Women in White: The Changing Abaya Fashion in Qatar
No visitor to Qatar, or any other Gulf country, would fail to miss that women’s flowing outer garments, known as abayas, are almost unexceptionally black.
Feyza Gumusluoglu
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Feyza Gumusluoglu is a Doha-based Turkish journalist and author.
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The GCC's Kurdish Conundrum
The Kurdish Syrian opposition group, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has become the de facto primary ground forces ally of the United States in Syria and is poised to play a leading role in any assault on Raqqa, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) capital.