I'm starting to get the impression that Qatari women and men don't see a lot of one another. Certainly unmarried men and women don't associate with one another, but even after marriage I think they live in separate worlds.
I was struck by this when I was trying to find a picture for my FAQ of a woman in an abaya and a man in a thobe. Despite a number of Google image searches (as well as perusing my Qatar books), I was able to find only one image of a traditionally dressed Qatari man and woman together:
There are, however, a million pictures out there of groups of women together and groups of men together, e.g.
Still. Even Mr. Woodhouse let Emma's governess go live with Mr. Weston when they got married. Perhaps this is even beyond a Jane Austen novel!
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Date: 2004-07-28 10:58 am (UTC)I'm starting to get the impression that Qatari women and men don't see a lot of one another. Certainly unmarried men and women don't associate with one another, but even after marriage I think they live in separate worlds.
I was struck by this when I was trying to find a picture for my FAQ of a woman in an abaya and a man in a thobe. Despite a number of Google image searches (as well as perusing my Qatar books), I was able to find only one image of a traditionally dressed Qatari man and woman together:
There are, however, a million pictures out there of groups of women together and groups of men together, e.g.
Still. Even Mr. Woodhouse let Emma's governess go live with Mr. Weston when they got married. Perhaps this is even beyond a Jane Austen novel!