News Topic - Qatar

De Niro, Tribeca co-founders launch satellite film fest in Qatar
Robert De Niro is taking his Tribeca Film Festival success abroad, with the actor and his fellow co-founders to launch an offshoot event in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar next year.
CBC.ca  –  Nov 24, 2008 5:57 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in Entertainment

NY's Tribeca to launch film festival in Qatar
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Tribeca Film Festival, founded by actor Robert De Niro after the September 11 attacks, plans to stage a new festival in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar next year.
Reuters  –  Nov 24, 2008 4:33 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in U.S. News

Qatar teams up with De Niro to host film festival
AP - Qatar has teamed up with Robert De Niro and other founders of New York's Tribeca Film Festival to host a similar annual event starting next year in this small, oil-rich Persian Gulf nation.
Yahoo!  –  Nov 24, 2008 3:35 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in Entertainment: Movies

Tribeca Film Festival and Qatar Museums Authority To Launch 'Tribeca Film Festival Doha' in November 2009
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PR Newswire  –  Nov 24, 2008 2:38 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
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Thanksgiving Brunch for Miriam's Kitchen Homeless: His Excellency Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri, The Ambassador of the State of Qatar, to Oversee Tradit
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PR Newswire  –  Nov 24, 2008 1:36 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
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Tribeca festival heads to Qatar
Actor Robert De Niro launches a Middle East version of the Tribeca Film Festival.
BBC News  –  Nov 24, 2008 12:04 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in Entertainment

Qatar to host film festival
Deal with Robert De Niro's Tribeca to help Gulf state launch film festival in 2009.
Al Jazeera  –  Nov 24, 2008 06:41 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in World: Middle East

UN forum aims to ensure adequate funds to meet development goals despite crisis
Representatives of governments, business and civil society are set to meet this weekend in Doha, Qatar, at a United Nations conference focusing on ensuring sufficient financing to meet key development goals amid mounting concern about the impact of the current global economic slowdown on poor nation ... more »
UN News Centre  –  Nov 24, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in Politics: United Nations

Qatar inks deal with Tribeca founders
International News: Doha festival to bow next year -- Qatar is joining the Middle East film gold rush. Execs from the Qatar Museums Authority, the org dedicated to developing cultural initiatives in the country, have inked a deal with Tribeca fest co-founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig ... more »
Variety.com  –  Nov 24, 2008 02:00 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
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In Qatar, an Art Museum of Imposing Simplicity
There is nothing timid about the ambitions of the new Museum of Islamic Art that opens in Qatar next week.
New York Times  –  Nov 24, 2008 01:58 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
found in World: Middle East