Yes, I concede, she is right. Qataris have no culture. Frankly, I can’t blame them. If you spent a few thousand years scraping by in the desert, fending off the solid heat, not to mention various invading tribes, you wouldn’t have time for culture, either. Back then, life was too harsh for culture. Today, it is too comfortable for culture. “Creative cities, creative urban milieux, are places of great social and intellectual turbulence, not comfortable places at all,” observes British historian Peter Hall.
