My final reflections on my VCU Study Abroad experience in Qatar. The last post in my Qatar collection.

This is going to be a very short post, you guys, about a topic I’m clearly passionate about. What topic, you may be wondering? Travelling.

My experience with culture shock in Qatar was unexpected and felt far from the type of “culture shock” that had been described to me, to the

You ever seen jokes about American patriotism? Those over the top images of eagles and guns and fireworks and men wearing American flag band

The official language of Qatar is Arabic, but here’s the thing: 90% of the country is expatriate and most of these expats come from South &a

While I was here, I got a feeling that Qatar as a whole deeply understood and valued the relationships between art, design, history, culture

As a visual artist and a writer; freedom of expression was my conceptual foundation for every creative piece I had ever made, and because I

Qatar is an Islamic State, and thus, Islam is not only the major religion, but it’s also ingrained in everything. Laws, social customs, dres

No, Frozen is not my favorite Disney movie, but it is clever in a lot of ways, especially the music. “Love is an Open Door” is one of the so

I was much more comfortable in Qatar than in the U.S., and that comfort allowed me to be more social than I had ever been back home. Though