On the grounds of the Cornell Medical School in Doha. The landscape in Qatar is almost universally barren sand and rock. Doha city started on the coast and is now growing inwards towards the desert.
On the grounds of the Cornell Medical School in Doha. The landscape
in Qatar is almost universally barren sand and rock. Doha city started
on the coast and is now growing inwards towards the desert.
The famous egg-shaped lecture hall.
My Dad with some of his students from the Doha shool. In addition to Qataris, there are also several from elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Click here for the Gulf Times article about my presentation at the Medical School. I also visited the Virginia Commonwealth school in Doha, where they are setting up a 2D/3D digital art program. I met a technical director there from Square USA who I'd seen at SIGGRAPH several years ago. It was funny going half-way around the world and still finding myself talking shop with 3D people.
We took a trip out into the desert south of Doha, towards the border with Saudi Arabia.
Pools of water form along the Persian Gulf coast. This is amazingly close to what ancient Mars might have looked like.
George Butler should have shot his film here!
These are technically the Emir's camels, but they roam around the desert freely, and you can walk right up to them. On the left is our Jeep driver
and on the right is Oriel, the on-site Psych 101 TA for Doha.
Sunset in the desert
Our flights to and from Qatar passed right over Iraq. The river down below is the Tigris, and the squiggle at lower-left is central Baghdad. It was very surreal sitting in our comfy airplane while conflict rages on below.
(another airplane wing shot, sorry...) This is a unique nighttime sight: fires burning off excess natural gas
from oil pumping operations. They are all over southeastern Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It's very spooky to see
so many fires from the air. They are much brighter than the city lights.
Things I didn't get photos of: