Past Events

Wikithon is an event in which people come together to learn how to edit, improve and enrich the contents of Wikipedia. This year, the Library’s Qatar National Day Wikithon will focus on editing and enriching Arabic and English pages on Qatari-themed topics, including history, nature and more. We invite all enthusiasts to come and join this third edition of Wikithon at the Library. 

How do you search for a manuscript? How do you choose the correct historical manuscript for study or publishing? These are initial questions that come to the minds of students or researchers who embark on their journey of dealing with Islamic-Arabic manuscripts, either for editing and publishing, studying them physically (codicology and paleography) or artistically (arts of the book), or other disciplines of scholarship. Scholars and intellectuals interested in history, classical texts and intellectual heritage, and those who want to read primary sources in their original form might be interested in the same questions.

Join the Library and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Qatar in celebrating the 880th anniversary of the great poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi, who was one of the greatest representatives of the Eastern Renaissance and represented world literature and philosophy in his immortal work Khamsa [Five], showing the aesthetic power of his art.

Conserving Qatar's beaches is a social responsibility. On the occasion of Qatar National Day, we invite families to participate in this initiative to save and protect Qatar's marine environment. This event is organized in collaboration with the Doha Environmental Actions Project, a voluntary organization that focuses on the fight against plastic pollution in Qatar, together with the support of SDGeneration, Greener Future and THIMUN Qatar.Join us  to protect Qatar's environment. More information will be sent via email to registrants. Last day to  register for this event  is 2 December 2021.

In this session, we will discuss writing monographs and books for university and trade presses. We will discuss the various stagesof writing the book, from ideation to execution.

Join us in a concert with the members from the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, who will perform compositions from North and South America. 

This session will helps you develop the right tone and voice to effectively deliver your presentations. The workshop is presented by voice coach Lubaba Youssef.

Thinking is a mental process that is important in developing the capabilities of the individual and society. Join this workshop to learn more about the characteristics of the creative and critical thinking processes.

The Library, as the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Regional Center for Arab Countries and the Middle East, is organizing a four-day training course in the archives management in cultural institutions. The course includes the theoretical framework for managing inactive and permanent  archival collections (public and private), with examples and practical applications (the course will not deal with active records).

This panel discussion is presented as part of the Library's celebration of Qatar National Day. In this panel discussion, we will look at  Qatari youth initiatives in the area of environmental sustainability, one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.