Visiting Flemings in Doha, Qatar: “If it’s to spend an evening at ‘Qatarbashing’, I’ll get out straight away” | Abroad

In a week’s time the World Cup will start in Qatar, a country where foreign workers are mercilessly exploited and where women have nothing to say. That is, in short, the Western image of the rich, Arab oil state. But Flemish people living in Doha find the day-to-day reality much more nuanced. “Nobody gets anywhere with a boycott.”