Escape from Qatar: Qatar (Inc.) Survival Guide
About this ebook
It is almost like an X-ray of Qatar. From the air to the water, from the way people are educated to the way they are cured. The story of a country that looks beautiful on the outside, but where deception is hiding just beneath the surface… a country that is ornate on the outside but rusty on the inside.
The case of Qatar through personal experiences, research, and current examples...
When you realize the true face of this flashy country that has spent more money on the FIFA 2022 World Cup than all the money spent to date, you will want to escape, hence the title 'Escape from Qatar.’
This book is also a survival guide full of tips, -some sad, some funny, for those who want to visit or live in Qatar.
From the pen of journalist, educator, and writer Atilla Yusuf Guleker, who has been declared the 'imam of Qatar' by the Turkish media...
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About the author
He was born in Istanbul as the ‘second’ son of a family from Skopje, making him 'al thani’(*) from the beginning.
When his grandfather was born, Skopje was a part of the Ottoman Empire; when his father was born, it was a part of Yugoslavia and it is now the capital of N. Macedonia.
At university, he studied mathematics.
He has worked for many years as an educator in the east and west of Turkey.
He has always been an avid reader and writer and passionate about journalism.
In Cambodia, where he worked as a journalist, he opened a school with financial support from businessmen in Turkey and Europe.
He has also lived in Sri Lanka and the U.S., where he was key in the establishment of educational institutions.
In 2016 he left Qatar, and would later seek asylum in the Netherlands.
He is married and has two children.
[(*) an inside joke: 'al Thani' is the royal family of Qatar, but ‘thani’ also means 'second' in Arabic.]
