Tartans Got Talent

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Khosh Kabab: Family meals-on-wheels!

Driving into the narrow inner roads behind the New World Center (also known as Souq Nabina) in Doha city, I am stuck midway between five SUV's that are parked right in the middle of the road. Upon inquiry, I figured out that it was something normal. They were having their dinner and they shouldn't drive while eating right? Although I was sort of frustrated at first, I decided to join the party. There was a young Nepali man who was hurtling between...

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Perfume Infusion

Scents have always been an essential factor in the Arab world. Perfumes are part of the culture and tradition here in Doha, especially in occasions such as Eid and weddings. A few days back, I went to the Lagoona mall to shop. I couldn’t help but notice all the different brands of perfumes. The scents differed depending on your taste. I came to realize that some Western brands of perfumes included Arabic scents such as oud, musks and amber. It...

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ArabBucks

There are nine Starbucks coffee shops in Doha, and surprisingly enough there are two that are located in the same mall, City Center, one on each floor. Every mall in Doha has a Starbucks and there will probably be a Starbucks (or two) located in the malls that are going to be built in the future. Starbucks has a unique marketing strategy that relies mostly on word of mouth and social media, as you can rarely find a Starbucks ad on television....

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Localization of a Globalized Girls’ Night In

Movies, Make-up, Music,Manicures, Facials,FoodandKaraoke. Put all the above together and you’ve got the perfect ingredients to an impressive “Girls’ Night In”. So, last weekend my sister and I had our cousins over to put this event together, but not in the way you’d expect. It’s common to see girls get together to stay in for the night and basically make fools of themselves in the privacy of their own homes. The interesting part about the night in...

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Glocalization: Muslim Women and Sports

Once again, here I am writing another blog post relating to what we recently discussed in Sociology class about globalization and glocalization. Globalization can be defined as the flow of goods, services, money, people, information and culture across political borders, while, glocalization is a combination of globalization and localization. In other words, glocalization is established and disseminated globally, but also recognized to remain the...

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Glocalization in a Globalized City

In a country striving for international recognition, glocalization is probably the last thing one would expect to be happening there. The country I am talking about is Qatar–the little country everybody knows as “the country near Dubai.” The glocalization I am referring to is happening in a place known as Education City, which is the education central of the country. In Education City, there are around six American Universities–Northwestern University,...

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Education City and Globalization

Doha is one of the fastest urbanizing cities in the world. Since the discovery of natural resources in the 1970’s, the desert city experienced a rapid transformation into skyscrapers, malls, hotels, top-notch American universities and billions of dollars into imported products. The population of Qatar is composed of mostly expatriates who travelled from all around the globe to earn a better life. Since then, it has become a melting pot of cultures,...

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