Oral Histories

An interview with Mr. Hamad Hamdan on his memories of his high school days

One Doha old-timer's memories of his earliest days at school..

A video slideshow with captions explaining traditional Qatari dress.

Interview of a herbal medicine shop owner in Souq Waqif. The interview focuses on herbal medicine in the interviewee’s family and the history of the shop.

Audio interview with Khalil Al-Emadi,president and CEO of NavLink, who has more than 25 years’ experience in telecommunication and IT technologies. In this interview he shares his personal history of communication in Qatar and some interesting stories.

Audio interview with Samy Desouky telling how Doha in the 80s. Everything from friendship, work, and what he did in his free time before marriage and after. Also, this interview provides some interesting contrast between the present and the past for some places in Al-Wakra.

This interview was conducted with Yaqoob Yousef Al-Mass about his educational journey throughout his life and all the obstacles he had to face to get to where he is currently. He worked for 45 years in the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.

This video is an interview with a Qatari grandmother, Mrs. Fatima Mohammed Al-Sharif. During the interview, she talked about Ramadan days and preparations, and what type of food the families used to cook for Iftar. Then she gave a brief summary of the Garngaoh night and what they usually used to wear and do. At the end of the interview, she talked about prerparations for Eid.

In this video, the first speaker Mohammed Ali Yousef Darwish the owner of Al-Yousef for Trading provided information about trade in the past and what type of goods and suppliers were in Souq Waqif. He also discussed how trade has changed over the years. The second speaker Shams Al-Qasabi, the founder of Shai Al-Shomos, talked about starting her own business serving traditional Qatari food and how she started this enterprise from nothing.