Sheikha Mozah is married to the Emir and is essentially Qatar's "First Lady." She is an amazing woman and is really doing a lot to develop Qatari people--especially women and children.
doha • H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned is proud of being a mother and raising children, she says, is among her basic priorities. “I supervise my children’s homework on a daily basis. It is part of my daily routine,” she told Al Jazeera TV Channel in an interview yesterday.
In a half-an-hour interview telecast late yesterday evening, she said: “I am basically a housewife and trying to raise my children and inculcate in them humanitarian and Islamic values.”
“I am an ordinary woman and do not want to get saddled with impressive titles such as the First Lady and the like,” she said when asked by the interviewer as to what she thought of her role as the wife of the Emir and mother of the Heir Apparent.
She told Khadija bint Ginna, the interviewer, that she decided to enter public life only when her children had grown up and could take care of themselves. “I still spend a lot of time every day talking to them and supervising their homework.”
Knowledge is the best and the wisest investment. Whatever the environment, knowledge flourishes and is not affected when things are not conducive as is the case with investment in a business, for instance. No one can take knowledge away.
The Emir has set up a fund for health and education and the objective is to attain a high level of education. The accent of Qatar Foundation and the country’s education sector as a whole is to provide quality education by adopting excellent syllabi and by giving teachers the best training.
Children are a precious investment of a nation and a family and we have to actively involve the families not only in the matter of their children’s education but also in their extra-curricular activities, she said. “Education is a must if we want to talk in the language of business and finance.”
Asked about the condition of women in Qatar, she said pointblank: “I feel embarrassed whenever I am asked this question. My first concern is the human beings. ... Women’s status in a society reflects its overall condition. It is the mirror of the society.”
Women in Qatar enjoy equal rights with men. “I don’t want to put pressure on women with talk of liberation.”
The interviewer asked Sheikha Mozah if she agreed that children in Qatar and the rest of the GCC were getting spoilt due to the immense wealth. “Yes, it is a disease and a serious one at that. It is more serious than the diseases caused by poverty in a backward country.”
Asked how she felt when her son, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad Al Thani, rode a horse in a rare show of daredevilry to take the flame to the cauldron during the opening of the Asian Games, she said: “At that particular moment, I was concentrating on what he was doing and wanted him to succeed.”
“However, the mother in me cried the next day when I saw the footage of this daredevil act on TV,” she confessed.
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