At least for those arriving from another part of the world, Doha is a strange city. Everything there is grand, massive, new; Each construction process appears to have been done only minutes before the final visitor arrives. However, intuition can last: In history it is associated with the desert and the nearest wonders of gas and oil. And in the niqab, which is like shadows, he appears from time to time, remembering that underneath all this dark cloth are women’s bodies and their voices. The rest is an individual takeover of Western capitalismall the brilliance and novelty. In Souq Waqif, an old market restored in 2006, the special Qatari chemistry between past and present also vibrates.. This is what this photo of the workshop of some artists in the market shows: eclecticism, the West, the East, and in the corner, of course, a picture of Messi.