Jezebel: Doha

Full Of Hot Air

Anna Holmes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:10:00 EST

[Doha, Qatar; March 12. Image via Getty]

Smooth Landing

Anna Holmes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:10:00 EST

[Doha, Qatar; March 12. Image via Getty]

She Got Served

Anna Holmes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Doha, Qatar; October 28. Image via Getty]

The Sony Ericsson Championships, the season-ending...

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:20:00 EST

The Sony Ericsson Championships, the season-ending event of the Women's Tennis Association, is being held in the Middle East for the first time this week. Billie Jean King, who helped found the WTA Tour, says that she believes by holding the event in Doha, Qatar, tennis can help bring change to a region where women's rights are often limited. Some changes have been made to accommodate local customs: advertising can only be done in silhouette when depicting women in tennis skirts outdoors, but uncovered legs and arms can be shown indoors. This is also the first year that the WTA is offering prize money equal to the men's year-end championship, $4.55 million. "Equal prize money is not principally about the money," said King. "It's about the message it gives." [Yahoo] More »

Does Obama Need A Little (Not Mc) Kaine To Save The World?

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDT

It's a beautiful morning here, one of those mornings no one in Beijing ever has anymore where you can pretend it's the 70s and the world is less polluted but visions of stagflation might dance in your head, or you can be like Moe and I and pretend it's the 90s and read about 90s music and China's human rights record and WTO negotiations and wish you lived in Berlin instead. But it's 2008 and real questions await like: What EXACTLY is a green collar job? Will Obama embrace Virginia governor Tim Kaine more fully than in this picture? And why do we care what some crazy guy's motives were for shooting a bunch of people in a church when he is obviously crazy and thus his motivations are no more explicable that the motives of any other crazy person, including the first guy that ever sent me a crap-anything-from-a-dude...or Dan Quayle's? These questions and many, many others will stay unanswered after the jump, at least until you get to the comment threads. More »