By Alya Al-Ammari At the 2016 Qatar Leadership Conference, my fourth QLC experience, I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop on how to start a sustainable charity, as well as participating in some gripping seminars on topics such as women’s empowerment, growth in post-conflict areas, and youth-led initiatives. However, I did not attend with…
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The Community Reflects: O-MUN at QLC 16
The Qatar Leadership Conference 2016 brought together hundreds of motivated students, accomplished leaders, and inspiring speakers. Once again, a large, incredible group of people met at the Qatar National Convention Center to discuss, inspire, brainstorm, and socialize under the famous 30-foot spider. Amid it all, as friendships were developed, ideas were formed, and paths…
Model United Nations.. In French.
Sally Sassine and Rayan Aramouni’s mission is to pass down their knowledge and nurture MUNers in becoming great leaders of the future. The purpose of the workshop was to become familiar with the French MUN. It allowed bilingual MUNers who speak both French and English to have an idea of how they can benefit from…
QLC 2016: Taking #OMUNpride to a Whole New Level
Stepping into the vast halls of the Qatar National Convention Center that lay strewn with blonde, black, brown, ginger and ombre dyed-haired teenagers bubbling with excitement, I felt as though I had just stepped into something much more than a mere conference. Closely connected islands of youth filled the atmosphere with passionate banter about aspirations,…
From QLC 13′ to QLC 16′
By Salam Kedan QLC 16 has been a very special conference for me! Ever since attending QLC 2013, my first time in Doha, it was a life changing experience and the path to a great journey ahead. In QLC 2013, being a fresh graduate from High School about to start university, I presented about my…
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulla Al Thani shares thoughts on #qlc16
It was our great honor to have Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulla Al Thani speak at the fifth annual Qatar Leadership Conference. He made time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for our press team. Have you participated in past QLCs and if so, how was this one different from past events? This…
Curry, spiders…and community
Later night curries and naan bread with Sanskriti, Robin, Rhamat, Sulaiman and Sandev or singing under the spider with the with the OMUN brigade. Those will be some of my fondest memories of QLC. Beyond the quiet moments in the workshops where ideas ignite and I frantically write…
HELA Co-Founder Reflects on QLC 16′
Rahmat Hamdard is the Co-founder of HELA, Hope for Education and Leadership in Afghanistan, itself a product of QLC 2014. Rahmat shares his thoughts about this year’s event. It was my first QLC, which was the best ever experience! One of the biggest surprises was that presenters from different countries of the world were…
Don Sandev Ferdinando, Secretary General of PHESMUN, Reflects on QLC16
Why is the Qatar Leadership Conference important to you and can you summarise your experience at this year conference? This year’s QLC has once again succeeded in leaving me awe inspired; whether it was the plenary speeches from Andrew Mills, Khalid Al Ameri and Cairo Arafat or the presentations from students and adults who –through…
Can theatre solve real world problems?
According to participants at the 2016 Qatar Leadership Conference, it can. I enjoyed presenting at this annual event hosted by THIMUN Qatar on my favourite theatre practitioner, the late Augusto Boal. By presenting a short scene based on a real life experience of powerlessness, participants became ‘spect-actors’ and inserted themselves into the scene to reinvent…