Qatari Voices by Bloomsbury Publishing

Author:Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Published: 2010-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Nuptials in 1950s Arabia

AMNA ABDULAZIZ JASSIM HAMAD AL THANI is a Qatari who has attended English-speaking schools since the age of five and considers English her first language. She graduated in December 2009 from The London School of Economics and Political Science attaining a Master of Science in Sociology. In May 2008, she graduated with honours from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a minor in English.

TO THE SOUND OF THE MURADAH, a poetic dialogue complimenting the bride, my fourteen-year-old self was seated on a silk Iranian carpet and paraded by family and friends around my father’s house to celebrate my wedding.

The folds of my voluminous emerald green thob al nashel cast shadows on the surrounding walls. The beaming dinar, a circular gold plate gracing my head that had moulded strips of gold sequentially chained to it, radiated dancing lights that created a kaleidoscopic effect over the emitted shadows.

I was constantly balancing myself by clutching the edges of the carpet; my hands were decorated with odorous henna in geometrical shapes, which could be glimpsed beneath the fine lattice of the intricate clinging kufuff, a gold hand bracelet.

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