Well, that's what made the comment confusing. I live in a compound; most Westerners do. Qataris don't; they live in large, free-standing houses. So what would renting in a "Qatari compound" even mean? What's a Qatari compound?
There definitely are "Qatari parts of town"... but my boss lives in one. There's no rule that Qataris can't live there.
And I have NEVER heard the word "jelabiya" used in Qatar for anything other than women's housedresses. There's no freaking way a Qatari man would call his thobe a jelabiya.
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Re: Pedantry
Date: 2009-04-06 12:47 pm (UTC)There definitely are "Qatari parts of town"... but my boss lives in one. There's no rule that Qataris can't live there.
And I have NEVER heard the word "jelabiya" used in Qatar for anything other than women's housedresses. There's no freaking way a Qatari man would call his thobe a jelabiya.