere, internal, unifying and intriguing method.

For him artistic creativity is a divine gift. It is an innate talent that can be brushed up with mere practice and experiments. It is an expression of inner feelings and life experiences. K V Noufal, an Indian expatriate from Kerala, is a water colour artist and art teacher.