Posted by Fay Al-Romaihi at Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:14:07 AM EDT
In response to Professor Abusharaf’s prompt:
With regards to gender and space, I believe houses today still function with some sort of gender orientation. For instance, there are always separate seating areas for women and men. However, the “hosh” I believe is not considered to be gender specific.
Before when houses encompassed what was known to be the “liwan” that was a space where all members would congregate and at times share and eat their meals. It was considered to be for both women and men.
In my opinion, the “fareej” is not as relevant as it was in the past. I believe in the past people had more of a communal life with their residential neighbors therefore, formulating an identification and connection with their neighbors who were usually related to them. However, today as the population grew and people began to move around the country, families were dispersed within the country and do not necessarily live in the same area, (although there are exceptions). I believe with the growing amount of foreigners within Qatar, residential conceptions have changed especially, with new development ventures such as Doha Land and The Pearl.
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